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* ''Film/DoctorInTheHouse1954'' had Noel Purcell as the Padre, Douglas Ives as Alfie Sprogett, and Creator/FredGriffiths as a taxi driver.

* Ron Clements did story work on ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore]]'', but demanded that his name be removed from the credits due to his outrage at Disney for outsourcing the animation work to Rick Reinert Productions, who ironically were also not given proper credit.

* During the time when Face was the main mascot of Creator/NickJr, there were dubs of his bumpers made for the Australian market, but the voice actor dubbing his lines is unknown.[[note]]There is some speculation that Creator/CharlieAdler was the Australian voice of Face, but we may never know for certain.[[/note]]

* Unfortunately, many anime TV series that are released in North America don't contain the entire Japanese credits roll, and only feature an abridged credits list [[labelnote:Note]](typically only listing the major positions like animation director and screenplay, etc.)[[/labelnote]]. As a result, crew members and supporting studios which are listed in the original Japanese credits are omitted in the North American release, this sometimes includes the original Japanese voices.
* This form of crediting is also used quite often in Japan, usually in regards to outsourcing studios lacking a proper staff roll. In some instances, certain shows will outright omit key staff members, animation studios or key animators, ''Literature/MaerchenMaedchen'' being a notorious example of this practice in action. Some titles like ''Manga/RinNe'', ''Manga/ToYourEternity'', ''Literature/LogHorizon'', ''Literature/GuinSaga'', ''Manga/{{Radiant}}'', and NHK airings of certain anime such as ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' and ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'' feature credits that lack any mention of their respective supporting contract studios and only credit the animators.

*** Creator/TexAvery didn't receive credit on his last four cartoons, ''All This and Rabbit Stew'', ''The Cagey Canary'', ''Aloha Hooey'' and ''Crazy Cruise''; the latter three were completed by Creator/BobClampett.

* Most {{gacha games}} with many artists involved will list whoever drew the playable characters' illustrations and who voiced them (usually in the character's profile menu), but it's very common for artists and voice actors behind [[NonPlayerCharacter side-characters and enemies]] being left uncredited. A lot of gacha games don't have a ClosingCredits sequence, and even when they have one, these will list the artists/[[UnspecifiedCreditRole voice actors]] but not which characters they were involved with.

This was common industry practice in voiceover work for animation prior to the 1980s (see UnspecifiedCreditRole for more information).

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' replaced Wreav's original voice actor, Creator/JimCummings with an uncredited voice, revealed years later via WordOfGod as Creator/RogerLJackson.

** None of the actors in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' were credited for their roles, largely to [[{{Kayfabe}} preserve the illusion of the characters being real]]. Creator/AdrianaCaselotti did, however, appear in a few promotional gigs shortly after the film's release, but Disney didn't begin crediting their voice talent until 1945's ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. Until ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'', with the exception of ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', [[UnspecifiedCreditRole only the voice actors were listed and not the roles they played]].

This was common industry practice in voiceover work for animation prior to the 1980s (see UnspecifiedRoleCredit for more information).

See also AlanSmithee, for when a film director proves that they did not have creative control over a film and has the direction of the film credited to a pseudonym. An interesting case is when a creator is [[TypeCasting typecast]] in a particular role/genre, and goes uncredited in order to distance themselves from their usual type, which overlaps with HeAlsoDid.

** All shorts that were given Blue Ribbon reissues before 1956 (encompassing re-releases of all the pre-1948 shors, and well as five post-1948 shorts[[note]]''WesternAnimation/DaffyDilly'', ''WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat'', ''The Foghorn Leghorn'', ''Kit for Cat'', and ''You Were Never Duckier'', although all of these save for ''Daffy Dilly'' have since had their credits located and reinstated[[/note]]) scrapped the original titles, including the credits, meaning none of the crew would be credited in re-releases of those cartoons.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Japanese voice actor for Sputnik is not credited.]]

** Although Clive Revill was credited as the voice of the Emperor in the pre-Special Edition ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', his face actress Marjorie Eaton was not. Until 2016, it was widely believed that Elaine Baker played the Emperor, when she was actually only used for makeup tests.

