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Dead people in title listings

I din't know when the next redesign is scheduled -- and this is a suggestion that I have made before ---and it may be too expensive --  but...

Is there some way that the names of people who have died could be displayed in a different color, perhaps the orange/salmon color, or green, or some color other than black or blue, in a title's credit listings?

This would be an additional unique feature for IMDb.  

While IMDb is not a resume service, this would greatly assist productions in "tracking down" people. 

Also, for movie mavens and film historians like myself, it would greatly assist research.

Is Jerry Maren really the last cast member of The Wizard of Oz to die? Are Olivia de Havilland and Mickey Kuhn really the last two surviving cast members of Gone With The Wind?  Etc., etc., etc.

Just a suggestion that will probably never happen.

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Is there some way that the names of people who have died could be displayed in a different color
Is Jerry Maren really the last cast member of The Wizard of Oz to die? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546439/
Born: January 24, 1920  in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died: May 24, 2018  (age 98) in San Diego, California, USA??

by Bradley Kent
Joined on February 9, 2017
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/bradley_kent
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8,539,000 Titles
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8539000/reference
9,898,000 Names
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9898000/

IMDb would have to look up each name on all the titles pages
to see if the person is Dead or Alive (every day ??)

I would like to see the Age of the person next to the name on each title
That would take some sort of calculation on each name
and make the pages a little more bulky to load

The Wizard of Oz  (1939)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/fullcredits - No count of names

Stayin' alive ...

Ambrose Schindler
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0771827/
Born: April 21, 1917  in Mission Hills, California, USA
Ambrose Schindler   ...  Winkie (uncredited) 
Ambrose Schindler  ... stunt double: Tin Man (uncredited)

Caren Marsh
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550514/
Born: April 6, 1919  in Hollywood, California, USA
Caren Marsh  ... dance stand-in: Judy Garland (uncredited)

Gone with the Wind  (1939) 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/reference
Caren Marsh   ...  BBQ Guest / Girl at Bazaar (uncredited) 

others ?


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6 years ago

Thanks for the specific info, especially about Ambrose Schindler and Caren Marsh.  IMDb would not have to "look up each name on all the titles pages to see if the person is Dead or Alive."  Instead, a program could be designed that, once a death date was entered, that name would automatically change color in the listings for every title in which it appeared.  I'm just dreaming...

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Forgot to add this...

Date of Death between 2018-01-01 and 2018-12-31 (Sorted by Death Date Descending)
1,580 names.
https://www.imdb.com/search/name?death_date=2018-01-01,2018-12-31&sort=death_date,desc

Date of Death between 2018-05-01 and 2018-06-30 (Sorted by Death Date Descending)
313 names.
https://www.imdb.com/search/name?death_date=2018-05-01,2018-06-30&sort=death_date,desc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2018


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Off Topic:

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-were-off-to-quote-the-wizard
Poll Suggestion: We're Off to Quote the Wizard...
A chapter of history has definitely been turned
with the passing of Jerry Maren, last surviving Munchkin since 2014,
the year The Wizard of Oz (1939) celebrated its 75th anniversary,
along with another masterpiece from a whiz of a director Victor Fleming.
Indeed, the iconic classic is probably after Gone with the Wind (1939)
one of the most quotable movies of legendary 1939, if not all cinema's history.
So, remembering through Jerry Marren, the Munchkins
and the legacy of one of the all-time greatest classics,
which of these quotes from the film is your favorite?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls073184538/
Posted June 6 2018
by ----
Joined on March 1, 2017
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/sdk_elmaruecan_axg1z10yvc66p


Victor Fleming (I) (1889–1949)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281808/
Director: Movie (47 credits)
1939  Gone with the Wind
1939  The Wizard of Oz

= = =

https://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0031381,tt0032138&sort=alpha,asc
Credited in
Gone with the Wind (1939),
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
(Sorted by Name Ascending)

19 names.


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6 years ago

Maybe...

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6 years ago

I would like to suggest that if Bradley's suggestion to display names of deceased cast and crew in a different color is ever implemented, it should be optional. I personally don't think I would choose to display casts and crews that way. If that is some users' preference, that's fine, but it should be a user's voluntary choice whether or not to do so.

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I was thinking the same thing as gromit82.

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6 years ago

Don't worry.  It'll never happen.

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6 years ago

But... wouldn't it be fun IF it did!  This would give IMDb another unique feature IF it did.

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Would you want the feature to apply to all kinds of title pages? It would be a lot of work to have it on all the various apps, the mobile site pages, the standard desktop view, pro pages (and IIRC there is a pro app) and the reference view - I am not sure if that is a full list.

It would also raise issues with how the feature works for people with visual impairments.

I do not know how much of the name display code is shared between the various views but it might make the idea more feasible if it is limited to just one view, I would expect that those who would be interested would probably want it on the reference view.

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I would expect that those who would be interested would probably want it on the reference view.
FWIW, I'm one of those old skool reference view users, and I personally wouldn't want it. But that's just me of course.