A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Playing characters as different as the brilliant mathematician in the stage version of PROOF, to a judge who secretly likes to wear women’s clothes in the movie comedy SCAMELOT, Dick McMahon has taken on divergent roles. In the war film PATHFINDERS, directed by Michael C. Humphries (young Forest Gump in the Tom Hanks film), Dick plays a tough American General who questions the D-Day invasion of World War II. He also appears as a wounded Vietnam vet in the short film A HERO’S GIFT, and the title character in the feature-length FRANKLIN WUNDER. Besides PROOF, his stage credits include Talthybius in THE TROJAN WOMEN, and Dr. Singer in DREAMS OF PANDORA, as well as comedy characters Blaine Bland in THE CNN MACBETH, and the lead in DR. DOOLOTS’ DILEMMA. He has been General Manager of several radio/TV stations and was VP European Operations for Telmar Communications in London ... as well as an announcer on both the CBS & NBC radio networks and for Nash-ville’s famous GRAND ‘OLE OPRY.
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.