Perhaps this has come up before, but I haven't noticed it.  I've finally stumbled across two actors with the same name and the same birth year.  Do we have a solution for this situation?

Okay then.  I'll just keep it local until a solution comes up.

Silly as this sounds, I didn't think it mattered.  Anyway, the actors are named Frank Fontaine and as far as I can tell were both born in 1920.  Now, the one that I remember showed up in a bunch of old TV variety stuff from the 50's and 60's.  His big thing was doing a drunk impression.  All well and good, except he died in 1978, and we have another Frank Fontaine credited in "The Greatest Game Ever Played" from 2005.  Obviously not the same person as this other Frank Fontaine was active as recently as 2008 for an "Old Man" credit in the remake of "Journey to the Center of the Earth".

Quoting mdnitoil:

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Perhaps this has come up before, but I haven't noticed it.

It does - except in most cases, the problem is having two people with the same name while no birth year can be found for either of them. That's pretty much the same thing, but much more common. I've got lots of those (with local-only fake birth years to keep them separated) in my database.

Well, I guess it's no big deal.  I just arbitrarily chose to give one of them the BY and leave the other blank.  I just can't contribute any of this stuff.