A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
John Walker
Birthplace:
Pensacola, Florida, USA
Born and raised in Pensacola, Florida with 2 great parents and 3 sisters. Joined the US Merchant Marine in 1980, worked my way up from deckhand to ship Captain before retiring 20 years later after traveling worldwide. Worked and visited 33 countries and territories. Sold oil and gas investments in Texas for 5 years. Moved to Hollywood, California in 2005 and worked as a producer on several films. Started acting in 2015 and have booked and performed in over 500 different film, TV, commercials, music and industrial videos.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.