I'm looking for the common name of actor Herb Tanney.
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He was a favorite of director Blake Edwards, and it seems that in every single film of Blake Edwards, Herb Tanney used an alias. The list is kind of ridiculous. I'm looking to see if he used any of his screen names more than a single time (or ever used his real name at all) to determine a common name, and if not, then I guess we have to figure out which title contains the most profiles to determine a common name. The following are all of the aliases he used through-out his career that are in the system:

Herb Tanney CLT: 9/15 (0 Confirmed)

Sacerdo Tanney CLT: 1/24 (1 Confirmed)
-Blind Date (Confirmed by T!M)

Sado Tanney CLT: 1/28 (1 Confirmed)
-The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Confirmed by T!M)

Savant Tanney CLT: 1/7 (1 Confirmed)
-Switch (Confirmed by AiAustria)

Schweitzer Tanney CLT: 2/2 (1 Confirmed)
-The Man Who Loved Women (Confirmed by Merrik)

Senilo Tanney CLT: 3/21 (1 Confirmed)
-10 (Confirmed by T!M)

Serge Tanney CLT: 1/20 (1 Confirmed)
-The Return of the Pink Panther (Confirmed by T!M)

Shep Tanney CLT: 1/5 (1 Confirmed)
-A Fine Mess (Confirmed by T!M)

Sherloque Tanney CLT: 4/13 (1 Confirmed)
-Victor Victoria (Confirmed by Merrik)

Sidi Bin Tanney CLT: 1/14 (1 Confirmed)
-Curse of the Pink Panther (Confirmed by T!M)

Sol Vang Tanney CLT: 2/4 (1 Confirmed)
-Skin Deep (Confirmed by AiAustria)

Sputare Tanney CLT: 1/12 (1 Confirmed)
-Son of the Pink Panther (Confirmed by T!M)

Steem Tanney CLT: 1/6 (1 Confirmed)
-Sunset (Confirmed by T!M)

Stiffe Tanney CLT: 1/2 (1 Confirmed)
-S.O.B. (Confirmed by Merrik)

Studs Tanney CLT: 1/2 (1 Confirmed)
-Wild Rovers (Confirmed by Merrik)


0 Unconfirmed Credits


Incorrect Credits
-Revenge of the Pink Panther (uncredited) (Confirmed by T!M)


Sy Tanney CLT: 0/0 (1 Confirmed)
-Ghosts Can't Do It (Confirmed by Merrik)
-This variant currently doesn't have any profiles in the CLT, but there is a profile in the system without cast and crew filled out currently (Ghosts Can't Do It). It's a Bo Derek double feature with no children profiles attached currently.

Other aliases without any current profiles in the system at the moment:

Stanley Tanney (apparently went by this alias in the film Number One with a Bullet)

'10': Senilo Tanney
'Blind Date': Sacerdo Tanney
'Curse of the Pink Panther': Sidi Bin Tanney
'A Fine Mess': Shep Tanney
'The Pink Panther Strikes Again': Sado Tanney
'The Return of the Pink Panther': Serge Tanney
'Revenge of the Pink Panther': (uncredited)
'Son of the Pink Panther': Sputare Tanney
'Sunset': Steem Tanney

Skin Deep@1:37:52
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I'm wondering, if this should be the famous exception from the rule. I'd vote to assign Herb Tanney as common name. Shall we open a poll?

Quoting ateo357:

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Quoting AiAustria:

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I'm wondering, if this should be the famous exception from the rule. I'd vote to assign Herb Tanney as common name. Shall we open a poll?

No.

Agreed with ateo357.

Sorry, haven't gotten around to counting the profiles yet, had a friend's birthday that took up most of my day yesterday.

Will get to it today. 

... the 5 profile title is true...

Currently, it seems that his credit in 'The Pink Panther Strikes Again' has the most profiles in the CLT of all his name variants, so if we had to pick one, I think it would have to be that one. But it's a mess alright.

Of course, as soon as a number of incomplete 'The Return of the Pink Panther' and/or '10' profiles are being completed, the common name may well shift, but unfortunately that's the nature of our common names: it's always about how the balance pans out *today*. By tomorrow things can always be different.

Quoting AiAustria:

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28 Profiles for Sado Tanney + Herb/086162-243424/Mexico + Herb/6-438044-003352/Finland = 30

Both the Mexican and the Finnish profiles are "The Pink Panther Film Collection" box set profiles, which have the entire cast for *all* films in the set listed in a single profile. Per the rules, all of that cast/crew should be deleted from those parent profiles, and be put in child profiles, one for each film. Maybe those child profiles even already exist...

Quoting T!M:

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But it's a mess alright.

Sure is.


In all honesty, I only own one film with the guy in it, and can probably only see myself owning a few more at best, but it would be nice to link him throughout all profiles.

I'm not sure I agree with NOT counting profiles that simply aren't in the CLT. If they're in the system without a full cast/crew set in them, it's literally as simple as a copy paste job from one profile to the next to get the cast/crew into that profile. I mean, they're already there, we can't know for sure if they're a "dead" profile (not in all cases anyway, some can obviously be determined), one person might own them and it could be a legit profile.

As I said though, I only own one film with the guy in it, I have absolutely no horse in the race what-so-ever, I just think it would be nice for someone that owns six or seven profiles with him in the cast to be able to "officially" link them (as best as one can with the program).

If the profile with Sado Tanney has the most current profiles in the system at 28 (as T!M said if the Mexican and Finnish profiles are boxsets for the entire film collection they shouldn't have cast and crew listed in them) for The Pink Panther Strikes again, then that's cool by me.