A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
San Francisco, California, USA
Rob is originally from San Francisco, where he started his career as an actor on stage and voice-overs, while working as a professional musician. As a keyboardist, he worked everything from biker bars to beauty pageants, with cruise ships and recording along the way. After moving to Los Angeles, he did commercials and industrials, while studying improv at Second City, and privately with Del Close and Avery Schreiber. Rob and his wife, actress Aubrey Manning, moved to the Seattle area to raise their two sons, doing industrials and training films for Boeing, Microsoft, and other northwest corporations, as well as voice-overs, all while playing piano at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel for 18 years. After their children grew up, Rob and Aubrey moved back to Los Angeles.
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.