A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
John Shelton was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in nearby San Marino, California. He is the fifth of six children born to William and Nancy Shelton. He grew up with one brother, four sisters, and a considerable sense of humor. John was bitten by the acting bug in a junior high school production and went on to act in many high school and college plays. He attended California State University, Los Angeles where he majored in Speech Communication & Theatre Arts. John soon discovered a passion for improvisational comedy and went on to study for several years with The Groundlings, an LA-based launching pad for great comedic actors. John works consistently now as a voiceover talent and character actor. He has appeared in numerous films, television productions and commercials. Besides acting John also performs stand up comedy at several Los Angeles area comedy clubs.
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.