A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Jarrod Lee Spector
Birthplace:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Born:
April 16, 1981
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Spector is one of three children to Chuck and Beth Spector. At age six, Spector appeared on the, then popular, talent show "Star Search" quite successfully. After high school Spector attended Princeton University and the Atlantic Theater Conservatory. Prior to his current role as Frankie Valli on Broadway Spector performed in Les Miserables (Broadway and National Tour), Hamlet (Off Broadway), Our Country's Good (Off Broadway) and The Vy (Off Broadway). He then began touring as an alternate for Frankie Valli in the national tour of Jersey Boys until being offered the lead role when the show began it's run in Chicago. After a little less than a year entertaining Chicagoans Spector moved on to star on Broadway as Frankie Valli. TV credits include three performances with Jersey Boys cast at various Tony Award Shows.
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.