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Kevin Smith crew & cast
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Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970)
American screenwriter, film director, actor and comic book writer
Kevin Tod Smith (March 16, 1963–February 15, 2002)
New Zealand actor best known for playing Ares on Xena: Warrior Princess
Kevin Smith (South African actor), best known for playing Frank Xavier on Isidingo

anyone has ideas how to solve common names and birth years
"kevin smith" is credited in the following 226 titles (580 profiles):
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I brought this up to Ken a while back ago... about the credit look-up tool showing the results of all the Kevin Smiths together... He is working on a solution but not sure what it is yet...

Quoting Ken Cole:
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Currently the index is not built to consider birth years.  I'll add it to my list for further investigation.  The complication is that the lookup goes based on the Credited As field, which does not have a direct tie to birth year.  The birth year is tied to the common name entered for that credit, which is not considered for the lookup tool.  Still, possibly there's a way to make it work.


I am hoping he will find a solution before too long for the common name problem. As for the birth year... the birth year for the first two is in the database, If we can find the birth year for the third we have the documentation to add it.
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the third one is not yet a problem: Isidingo is not yet on dvd. however if i want to ad kevin smith only the 1970's shows up?
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only the 1970's Smith shows up where? in your local database? or do you mean the look-up tool?

If in your own database...
Do you have any discs with the 1963's Smith? if so see if refreshing the profile from the online database don't fix it to the 1963 Smith.

If you mean the Look-up Tool...
It is showing all combined... if you go to the final page of the listings you will see Xena listings and that is the 1963 Smith.

Or am I misunderstanding you all together?
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the xena's i loaded did not have him credited. I loaded one from the final page and it loaded ok
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Here is what happens in the local database:

Let's say you have the entry "Kevin Smith" in your database locally, and all Kevin Smiths link to it (no distinction).  Then you download Clerks with a year of birth entry (1970).  What happens in the change does not affect JUST Clerks.  It changes your Kevin Smith entry instead, so that now all of your "Kevin Smiths" have a birth year of 1970.  It changes the actor entry in your local database, not the DVD entry.  To fix this, you now need to make a new cast entry for other Kevin Smiths and either add their year of birth or, more commonly, do not put a year of birth into this new record.  Now go and replace all instances of this new "un-birth year'ed" Kevin Smith with the proper ones in your database.  For the 1970 Kevin Smith, just leave those alone and propogate the birth year for the correct Kevin.  Confusing, I know, but that's how it works.
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I've updated the pinned birth year thread with the following info on 3 actors called Kevin Smith (not the South African one, though):

Kevin Smith - Australian - born 1953 (from the movie "Jindabyne"):
http://www.theblackbook.com.au/inspiration_detail.asp?id=8
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/09/23/1126982225436.html

Kevin Smith - New Zealand born - born 1963 (from the "Xena" TV series):
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020220/ai_n12603820
http://members.tripod.com/andromeda_logs/obituary/ksmith.htm

Kevin Smith - American - born 1970 (from "Clerks" and "Dogma"):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003620/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_smith
http://www.filmreference.com/film/89/Kevin-Smith.html
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