A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
The young and naive Stephen George was first introduced to the entertainment industry when he was unexpectedly contacted by an unfamiliar out-of-stater, who invited Stephen to meet him in his hotel room because he liked the way Stephen looked. It turned out that a commercial was being produced for a local public park and trail system for bicyclists and runners, and the commercial called for people of various ethnicities to be featured in it. Ultimately, Stephen was not cast in the commercial, possibly in part due to his clumsily worded joke about how silly it is for someone to run around if they are not being chased.
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.