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Old 12-18-13, 07:12 PM
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Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Just got back from seeing Bad Santa at the theater. Alex Borstein was listed in the opening credits but had one throwaway line. She's cast as "Milwaukee Mom with Photo." This is even stranger when Cloris Leachman had a bigger role than Borstein and went uncredited. Weird.

Any other movies that do this?
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I haven't seen it in a while, but it seemed that Mary Louise Parker had hardly any lines in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
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Did Suzanne Somers get a credit in Anerican Graffiti?
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Did Milla Jovovich barely speak in Dazed & Confused? She got on the movie poster.
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Originally Posted by Mondo Kane
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I ran into Lord of Illusions last night. Dude only appeared in one scene for the whole movie and again got high billing in the opening credits. Vinnie must've had one helluva agent!
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Zero lines: Christopher Lee in Dracula Prince of Darkness
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Originally Posted by Mondo Kane
I ran into Lord of Illusions last night. Dude only appeared in one scene for the whole movie and again got high billing in the opening credits. Vinnie must've had one helluva agent!
But not good enough of one to prevent lung cancer.
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Originally Posted by Paff
Zero lines: Christopher Lee in Dracula Prince of Darkness
Or Jean-Louis Trintignat in The Great Silence.
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Originally Posted by Paff
Zero lines: Christopher Lee in Dracula Prince of Darkness
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I don't think he uttered a single word the entire movie.
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Samuel L. Jackson doesn't get to say much in True Romance
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

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Samuel L. Jackson doesn't get to say much in True Romance
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Voice role only, but Cloris Leachman's part was cut down to one line in The Iron Giant. She was still billed fifth, I'm sure because of her contract.

One that no one else would probably notice is a favorite of mine, Severn Darden, in The Shoot Horses, Don't They?. He's billed (only) ninth, and is visible throughout as one of the dance contestants, but has zero lines if I remember correctly. I would guess that his dialog part was left on the cutting room floor.
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

She might have more than one line, but this is close enough. Chicken coop driver Ada Washington even made the poster credits for Last House on the Left (1972) while Fred Lincoln and Jeramie Rain didn't.

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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Well, if we're talking zero lines we'd have to add Yul Brynner in Futureworld. Might be the most unnecessary, shoehorned cameo ever.
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

She's listed on the back of the box credits so it counts but Zooey Deschanel in Assassination of Jesse James. Only appears at the very end, has a few lines (and she sings)
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Bruce Campbell is in the end credits for The Quick and the Dead, and he's NOT in the movie.
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Originally Posted by hanshotfirst1138
Bruce Campbell is in the end credits for The Quick and the Dead, and he's NOT in the movie.
I'm in the end credits for Punk Rock Holocaust, and have an IMDb page because of it, but I'm not in the movie. Seriously.
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Re: Actors with one line roles that got in the opening credits?

Originally Posted by Crocker Jarmen
Marcel Marceau in Mel Brook's Silent Movie
I see what you did there.

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