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Need help splitting a name page

I need help splitting a name page, nm0654330, for Charles Owens.  This page was established for a background actor and dancer active in the 1940s-1960s and has 36 credits consistent with this. Although there is not yet biographical information for this person, it is apparent from his active period and photographs that he was born around the early 1920s.  See this composite image for him in many of his appearances as listed on IMDb: https://ibb.co/cKddND5w.  Recently, a new title from 2026 was added to this name page (Strangers, tt37959572) as well as a profile image which are clearly for a different person, called "Chuck Owens". The title page for Strangers has additional images of this person, who is clearly not the same person and not approximately 100 year old.  The name page needs to be split to make a new name page with the profile image, credit for the title Strangers (tt37959572), and the alternate name "Chuck Owens" (or maybe the name page should be for Chuck Owens and not Charles Owens, at the discretion of the editors). There are some other name pages for "Chuck Owens" and "Charles Owens" active in the 2020s, but I have no way of determining if the actor in question is one of these. I do not have a professional membership and cannot move or alter profile images myself.

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6 days ago

Dancer Charles Owens is now here....

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm18480956/?ref_=nm_rvi_i_2

If you ever come across bio info or a better primary image let me know.

Chuck Owens not only added the Strangers credit but also added contact info. So that complicated things a bit. 

Strangers credit will be removed from Charles' page. Just takes a bit of time. Also The Seven Little Foys is being moved as well.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654330/?ref_=nm_rvi_i_2 

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Thank you kindly for helping with this.  I'm a little sad to see Charles go from #1 to #19 by so easily having his page usurped by Chuck Owens but the important thing is to have the two separated, and with a profile photo to boot.  I have been looking for his vital statistics (which I have added for numerous of his contemporaries) but have not come up with anything yet, nor a really suitable photo. 

I very much appreciate your taking this on!

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I agree. Chuck did Charles dirty.

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7 days ago

Hi GoPetersen-

Thank you! You don't need a membership to request a correction. If the person listed for these credits is the incorrect one, you can move the credits to another live or new page through the contribution form.

For further detailed information and instructions, you can review our following Help Guide and look under question #3, How can I move credits to another page?.

Cheers!

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@Maya​ 

I think the problem is that IMDb allowed someone to claim a page which wasn't his. That cannot be changed in the contribution form.

So now a URL and a name + roman numeral combination will apparently refer to someone else than they have for many years.

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