A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Robert James DuBois was born and raised in the small Midwestern town of Freeburg, Illinois. His passion for acting was sparked at the age of ten as he watched his older brother, Matthew, take to the stage for the first time at the local children's theater. Inspired by the magic and the imagination associated with the theater, Robert eventually followed in his brother's footsteps, taking on a lead role at the same local children's theater for the next four years. In 2001, at the age of twenty, Robert moved to Los Angeles, California to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduating he continued to hone his skills by studying with Ivana Chubbuck, Lesly Kahn, and The Second City. Throughout the years, Robert has appeared in a long list of commercials, working in collaboration with brands like Fiat, Bud Light, Spectrum, Google, Disney, Dawn, ESPN, and many more. In 2017, Robert earned his first big television credit playing Sergeant Hill in the Netflix series Medal of Honor, produced by Robert Zemeckis. Robert looks forward to one day working with some of the great filmmakers who have influenced him like David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan, and the Cohen brothers. Robert enjoys camping, hiking, long walks on the beach, and a good cry every once in a while. He loves writing poetry, playing guitar, and obsessive thrift store shopping. Robert resides in Santa Monica, California with his wife, Jennifer, and his two-year-old son, Jacob.
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.