Whose IMDB entry constitutes the fewest number of credits for a NAME entertainer? (A true One-Hit Wonder)
Whose IMDB entry covers the greatest number of years? (Birth to latest venture)
Whose IMDB entry shows a celebrity wearing the greatest number of hats (director/writer/producer/actor/music/art/props/yada/yada)?
Which IMDB entries are for people you know personally (including your own) well enough that they would call you on your phone or invite you to their place for dinner?
Whose IMDB entry contains the largest number of non-speaking roles?
(Add to the questions list, even if you can’t provide any answers)
Try to beat the latest answer to any question already answered.
While I don’t know if he has the most hats, Robert Rodriguez is listed under 21 categories:
Director
Editor
Producer
Writer
Cinematographer
Composer
Sound Department
Soundtrack
Camera and Electrical Department
Actor
Visual Effects
Production Designer
Special Effects
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Miscellaneous Crew
Music Department
Editorial Department
Animation Department
Thanks
Self
Archive Footage
I’m not going to link to it, but I do have an IMDB entry (and not a “one-hit wonder”), though my StarMeter went down over 15% from last week. Why? I don’t know (since I’m not signed up in IMDBPro).
Heck, William Shakespeare has credits ranging from 1899 to 2008 (though I suspect that’s not what the OP had in mind).
Last night I was watching the 1968 version of The Producers and I wondered who the guy was playing the insane Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind. Upon consulting IMDB, I found it was one Kenneth Mars who, although he probably doesn’t actually win any of the OP’s categories, can at least be said to have one of the most impressive screen resumes I’ve ever seen. Sure, 9/10th of it is crap, but this guy WORKS. Here are some of the highlights:
The Jetsons (this was his first credit)
Car 54, Where Are You?
Gunsmoke
Get Smart
The Producers
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
That Girl
McMillan and Wife
Ironsides
Love, American Style
The Parallax View
Young Frankenstien
Wonder Woman
Barney Miller
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Columbo
Project UFO
Goin’ Coconuts
Supertrain
Heart to Heart
The Facts of Life
Cagney and Lacy
Trapper John, MD
Magnum P.I.
Fletch
Remington Steele
Hardcastle and McCormick
Simon and Simon
Radio Days
The Little Mermaid
Perfect Strangers
Shadows and Fog
Animaniacs
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
L.A. Law
Batman: The Animated Series
Citizen Ruth
Fallout (computer game voiceover)
Nash Bridges
Just Shoot Me
Malcom in the Middle
Hannah Montana
In answer to question 3, there’s Mike Jittlov, who’s listed under the following 21 categories:
Actor
Director
Writer
Editor
Composer
Animation Department
Visual Effects
Special Effects
Producer
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Music Department
Cinematographer
Stunts
Sound Department
Production Manager
Production Designer
Costume Designer
Art Director
Art Department
Self
Archive Footage
In answer to question 2, the largest is clearly Jeanne Calment, who was in a film when she was 120, if you insist that the latest venture be something done while the person is alive.
Well, there’s me, for two indie documentaries, the director and another featured person from those films would qualify. I just had dinner last night with a budding actress (one credit) who I knew long before she got her SAG card. We never call each other, but our small group just agreed to get together for monthly drinks, so I think that counts. So, four - including me.
Honorable mentions:
I have a standing invitation to dinner at this guy’s place if we ever get out to L.A. though it seems unlikely I will ever take him up on it.
I’ve hung out with this guy a few times and have been to his apartment once but we wouldn’t call each other (though if I ran into him I’d totally suggest getting a coffee to catch up, which he would probably politely refuse in a genuinely apologetic way because he’d already have plans and/or be too busy. Movie stars! :rolleyes: :D)
I was given (by him) this guy’s email address and home and cell phone numbers for business purposes. But the business having been duly transacted, I would not use them again (and they’ve probably been changed anyway).
Whenever possible I would visit anyone associated with this show, which could certainly result in massive food and drink being consumed.
And I’m just too lazy to attempt the other OP questions!
Who has performed under the greatest number of professional names? For example:
Marvin Lee Aday
Marvin Aday
Meat Loaf Aday
Meatloaf Aday
Michael Lee Aday
Michael Meat Loaf Aday
Michael Aday
Meatloaf
He doesn’t appear to be credited as simply “Meat Loaf,” though.
John Cazale and Dorothy Stratten weigh in with seven movies each (With Cazale, three of them were The Godfather). Cazale’s no household name, but he was in 4 or 5 of the best movies ever made, so he should count.
Stratten, featured in seven films, was the subject of three. Pretty high ratio, I’d say.
I thought Bruce Lee or James Dean might be contenders in this category, but the IMDB lists all their TV and minor movie work.
He was, in Roadie. In Rocky Horror, he was billed as "Meatloaf."
Gummo Marx! His sole IMDB credit was for a talk show appearance with his brothers on Tonight: America After Dark in 1957. Zeppo, by comparison, has 20 IMDB listings, many of them posthumous.
Which IMDB entries are for people you know personally (including your own) well enough that they would call you on your phone or invite you to their place for dinner?
At least one friend of mine has a listing, we have lunched together and chat on the phone fairly regularly.
Whose IMDB entry contains the largest number of non-speaking roles?
Mary Pickford has 242 entries prior to the first film with any speaking role. (The Jazz Singer in 27)
Sarah Holcomb has only five entries (one of them for being “herself”). The name might not be familiar, but she had a memorable role in Animal House and was the female lead in Caddyshack.
Well, Mary speaks in many of her films, even if we can’t hear her. I have The Country Doctor (1909) handy, and she clearly speaks to Kate Bruce, even if there is no intertitle.
Would someone be kind enough to count the non-speaking roles of Bess Flowers?
Why? I don’t know (since I’m not signed up in IMDBPro).