A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Roy Jonathan Beck
Birthplace:
St. Pancras, London, England, UK
Born:
April 1, 1952
Roy has an exuberant family film heritage spanning seven decades. As a youngster he followed his father and dabbled in front of camera performances before undergoing formal training at Rank Film Laboratories at Denham. From here successfully moving into TV post-production, editing both in London and Toronto, principally with CBC LE programmes, in the 70s and 80s. He went on to set up and run many of Soho's leading post-production houses. He has been married to TV Producer Nickie Stevens since 1987. They have three children, all of whom have successful careers in television, James in TV and movie SFX post-production, Clementine in ad agency TV production and Jonny as a Music Producer. Roy has returned to front of camera roles to feed his love and passion for the movie production process.
Online Editor:
1968 The Frankie Howerd Show
1977 Come Back, Little Sheba
Stand In:
1968 The Frankie Howerd Show
1977 Come Back, Little Sheba
1983 Return of the Jedi
Online Editor:
1974 The Great Debate
1975 King of Kensington
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.