Fake Rodney Dangerfield Credit

Hi,


I tried to delete it but it seems like the credit is locked. Can a staff member police delete the Rodney Dangerfield credit for "The Killing" and the trivia item attached. Dangerfield was living in New York at the time.

The trouble was there was an screen extra named Richard Dale Clark who people have mistaken for Dangerfield.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/pcs0j7/how_many_people_know_that_rodney_dangerfield_had/


Here's actually Clark from a 1967 episode of Batman. He goes back to the late 1940s but is vastly undocumented. I guess somebody identified him as Dangerfield in The Killing and added it and the trivia credit to IMDb. Here's hoping a block can be put in place so it doesn't happen again.

It seems the false credit originates from a 2013 Criterion article and somebody ran with it. Judging by the fact that it's only got 2 thumbs up on IMDb trivia also tells me somebody must have recently added it. Just as an aside, in order to be an extra in a film in Los Angeles in the 1950s you essentially had to be a Screen Extras Guild member. Everybody around the track at the time were SEG members which was capped off at around 2500 or so at the time and very hard to get into. For you to appear as an extra in a film back then and not be a member they had to hire a certain number (I think it was around 80 or 90) and then you could have basically a few "waivers." In order for you to be a waiver you couldn't be visible in the print of the film. This is why later a lot of things were filmed outside of Los Angeles which makes it even more eyerolling.  because it's not like today, it was a very unionized process and Dangerfield was in New Jersey at the time anyways.





Thank you
Phil