He tracked his first credits in a paper notebook in 1981. Now his IMDb is the go-to site for film and TV fans around the world – and worth a fortune.
Col Needham greets me with a big smile and an outstretched hand and slides me his business card. “Founder and executive chair of IMDb”, it says on one side, and on the other, “All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies”.
The line comes from Grand Canyon, the 1991 ensemble drama from Big Chill writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, and is spoken in the film by Steve Martin as a bearded Hollywood producer.
