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"Himself" as actor?
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Doing an audit on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and in the credits there are listed: Himself (as cast member) and role is "Bonecrusher The Mastiff" Himself isn't a name, or should I enter that role as Himself playing Bonecrusher The Mastiff?? or Castname: Bonecrusher The Mastiff as Bonecrusher The Mastiff???
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The way I would do it is to use credited as.
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Doing an audit on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and in the credits there are listed: Himself (as cast member) and role is "Bonecrusher The Mastiff" Himself isn't a name, or should I enter that role as Himself playing Bonecrusher The Mastiff?? or Castname: Bonecrusher The Mastiff as Bonecrusher The Mastiff???

It should be "Bonecrusher The Mastiff//" as Himself. "Bonecrusher The Mastiff" is a stage name.

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Paul Francis
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The way I would do it is to use credited as.

Agreed.

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The way I would do it is to use credited as.

That just adds bad links to the database. Ken Cole has told us not to list it that way.

Enter "Bonecrusher The Mastiff" as the actors name and "Himself" as the role.

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Paul Francis
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The way I would do it is to use credited as.

Agreed.

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How are you going to keep all the entries for 'Himself' apart? BY?

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Thank you guys, as always 
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I don't disagree with what has been said.

Let me toss out what Ken said on "Himself" (which applies more to real persons than to fictional Mastiffs but might provide some insight)
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The way I would do it is to use credited as.

That just adds bad links to the database. Ken Cole has told us not to list it that way.

Enter "Bonecrusher The Mastiff" as the actors name and "Himself" as the role.

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You are correct, Ken has addressed this.  From this thread:

Quoting Ken Cole:
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My thought on this is that if the cast listing is explicit, as in "Himself as Bob Smith", or "Bob Smith played by Himself", then the Credited As field should be used to preserve intent.  However, if the only indication of Name/Role is left/right, I would lean towards allowing the credit to be entered as name: "Bob Smith", role: "Himself"


Pet that statement, it should be "Bonecrusher The Mastiff as Himself."
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The way I would do it is to use credited as.

That just adds bad links to the database. Ken Cole has told us not to list it that way.

Enter "Bonecrusher The Mastiff" as the actors name and "Himself" as the role.

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You are correct, Ken has addressed this.  From this thread:

Quoting Ken Cole:
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My thought on this is that if the cast listing is explicit, as in "Himself as Bob Smith", or "Bob Smith played by Himself", then the Credited As field should be used to preserve intent.  However, if the only indication of Name/Role is left/right, I would lean towards allowing the credit to be entered as name: "Bob Smith", role: "Himself"


Pet that statement, it should be "Bonecrusher The Mastiff as Himself."

Thanks for finding the thread, I looked for it, but you know how bad search is here.

So now we need to know just how it is listed in the film credits.

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Paul Francis
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