# Uncredited actors in significant roles

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 21, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncredited-actors-in-significant-roles/757952 "2016-06-21T12:34:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Flare4roach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7cd45c/32.png) [@Flare4roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flare4roach)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncredited-actors-in-significant-roles/757952/21 "2016-06-24T23:53:52Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Robin Williams did this a lot, including his role in _Dead Again_.

Didn’t he also voice the animated Dr. Know in Artificial Intelligence? IIRC he was uncredited but that was some time ago.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncredited-actors-in-significant-roles/757952/22 "2016-06-25T04:10:28Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> Robin Williams had a major role in _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_ but was credited only as “Ray D. Tutto” (a pun on Rei di Tutto - “King of Everything”).
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> Not sure why; in fact, looking at IMDB Williams has a few roles either uncredited or using a blatant pseudonym. In _Shakes the Clown_ he was credited as “Marty Fromage”.

He probably did a lot of them for fun, but IIRC the reports about Munchasuen were that his agent demanded his name not be credited because the production was very troubled (like many Gilliam movies) and the agent feared the studio would try to cash in on Williams’ name to help salvage some box office on what was looking like a dud. (The movie did flop at the box office).

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**Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncredited-actors-in-significant-roles/757952/23 "2016-06-25T04:18:26Z")

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In John Huston’s “The Kremlin Letter” (1970), an unknown, unidentified actor plays the character Polyakov, who is being paid to retrieve the document. He has a rather lengthy scene at the beginning, but no clue as to who he is.

The young “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” singer in “Cabaret” is uncredited, although numerous sources to attest to the identity of the actor.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncredited-actors-in-significant-roles/757952/24 "2016-06-26T00:08:44Z")

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Don’t forget Whoopi Goldberg going uncredited in the Star Trek: TNG movies.

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