A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
July 21, 1939
Alastair Reid was a Scottish television and film director, described by The Guardian on his death as "one of Britain's finest directors of television drama". Reid studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Director:
1969 Baby Love
1971 The Road Builder
1972 Something to Hide
1973 Three's One
1974 South Riding
1975 The Prodigal Daughter
1980 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1981 Artemis '81
1989 A View of Harry Clark
1991 Selling Hitler
1992 Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1998 What Rats Won't Do
Opera:
1969 Baby Love
1971 The Road Builder
1972 Something to Hide
1973 Three's One
1974 South Riding
1975 The Prodigal Daughter
1980 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1981 Artemis '81
1989 A View of Harry Clark
1991 Selling Hitler
1992 Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1998 What Rats Won't Do
1999 H.E. Double Hockey Sticks
Producer:
1969 Baby Love
1971 The Road Builder
1972 Something to Hide
1973 Three's One
1974 South Riding
1975 The Prodigal Daughter
1979 Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1980 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1981 Artemis '81
1989 A View of Harry Clark
1991 Selling Hitler
1992 Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1998 What Rats Won't Do
1999 H.E. Double Hockey Sticks
Screenplay:
1969 Baby Love
1971 The Road Builder
1972 Something to Hide
1973 Three's One
1974 South Riding
1975 The Prodigal Daughter
1976 Shout at the Devil
1979 Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1980 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1981 Artemis '81
1989 A View of Harry Clark
1991 Selling Hitler
1992 Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1998 What Rats Won't Do
1999 H.E. Double Hockey Sticks
Writer:
1969 Baby Love
1971 The Road Builder
1972 Something to Hide
1973 Three's One
1974 South Riding
1975 The Prodigal Daughter
1976 Shout at the Devil
1979 Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1980 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1981 Artemis '81
1989 A View of Harry Clark
1991 Selling Hitler
1992 Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1998 What Rats Won't Do
1999 H.E. Double Hockey Sticks
Director:
1978 Hazell
1979 Tales of the Unexpected
1987 Inspector Morse
1989 Traffik
1991 Selling Hitler
1993 Tales of the City
1997 Nostromo
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.