A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Michael Pierce
Michael Joseph Pierce is a 2nd generation San Diegan and has lived his entire life in Southern California. During part of his youth he studied and worked with Marie Hitchcock who was known as the San Diego Puppet Lady, in which the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater in Balboa Park was named after. He also spent many years studying the art of magic and performing magic shows in San Diego. He attended Santana High School and while there, studied and performed theater and also competed in Speech and Debate tournaments. After High School he studied at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. His roles in Television started with appearances on the Soap Opera 'General Hospital' in the 1980's as a dancer in the disco during the Luke and Laura disco story line. His theater resume spans over many years beginning with the San Diego Repertory Theater in 'Mother Courage' with Whoopi Goldberg. He continues acting in local theater today. For over Twenty Five years Michael has been in a management capacity in the Retail Industry in Global Operations, Vice President or Director Roles, and has worked for companies such as Rand McNally, No Fear and LEGO toy Stores but remains active in acting appearing in commercials, TV shows and Films.
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.