A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ralph Lucas (I)
Ralph Lucas is a very funny guy. He proudly announces on his resumé that he can do anything. Mostly comedic in nature, Ralph is well known as Detective Anton Varescu in the popular interactive dinner theater show, "Dial M Murder Mysteries." He is very proud of his Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire impressions from "The Bandwagon." "I play both parts," he explains. He confesses that his Cyd Charisse kicks have gotten a little less flashy but that his Fred Astaire is still, "right on." Ralph has written two screenplays that were made into films, "The Planet of the Dinosaurs" and the thriller, "The Child." Most recently, he has written the libretto for the musical version of "Little Women" which is slated to open on Broadway next year. One of Ralph’s goals is, "to bring some class to gay theatre and films." His solution is to write an intellectual gay porno film - Emile Zola Goes Leather. In the meantime while Ralph is looking for just the right star for his newest film, in joining the writing staff of THE RAINBOW REVUE, he has already begun to class up this theatre company. "Thanks Ralph, somebody had to do it." THE RAINBOW REVUE
Screenplay:
1977 Planet of Dinosaurs
1992 The Boys of Cellblock Q
1992 Zipperface
Writer:
1977 Planet of Dinosaurs
1977 The Child
1986 Ghost Stories: Graveyard Thriller
1992 The Boys of Cellblock Q
1992 Zipperface
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.