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This type is an enumerated list of different kinds of film performances. It is used to provide additional information about someone's performance in a film. Examples include providing the voice for an animated character, a cameo appearance, uncredited appearances, and a person portraying him-...
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| x Voice | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Douglas Rain | HAL 9000 |
A voice performance (on film, television, etc.) is one in which the actor's voice is used but the actor does not appear on-screen. This is most commonly found in animation, but also occurs when an actor's voice is dubbed in over another actor's...
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| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | James Earl Jones | Darth Vader | |||
| Hardware Wars | Paul Frees | Narrator | |||
| Mystery Train | Tom Waits | Radio DJ | |||
| Night at the Museum | Brad Garrett | Easter Island Head | |||
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| x Motion capture |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Andy Serkis | Gollum |
Motion capture, motion tracking, or mocap are terms used to describe the process of recording movement and translating that movement onto a digital model. Initially invented in Scotland, it is used in military, entertainment, sports, and medical...
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| Process Enacted | Brian Baldwin | ||||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Andy Serkis | Gollum | |||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Andy Serkis | Gollum | |||
| Fascinating Young Hostess: Sexy Thighs | Neil Edmond | Archibald Butt | |||
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| x Playback singer | Phantom of the Paradise | Ray Kennedy | Beef |
A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer doesn't appear on screen. It is a usual...
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| Dr. No | Diana Coupland | Honeychile Rider | |||
| Star Wars | Neil Edmond | Lando Calrissian | |||
| Deptford Market | Grandpa Potts | ||||
| x Him/Herself | Airplane II: The Sequel | Art Fleming | |||
| Airplane! | Ethel Merman | ||||
| Bollywood/Hollywood | Akshaye Khanna | ||||
| Faraway, So Close! | Mikhail Gorbachev | ||||
| Faraway, So Close! | Peter Falk | ||||
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| x Seiyū |
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Paprika | Megumi Hayashibara | Paprika |
A seiyū (声優) is a Japanese voice actor that works in radio, television, or movies. Seiyū perform voice-overs for non-Japanese movies, provide narration, and also work as anime and video game character actors. The term "seiyū" is conventionally used...
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| Paprika | Koichi Yamadera | Dr. Morio Osanai | |||
| Paprika | Akio Ohtsuka | Toshimi Konakawa | |||
| Paprika | Toru Emori | Dr. Seijiro Inui | |||
| Paprika | Tōru Furuya | Dr. Kosaku Tokita | |||
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| x Uncredited | King Lear | Norman Mailer | The Great Writer | ||
| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | Paul Blake | Greedo | |||
| But I'm a Cheerleader | Ione Skye | Kelly | |||
| Zodiac | Ione Skye | Kathleen Johns | |||
| Star Trek Nemesis | Whoopi Goldberg | Guinan | |||
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| x Deleted scene | Star Trek Nemesis | Wil Wheaton | Wesley Crusher |
Deleted scene is a commonly-used term in the entertainment industry, especially the film and television industry, which usually refers specifically to scenes removed from or replaced by another scene in the final "cut", or version, of a film ...
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| Apocalypse Now | Emilio Estevez | ||||
| Carol for Another Christmas | Peter Fonda | ||||
| Men in White | Isabel Jewell | ||||
| The Informers | Brandon Routh | ||||
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| x Cameo appearance |
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Spider-Man | Stan Lee |
A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television. Short appearances by film directors, politicians, athletes,...
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| Spider-Man | Bruce Campbell | Announcer (Wrestling Match) | |||
| Spider-Man 2 | Stan Lee | ||||
| Spider-Man 3 | Stan Lee | ||||
| Daredevil | Stan Lee | ||||
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| x Archive Footage | PDA Massacre | Lisa Emily Batey |
Archive footage refers to any pre-existing footage used in a film or television show.
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| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Laurence Olivier | Dr. Totenkopf | |||
| Superman Returns | Marlon Brando | Jor-El | |||
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Alan Ladd | ||||
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Barbara Stanwyck | ||||
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| x Body double | Apocalypse Now | Joe Estevez |
A body double is a general term for someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character in any recorded visual medium, whether videotape or film. The term is most commonly used in the context of head-to-toe (or nearly) shots involving...
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| The Blue Lagoon | Kathy Troutt | Emmeline Lestrange | |||
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Rachel Grant | Lara Croft | |||
| The Za-Bum Circus | Neil Edmond | Queen Victoria | |||
| Catnip | Arthur Chipping | ||||
| x Puppeteer |
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The Falcon Strikes Back | Velma Wayne Dawson |
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object—a puppet—in real time to create the illusion of life. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods,...
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| Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Leslie Carrara | Puppeteer | |||
| The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland | Leslie Carrara | Additional puppeteer | |||
| Trauma | Neil Edmond | Bunny | |||
| A Wank In The Woods | James Rawlings | Jayne Torvill | |||
