A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Born:
May 1, 1958
Director:
1992 Dread Poets' Society
1994 An Evening With Gary Lineker
1996 Bad Boy Blues
1997 Playing God
2002 Lenny Blue
2005 Riot at the Rite
2007 Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2009 Diamonds
2009 Joseph
Creator:
2012 Sinbad
Director:
1993 Cracker
1993 The Mushroom Picker
1999 Psychos
2000 Gormenghast
2002 Spooks
2002 The Forsyte Saga
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple
2006 Hotel Babylon
2008 Wallander
2009 The Philanthropist
2011 Kidnap and Ransom
2012 Sinbad
2013 Crossing Lines
2013 Endeavour
2015 Unforgotten
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.