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Author Topic: Obtaining complete actor credits Mike Croaro Master Film Handler Posts: 394 From: Millbrae, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 06-21-2019 12:16 AM                     Please bare with me as my question pertains to an actor who was mainly in television, but in some feature films. 1960's actor David Macklin has nearly 200 TV show credits to his name. But the IMDB only lists only a fraction of them. How might I go about finding a COMPLETE list of his acting credits? Thanks, Mike  |  IP: Logged Alan Gouger Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 501 From: Bradenton, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-21-2019 07:35 AM                        https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533626/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm  |  IP: Logged Mike Croaro Master Film Handler Posts: 394 From: Millbrae, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 06-21-2019 11:08 AM                     Hello Alan, I know about the IMDB (I mentioned it in my original post). But it only lists roughly 1/4-1/3 of Macklin's acting credits. Do you know of another source that is more complete?  |  IP: Logged Alan Gouger Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 501 From: Bradenton, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-21-2019 11:14 AM                        You might want to try IMDB pro.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-21-2019 06:52 PM                     IMDB Pro is not going to have more credits than public IMDB. I counted 85 unique credits on his page. I guess I have to ask, how do you know for a fact (as opposed to hearsay) that he has 200+ total credits? Is this substantiated by anything other than his claim?  |  IP: Logged Mike Croaro Master Film Handler Posts: 394 From: Millbrae, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 06-21-2019 11:21 PM                     Mark, David Macklin had his own website up until about 3 months ago (he died). It stated that he had "nearly 200 TV and movie credits". Mike  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-22-2019 10:23 AM                        Does the Screen Actors Guild maintain a database?  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-22-2019 01:38 PM                     I can see how a lot of an actor's jobs not get listed as numerous series in the 1960s went into the film vaults after the series got cancelled at the networks and eventually the episodes get chucked into the trash. Some TV series some of us grew up with is lost for this reason.  |  IP: Logged

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