A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
December 1, 2000
Armando Ortuno, raised in Wilmington, CA, is an Actor, Vocal Artist and a Musician. He has been professionally acting since 2021, but has a love of performing his entire life. After graduating from the Actors Giving Back program, he studied privately, one on one with Kate Melton and had sessions with Howard Fine Acting Studios in Los Angeles. He has performed in over 5 short film productions at prestigious Universities including UCLA, USC, and UC San Diego. Armando is currently working on two feature films titled La Otra Mujer (2023) and Catrina (2023), both of which require fluent Spanish speaking. Another of his recent projects, Fight for Love (2023), required weapons training. Armando has a high level of proficiency in singing, playing guitar, and a constant learning of music building. He has performed in numerous events around Los Angeles. From (2014-2018) he was a member of the Mighty Marching Pilots, an HBCU based marching band. As a member of the Mighty Marching Pilots, he had the honor of performing at the largest music center in Los Angeles, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and appearing on Telemundo 52 and ABC showcasing his musical forte. In Armando's free time, he volunteers with the Los Angeles Fire Department, serving his community as a cadet, and as a Wildland Firefighter for Mountain Recreation and Conservation Authority Fire. He also enjoys performing weekly at his church, and do Muay-Thai kickboxing.
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.