A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Steve "Crusher" Casey
Steve Casey
Birthplace:
Sneem, Ireland
Born:
December 4, 1908
Died:
January 10, 1987
Stephen Casey was an Irish rower and professional wrestler. In rowing, he made a name for himself with his family, winning titles such as the 1936 English Championship, although he couldn't compete in the Olympics due to his professional wrestling career. He debuted in professional wrestling in 1936 and achieved his greatest success in 1938 by winning the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. He became a multiple-time champion and continued wrestling until 1947, also serving in World War II. After retiring, he opened a business in Massachusetts. He passed away in 1987 and was inducted into the Irish Hall of Fame in 1982.
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.