A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Tom was born in the steel city of Sheffield with English, Scottish and Irish roots. As a teenager he was a very keen footballer who played for the Sheffield United Junior blades, he was also a regular ball boy at his beloved club for 3 years. His first experience of a speaking part in a feature film came when he worked alongside Martin Kemp in the British gangster film Top Dog. He began acting training with his LA acting coach Michael John Gonzales back in 2014 and he still works passionately with him today as he continues to learn his craft. Tom has played characters in BBC's comedy series Motherland and Ch4's Man Down where he worked closely with the comedy genius Greg Davies. In 2017 Tom was cast to play a character in the upcoming Lollywood feature film 'Teefa in Trouble' starring Ali Zafar and Maya Ali, directed by Ahsan Rahim. 'Teefa in Trouble' will see it's global release on 20th July 2018.
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.