And Starring

"Welcome to the Rooster Teeth Podcast! Starring Gus... [other members]... and Gus."

— Gus Sorola, The Rooster Teeth Podcast

When the Title Sequence includes credits, there is a whole mess of jockeying for position that goes on. The dominant position within the credits sequence is either at the very beginning of the list, or at the very end.

As a way to draw special attention to the last actor on the list, their name will often be bracketed with an additional annotation, such as "With", "And", or "And Starring". Sometimes, this would be elaborated even further, giving the name of the character portrayed by the actor, although this type of credit may also be used to hide the actor's name. In Hong Kong cinema, some films take this further by giving "Special Starring" credit to especially prominent actors.

In the past, this was reserved for either the star of the show, a cast member who is not part of the "primary" ensemble (e.g. villians and mentors), or a big name doing a cameo. Over time, as stars and their agents learned about the power of marketing, it has become an increasingly important bargaining point.

Although not done as often these days, "And Introducing" was a common credit on movies, indicating where the company felt they had a potential star on their hands and wanted to ensure everyone remembered that "you saw them here first" (even if it wasn't their first major role). Often, these people were never seen or heard from again, and the perception that an "and introducing" credit was a kind of "kiss of death" to a career may explain its disappearance.

The most extreme form of this is the Fake Guest Star. Compare Billed Above the Title, when special attention is drawn to the first actor in the cast list. Very common in All-Star Cast fare. Contrast with And Zoidberg.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• The opening credits for the Streamline Pictures dub of The Castle of Cagliostro have "and Joan-Carol O'Connell," who voiced Clarisse.
• Cromartie High School: "And Jay Hickman as Mechazawa" (Notably played in the Japanese version by Norio Wakamoto).
• ADV Films also did that for Taylor Hannah's role in Le Chevalier d'Eon.
• Legend of the Gold of Babylon has "And Naoko Kawai as Young Rosetta" in Japanese, and the dub carries this over as "And Lauren Landa as Young Rosetta."
• In Macross Zero, Akira Kamiya, reprising his role as Roy Fokker from the original series, gets this treatment during the end credits.
• Tōru Furuya in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Furuya also voiced the inaugural hero of the franchise.
• Shūichi Ikeda in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. Ikeda also voiced the Breakout Character of the franchise. Said character is The Rival of Furuya's aforementioned character.
• Kenji Akabane, who is the new voice of Kouji Kabuto in Shin Mazinger, also gets this treatment as well in the opening screen.
• The official dub credits for Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy: "And David Matranga as Captain Harlock."

Films — Animation

• The Addams Family (2019): "With Bette Midler And Allison Janney".
  • The Addams Family 2 replaced Janney with Bill Hader
• Alice in Wonderland has "And Introducing Kathryn Beaumont" at the beginning, although she had done a few small roles in other films for MGM. She is listed first at the end.
• The 2009 film of Astro Boy has "and Nicolas Cage as Dr. Tenma".
• DC League of Super-Pets has "And Keanu Reeves".
• Flushed Away has "And Ian McKellen".
• Hotel Transylvania 2 and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation have "And Mel Brooks".
• The second through fifth Ice Age movies have "And Queen Latifah". The last two films also have her being preceded by "With Jennifer Lopez".
• Happens twice in Kubo and the Two Strings, weirdly enough. We get "and Ralph Fiennes" followed later on with "with Rooney Mara and Matthew McConaughey".
• Each of the three Kung Fu Panda movies has "and Jackie Chan".
• The LEGO Movie had "With Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman".
  • The LEGO Batman Movie has "And Ralph Fiennes".
  • The LEGO Ninjago Movie has "And Jackie Chan".
  • The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part has "And Will Ferrell".
• The Lion King (2019): "With Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and James Earl Jones".
• Penguins of Madagascar had "And John Malkovich as Debbie... er, Dave".
• Robots has "And Robin Williams".
• Ron's Gone Wrong has "And Olivia Colman".
• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken has "And Jane Fonda".
• Rugrats Go Wild! has "And Bruce Willis as Spike."
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: "With Nicolas Cage, Kathryn Hahn, and Liev Schreiber."
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: "With Daniel Kaluuya, With Mahershala Ali, and Oscar Isaac."
• Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels, and Christopher Lee are billed in a special "Featuring the voices of" section in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film, with Lee getting the "and".
• Played for laughs in the credits of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem when Paul Rudd is given an "And Introducing" credit (since he's been famous for quite some time).
• TMNT: "And Narrated by Laurence Fishburne".
• The opening sequence for The Transformers: The Movie finishes with, "Co-starring John Moschitta as Blurr."
• The opening credits for Yellow Submarine has the billing "Starring Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

Films — Live-Action

• 17 Again (2009) had "And Matthew Perry."
• 1917 has "With Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch''.
• 300 has "And Dominic West", while the sequel has "With David Wenham and Rodrigo Santoro".
• Well known and quirky British comedian Eddie Izzard pops up for an extremely extravagant and nearly disturbing musical performance in Across the Universe (2007) and is never seen again for the rest of the film.
• Ad Astra: "and Donald Sutherland".
• Adam (2009): "With Amy Irving and Peter Gallagher"
• Robert De Niro in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.
• Afternoon Delight: "And Jane Lynch".
• Air (2023): "With Chris Tucker and Viola Davis."
• Parodied in Airplane!: "And introducing Otto [the autopilot] as himself."
• In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), Mia Wasikowska (who played the titular protagonist) received the "And" treatment, while Johnny Depp (who played the Hatter) was more or less Billed Above the Title.
  • The sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass has "With Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen".
• Alien (aside from Aliens, whose only poster credit is Sigourney Weaver):
  • Alien: "And Yaphet Kotto as Parker"
  • Alienł: "And Lance Henriksen"
  • Alien: Resurrection: "And Michael Wincott"
  • Prometheus: "And Charlize Theron"
• Irwin Allen's late 1970s disaster films all featured two "and" credits.
  • The Swarm (1978) gave "and" credits to "Fred MacMurray as Clarence" and "Henry Fonda as Dr. Krim". They even appear as such in the closing credits; where the rest of the cast are listed as "Actor... Character", MacMurray and Fonda are listed as "Actor... as Character."
  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure from 1979 gave its two "and" credits to Shirley Jones and Karl Malden. In a parallel with The Swarm, they are also the only cast members listed as "Actor... as Character" in the closing credits.
  • 1980's volcanic eruption film When Time Ran Out...... gave its "and" credits to Ernest Borgnine and to James Franciscus as "Bob Spangler."
• Almost Famous gave the late Philip Seymour Hoffman the "And" credit.
• The Amazing Spider-Man has "With Martin Sheen and Sally Field". The sequel replaces Sheen with Paul Giamatti.
• Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle.
• Amsterdam (2022): "With Rami Malek and Robert De Niro"
• Androcles and the Lion has a literal case ending with the protagonist, "AND STARRING ALAN YOUNG AS ANDROCLES."
• Animal House features "and Donald Sutherland as Jennings".
• The promotional material for Armored has "and Columbus Short" despite Columbus Short playing the main protagonist in the film. Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, and Laurence Fishburne were probably listed first because they are the more famous actors.
• Asterix at the Olympic Games: The credits which begin the film appear in flashes of golden light. When "with the extraordinary participation of Alain Delon as Julius Caesar" appears surrounded by a frame, it ends up blinding the whole screen.
• A Star Is Born (2018): "With Dave Chappelle And Sam Elliott."
• Avatar: "And Sigourney Weaver".
  • Avatar: The Way of Water: "And Kate Winslet."
• Lea Thompson gets an "And" in Back to the Future Part III, her status as leading lady being overtaken by Mary Steenburgen. Which makes sense since she's the Love Interest for Doc Brown, who gets a little more focus in this movie than Marty.
• Barbie (2023) has "And Will Ferrell".
• The Barefoot Executive: After the opening credits are done listing the actors, the title "And introducing Raffles" appears when the titular chimp does.
• Barely Lethal has "With Jessica Alba and Samuel L. Jackson."
• Batman: The Movie has "With Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton, Stafford Rapp, Madge Blake, and Reginald Denny as Commodore Schmidlapp."
• Batman (1989) has "and Jack Palance."
  • Batman & Robin has “Jeep Swenson as Bane” in the end credits.
• The Batman (2022) has "With Andy Serkis and Colin Farrell".
• Beauty and the Beast (2017): "With Ian McKellen as Cogsworth and Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts".
