As I have a family member who is an actor and whom has played many supporting roles, I would like to add their name to the movies and TV shows for which they have acted in, but not starred. This would make it easy for me and my family then to search for and identify all movies and TV shows for which…

From what I’ve experienced, Plex usually has the full cast incl. uncredited actors available to search/filter. So your best shot is to check if that family member of yours is actually listed on those movies (IIRC Plex is getting cast information from The Movie Database). Plex does not distinguish …

I appreciate that insight. Out of 9 movies my father-in-law is in, he is only listed in 6 of them. Granted one is a short which is not even listed in IMDB. Can I add or he add himself to the missing movies in The Movie Database?

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[image] tom80H: From what I’ve experienced, Plex usually has the full cast incl. uncredited actors available Really? From what I’ve seen Plex’s new TV agent displays far fewer supporting cast than the old TVDB agent does. Is has even gone down since it was introduced. Shows originally added w…

I’m not sure about that. I’ve just checked with some of the Lord of the Rings movies (mostly because they have a massive cast). It appears the full cast from TMDb including the “uncredited” ones is showing on the movie’s page. I can search for all of them – just the filter appears to be limited b…

[image] tom80H: I’ve just checked with some of the Lord of the Rings movies (mostly because they have a massive cast). It appears the full cast from TMDb including the “uncredited” ones is showing on the movie’s page. Yeah, I’ve found the movie agent is okay. I’m talking specifically about th…

Thanks to all. Originally I didn’t want to use the Collections feature because I either had to Hide All Items or Show both the Collections and their Items. However I just discovered the ability to do that per collection with the Collection Mode in Advanced and this solves my problem of wanting to m…

You can adjust/override the collection visibility for each collection (:pencil2: > Advanced)

Enable the addition of supporting actors

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Yeah, I’ve found the movie agent is okay. I’m talking specifically about the TV agent.

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