A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Billy Aylesworth
William Andrew Aylesworth
Birthplace:
Southampton, New York, USA
Born:
August 9, 1965
Son of John Aylesworth creator of Hee Haw (1969) and Front Page Challenge (1957) , and Nancy Atchison-Aylesworth. Born in Southampton on Long Island, New York and grew up in Malibu, California. He is a dual-citizen (USA/Canada). Attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. A graduate of Dick Grove School of Music in Studio City, California. Former Head of Marketing & Distribution for Vidatron Entertainment Group, Inc. (Peace Arch Entertainment) in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). Former Director of Sales for TMW Media Group in Marina Del Rey, CA and past President of Great Scott Presentations, LLC in Malibu, California. His stepfather was Lenny Stogel, manager of Pop Music Acts Tommy James & The Shondells, Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs, The Cowsills, and other bands. He was also the creator and producer of rock music festivals California Jam in 1974 and California Jam II (aka Cal Jam 2) in 1978, as well as Canada Jam in 1979. Grandson of Ray Eberle lead vocalist for Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. Billy is was also a musician, fronting many bands and playing or recording with members of Flashback, Earth Wind & Fire, The Grass Roots, Tyranny, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Billy Cowsill, Frances Plante-Scott, Rose Royce, Buffalo Springfield Revisited, and more. Bill's projects have been optioned or produced by Vin Di Bona Productions, Dick Clark Productions, Janson Media, CBC, Daniel L. Paulson Productions, Knowledge Network, Alberta Access TV , and others. Bill has written and produced television & video programming for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, TV Ontario, and Vidatron Entertainment Group in Canada, as well as various US broadcasters.
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.