# Fictitious movie credits

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**Created:** [March 30, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-movie-credits/165224 "2003-03-30T15:53:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-movie-credits/165224/1 "2003-03-30T15:53:42Z")

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I watched ‘Adaptation’ with Nicolas Cage this morning, which has the fictition screenplay writing credit of Donald Kaufman.

What other totally fictitious credits are there? I don’t mean actual people credited with a psuedonym, but completely made-up.

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**Author:** ![substatique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@substatique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/substatique)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-movie-credits/165224/2 "2003-03-30T16:03:36Z")

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The Coen brothers spring to mind (_Fargo, Brother Where Art Thou_). They credit Roderick Jaynes in all their movies as film editor, though they do it themselves. Apparently they’ve had Albert Finney pretend to be Roderick Jaynes.

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**Author:** ![Fox\_in\_the\_Snow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@Fox\_in\_the\_Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fox_in_the_Snow)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-movie-credits/165224/3 "2003-03-30T16:13:15Z")

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I seem to recall that _Fargo_ also credits Prince as an extra although he never appears in the film.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-movie-credits/165224/4 "2003-03-30T16:21:54Z")

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Would the gag credits in Zucker-Abrams-Zucker films count? “Worst Boy: Adolf Hitler” often appears after the best boy, and “Foreez: A Jolly Good Fellow” shows up a lot, too.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-movie-credits/165224/5 "2003-03-30T16:37:36Z")

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For **Sleuth** (don’t read the spoiler if you haven’t seen the film):

All of the cast credits except Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier.

In TV, Rocky and Bullwinkle always credited “Ponsonby Britt” as executive producer; it was a fictitious name for Jay Ward and Bill Scott.

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**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-movie-credits/165224/6 "2003-03-30T16:58:41Z")

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Fargo doesn’t credit Prince; one of the crew made a goofy, Prince-like symbol and put in the credits for himself. I think there’s a smiley face in the middle of it.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-movie-credits/165224/7 "2003-03-30T17:23:26Z")

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Wow, an Alan Smithee thread.