A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Born:
November 12, 1927
Died:
May 27, 2006
Adaptation:
1978 Betzi
Screenplay:
1973 Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
1976 Voyage of the Damned
1978 Betzi
1979 Bear Island
1983 The Scarlet and the Black
Writer:
1973 Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
1976 The Dame of Sark
1976 Voyage of the Damned
1978 Betzi
1978 Disraeli
1979 Bear Island
1981 Lion of the Desert
1983 The Scarlet and the Black
Screenplay:
1982 Marco Polo
Writer:
1972 The Protectors
1972 Van der Valk
1975 Edward the Seventh
1977 Jesus of Nazareth
1978 Lillie
1982 Marco Polo
1986 Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
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.