• Because of Winn-Dixie had "And introducing AnnaSophia Robb", despite the fact that she had appeared in smaller roles prior to the film.
• Being John Malkovich credits the titular actor as "and John Malkovich."
• In Billy Budd (1962), the final actor credit is "and introducing Terence Stamp," who (like the other actors) reads his character's name and rank in voiceover: "Billy Budd, merchant seaman."
• Blast from the Past: "And Alicia Silverstone". It's unusual since she plays the Deuteragonist.
• Blood Harvest: Starring Tiny Tim, introducing Itonia Salochek and Dean West, co-starring Lori Minnetti and Peter Krause, Frank Benson as The Sheriff.
• Blue Thunder: "And Malcolm McDowell". His character is a Big Bad in a story with a Greater-Scope Villain, making this credit the villainous counterpart to Roy Scheider getting Billed Above the Title.
• Mike Myers in Bohemian Rhapsody.
• Bram Stoker's Dracula has "Introducing Sadie Frost and with Tom Waits as Renfield".
• The 2007 version of Bridge to Terabithia had "And Zooey Deschanel."
• Brimstone: "And Kit Harington".
• Burn Hollywood Burn had "And Eric Idle as Alan Smithee."
• "And starring Steve Buscemi" seems to appear on the credits of most films in which he makes a (usually scene-stealing) appearance.
• Bullet Train: "And Sandra Bullock".
• Butterfly: "Introducing Pia Zadora as 'Kady'."
• Cactus Flower: "Introducing Goldie Hawn as Toni."
• Caddyshack has "And Bill Murray as Carl."
• The Candy Snatchers: Starring Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza, and Susan Sennet as Candy, co-starring Brad David, introducing Vince Martorano as Eddy.
• All film versions of Carrie do this mostly to the actress portraying Margaret White.
  • The 1976 version had the "And Piper Laurie as Margaret White", while the trailer had "And introducing John Travolta, in his first motion picture role."
  • The 2002 version credited Patricia Clarkson (the actress portraying Margaret) second, and instead had "And David Keith as Det. John Mulchaey."
  • The 2013 version had "And Julianne Moore."
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had "With Deep Roy and Christopher Lee."
  • The original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory had "And introducing Peter Ostrum as Charlie." Of course, Ostrum didn't go onto making a single other film.
• Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore in Change of Habit.
• The sequels to Child's Play (1988) all have "and Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky."
  • The 2019 remake has "and Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky."
• Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella:
  • The 1965 version had "Also Starring Stuart Damon", "Co-Starring Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick", and "And Introducing Lesley Ann Warren as Cinderella"
  • The 1997 version listed Veanne Cox and Natalie Desselle under "Also Starring", and gave Paolo Montalbán the "Introducing" treatment.
• Citizen Kane is an aversion: the final image of the credits, after all the secondary characters have had clips shown of them with their actors' names, has, at the bottom, "Orson Welles as Kane". Rather than using "And" (or anything else) to draw attention to his credit, Welles deliberately hid it, throwing it in with a list of minor actors.
• The Agony Booth had a field day with Curse of the Screaming Dead having "And Introducing Mimi Ishikawa (As Blind Kiyomi)".
• Crazy Rich Asians had "With Ken Jeong and Michelle Yeoh."
• Crazy, Stupid, Love had "With Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon."
• Crazy, Stupid, Love had "Mark Strong."
• Jaye Davidson got this in both The Crying Game (film debut, Academy Award nomination) and Stargate (second & final film, huge payday).
• Daredevil (2003) had "And Colin Farrell as Bullseye".
• The Dark Knight Trilogy gives us "and Morgan Freeman".
• The DC Extended Universe films:
  • Man of Steel: "And Russell Crowe."
  • Aquaman (2018) has "and Nicole Kidman".
  • In SHAZAM! (2019), Djimon Hounsou gets the honor in the credits.
  • Birds of Prey (2020) has "And Ewan McGregor''.
  • The Suicide Squad has "With Sylvester Stallone And Viola Davis".
  • Black Adam (2022) has "And Pierce Brosnan".
  • SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods: "With Lucy Liu / With Djimon Hounsou / And Helen Mirren".
  • The Flash (2023): "And Michael Keaton".
  • Blue Beetle (2023): "With Susan Sarandon / And George Lopez".
• Defendor has "With special appearance by Lisa Ray" followed by "With Sandra Oh and Kat Dennings."
• Definitely, Maybe had "And Rachel Weisz."
• Parodied in The Diamond Arm: "and finally starring Yuri Nikulin" (who plays the leading role and has the most screentime of all actors) in the very end of intro, after listing all other actors (including those who only appear in small episodes).
• Divergent:
  • The first two movies have "and Kate Winslet".
  • The Divergent Series: Insurgent also has "With Naomi Watts".
• Day of the Dead (2008) has "And Ving Rhames."
• Dreamgirls has this little gem:
  And introducing... *drumroll* Jennifer Hudson
• Don't Look Up: "With Cate Blanchett, And Meryl Streep"
• Dune (2021) has "With Charlotte Rampling, With Jason Momoa, And Javier Bardem".
  • Dune: Part Two has Stellan Skarsgĺrd replaced Momoa.
• Dunkirk has "With Kenneth Branagh, With Cillian Murphy, With Mark Rylance, And Tom Hardy"
• The East had "And Patricia Clarkson."
• Easy A had "And Emma Stone." Unconventional, considering that she plays the lead. At the time, though, Stone didn't have the name recognition of a Lisa Kudrow or Stanley Tucci.
• "and John Hurt as... The Elephant Man."
• Elf has "With Edward Asner and Bob Newhart''.
• Empire of the Sun has "and introducing Christian Bale."
• Enchanted had "And Susan Sarandon."
• Enola Holmes: "With Henry Cavill and Helena Bonham Carter"
  • Enola Holmes 2 has the former removed as Cavill's character plays a major role in the film.
• Enter the Dragon: "Introducing Jim Kelly as Williams."
• Everything Everywhere All at Once: "With James Hong And Jamie Lee Curtis".
• Colin Salmon in Exam.
• Executive Decision: "And Steven Seagal as Lt. Col. Austin Travis."
• The Expendables series has several examples, generally due to the sheer number of action movie stars involved:
  • The Expendables 2 has "Also Van Damme with Willis and Schwarzenegger."
  • The Expendables 3 has "With Gibson with Ford and Schwarzenegger."
  • The poster for the upcoming Expend4bles has "And Sylvester Stallone", with Jason Statham at the helm this time.
• Extraction had "And David Harbour."
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore has "and Mads Mikkelsen" in the end credits for his role as Gellert Grindelwald, replacing Johnny Depp.
• The Fast and the Furious:
  • Furious 7: "With Kurt Russell / And Jason Statham".
  • The Fate of the Furious: "With Kurt Russell / And Charlize Theron".
  • Hobbs & Shaw: "And Helen Mirren".
  • F9: "With Helen Mirren / With Kurt Russell / And Charlize Theron".
  • Fast X: "With Helen Mirren / With Brie Larson / With Rita Moreno / And Jason Statham / And Jason Momoa / And Charlize Theron".
• For The Fifth Element, the last opening "starring" credit is for Luke Perry, in an attempt to draw in a female audience. He's in the movie for fewer than ten minutes... in the prologue.
• Fighting with My Family: "With Vince Vaughn and Dwayne Johnson".
• The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) includes several levels of this. The first part of opening credits has "Starring Ernest Borgnine as Trucker Cobb", then continues with "Co-starring Dan Duryea as Standish", moving on to "Also starring" (only actors' names), and finally "Featuring Peter Bravos, William Aldrich and Barrie Chase as Farida". It's worth noting that Bravos and Aldrich die in the crash immediately after the opening credits, and Chase only appears in a flashback/hallucination.
• Flightplan (2005): "And Sean Bean".
• Friday the 13th (1980) had "Special Appearances by Peter Brouwer as Steve Christy, Rex Everhart as the Truck Driver, Ronn Carroll as Sgt. Tierney", and it ends its cast list with "And Ari Lehman as Jason".
  • Friday the 13th Part III has "And Richard Brooker as Jason." The ends credits also have "Special appearance by the following cast members of Friday the 13th Part 2: Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey, Steve Daskewisz".
  • Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter has "Camilla and Carey More as Tina and Terri." In addition, similarly to the previous movie, the cast members from the first three movies who appear in the prologue get a "Special Appearance" credit.
  • Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning: "Special Appearance by Corey Feldman".
  • Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood has "And Terry Kiser". The "Also Starring" section ends with "And Kane Hodder as 'Jason'."
  • Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan has "And Peter Mark Richman as Charles McCulloch." Once again, the "Also Starring" section ends with "Kane Hodder as Jason".
  • Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday: "Kane Hodder as Jason, And Erin Gray, And Steven Williams as Creighton Duke".
  • Jason X once again has "And Kane Hodder as Jason".
  • Freddy vs. Jason: "And Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger".
• Gettysburg had two:
  • And Stephen Lang as Pickett
  • Special Appearance by Sam Elliott as General John Buford
• Ghostbusters:
  • Ghostbusters II humorously has "And Slimer".
  • Ghostbusters (2016): "And Chris Hemsworth".
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife: "And Paul Rudd." This is followed by "Special Appearances by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, with Sigourney Weaver".
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation: Had "And Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson."
• The Girl, a 2012 film about Alfred Hitchcock's (Toby Jones) obsession with Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller), gives it to Penelope Wilton (best known for Shaun of the Dead, Doctor Who and Downton Abbey). Impressive, considering the same film has Imelda Staunton, arguably a more internationally-recognised name, in a role of comparable size.
• Girl, Interrupted: "With Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave."
• Gladiator has "And Richard Harris". The rolling cast list ends with "And Giorgio Cantarini as Maximus' son".
• God Told Me To has "Starring," "Also Starring," and for some reason "Guest Star."
• Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) has "And Robert Duvall," complete with an attention-grabbing Orbital Shot during the credits, just to make sure the audience is paying attention.
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has "and Eli Wallach in the role of Tuco" at the bottom of the poster and at the end of the cast credits in the film itself. This is only in the American release, however. The Italian release of the credits places his and Lee Van Cleef's names before the title. Mario Brega as Corporal Wallace gets this treatment in the Italian release.
• The Green Hornet has "And Cameron Diaz."
• Grindhouse: And Nicolas Cage as... Fu Manchu!
• Green for Danger: 'And presenting' Alastair Sim as Inspector Cockrill.
• Halloween had "And P. J. Soles as Lynda."
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch had "Dan O'Herlihy as Cochran."
  • Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers had "Introducing Danielle Harris."
  • Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers had "And Wendy Kaplan as Tina."
  • Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers had "And Mitchell Ryan as Dr. Wynn." The end credits also feature "Also Starring J.C. Brandy as Jamie Lloyd, Introducing Devin Gardener as Danny Strode, Susan Swift as Mary, and George P. Wilbur as the Shape."
  • Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later had "Janet Leigh as Norma" and later "Introducing Josh Hartnett, With LL Cool J, And Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jimmy."
  • Halloween: Resurrection has "Special Appearance by Sean Patrick Thomas, With Tyra Banks, and Jamie Lee Curtis".
  • Halloween (2007) had "And William Forsythe."
  • Halloween II (2009) had "And Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie Strode."
  • Halloween (2018) had "And Introducing Andi Matichak as Allyson."
  • Halloween Kills: "And Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy."
• The Hangover Part II has "and Paul Giamatti." Giamatti was also a case of Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer so it turned out to be a big surprise.
• Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army: "And John Hurt".
• The opening credits of the Holes movie ends with "And introducing Shia LaBeouf" after he'd won a Daytime Emmy for his role in Even Stevens.
• Hot Tub Time Machine buries an "and introducing William Zabka"^note as Rick, though not noted after the cast list in the end crawl, presumably as a joke ^note Zabka's first of many screen roles was in The Karate Kid (1984), slightly before the 1986 setting of this film.
• The Hunger Games and its sequels had "With Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland."
• In Ice Princess, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall "And Michelle Trachtenberg" are billed before the title of the film — in that order. All three are cast in major roles, but the last-named portrays the main character (Cusack and Cattrall play the respective mothers of Trachtenberg and fourth-billed Hayden Panettiere).
• The Christopher Nolan films Inception and Interstellar both have "And Michael Caine".
• Independence Day: "And Harry Connick Jr."
• Indiana Jones:
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark gives us "and Denholm Elliott".
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has "And Introducing Ke Huy Quan as Short Round."
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has "and Sean Connery as Professor Henry Jones."
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has "and Shia Labeouf."
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has "and Mads Mikkelsen".
• Interview with the Vampire got "and introducing Kirsten Dunst as Claudia" and her career seems to be trundling along healthily. (Although it wasn't close to the first thing she'd done.)
• Irreconcilable Differences: "And introducing Sharon Stone."
• James Bond:
  • From Russia with Love: "And Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee as "M", and introducing Daniela Bianchi". Lee would retain his "as M" credit in all subsequent appearances.
  • You Only Live Twice: "And Donald Pleasence".
  • Live and Let Die: "And introducing Jane Seymour".
  • The Spy Who Loved Me: "And Curt Jurgens as Stromberg."
  • Moonraker: "And Corrine Clery".
  • For Your Eyes Only: "And Julian Glover".
  • Octopussy: "And introducing Vijay Amritraj".
  • The non Eon Productions Never Say Never Again: "And Edward Fox as "M".
  • A View to a Kill: "And Christopher Walken, With Patrick Bauchau, David Yip". Later on there's "And Fiona Fullerton".
  • The Living Daylights: "And Jeroen Krabbé".
  • Daniel Craig's films have a "with" that varies from film to film (Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace have "With Jeffrey Wright", Skyfall has "With Albert Finney", Spectre has "With Monica Bellucci", and No Time to Die has both "With Jeffrey Wright" and "With Christoph Waltz"). This credit is followed with an "And Judi Dench / Ralph Fiennes as M." Dench gets this credit in the Pierce Brosnan films — GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day — as well.
• Judgment at Nuremberg: "Judy Garland as Irene Hoffman" was the only principal cast member credited with a role, and last position was given to "and Montgomery Clift."
• Jumanji: The Next Level has "With Danny Glover and Danny DeVito".
• Jungle Cruise: "With Jesse Plemons, And Paul Giamatti"
• Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park both have "And Richard Attenborough".
  • Jurassic World has "And Irrfan Khan."
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has "And Jeff Goldblum."
• Just Go with It had "And Nicole Kidman."
• Just the Way You Are: Also starring Kaki Hunter… and Robert Carradine as "Sam Carpenter."
• The Karate Kid Part II has "Introducing Tamlyn Tomita and Martin Kove Returning as Kreese". The ending credits has the actors playing the Cobra Kai students from the previous film also receive the same "Returning as" billing as Kove. Part III has "Introducing Thomas Ian Griffith as 'Terry (Silver)'" and "Special Appearance By Martin Kove". Lead stars/protagonists Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita were Billed Above the Title on both films.
• Kick-Ass had "And Nicolas Cage", while Kick-Ass 2 had "And Jim Carrey."
• The Kids Are All Right had "And Josh Hutcherson."
• Killer Diller (2004): Taj Mahal as "J. R. Cox"… introducing Niki J. Crawford with John Michael Higgins and Fred Willard.
• And John Vernon (aka Dean Wormer) in Killer Klowns from Outer Space for his seven-minute One-Scene Wonder.
• King Kong (2005) had "And Andy Serkis as Kong."
• Knives Out: “And Christopher Plummer.”
  • Glass Onion: “With Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.”
• Kung Fury: Also starring Triceratops as Triceracop.
• The film within a film Jack Slater IV (in Last Action Hero) has a intro sequence with an "And Introducing" part for one of the characters. Of course, when the protagonist of Last Action Hero enters the film, he gets to meet her. And keeps accidentally calling her by the name of her actress. Oops.
• The Last Station gave the "And" billing to James McAvoy, who portrayed the protagonist.
• The opening credits of Lawrence of Arabia has "and Donald Wolfit, With Omar Sharif as Ali," and "Introducing Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence". The film cemented the international reputation of the previously little-known Sharif (famous in the Middle East but not elsewhere) and O'Toole (previously a stage actor first and foremost). Wolfit, meanwhile, was an established actor (and mentor to O'Toole) but had only a minor role in the film.
• Real-life couple Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero shared the "And" billing in Letters to Juliet.
• Liberal Arts: "And Elizabeth Reaser".
• Little Miss Sunshine had "With Abigail Breslin and Alan Arkin."
