A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Started casting at The Old Vic with Jonathan Miller working on Shakespeare and the classics. NT various directors. Casting help for ROH. Worked on various drama series for Talkback Thames, The Bill, Minder etc and many productions for CBBC and many award winning drama docs for Panorama. Many productions of Musical Theatre, West End, and Sheffield Crucible inc, Dirty Dancing in the West End. West Side Story. Opera House Estonia A number of films inc Charlottes Song , Dancer Upstairs, Long Lonely Walk, In Memory, Above the Clouds. Jungle Tribes, 20176 Oscar winning short, Stutterer hundreds of commercials, inc award for casting. Casting for Steppenwolf in Chicago.
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.