A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Born:
January 24, 1957
Sam Tarasco is a Toronto-born actor. After leaving Etobicoke, Ontario in 1997, where he had lived for the majority of his life, Sam Tarasco went to Halifax, Nova Scotia to be with his three children. After leaving Etobicoke, Ontario in 1997, where he had lived for the majority of his life, Sam Tarasco went to Halifax, Nova Scotia to be with his three children. He has worked as a bodyguard for musicians throughout Canada. Over the years, he had many jobs including Teacher, Distribution Manager for Sparkling Springs, being a Bouncer, and managing call centers before he fell into acting. He is an Italian Canadian and speaks English and Italian fluently. Between acting assignments and doing stand up comedy, he is Talent Coordinator at the Substance Entertainment Group for his day to day employment. He is an Italian Canadian and speaks English and Italian fluently. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Neil Forester
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.