• In The Longest Day the cast credits are announced as being in alphabetical order, but at the end of the list is "and John Wayne"; he would have been third to last by alphabetical order. Supposedly Wayne demanded this (and a higher salary than his costars) as a Take That! to producer Daryl F. Zanuck, who had recently ridiculed Wayne in a press interview.
• The Lord of the Rings
  • The Fellowship of the Ring pushed this about as far as it would go. "Featuring Sean Bean, And Ian Holm, With Andy Serkis as Gollum."
  • In The Two Towers, it's "Featuring Andy Serkis as Gollum", with the extended edition adding "With Sean Bean".
  • In The Return of the King, the Fellowship of the Ring entry is switched around to "Featuring Andy Serkis as Gollum, With Ian Holm, And Sean Bean".
  • The rolling end credits of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King also give a "Featuring" credit to Alan Howard as the voice of the Ring. In The Two Towers, the "Featuring" credit is instead given to John Rhys-Davies as the voice of Treebeard.
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has the returning actors from the Lord of the Rings trilogy (save Ian McKellen, who is given top billing) given this treatment with "With Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, And Andy Serkis as Gollum". The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug likewise has "And Orlando Bloom as Legolas", while The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has a combination of the previous two films' entries: "With Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, And Orlando Bloom as Legolas."
• Pictured atop this page is a spoof of this in Machete Kills, where Charlie Sheen gets an "And Introducing" by way of using his birth name.
• The Magnificent Seven has Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach (the villain), and Steve McQueen under "starring;" James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, and Brad Dexter under "co-starring," and "introducing Horst Buchholz" at the end of the cast, after all the supporting roles. This wasn't Buchholz's first film role, but it was the first time American audiences got exposure to him.
• Make the Yuletide Gay: Gates McFadden is given the And credit, but is in the film for all of two scenes, which add up to about three minutes of actual appearance.
• Malice had "with Anne Bancroft and George C. Scott."
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Meryl Streep, who top billed the original film, is now credited with the citation.
• Much of the large ensemble cast of the movie M*A*S*H is credited as "Introducing."
• In A Man for All Seasons, well-known co-stars like Wendy Hiller, Orson Welles and Robert Shaw are billed first, before "And Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More." This even though Welles' and Shaw's roles are more or less cameos.
• Man in the Wilderness: ...and John Huston as Captain Henry.
• Martha Marcy May Marlene has "And introducing Elizabeth Olsen" in the poster.
• The Marvel Cinematic Universe films:
  • Iron Man has "and Gwyneth Paltrow".
  • The Incredible Hulk (2008) has "and William Hurt".
  • Samuel L. Jackson has been credited with "And ... as Nick Fury" in various films in the continuity starting with Iron Man 2. (Leading to sometimes being preceded by another actor — Iron Man 2 has "with Mickey Rourke", The Avengers has "With Stellan Skarsgĺrd", Captain America: The Winter Soldier has "With Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce" and Avengers: Age of Ultron has "With James Spader as Ultron").
  • Thor and its sequel: "With Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins as Odin." Thor: Ragnarok replaces Russo with Mark Ruffalo, likely to emphasize how his character - The Incredible Hulk - is, in the film, a Fish out of Water, being a gamma-irradiated monster in a film about Norse mythology, not to mention that Russo's character died in the preceding film. Hopkins' credit is amended to remove the "As Odin" part. Interestingly, the poster for The Dark World puts Hopkins' credit at the end of the pre-title section, and Russo's at the end of the post-title section.
  • Captain America: The First Avenger gives us "and Stanley Tucci".
  • Iron Man 3 gives us "with Jon Favreau" / "and Ben Kingsley".
  • The One Shot Agent Carter has "and Shane Black as the Disembodied Voice".
  • The One Shot All Hail the King has "and Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer."
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) did this twice. Marketing had "with Vin Diesel as Groot and Bradley Cooper as Rocket". During the actual OBB, Diesel and Cooper are given a "Featuring" credit along with their characters' names, and added on at the end is "with John C. Reilly" / "with Glenn Close as Nova Prime / "and Benicio del Toro as The Collector."
  • Ant-Man: "and Michael Douglas as Dr. Hank Pym". In the sequel, Douglas is preceded by "with Michelle Pfeiffer" and "with Laurence Fishburne". In the second sequel, Fishburne is replaced by Corey Stoll, reprising his role as Darren Cross (now mutated into M.O.D.O.K.) from the first movie.
  • Captain America: Civil War gives us "with William Hurt" / "and Daniel Brühl".
  • Doctor Strange (2016) has "with Mads Mikkelsen" / "and Tilda Swinton".
  • As well as the aforementioned "Featuring" credits for Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has "with Sylvester Stallone" / "and Kurt Russell." Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 uses the Diesel, Cooper, and Stallone set up again, this time sans Russell.
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming: "with Marisa Tomei" / "and Robert Downey Jr.". In the sequel, Downey is replaced by Jake Gyllenhaal due to his character's death in Avengers: Endgame. The second sequel replaces Gyllenhaal with both Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, who triumphantly reprise their respective Spider-Men for the first time in years. Notably, No Way Home is the first MCU to have two "and" billings.
  • Black Panther (2018): "with Angela Bassett / with Forest Whitaker / and Andy Serkis".
  • Avengers: Infinity War: "Featuring Vin Diesel as Groot / Bradley Cooper as Rocket / with Gwyneth Paltrow / with Benicio del Toro / with Josh Brolin as Thanos / and Chris Pratt".
  • Captain Marvel (2019): "with Annette Bening" / "with Clark Gregg" / "and Jude Law".
  • Avengers: Endgame only has "with Gwyneth Paltrow / with Josh Brolin as Thanos" in the poster, but the film proper has seven actors ("Featuring Vin Diesel as Groot / Bradley Cooper as Rocket / with Gwyneth Paltrow / with Robert Redford / with Josh Brolin as Thanos / with Chris Pratt / and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury), with the original six Avengers (Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, and Robert Downey Jr.) credited last, in reverse order. To put that into perspective, the And Starring part combined with the original six is equal to the cast list of The Avengers (2012), which had thirteen actors.
  • Black Widow (2021): "with William Hurt" / "with Ray Winstone" / "and Rachel Weisz".
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: "with Michelle Yeoh" / "with Ben Kingsley" / "and Tony Leung".
  • Eternals: "with Kit Harington" / "with Salma Hayek" / "and Angelina Jolie".
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: "with Michael Stuhlbarg" / "and Rachel McAdams".
  • Thor: Love and Thunder: "with Russell Crowe" / "and Natalie Portman" / "featuring the Guardians of the Galaxy ^note "Chris Pratt" / "Karen Gillan" / "David Bautista" / "Pom Klementieff" / "Sean Gunn" / featuring Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot" / "Bradley Cooper as Rocket"".
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: "introducing Tenoch Huerta" / "with Martin Freeman" / "with Julia Louis-Dreyfus" / "and Angela Bassett". The rolling credits also features "Special Guest Star: Richard Schiff''.
• The Mask had "And Introducing Cameron Diaz," so that one went pretty well.
• The Matrix had "And Joe Pantoliano.''
• Men In Black 2 has "And Rip Torn".
  • Men in Black 3 has "And Emma Thompson".
  • Men in Black: International has "With Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson".
• Parodied mercilessly (as is the way of their tribe) in the opening titles for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl:
  Starring (Alphabetically) Graham Chapman
  Internationally Super-Starring (Alphabetically) John Cleese
  Extra-Terrestrially Co-Super (Also Alphabetically) Starring Terry Gilliam
  Super-Inter-Galactically (A Bit Alphabetically) Co-Mega Starring Eric Idle
  Supra-Cosmically Inter-Universally Ultra-Alphabetically Hyper-Starring Terry Jones
  With Michael Palin As the Man with the Biggest Credit
• Mission: Impossible Film Series:
  • Mission: Impossible (1996) has "And Vanessa Redgrave".
  • Mission: Impossible II has "And Ving Rhames".
  • Mission: Impossible III has "And Laurence Fishburne".
  • Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout have "And Alec Baldwin".
  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has "And Henry Czerny".
• MonsterVerse:
  • Godzilla: "With David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston".
  • Kong: Skull Island: ''and John C. Reilly.
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters: "With Ken Watanabe and Zhang Ziyi".
  • Godzilla vs. Kong: "With Kyle Chandler and Demián Bichir".
• Mud: "And Reese Witherspoon".
• Mulan (2020): "With Gong Li and Jet Li".
