A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Lodi, CA
Born:
September 2, 1973
Jack Vale, born on September 2, 1973 in Lodi, California, is the youngest of 5 children and has three brothers and one sister. His love of hidden camera prank shows as a child, ultimately led to him becoming a professional prankster as an adult. In his early 20s, after landing a few small roles in various movies and TV shows, he married his wife, Sherry, and started a family. It wasn't until 12 years later that Jack began uploading hidden camera prank videos on YouTube. The worldwide success of these videos led to his full-time career in entertainment. After various production companies licensed his prank clips for their TV shows, he was contacted by First Television and Dick Clark Productions to produce and star in a new season of "Bloopers" with regular host, Dean Cain. The show lasted 40 episodes. About 2 years later he and his family signed a deal with Relativity Media for their own reality show which aired on HLN for 1 season. Jack lives with his family in Huntington Beach, CA and has multiple TV and film projects in development. While comedy was his focus for the first 12 years of his career, he is now also producing several dramatic films in the family and faith-based genres. He is also one of the most watched comedians on the Internet with over 3 Million fans on his social media platforms.
Executive Producer:
2021 Long Road Home: The Cash Family's Untold Story
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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:
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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.