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Question Re: Multiple Roles
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantchibul
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I'm a bit fuzzy on this. Let's use cartoons, for an example.

If an actor does multiple voices on a show, and there's no official cast list...how do we do that? Should one credit be used with the actor and all of the roles he/she plays, or should there be a separate entry in the credits for each role used?
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When the actor's name appears only once in the credits, I don't see any reason to list him multiple times.

I like the way it's done with the Simpsons:

Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson/Grampa/Barney Gumble
Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson/Patty & Selma Bouvier
Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson/Nelson Muntz/Todd Flanders
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I can see numerous reasons to list an actor more than once, tarantino. The most obvious of which is the limited field length, sometimes we have data overflow, in such a case I would probably use two entries. We'll see what I think when I next run into it.

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Ross:

It would depnd on the film, sometimes actors get a single credit and a string of roles, and sometimes they get separate credits for each role. I have even seen actors taking two different credits for two different roles, or a crew preson taking one name for his crew work and a different name for his On Screen work.

Then there is the exception I mentioned where we have too much data for the field length.

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Quoting skipnet50:
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Ross:

It would depnd on the film, sometimes actors get a single credit and a string of roles, and sometimes they get separate credits for each role. I have even seen actors taking two different credits for two different roles, or a crew preson taking one name for his crew work and a different name for his On Screen work.

Then there is the exception I mentioned where we have too much data for the field length.

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Right, but like I said, this is the example where there's no actual credits - The Simpsons is a good example.
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No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor.
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I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something
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Quoting chibul:
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I'm a bit fuzzy on this. Let's use cartoons, for an example.

If an actor does multiple voices on a show, and there's no official cast list...how do we do that? Should one credit be used with the actor and all of the roles he/she plays, or should there be a separate entry in the credits for each role used?


It might help if people actually read the post. 

To answer your question, I prefer multiple roles on a single line UNLESS they don't all fit.
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I rtead the post and tried to cover all the bases, and while I agree with your preference and would vote to support it, Unicus. At this juncture it is just that our PREFERENCE.

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Either way is correct, since it is not covered in the Rules.

Prior to 3.0, only Unicus' preference was possible.  Under 3.0, it can be done either way.

I have no preference either way.
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