ForProfiler purposes it looks like a stylized P,which should be entered. That said I did see one time where a user came up with a creative answer to thes issues, and i think it is germaine here.

He entered the data as he saw it, which is what the Rules say
Then under the (uncredited) section, he would have credited J. Todd Anderson as P(assuming that is what it is). Of course the J. Todd Anderson would need to be documented. But I think that is workable and provides a good cross reference.

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It's not an (uncredited) situation. It's essentially a "credited as" situation; however, we have no way to record the "credited as" symbol.

I would either leave it as-is, or perhaps someone has a way to describe the symbol so that "credited as" could be used.

This is Fargo (1995) by the way for those that arent' familiar with the credit.

IMDb and BFI use the name of the actor (who really is from the art department I think!) and neither notes a 'credited as'. TCM doesn't record the actor or the role!  I think they gave up.

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In the 'credited as' we could put "The story board artist formerly known as J. Todd Anderson". 

Doesn't fit. It exceeds the 40 characters limit 

Eh, yes it's "Fargo" and there's much that's incorrect with the current profile in the database.

I left Mr. Symbol the way he is, since there's really no accurate way to copy that alien symbol in the program currently. I've commented on it in the contribution notes for future reference.

And just to clarify ... the Actor roles in a film should be entered AS CREDITED with whatever capitalization is shown on the screen.

Normal capitalization rules do not apply with Actor roles, and they should match how they appear in the film EXACTLY.

Victim In Field
Victim In Car
Man In Hallway

For example, those three roles would be how they are correctly capitalized and credited in the film Fargo. Listing them as "in" would be incorrect.

Quoting Katatonia:

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And just to clarify ... the Actor roles in a film should be entered AS CREDITED with whatever capitalization is shown on the screen.

Normal capitalization rules do not apply with Actor roles, and they should match how they appear in the film EXACTLY.

Victim In Field
Victim In Car
Man In Hallway

For example, those three roles would be how they are correctly capitalized and credited in the film Fargo. Listing them as "in" would be incorrect.

I agree with you here but I think we are in the minority. 

Quoting Unicus69:

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I agree with you here but I think we are in the minority. 

No joke Unicus!

But we are following the rules:

For any film with standard credits, take the actor information from the end credits only, with names and roles listed exactly as they are in the credits and in exactly the same order credited.

Quoting Katatonia:

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Quoting Unicus69:

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I agree with you here but I think we are in the minority. 

No joke Unicus!

But we are following the rules:

For any film with standard credits, take the actor information from the end credits only, with names and roles listed exactly as they are in the credits and in exactly the same order credited.

I do it also, but have had people change it all to 'Standard Capitalization' which was then approved.

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No, I am not talking about reproducing credits that are in all caps, though I don't dislike the idea.  But, from where I sit, a role name is just like a proper name and every word should be capitalized.