A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mark Bushell
Birthplace:
Canada
Born:
August 22, 1956
Mark A. Baker is an American Studies and American Literature teacher, author, reenactor and actor based in Franklin, Tennessee. He was born in a small Canadian town and his family relocated to Phoenix, Arizona when he was four years old. Baker holds a Master's degree in American Studies from Utah State University. In the fall of 1986, he began writing a column, A Pilgrim's Journey, for Muzzleloader magazine. He is the author of Sons of a Trackless Forest. He has appeared in The Long Hunter Series, The Last of the Mohicans and Boone and Crockett - The Hunter Heroes.
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.