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Old January 19th 09, 07:15 PM posted to alt.collecting.autographs
Sue H
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Default miscredits?

Wow, trying to get the facts on some of the "little people" actors
since I have a large collection of them and one of them is the subject
of where to put him on my site...I got a signature recently from
Albert Wilkinson who I loved in Willy Wonka. When I was writing,
someone told me he was a jawa and possibly a droid in Star Wars.
Another site lists Jedi. Two other sites say he is appearing with
actors from Star Wars but was not in Star Wars. So I find another
article that says he was, but no mention of what character or specific
film. However, they go on to list Oompa Loompas. This was
interesting because a couple other people claim to have been Oompa
Loompas and some photos show up to 10 Oompas... but David Wolper says
only 8. Someone else said there were others in the wings in case one
didn't work out but didn't appear on screen. Still a photo I've seen
does have at least 9. There's no Rusty Geoff mentioned there but I've
seen many credits as him being one... and several others on a "little
people" website list Harry Potter and Willy Wonka as credits but
nowhere else does it say that. I saw one time Felix Silla credited
for Willy Wonka (but I don't think so).

I've encountered this many times, with many people. Not just little
people. There are other jawas and Stormtroopers that most likely
weren't and so this makes me wonder: how many out there do actually
lie on their CV's? Hmmm. I wonder if people lie about any film where
there are tons of people behind masks etc.

I usually ask for clarification in my letters, but sometimes, like
this one, there is no response outside of a signature. The best thing
to do is get a hold of call sheets but even those aren't accurate.
I've seen and have a few and sometimes they just put generic terms on
there or spell names wrong.

So I wonder how many miscredited people there are out there! Does
anyone have any in their collections that they wonder about?
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