A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
John Benyon
John Beynon
John Harris
Johnson Harris
Lucas Benyon
Lucas Parkes
Birthplace:
Birmingham, England, UK
Born:
July 10, 1903
Died:
March 11, 1969
Characters:
1985 Chocky's Children
1986 Chocky's Challenge
Creator:
1984 Chocky
1985 Chocky's Children
1986 Chocky's Challenge
Novel:
1960 Village of the Damned
1963 The Day of the Triffids
1964 Children of the Damned
1984 Chocky
1985 Chocky's Children
1986 Chocky's Challenge
1995 Village of the Damned
Short Story:
1960 Village of the Damned
1963 The Day of the Triffids
1964 Children of the Damned
1971 Quest for Love
1984 Chocky
1985 Chocky's Children
1986 Chocky's Challenge
1995 Village of the Damned
2006 Random Quest
Story:
1960 Village of the Damned
1963 The Day of the Triffids
1964 Children of the Damned
1965 No Place Like Earth
1971 Quest for Love
1978 A Long Spoon
1984 Chocky
1985 Chocky's Children
1986 Chocky's Challenge
1995 Village of the Damned
2006 Random Quest
Creator:
2009 The Day of the Triffids
Novel:
1981 The Day of the Triffids
2009 The Day of the Triffids
2022 The Midwich Cuckoos
Writer:
1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1965 Out of the Unknown
1981 The Day of the Triffids
2009 The Day of the Triffids
2022 The Midwich Cuckoos
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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.