Actors with the same name appear as one person

[Chrispynutt]

Brian Cox is an Actor in RED, RED 2, etc https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1248-brian-cox (Prof) Brian Cox is a presenter of The Planets, Wonder of .... series https://www.themoviedb.org/person/224290-brian-cox

Version 10.5.5 under docker on OMV 4 Using MovieDB as primary data source.

To recreate setup say RED in movies and The Planets in TV Series

I'd like to assign the ID as well as the generic name for actors.

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[cvium]

I haven't confirmed the issue, but I'm pretty sure no one has fixed it.

[cvium]

There is unfortunately no easy fix for this. Actors are poorly handled by various metadata providers such as OMDB, where they are presented with only a name and thus we have no unique id to tie actors to movies, shows etc. When two actors share the exact same name this becomes a problem. TMDB seems to have id's for the actors, so we might be able to do more than name comparison.

It's unlikely to be fixed before the database rewrite though.

[tomnehek]

Just for awareness, this is still an issue.

[BugFixesAndPerformanceImprovements]

Another example is Chris Evans. Pretty sure it's not Captain America in Top Gear.

[UnfinishedStuff]

Just to add to this, an inability to discriminate between actors with the same name also leads to Cast & Crew photos being incorrect:

At least this could be solved if we could manually change Cast & Crew photos in the same way that we can for a series.

[cvium]

At least this could be solved if we could manually change Cast & Crew photos in the same way that we can for a series.

Not really. The photo is tied to the Person entity, so it would fall apart if you had Wonders of Life and Succession in your library.

[UnviableFriend]

Using TheMovieDB IDs rather than names would be a very nice change, if possible. And I don't know what data the API gives, but they do store the IDs for IMDB as well. Names as identifiers cause additional issue as mentioned in my bug marked as a dupe #8906

[dmstek]

Just wanted to tell that this is also a huge issue with non-english actors (russian, serbian, greek, you name it). Everyone transliterate any way they want. It would be very nice, if we could have a metadata editor, which can join such entities into one and you can select the name it will show. As if now you can try to rename actor to go by same name as the other duplicate, then this entity disappears completely from the movie :(

[peskyAdmin]

Bump. This is still occurring in 10.9.11 in my case with

Matt Walsh(I)

and

Matt Walsh(XX)

just throwing a suggestion out there

If you were to look up the actors by navigating from the movie page. you would then be able to use the imdb id as a way to distinctly separate two actors.

[dl200010]

I can confirm this is happening still. I have the same actor as @peskyAdmin has and on the same version.