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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 12:24 AM

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How can I search for a character?

How can I search for the name of a character to find out what show or movie the character was in and what actor played the character? (example:  I searched for the character Allison Mackenzie, but the results were all actresses and other actual people.  I finally remembered that she was a character in Peyton Place played by Mia Farrow.)

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need character search

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5 years ago

Kace: Unfortunately, I don't think this is currently possible on IMDb. See the announcement at https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/changes-to-imdb-characters which indicates that the character search function was shut down in December 2017.

The plan was for character search to eventually be brought back, but I have no idea when that will actually happen.

Right now, your best bet may be to do a Google search using the character name and imdb. In some cases, your results may be dominated by actual people with that name, but it's also possible that you may find the title with the character somewhere in the results list.

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5 years ago

You can also search plots, which often include some character names, and some common characters also have keywords.

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5 years ago

Hi Kace,

As gromit82 points out above, it is no longer possible to do a character search within IMDb. However, you can do an equivalent search using Google. In your case, use this for the search term in Google:
site:imdb.com "Allison Mackenzie"

This produces this search results:
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNS0zQe4ZT_lx_-SxYPDM0rDeelfPg%3A1579742087527&source=hp...

Results include:
Peyton Place (1957) - Diane Varsi as Allison MacKenzie - IMDb
Mia Farrow as Allison Mackenzie, Allison MacKenzie - IMDb
Barbara Williams as Sister Allison MacKenzie - IMDb

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This is the general form:
site:imdb.com {Search_Term},
where {Search_Term} is your specific search term such as "Allison Mackenzie"

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In anticipation of IMDb deprecating character pages, I produced this list of the first 1000 characters on IMDb:
Links to Internet Archive of Character Pages
https://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2017/11/links-to-internet-archive-of-character.html
Character Code / Link to Archived Page / Character Name

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4 years ago

Since CHARACTERS are no longer listed as searchable objects, how can we find the episode(s) of a show the characters was in as a guest? He's not listed in the "Full Cast" listing (it seems truncated).

 

Specifically, I was looking for Batman's appearance in "The Adventures of Superman" and there was no way to do a character search.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Characters in Series

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Sounds like a job for google.

Maybe some fandom-type site has the info you seek.

 

(I wish IMDb was better at searching for characters too.)

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nic_b, Employee 

Tue, Nov 14, 2017

Updates to Characters

Today we are modifying the display of Characters across IMDb.

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/updates-to-characters/5f4a7b258815453dbacbd7f4

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What is IMDb ?

IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content, 

designed to help fans explore the world of movies and shows and decide what to watch.

Our searchable database includes millions of movies, TV and entertainment programs and cast and crew members

 

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I just asked a question about the removal of the Character Search .... it was one of the best features of IMDb (imo) ! and it is sorely missed by many, 

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4 years ago

Why can't one anymore search charachters so, that if you for example write 'Sherlock Holmes', it would show you EVERY film, series etc. that include that charachter and who played it and where????

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Charachter Search

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Thank You!

Bit slow though - shouldn't be long peace of code to bring this back to actual site :)

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3 years ago

I really miss this feature.  The search just lists individual results you may have to go to page 14 of the responses to get a character.   e.g. site:imdb.com "zeus"  - you won't get a single response that covers each movie with zeus.   I used to use this for a lot of angels, gods, superheroes, even bond.   I hope they put the feature back in soon.

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3 years ago

There used to be a feature where one could find characters (usually ones that appeared n more than one film) along with who played them in which films.

It was VERY handy for playing film related games as well as for serious research.

Wondering why this great feature was eliminated and IF it will ever come back  ! 

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Character links

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This was an announcement about the removal of those pages:

Updates to Characters

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It appears that you "fixed " what was not broken without consulting the people who actually USE the character pages.  Seems a shame to lose a feature that  made the site more useful than any other.