A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Bodmin, Cornwall, England, UK
Born:
June 7, 1970
Simon Osborne is a British Actor who has starred in a few minor television roles. Born in Cornwall in 1970, his first TV role was playing the lead in Thames TVs schools programme The Shadow Cage in 1981. In 1982, Simon had the lead in BBC TVs schools programme The Church and The Village. Moving to London in 1982 to attend The Sylvia Young Theatre School, Simon appeared in Grange Hill from 1983 to 1986, mostly as a supporting artist but also as part of a gang named The Smokers. After appearing as William Pitt the Younger in 1987, Simon went on to appear in Yorkshire TVs Christmas is Coming, 1987, and Rockliffe's Folly, 1988. Since then, he has appeared on stage, and in independent films. He is still acting, as well as working as a performance historian offering talks in character relating to various historical subjects.
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.