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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | If a cast member is credited, but also plays another character in the program how do we credit this other role?
For example, in season two of The Six Million Dollar Man Richard Anderson also portrays a robotic duplicate of Oscar Goldman. He is credited in the opening credits of each episode but with no role listed.
For this one episode who it be following the rules to list his roles as Oscar Goldman/ Oscar Goldman Robotic Duplicate?
Or list him twice and for the robot role list him as uncredited? |
| | Registered: October 17, 2010 |  Posts: 298 |
| | Posted: | | | | The rules say: Quote:
If a film does not have standard credits, use the following rules:
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If an actor is credited by name but does not have an associated role, you may use the film itself, or another source to identify the role. However, mass copy from a third party commercial database which violates their stated usage license is not allowed. In each case, list Actor’s names and roles (when given) exactly as they are in the credits and in exactly the same order credited. You watched the episode and know that he played both characters. So I think you can credit him as "Oscar Goldman / Robotic Duplicate" or something like that. I would not list him twice because he is only credited once and I would not use the "uncredited" option because Richard Anderson is credited at the beginning of the episode. | | | Recently bought films:
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | Generally I'm against credits that give away plot points. I would credit him as for any normal episode. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with iPasta... no change at all. | | | | Pete |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 554 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CubbyUps: Quote:
If a cast member is credited, but also plays another character in the program how do we credit this other role?
For example, in season two of The Six Million Dollar Man Richard Anderson also portrays a robotic duplicate of Oscar Goldman. He is credited in the opening credits of each episode but with no role listed.
For this one episode who it be following the rules to list his roles as Oscar Goldman/ Oscar Goldman Robotic Duplicate?
Or list him twice and for the robot role list him as uncredited? If he's credited without a role listed, I usually consider it sufficient enough to cover all appearances. As for whether you should add the extra role, it's up to you and I guess voters. I've typically been torn on these. It's probably simplest just to use the most basic info for each character so that things stay consistent from episode-to-episode or season-to-season and it also helps prevent spoilers. I did audit a series where I updated character ranks/titles on an episode-by-episode basis. On one hand, it might be spoilery for some. On the other hand, it's how I wanted to organize the data and it was too much work for me to create several different versions of the cast lists. | | | My DVD/Blu-ray Collection
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