A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
James Oak
Michael
Mike
Mike Vegas
Birthplace:
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Born:
June 4, 1984
Michael Vegas was born on June 4, 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. His father was a photographer. Vegas attended Fountain Valley High in Fountain Valley, California. From ages 13 to 22 Michael worked in a high end costume store in Newport Beach, California every Halloween season. Moreover, Vegas worked as an EMT, a firefighter, a nurse, and in construction prior to his involvement in the adult entertainment industry. (He also was an exclusive model for Hancock Studios for several years.) Among the notable companies Michael has appeared in explicit hardcore movies for are Smash Pictures, Digital Sin, Mile High, Wicked Pictures, and Pure Play Media. In 2011 Vegas was nominated for both an AVN Award for Best Male Newcomer and a XRCO Award for New Stud. In addition, Michael is the founder and CEO of The Soul Thief Photography in West Hollywood, California.
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.