• The Muppets:
  • The opening credits of Muppet Treasure Island are impressive as they list all the lead actors (human and Muppet) and the characters they play, complete with two "with" credits, an "and", and an "introducing":
    Starring Tim Curry as Long John Silver
    with Kermit the Frog as Captain Smollett
    Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn
    The Great Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat as Themselves
    with Billy Connolly as Billy Bones
    and Jennifer Saunders as Mrs. Bluveridge
    introducing Kevin Bishop as Jim Hawkins
  • The same process was used for The Muppet Christmas Carol. Michael Caine was given the "and" credit.
  • Of the Muppet performers, Frank Oz was given the "and" credit for the three Muppet films produced during the 1990's.
  • Charles Durning and Austin Pendleton were also billed like this in The Muppet Movie.
• Although an anthology film, New York, I Love You has an example of this: the segment directed by Brett Ratner has amongst its credits "And Blake Lively as The Ex-Girlfriend."
• Denzel Washington in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), with the trailer having "And Introducing Kate Beckinsale".
• Naked Fear does this with its most famous star: "and Joe Mantegna".
• The opening credits of The Naked Witch end with "And introducing Robert Short as The Student; Jo Maryman as Kirska; Libby Hall as The Naked Witch".
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984): "Introducing Johnny Depp, With Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp, Lin Shaye, And Robert Englund as Fred Krueger".
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge had "And Robert Rusler", followed by "Special Appearances by Clu Gulager, and Hope Lange". After the Co-Starring section, the cast list ends with "And Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger".
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors has "And Craig Wasson". Later on there's "Special Appearance by John Saxon" and ending it off once again is "And Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger". In subsequent films, with the exception of Freddy vs. Jason, Englund would instead be Billed Above the Title.
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare has "Introducing Tracy Middendorf" and "And John Saxon".
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010): "With Connie Britton and Clancy Brown".
• Night Teeth: "With Megan Fox and Alfie Allen"
• Nope has "and Keith David"
• Now You See Me had "With Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman."
• Oblivion (2013) had "And Melissa Leo."
• Parodied in Ocean's Eleven, which "introduces" Julia Roberts . . . eleven years after her breakout role. Ocean's Twelve also switches the names of the character and actor (due to a scene where her character impersonates Julia Roberts): "Introducing Tess Ocean as Julia Roberts."
• The Odd Way Home: "With Veronica Cartwright and Bruce Altman."
• Off The Rails 2021 had "Introducing Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips".
• On the Waterfront gives Eva Marie Saint an "and introducing" credit.
• Operation Petticoat had "And Arthur O'Connell."
• ''Film/Oppenheimer has "With Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh".
• The Oscar had "Introducing Tony Bennett as Hymie Kelly."
• "Introducing Lindsay Lohan" in The Parent Trap (1998) (with fireworks and everything).
• The comedy Paul has "and Seth Rogen as the voice of Paul" on the trailers. The poster is simply "and Seth Rogen as Paul."
• The Peanut Butter Falcon: Introducing Zack Gottsagen with Jon Bernthal and Thomas Haden Church.
• Minnie Driver got an "And Starring" in The Phantom of the Opera (2004). Somewhat understandable in that particular case, since most of the major parts were played by Hollywood unknowns.
• The Pink Panther (1963) has "introducing Fran Jeffries" (to which the titular cartoon panther adds his own name), followed by "and with Claudia Cardinale."
• The first three Pirates of the Caribbean films each had "and Jonathan Pryce", with At World's End also adding "With Chow Yun-fat and Geoffrey Rush". On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales also have "and Geoffrey Rush". In the rolling credits of At World's End and On Stranger Tides, there is also "Special Appearance by Keith Richards". Dead Men Tell No Tales has similar entries in its rolling credits, with "Orlando Bloom as Will Turner", "Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann" and "Special Appearance by Paul McCartney as Uncle Jack".
• Pitch Perfect had "With John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks" in the CBB. Somewhat justified since the latter is also the movie's producer.
• Please Stand By had "And Alice Eve", while protagonist Dakota Fanning and Toni Collette were both Billed Above the Title.
• Point of No Return had "with Anne Bancroft and Harvey Keitel."
• The posters for Precious have "and introducing Gabourey Sidibe," this being her first major film role.
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu has "and Ikue Otani as the voice of Pikachu." Otani has voiced Pikachu since the anime's premiere and has done so both in that show and, since 2013, the games as well, so it's well-deserved.
• Predator:
  • Predator has "Kevin Peter Hall as the Predator".
  • Predators: "And Laurence Fishburne".
  • The Predator: "And Sterling K. Brown".
  • Prey (2022): "And Dane DiLiegro as The Predator".
• The Princess Bride used the 'and introducing' variant: "and starring Robin Wright as The Princess Bride". It is immediately followed by "Special appearances by Peter Falk as The Grandfather, Peter Cook as The Impressive Clergyman, Mel Smith as The Albino, Carol Kane as Valerie and Billy Crystal as Miracle Max."
• The Prom gives Jo Ellen Perlman an "Introducing" credit.
• The Proposal had "And Betty White"
• Psycho famously had "And Janet Leigh as Marion Crane," despite her being advertised as the star of the film. This is an early hint that she's only the lead of the first half of the film before being killed off. Anthony Perkins got top billing instead.
• Pulp Fiction names almost every actor with a speaking part, "and Bruce Willis."
• The title sequence of the Re-Animator movies all have Jeffrey Combs in the last place with "And... as Herbert West", despite being the protagonist.
• Red, White & Royal Blue: "With Stephen Fry and Uma Thurman".
• Relative Fear has "And M. Emmet Walsh," and later "introducing Matthew Dupuis."
• The credits of Rimfire end with "...and Introducing Margie Stapp".
• The Ring Two had "And Sissy Spacek."
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes had "And Starring Andy Serkis" for his portrayal of the hyper-intelligent ape, Caesar, who ends up being the true protagonist of the film. In the following two sequels, he was given top billing.
• Rocketman (2019) has "and Bryce Dallas Howard".
• Rocky, Rocky II, and Rocky III give us "and Burgess Meredith as Mickey". In Rocky V, Meredith gets the "And" treatment again, but without his character's name.
  • Rocky III also gives us "Introducing Mr. T as Clubber Lang".
  • Rocky IV gives us "Dolph Lundgren as Drago".
  • Creed II gives us "with Phylicia Rashad and Dolph Lundgren." (Rashad gets the "And" in Creed III)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show: "and Charles Gray as the Criminologist".
• Rookie of the Year: "And introducing Thomas Ian Nicholas."
• Room: "And William H. Macy".
• Run Wild, Run Free: And Mark Lester as Philip Ransome, also starring Gordon Jackson and Fiona Fullerton.
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming: "And Paul Ford," in a specially-boxed credit.
• The Sandlot: “With Karen Allen and James Earl Jones.”
• Saturday Night Fever has "Introducing Karen Lynn Gorney", although she already had had a four-year run as Tara Martin Tyler in All My Children.
• Saw:
  • Saw: "And introducing Leigh Whannell".
  • Saw II: "With Shawnee Smith as "Amanda" and Tobin Bell as "Jigsaw"."
  • Saw IV: "And Donnie Wahlberg".
  • Saw V: "And Meagan Good".
  • Saw VI: "And Shawnee Smith".
  • Saw 3D: "With Sean Patrick Flanery and Cary Elwes".
  • Jigsaw: "And Tobin Bell as Jigsaw".
  • Spiral: "And Samuel L. Jackson".
• The School for Good and Evil (2022): The cast credits end with "Cate Blanchett as the voice of the Storian, with Kerry Washington, and Charlize Theron."
• Scooby-Doo with Rowan Atkinson.
  • Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed with Alicia Silverstone.
• Scream (1996) had "And Drew Barrymore."
  • Scream 3 had "Special Appearance by Jamie Kennedy''.
  • Scream (2022) had "With Courteney Cox \ David Arquette \ And Neve Campbell."
  • Scream VI had "With Hayden Panettiere \ And Courteney Cox".
• Used in Se7en, where Kevin Spacey's name is the first listed in the end credits, after having had it withheld from the opening credits and promotional materials to preserve the surprise of his performance as John Doe.
• In Season of Miracles, everyone has an "As..." credit. There's also "And Nancy Stafford as Nurse Barbara" and "And introducing Kula as Sawdust."
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) gives the "And" credit to Meryl Streep, though she is quickly followed by "Kara and Shelby Hoffman" and "Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket."
