A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Born:
September 25, 2000
Hailing from his homeland of Richmond, Virginia, and Yachouch, Lebanon, you could say John had a very cultured upbringing. After leaving Virginia with plans to be a doctor, John took a drastic turn and followed his true passion of theatre and music, earning his BFA in Musical Theatre from Penn State. Since college, you might have seen John working alongside notable actors such as Tina Fey, Christopher Walken, Andre Braugher, Michele Pawk, Zoe Lister-Jones, and many more. Though his college experience was altered due to COVID, John took it upon himself to use that time to cultivate, harness, and further his other passions, such as songwriting and vocal pedagogy. To date, John has written and recorded multiple dozen songs, appeared in Mean Girls (2024), ELSBETH (CBS), The Outlaws (Prime Video), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), American Idol (ABC), and worked in multiple Off-Broadway productions. Aside from his songwriting and acting, John studied MT Voice Pedagogy under the direction of Raymond Sage and Dr. Wendy LeBorgne, alongside the MFA candidates in the program, perfectly combining his love of science, with his love for art and creation!
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.