Who is Phil Hawn??

[Morbo]

As I was perusing the IMDB, I came across this Phil Hawn guy at the bottom of some movie's credits, so I clicked on his name, and holy cr*p! The guy's been in 81 movies, always "uncredited" or some other totally minor role, all of them since 1998. Does anyone know who this guy is? I didn't think extras got credits in movies unless they had speaking roles, so he has to know somebody, somewhere. Could he be related to Goldie Hawn somehow?

On another kind-of related topic, does anyone know who has the most appearances in IMDB? Vincent Price has a bunch - 148 in movies, 36 in TV guest appearances, but surely there's somebody with more? I didn't see a way to search that way...

[bibliophage]

I don't know who Phil Hawn is.

On another kind-of related topic, does anyone know who has the most appearances in IMDB? Vincent Price has a bunch - 148 in movies

Counting only credits in the actor-filmography category, several people beat Price. I checked the first 25 people on this list of the center of the Hollywood universe . There may be others lower on the list who have more credits.

• John Carradine has 258
  Christopher Lee has 218
  Donald Pleasence has 187
  Roddy McDowall has 168
  Anthony Quinn has 158
  Martin Sheen has 157

Orson Welles has 147, one less than Price, but he also has a lot of directing, producing, and writing credits.

[Wendell Wagner]

Phil Hawn's apparently a minor actor who's been working steadily but without ever getting a significant role. Look through all the things listed on the pages connected to his IMDb entry and you'll see that he's been getting lots of small credited roles and uncredited parts as extras, not just in movies but also in TV shows and in commericals and on stage. He's a real publicity hound, since he has his own website:

http://philhawn.com/

which isn't typical for someone as minor as him. I suspect that he E-mailed IMDb asking them to include in his entry not just his small but credited roles but all his uncredited roles as well. I suspect that the IMDb went ahead and did it, even though they generally don't try to figure out what roles as extras most actors did, since they are willing to include anything as long as it's real.

I further suspect that there are a lot of actors with credit lists as long as Hawn's whose credits aren't all listed in IMDb. Not many people would want to boast that they're 44 years and still haven't broken through to even modest success in their profession, despite (about) 10 years of trying. (It looks like he spent his twenties and early thirties trying to make it as a rock musician and didn't get anywhere there either.)

[Doug Bowe]

Biblio: It may depend on how you do your counting.
Under Vincent Price the PBS TV series "Mystery" is counted as 1 credit.
If you counted each episode Price introduced weekly from 1980 to 1989 the count could get mind-boggling.