Col Needham
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| Col Needham | |
 Col Needham at a party for directors of Spanish language films at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival
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| Born | Colin Needham January 26, 1967 [1] Manchester, England |
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| Residence | Stoke Gifford, England |
| Nationality |  United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Managing Director |
| Employer | Amazon.com |
| Known for | Co-founder of Internet Movie Database |
Col Needham (born January 26, 1967, Manchester, England)[1][2] is the one of four founding partners[3] of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and has served as General Manager of IMDb since its acquisition by Amazon.com in 1999.
[edit] Career
IMDb was started in 1990 by Needham and "some film-buff friends" while Needham was working as an engineer in Bristol at Hewlett-Packard (HP).[2] By the summer of 1996, thanks to IMDb's first movie-related ad campaign (for Independence Day) Needham quit HP to work on IMDb full time as a paid employee.[4]
In 1999, he collected two Webby Awards for IMDb.[5]
[edit] Personal life
Needham has been married since 1989; he and his wife Karen live in the village of Stoke Gifford, a suburb of Bristol, England.[1] [2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Biography for Col Needham from Internet Movie Database
- ^ a b c From a Small Stream, a Gusher of Movie Facts, a May 28, 2006 article from The New York Times
- ^ IMDb's 18th Anniversary: Founder Needham's Ten Best List from 'Variety magazine's "Thompson on Hollywood" blog
- ^ Do You IMDb?, an August 5, 2004 article from L.A. Weekly
- ^ 3rd Annual Webby Awards from the Webby Awards website