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: "Also starring Laurence Olivier as Professor Moriarty." (The four actors billed above the title also have their roles listed.)
• Shaft (2019) gives the honor to Richard Roundtree, who played the original Shaft.
• A fictional example from Shakespeare in Love, in the following dialogue about the death of real-life dramatist Christopher Marlowe:
  Ned Alleyn: A quarrel about the bill.
  Philip Henslowe: The bill! Ah, vanity, vanity!
  Ned Alleyn: Not the billing — the bill!
• The opening credits of The Shootist has both John Wayne and Lauren Bacall Billed Above the Title while Ron Howard is given the sole spot in a "Co-Starring" citation.
• The Silence of Adultery: …and Robert Desiderio as Michael Harvott.
• Silent Fall: Introducing Liv Tyler.
• The opening credits of Silent Tongue end with "And Tantoo Cardinal as Silent Tongue".
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow combines this with Diagonal Billing: Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow are billed diagonally, while Angelina Jolie is And Starring, on the same card.
• Sky High (2005) had "And Kurt Russell."
• The opening cast credits for Sodom and Gomorrah end with "And with Aldo Silvani" and "Co-starring Anouk Aimée as the Queen".
• The cast roll for Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) ends with "and Jim Carrey" in front of Robotnik's logo. In the sequel, Carrey is preceded by “with Idris Elba.”
• Species: "And Introducing Natasha Henstridge."
• The Son: "And Anthony Hopkins".
• The Spirit: "And Samuel L. Jackson as The Octopus".
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture features "Presenting Persis Khambatta; And Starring Stephen Collins as Decker."
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan downs a triple-shot of this: "Also Starring BIBI BESCH, MERRITT BUTRICK as DAVID, And PAUL WINFIELD as TERRELL; Introducing KIRSTIE ALLEY as SAAVIK; And Starring Ricardo Montalbán as KHAN."
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock follows that up with "Also Starring Mark Lenard as Sarek; Merritt Butrick as David; Special Appearance Dame Judith Anderson; Introducing Robin Curtis as Lt. Saavik; And Christopher Lloyd as Kruge." The end credits also feature "Also Starring James B. Sikking; Allan Miller; And as Spock: Carl Steven, Vadia Potenza, Stephen Manley, Joe W. Davis, Leonard Nimoy".
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home follows that up with "Also Starring Mark Lenard as Sarek; Jane Wyatt as Amanda; Majel Barrett as Commander Chapel and Robert Ellenstein as the Council President; John Schuck as the Klingon Ambassador and Brock Peters as Admiral Cartwright; Robin Curtis as Lt. Saavik; And Catherine Hicks as Gillian".
  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country both end their "Co-Starring" sections with "and George Takei". The films end their "Also Starring" sections with "and Laurence Luckinbill as Sybok" and "and Christopher Plummer", respectively.
  • William Shatner gets it in Star Trek: Generations, with a whopping "And starring William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk."
  • The end credits of Star Trek: Insurrection start with "Co-Starring Gregg Henry; Daniel Hugh Kelly; Michael Welch as Artim".
  • Star Trek: Nemesis ends its cast list with "Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway"
  • Star Trek (2009) has "With Eric Bana and Leonard Nimoy".
  • The rolling credits of Star Trek Into Darkness has Leonard Nimoy given solo prominence.
  • Star Trek Beyond has "and Idris Elba".
• Star Wars:
  • "And Alec Guinness" in A New Hope and Return of the Jedi. The former film follows it with a "with" billing Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Jack Purvis, and Eddie Byrne. The Special Edition adds "James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader", as he was uncredited at his own request on the original cut.
  • The prequels each ended the main "Starring" category with "and Frank Oz as Yoda", while the "Co-Starring" category ended with "with Terence Stamp as Chancellor Valorum" in The Phantom Menace, and "with Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu and Christopher Lee as Count Dooku" in the latter two films.
  • The Force Awakens has "Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, and Max von Sydow".
  • Rogue One had "James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader, with Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker".
  • The Last Jedi has "With Frank Oz and Benicio del Toro". Anthony Daniels once again gets the "as C-3PO" credit.
  • Solo has "Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca, and Paul Bettany".
  • The Rise of Skywalker has "With Ian McDiarmid and Billy Dee Williams". Anthony Daniels gets his distinguishing "as C-3PO" credit once more.
• Stay Tuned has "And Eugene Levy."
• The 1985 schlock-horror film The Stuff gave "Starring" to Michael Moriarty, credited Paul Sorvino with "as Col. Spears", listed Danny Aiello as "Guest Star", used "introducing" for child actor Scott Bloom, and, most bizarrely, enclosed Patrick O'Neal's credit in a box. Garrett Morris received no special annotation.
• Sunshine Cleaning: "And Alan Arkin".
• Super did both the "With" and "And" credit at different points of the film. The "With" was given to Nathan Fillion in the OBB, while the "And" was given to William Katt in the CBB.
• Superman II: "With Clifton James, E. G. Marshall as the President, Marc McClure, And Terence Stamp."
  • Superman III and IV have "And Margot Kidder as Lois Lane." In the latter film, she is preceded by "With Mariel Hemingway".
  • Supergirl (1984) has "Peter O'Toole as Zaltar".
  • Superman Returns: "And Kevin Spacey."
• Sharon Tate's tragically brief film career had her get an "And Introducing" credit in her screen debut, Eye of the Devil—and again the next year in Don't Make Waves.
• Sweet Country has "and Sam Neill".
• The comedy anthology film The Ten credited the main cast in alphabetical order, but then went back to the beginning with "And Jessica Alba."
• Taken triology:
  • Taken: And Famke Janssen
  • Taken 2: And Rade Šerbedžija
  • Taken 3: And Maggie Grace
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) ends the voices list in the end credits with "and Corey Feldman as Donatello". Likewise, the stunt performers section ends with "and Ernie Reyes Jr. as Donatello".
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III has "And Stuart Wilson". In addition, the voices list in the end credits once again ends with "and Corey Feldman as Donatello".
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows: "And Tyler Perry".
• Tenet: "With Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh."
• The Terminator: "And Paul Winfield as Lt. Traxler."
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day: "And introducing Edward Furlong."
  • Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: "And Kristanna Loken."
  • Terminator Salvation: "And Helena Bonham Carter."
  • Terminator Genisys: "And Byung-hun Lee".
• Ten Little Mistresses's trailer: "and John Arcilla".
• tick, tick... BOOM!: "With Judith Light and Vanessa Hudgens".
• Titanic (1997) has "and Bill Paxton".
• Top Gun: Maverick has "With Ed Harris and Val Kilmer".
• Barbara Ewing gets an "And Introducing Barbara Ewing" at the end of the opening credits of Torture Garden.
• Trading Places has "And Jamie Lee Curtis".
• Triangle of Sadness has "And starring Woody Harrelson".
• Tropic Thunder had as one of the last names of the end cast credits "introducing Brandon Soo Hoo" (as the leader of the Flaming Dragons), "with Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise as Les Grossman". The posters, however, had "and Nick Nolte", as Cruise's involvement in the film was meant to be a surprise. In the film proper, Nolte is billed fourth.
• The Trip (1967): "Starring Peter Fonda."
• Troy; "With Julie Christie, and Peter O'Toole."
• The 2010 adaptation of True Grit has Hailee Steinfeld, who plays the main character, featured in the "And" section, without the "introducing" even though it was her first film.
• The opening credits for True Lies has "and Charlton Heston as Spencer Trilby". Heston's apperance in the film, complete with Eyepatch of Power, amounts to not much more than a cameo.
• Under the Piano: "Teresa Stratas as Regina Basilio, with John Juliani, James Carroll."
• Christopher Walken first received the "Introducing..." credit for The Anderson Tapes and has rarely missed out on a coveted "And..." since.
• Warrior had "And Nick Nolte."
• We're the Millers had "And Ed Helms."
• West Side Story (2021)'s credits end with "...with Rita Moreno and introducing Rachel Zegler". Moreno is one of the biggest names in the cast doing a Remake Cameo, while Zegler played the heroine in her first onscreen role.
• What's New Pussycat? had "and least but not last, Woody Allen, and guest star Ursula Andress." This was Allen's first film as actor and screenwriter (but not yet director).
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit has "Starring Charles Fleischer as the voice of Roger Rabbit" and "And Joanna Cassidy as Delores."
• Witchery referred to one of its actresses as a "special guest star," which prompted Allison Pregler to comment "is she in the movie or not?"
• The Wolf Man (1941): "And LON CHANEY as The Wolf Man".
• The Wolf of Wall Street had "And Matthew McConaughey."
• X-Men Film Series:
  • X-Men and X2: X-Men United: "And Anna Paquin."
  • X-Men: The Last Stand: "And Patrick Stewart."
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine: "And Ryan Reynolds."
  • X-Men: First Class: "And Kevin Bacon."
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past: Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen shared the "And" billing.
  • The IMAX poster◊ for Logan has Hugh Jackman Billed Above the Title, and the rest of the cast under "Starring." This is then rounded out with "And Introducing Dafne Keen."
  • Dark Phoenix: "And Jessica Chastain."
• Zig Zag (2002) has "Sam Jones III as ZigZag and Wesley Snipes" in both the opening and closing credits.
• Zombieland had "And Abigail Breslin" in the OBB. The sequel places Emma Stone in the citation since she's the only one of the core four to win an award by this time.
• Zulu's opening credits memorably feature "...and introducing Michael Caine."

Live-Action TV

• 7 Days (1998). And Alan Scarfe as Bradley Talmadge.
• In 24, the "And" credit was given to:
  • Dennis Haysbert for Seasons 1-3.
  • William Devane for Season 4.
  • Jean Smart for Season 5.
  • Regina King for Season 6.
  • In Season 7, Carlos Bernard is elevated to the end slot and Janeane Garofalo gets a "With".
  • In Season 8, Cherry Jones, formerly second (or third) in the credits, moved to the very back of the list, with Freddie Prinze Jr. receiving the "With".
  • Kim Raver gets the "And" credit again in Live Another Day, with Benjamin Bratt receiving the "With" credit.
  • Additionally, several of the recurring characters and guest stars received these:
    • In Season 1, under "Special Guest Star", Lou Diamond Phillips gets the "With", while Dennis Hopper gets the "And".
    • Sarah Clarke gets the "And" credit in Seasons 2 and 3.
    • Season 4 gives it to Reiko Aylesworth under the "Special Guest Star" credit, while Shohreh Aghdashloo receives it in the "Guest Starring" list.
    • Although only for one episode, Season 5 gave it to Tzi Ma.
    • Season 6 had quite a few. Ricky Schroeder earned it under the "Guest Star" credit, while under "Special Guest Star", Jean Smart received the "With" mention and James Cromwell, Kim Raver, and Gregory Itzin received the "And" credits.
    • It goes to Will Patton for Season 7.
    • Bob Gunton, Callum Keith Rennie, Jurgen Prochnow, Michael Madsen, Eriq La Salle, and Mare Winningham were all credited with the "And" billing at some point or another in Season 8.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun started with "And Jane Curtin", which later got a "With Wayne Knight" preceding it.
• The 100: "With Isaiah Washington And Henry Ian Cusick."
• The 4400:
  • Peter Coyote (Dennis Ryland) has an "and" credit in Season One.
  • Karina Lombard (Alana) has a "with" credit in Season Three.
  • Billy Campbell (Jordan Collier) has an "and" credit in Season Four.
• The Addams Family: In the second season, the billing of "featuring Jackie Coogan" was added to the opening credits over the shot of Coogan's face.
• The opening credits of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. end with the line "With Comet" — Brisco's horse.
• Alias was notorious for its revolving door-style notion of what makes a "main character", yet no matter how often the names changed in the opening sequence the first and last spots always remained the same starting with Jennifer Garner and ending with "and Victor Garber". When Lena Olin joined the cast it became "with Lena Olin ... and Victor Garber", then it went back to "and Victor Garber" after she left.
• The Amazing Race US edition waited 17 years until Season 30 (!!) to add a "Hosted by Credit" for Phil Keoghan in the opening titles (after the standard turn-and-smiles for the competitors). It is rare for both competitors and hosts/judges to both be credited directly in the title sequence.
• The American Girls, a short-lived 1978 CBS crime/adventure series, had "and David Spielberg as Francis X. Casey."
• American Horror Story:
  • Jessica Lange in the first four seasons, though she's usually preceded with a "With" that varies in different seasons;
    • In Murder House, it's "With Denis O'Hare and..."
    • In Asylum, it's "With James Cromwell and..."
    • In Coven, it's "With Kathy Bates and..."
    • Freak Show has Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett sharing the "With" credit before Lange's aforementioned "And". Additionally, the trope also applied In-Universe to Lange's character.
  • With Lange's departure, the fifth season has "With Lady Gaga and Angela Bassett".
  • Parodied in the sixth season, with the entire cast being credited in pairs using the "With" and "And" citations.
  • Kathy Bates gets all the citation to herself in the eighth season
• American Odyssey had Anna Friel appear first... then Peter Facinelli above her.
• The Americans had "And Noah Emmerich." The final season added "With Margo Martindale" before Emmerich's credit.
• Angel initially didn't have an "And" credit, likely due to it only starting out with three cast members. However, starting in Season 4 (by which point several more cast members had been added), Alexis Denisof was moved from third-billed to the end of the line and given an "And" credit. This would last through the end of the series.
• Arrowverse:
  • Arrow:
    • The first two seasons had "With Susanna Thompson and Paul Blackthorne".
    • John Barrowman replaces Thompson's name in the OBB during Seasons 3 and 4 due to the death of Thompson's character near the end of the second.
    • Season 5 had Josh Segarra replacing Barrowman in the "With" citation.
    • Season 6 then had returning cast member Katie Cassidy replace Segara in the "With" citation.
    • Cassidy eventually gets the citation all to herself in the last two seasons following the death of Blackthorne's character in the Season 6 finale, though she's instead credited as "Special Appearance By".
  • The Flash (2014) had "With Tom Cavanagh and Jesse L. Martin" until Cavanagh's departure as a regular in Season 7.
  • Supergirl (2015):
    • Season 1 had "With David Harewood and Calista Flockhart".
    • Seasons 2 and 3 modified it to "With Chris Wood and David Harewood" following Flockhart's departure.
    • Harewood has the citation all to himself from Season 4 up to the series' end.
  • Legends of Tomorrow:
    • Season 1 had "With Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller."
    • Seasons 2 to 6 had "With Nick Zano and Dominic Purcell" until Purcell leaves at the end of the 6th season.
    • Zano has all the citation to himself in the 7th and final season.
  • The Invasion! (2016) special had "And Melissa Benoist" until the final episode where she's now replaced by Grant Gustin, though she still precedes him with the "With" citation.
  • Black Lightning (2018) has "And James Remar".
  • Batwoman (2019) has "And Dougray Scott".
• In As the World Turns, "and Eileen Fulton as Lisa".
• In Babylon 5 Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas as Londo and G'kar received a "with" and an "and" respectively. Lampshaded by JMS in one of the commentary tracks. When G'Kar and Londo appear in the credits, he refers to them respectively as "God" and "Demigod". The two rotated every season for the first four years, then switched every episode in season 5.
• Batman (1966): "And Yvonne Craig as Batgirl."
• Battlestar Galactica (1978) had "And Lorne Greene as Adama," and on the creative credits at the top of each episode after the episode title, "And Terry Carter as Colonel Tigh."
• In Battlestar Galactica (2003), Dean Stockwell is always the last credited guest star, carrying the credit "And Dean Stockwell".
  • There's also "Crossroads, Part II" in which, instead of being billed with the rest of the main cast, Katee Sackhoff appears in a special credit, "Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck", right before the episode's end credits. This is repeated in "Sometimes A Great Notion" with "Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh". In both cases, it was done to preserve a surprise.
  • And now Caprica has "And Polly Walker" concluding its main cast list each episode.
  • "The Plan" gave us "And Tricia Helfer" as the final credit.
• Beakman's World in its final season had "And Mark Ritts as Lester the Rat". Weirdly, in the middle two seasons, Mark Ritts was not last credited, that one went to the assistant, Eliza Schneider.
• Better Call Saul:
  • "... and Michael McKean"
  • Season 3 added "with Giancarlo Esposito" before McKean's credit.
  • Season 4 has "and Giancarlo Esposito" since McKean is no longer on the show.
• Bewitched: "...and Agnes Moorehead as Endora"
• Beyond Paradise (2023): Barbara Flynn receives the "and" billing amongst the main cast while Jamie Bamber, who plays Martha's ex Archie, receives a "with" billing right afterwards for the episodes he appears in.
• In The Big Valley "...and starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck as Victoria Barkley"
• Birds of Prey (2002) has "And Mia Sara".
