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Where do uncredited extras belong?

According to the cast guide:

We will accept "background" or "extra" if that's how the credit appears on screen, but "background", "extra" or "bit-part" will not be accepted as a character name on the title if the role does not receive an on-screen credit. 

However, when I tried to move an extra from the cast section (since they are no credited), to the "other crew" section which is the only other place that makes sense to me, I get:



This directly contradicts the cast guide.

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The way I see it, this is probably just an ”uncredited” background actor like Man on the Bus, Woman at the Concert etc. Somebody submitted it wrong and just added ”Extra” instead of a character description.


It’s either a Cast section (with ”uncredited” attribute) or not at all, I guess. But this is just my 2 cents.

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But, there really is no way for an unrelated person to fix this credit. Most "extras" don't have profile pictures and even if they did figuring out where they occur in anything from an hour to three hour feature would be near impossible.

If we have a place for credited extra/backgrounds, there needs to be a place for uncredited ones as well without needing an additional description.

If anything, the guide needs to be specific about what is and what is not acceptable because right now the only choice is to delete the credit because it does violate the guide.

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I agree with all you said but the last sentence needs a qualifier. They should be deleted from cast but should be credited somewhere. There are uncredited extras on basically any project so there should be a place where they are listed if not in the cast.

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Again, ”the way I see it”, but I’ve seen all kind of credits under the sun and some where there’s ”Extras” subtitle and some names under that. I assume the guide refers to cases like that (or similar).


Video games and voice acting/motion capture credits probably use these ”extras”, ”additional voices” etc more often.

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6 years ago

Hi Adrian

Thanks for the post.

We will look into the warning and see if we can make it more explicit - this credit is actually ineligible for listing so please submit a deletion linking this thread URL to it.

Thank you in advance!

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So uncredited extras can't be listed anywhere on IMDb? That seems bizarre.

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Around the World in 80 Days (1956) has close to 1000 actors listed as Extra or Minor Role as uncredited in the cast listing.

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Hopefully those Around the World in 80 Days (1956) non-famous uncredited extras were added with some sort of studio records to back them up. The film is famous for the number of cameos, using highly recognizable (at the time) actors as visual treats, but this does have a lot of non-famous extras. I just clicked on a few, and find this is their only credit. <eyebrow raised>