A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois
Born:
November 12, 1968
Raging Stallion's 2009 Man of the Year, Ricky Sinz was born in 1980 and raised in Chicago in the American mid-west. Before going into porn, he served in the US Army's special forces and then became a professional mixed martial arts fighter, appearing in tournaments around the world. Identifying as bisexual, inked Ricky was one of the owners of the straight porno outfit Hole and a Heartbeat Studios, earning his producing and directing spurs. But he was then signed by Raging Stallion in 2007, later becoming its first Lifetime Exclusive. He will not only continue appearing in front of the camera - doubtless normally as a top - but is also involved in planning new projects for the studio. Ricky, whose nickname is The Hammer, was stabbed more than 20 times as a teenager when he leapt in to defend a girl. In 2009, he was named best actor at the GayVN Awards.
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.