This was common industry practice in voiceover work for animation prior to the 1980s (see NowWhichOneWasThatVoice for more information).

** None of the actors in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' were credited for their roles, largely to [[{{Kayfabe}} preserve the illusion of the characters being real]]. Creator/AdrianaCaselotti did, however, appear in a few promotional gigs shortly after the film's release, but Disney didn't begin crediting their voice talent until 1945's ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. Until ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'', with the exception of ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', [[NowWhichOneWasThatVoice only the voice actors were listed and not the roles they played]].

* Most {{gacha games}} with many artists involved will list whoever drew the playable characters' illustrations and who voiced them (usually in the character's profile menu), but it's very common for artists and voice actors behind [[NonPlayerCharacter side-characters and enemies]] being left uncredited. A lot of gacha games don't have a ClosingCredits sequence, and even when they have one, these will list the artists/[[NowWhichOneWasThatVoice voice actors]] but not which characters they were involved with.

* The characters of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' have [[NowWhichOneWasThatVoice no official listing of voice actors]], with many English voice actors not publicly disclosing their involvement and fansites such as Wikia/Fandom and [[Characters/LeagueOfLegends This Very Wiki]] being mostly informed guesswork. The most common explanations for this range from union voice actors not wanting to disclose their involvement in a non-union game (itself due in part to being a live-service game that can hire actors to re-record lines) to stigma surrounding video game voice acting. This has led to speculations such as Zac being voiced by Creator/PatrickWarburton, which was confirmed to not be the case [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2r22su/40_of_leagues_champions_remain_without_listed/cnc0nlk/ by a Rioter]] who was present at the recording.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}'': When the show premiered, it was not known who provided the voice of Todd, as the credits fall under NowWhichOneWasThatVoice before Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos was credited.

* Creator/ElaineMay has worked uncredited on such movies as ''Film/{{Reds}}'', ''Film/{{Tootsie}}'', ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', ''Film/{{Wolf}}'', and ''Film/DangerousMinds''.

* While the original ''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil|1}}'' features a cast list at the closing credits, it only credits the actors who appear in the live-action segments (each credited by one name only), leading to the mistaken belief that the live-action actors also voiced the in-game characters. In reality, not only were in-game voice actors different, but the voice actors actually dubbed over the live-action actors' performances. The voices for Chris Redfield (the late Scott McCullough, who passed away in 2000), Barry Burton (Barry Gjerde), Albert Wesker (Pablo Kuntz) and Rebecca Chambers (Lynn Harris, who also served as the voice acting director) has since been identified.

* Creator/CamClarke (Liquid Snake) and Creator/JohnCygan (Solidus Snake) are not credited in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' despite the use of their voice recordings from previous installments. This is a result of a localization oversight in the game's closing credits. Due to the death of Koji Totani (Revolver Ocelot's voice actor in the Japanese version), the role was taken over by Banjo Ginga under the pretense of Liquid Snake's personality taking over Revolver Ocelot's mind, but Pat Zimmermann was unaffected by this and still voiced Ocelot in the English version, but the credits were not changed to reflect this casting difference in the English version and as a result, Zimmermann is credited twice (once for his present role as Liquid Ocelot and the second time for the use of Revolver Ocelot clips from previous games). As for Solidus Snake, the character was played Akio Otsuka in Japanese, who also voices protagonist Solid Snake, resulting in only one character being credited in the Japanese version.

* Creator/CamClarke (Liquid Snake) and Creator/JohnCygan (Solidus Snake) are not credited in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' despite the use of their voice recordings from previous installments. This is a result of a localization oversight in the game's closing credits. Due to the death of Revolver Ocelot's voice actor in the Japanese version, the role was taken over by Banjo Ginga under the pretense of Liquid Snake's personality taking over Revolver Ocelot's mind, but Pat Zimmermann was unaffected by this and still voiced Ocelot in the English version, but the credits were not changed to reflect this casting difference in the English version and as a result, Zimmermann is credited twice (once for his present role as Liquid Ocelot and the second time for the use of Revolver Ocelot clips from previous games). As for Solidus Snake, the character was played Akio Otsuka in Japanese, who also voices protagonist Solid Snake, resulting in only one character being credited in the Japanese version.