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Alias:
Pirkkoliisa Tikka
Birthplace:
Helsinki, Finland
Born:
July 19, 1947
Pirkko-Liisa Tikka (née Lampela) is a Finnish soprano opera singer who also appeared in several television series at the height of her fame in the late 1970s and early 80s. She graduated from the opera program at Sibelius Academy in 1973 and is proficient at the piano, viola and drums as well. In addition to frequent performances at the Finnish National Opera, she has also performed at the Royal Swedish Opera and the Berlin State Opera. An outspoken advocate for greater arts education in schools, she also produced a well-known childrens' music program.
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.