A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Mark Lyons is a NYC based actor who has a passion for acting and storytelling. Mark has appeared onstage in NYC in festivals such as the Fringe, Thespis, Secret theater one act as well as the Strawberry. He got his start in film appearing in a short film called," Separation," for which he won best actor at the USA independent film festival. Mark has appeared in feature films such as, "Following Phil", and various television programs. His most recent film, "The Untimely Gift", will premiere at the Directors Guild theater in NYC on October, 13th 2017. Mark Lyons made the decision three years ago to pursue his passion for acting and is proud of the work he has done in this short time frame. His desire was to be a part of the machine that tells a story, pass along the ability to escape and connect audiences with characters that they identify with.
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.