A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Joe Ma
Joe Ma Tak-Chung
Joe Tak-Chung Ma
Mã Đức Chung
جو ما تاک-چونگ
馬德鍾
馬德鐘
马德钟
Birthplace:
Hong Kong, China
Born:
June 27, 1968
Joe Ma Tak-Chung is a Hong Kong actor. He was a policeman before he joined the Hong Kong entertainment industry in 1993. He is one of few Hong Kong actors who were former members of Hong Kong discipline or colonial services. Ma is most known for his extensive career with broadcaster TVB, particularly for the dramas "Journey to the West" (1996), "Triumph in the Skies" (2003), and "The Drive of Life" (2007).
Writer:
2000 A War Named Desire
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.