Seth Green has a reasonably sized role in “Enemy of the State” and Whoopi Goldberg has a big part in “Star Trek: Generations”.
How does it happen that both of them are uncredited? How do things like this happen. Can anyone think of other big roles like this?
I just watched Generations a few days ago. Are you sure about that? I’m almost certain that Whoopie was named. I’ll check the video again.
Bruce Willis’s part in Four Rooms was uncredited.
I don’t know about Generations, but her (brief) appearance in Nemesis is definitely uncredited.
When *The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen * came out awhile back, I was amazed to see Robin Williams playing a juicy (and hilarious) side role as the King of the Moon.
His name appears nowhere in the credits.
Damn Massa I was just trying to think of the name of that show. You’re right about his no credit in the movie. BUT IIRC their was an alias listed…
Ray D. Tutto as the Moon King <the credits list Tutto instead of Williams
could this Tutto be related to Cap’n Tuttle?
Did Mork watch MASH then come up with this alias? 
From here
Robin Williams had another uncredited role in Shakes the Clown as a mime instructor. I just figured he showed up to help out a pal.
Ron Liebman was the big star of Up the Academy but wisely had his name kept out of it. Mad Magazine, ostensibly the producers, had their name removed from the title after the first (brief) run.
The fact that I saw both of these movies in the theater reveals more about me than I’d like.
I saw *Up The Academy * in a theatre. After seeing National Lampoon’s Animal House, I figured *Mad Magazine’s Up The Academy * would be a scream.
E-yarg. :smack:
I have no idea if it’s true or not but I remember reading somewhere that she chose to be unlisted so she wouldn’t overshadow the other actors in the movie.
She had a pretty substantial part in Generations so maybe if she had been listed, it would have been Star Trek: Generations starring Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, and Whoopi Goldberg and she didn’t want that?
Just a WAG based on a half-remembered posting so don’t take it as truth or anything.
Actors and actresses of “star” stature tend to have contracts that specify what kind of billing they get, whether it appears on top of the movie title, whether it appears in larger type than the other actors’ names, etc. Given the type of billing Whoopi Goldberg has gotten in most of her other movies, it actually makes a lot of sense to just leave her name off the credits, to avoid the precedent of taking subordinate billing to someone like Jonathan Frakes. She’s an A-list actress slumming in some B-movies.
That’s right. If a major actor takes a small role, it can reduce your leverage in your next film (“You appeared in Movie X for scale, so we don’t have to give you a percentage of the gross in our film.”) Major actors who take small roles sometimes go unbilled to prevent this.
Robin Williams was also unbilled in the main credits for Dead Again (he had a fairly substantial part), though his name may have been in the end credits.
There are also cameos, where the actor has only a couple of lines and is there so the audience can recognize him. They aren’t an issue in the contract negotiations, but sometimes the actor will appear unbilled and other times you’ll find the name in the credits.
Marlene Dietrich was uncredited in Touch of Evil (as was Joseph Cotton. who happened to visit the set and was put into a couple of scenes). Legend has it that the studio only discovered she was involved when they saw Welles’s footage.
Walter Huston was uncredited in his son’s The Maltese Falcon.
John Malkovitch has an uncredited role as an FBI/CIA investigator with a cold! in either - Jennifer 8 or Alive. Been a long time since I saw either - but pretty sure it was one or other.
The uncredited role of Judson Earney Scott in the second film (that of the Starbuck-like second banana Joachim) was larger that that of some of the Enterprise regulars (Sulu and Uhura, certainly) and far more significant than Goldberg’s role in the later film. Scott’s agent was apparantly angling for higher placement in the credits (how he mistakenly believed he’d get Scott listed ahead of the big seven escapes me).
Say what now? Whoopi “Center Square” Goldberg is an A-list actor? Star of such A-list movies as Burglar, Theodore Rex, and Jumpin’ Jack Flash? I think there’s a better chance that Star Trek is ashamed of being associated with her rather than the other way 'round.
I thought Up the Acadamy was funny 
“Tickle your ass with a feather?” 
Mercedes McCambridge was also uncredited in Touch of Evil.
As well as in The Exorcist; she had to sue for billing.
Actually, she was credited. Here’s the relevant IMDb trivia entry: