A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ben Keepers
Benjamin Keepers is an actor. He was accepted to schools in both NYC and LA, he chose to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He would later go on to study at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and the Actors Studio West. After several years of studying with some great teachers around LA, and performing in Theaters such as The Fountain Theater and The Tiffany Theater on Sunset he decided to focus on film and television. Benjamin has performed alongside Marc Maron, Will Patton, Samantha Morton, Sam Richardson and Campbell Scott. Upcoming he goes toe to toe with Brian Tyree Henry in "Class of '09" for FX and can be seen in the 2nd season of the "Leverage: Redemption" re-boot. He has appeared in shows including The Walking Dead and the reboot of MacGyver.
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.