• Bloodline (2015) does this to Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard.
• Blood Ties (2007) has "and Kyle Schmid as Henry Fitzroy."
• Blue Bloods has Tom Selleck get this treatment, although he usually almost as much screen time as Donnie Wahlberg, who's always listed first.
• Boardwalk Empire: Dabney Coleman through Season 2, Gretchen Mol from Season 3 onward.
• In Bones, of a sort: all of Verizon fiOS' episodes descriptions from episode two of season 10 onward include "and Special Agent Aubrey" (IE "Booth/Bones/the team and Special Agent Aubrey investigate...").
• Boston Legal never had the same full cast for two consecutive seasons... sometimes even for a full season, but it had three permanent "big stars": James Spader (leads off), William Shatner (brings up the rear, with an "and"), and Candice Bergen (next-to-last, with a "with").
• Boy Meets World: And William Russ.
• "And Ann B. Davis as Alice" ended the credits of The Brady Bunch.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: "And Andre Braugher".
• Buck James had "And John Cullum as Henry Carliner.''
• For most of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's run, Anthony Stewart Head was last in the opening credits, with an "and...as Giles", because he was by far the most accomplished and famous actor in the series at that point. In the last 2 seasons, he was dropped from the main cast but would still get a "Special Guest Star..." (post opening). Alyson Hannigan, whose career had recently taken off thanks to the American Pie movies, would be moved to the end with "and ... as Willow", replacing Head.
• Burn Notice: "with Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless".
• Cagney & Lacey: "And John Karlen as Harvey."
• In the 1968 Ancient Rome-set mini-series The Caesars, the first five episodes ended the cast list with "And Freddie Jones". In the sixth and final episode, "Claudius", Jones, who played the title character, was promoted to top billing; the cast list instead ended with "And Ralph Bates" (who played Claudius' nephew, Caligula).
• In The Cavanaughs, a 1986-89 CBS comedy: "And Christine Ebersole as Kit."
• In the first 3 seasons of Charmed (1998), Shannen Doherty was billed first and Alyssa Milano had an "And..." (despite not the last to be credited). After Doherty left the show and was replaced by Rose McGowan, Milano's name is moved to the beginning and Holly Marie Combs (who was previously credited between the two) was upgraded to "And ... as 'Piper'" for the rest of the series.
• The Carrie Diaries: "With Freema Agyeman and Matt Letscher".
• Charlie Horse Music Pizza: "And starring Dom De Luise as Cookie".
• Cheers had George Wendt (Norm) as the "And" credit from Season 4 onwards. He had still been last in the credits prior to this though,
• First season episodes of Chico and the Man had "Introducing Freddie Prinze as 'Chico'; starting in the second season, it was "And Starring Freddie Prinze as 'Chico.'"
• Chicago Hope: For the first couple of seasons, the credits read "and Héctor Elizondo as Dr. Phillip Watters". When Mark Harmon joined the cast, it now read "with Mark Harmon and Hector Elizondo". The final season saw a major overhaul of both the cast and the opening credits. Harmon and Adam Arkin alternated the top billing, and the 'with' honors went to one of the newcomers to the series..."with Barbara Hershey and Hector Elizondo as Dr. Phillip Watters".
• Chuck has two: "with Sarah Lancaster and Adam Baldwin".
• Mary McDonnell got a big fat "Special Guest Star Mary McDonnell as Captain Sharon Raydor" during the fifth season of The Closer. It didn't hurt that she'd just come off her stint as President Laura Roslin on BSG. When she got her Promotion to Opening Titles in season 7, she slotted in right before Jon Tenney, as "with Mary McDonnell and Jon Tenney".
• Season 2 onwards of Cobra Kai has "With Martin Kove as John Kreese", carrying over from The Karate Kid films above.
• Code Black has an interesting example. The show's original star was Maggie Grace as Dr. Leanne Rorish, with the Oscar-winning Marcia Gay Harden as new resident Dr. Christa Lorenson. However, Grace dropped out of the project before the pilot was filmed, and Harden stepped into Grace's role^note after which Bonnie Somerville joined the cast to play Christa. As a result, during the first season, Harden takes the top spot in the credits, but Luis Guzmán, who gets the "with", isn't followed by anybody — presumably because that's where Harden's name was supposed to go. This goes away in the second season, because Rob Lowe joined the cast and got "And" billing to finish up the credits.
• Community also has two: "with Ken Jeong and Chevy Chase."
• Cory in the House has "And Rondell Sheridan."
• The "created by" credits for The Cosby Show read: "Created By Ed Weinberger & Michael Leeson," then on its own screen, "and William H. Cosby Jr., Ed. D.". Ironically, in the cast credits, Cosby was Billed Above the Title instead.
• Crazy Like a Fox: After Jack Warden's billing, it reads 'Starring John Rubinstein, Penny Peyser, Robby Kiger'.
• Criminal Minds had Thomas Gibson following "Starring Mandy Patinkin," but when Patinkin left the show and Joe Mantegna joined, Gibson's name was moved to the end with "And."
  • Jeanne Tripplehorn and Jennifer Love Hewitt used "with" when they were part of the show, now Adam Rodriguez does.
  • When Gibson also left the show, returning regular Paget Brewster took his "And" place at the end.
• CSI gave Paul Guilfoyle the "And" during his time on the show.
• CSI: NY: "with Hill Harper and Eddie Cahill."
  • For the final two episodes, Megan Dodds and Natalie Martinez, respectively, got the "with/and," but without their images being shown.
• Damages has this in every season. Glenn Close gets the top spot and season 1's credits end with "with Tate Donovan and Ted Danson." Season 2 takes this to an absurd level with its credits ending like so: "with Marcia Gay Harden and Timothy Olyphant and William Hurt AND (when he appears in an episode) Ted Danson". Ted Danson again gets an "and" in season 3 episodes he appears in.
• Dante's Cove, as of season three, gives us three: "with Jensen Atwood," "Gregory Michael as Kevin" and "Special Guest Star Thea Gill as Diana Childs". The other cast members simply get their names.
• Desperate Housewives has "Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young." Weirdly, however, this is not the last credit of the opening titles—that honor belongs to "and James Denton," which appears after Strong's credit.
• James Remar, who plays Harry on Dexter, gets the "and," probably because the character only appears in flashbacks and imaginary conversations, and so isn't considered part of the main cast despite being a prominent character.
• The Dick Van Dyke Show "Starring Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews... and Mary Tyler Moore."
• Doctor Who:
  • The series was notably funny in the order in its early years; while the actor playing "Doctor Who"^note – as the Doctor was (erroneously) billed in the credits for the original show's first 18 seasons and the revival's first one – always went first in the end credits, his companions (the secondary stars of the show) sometimes went well down the list.
  • Notice the almost complete absence of any British shows on this page? Cast and crew credits on UK television come at the end of an episode, in the manner of films. A relative few also include the principal stars' names in the opening sequence, where you might get the odd "And..." used to partition off a significant actor/role after the others, but the various specified billings of "Starring"/"Co-starring"/"Also starring" etc, and the hotly fought demarcations between these, are essentially unknown.
  • Doctor Who is one of the fairly rare series to put the lead actors' names front and centre in the opening sequence, and even then has only done so since its 2005 Revival. Typically, you get name of the Doctor and then that of the main companion, without any "starring", "with", "and", etc. The original 1963-89 run did this more creatively by (from 1967 onwards) incorporating the Doctor's face into the (then-revolutionary) "vortex"/"starfield" graphics during the opening.
    • Doctors Ten through Fourteen (David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker, and David Tennant again) are credited with "And introducing [name] as the Doctor" in the ending credits of "The Parting of the Ways"^* Series 1 listed the Doctor as "Doctor Who" in the credits, so that's what Tennant was credited as here., "The End of Time", "The Time of the Doctor", "Twice Upon a Time", and "The Power of the Doctor" immediately after the character's regeneration into each of them respectively.
    • Two unnumbered Doctors have also received this credit: John Hurt in "The Name of the Doctor" and Jo Martin in "Fugitive of the Judoon".
    • The closing cast credits for "Doomsday" finished with "And introducing Catherine Tate as The Bride" (future companion Donna Noble).
    • Freema Agyeman, as a returning star (the Doctor's former companion Martha), got credited with an "And" in the opening credits of her subsequent Torchwood appearances and in her returns in the Doctor Who episodes "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky" and "The Doctor's Daughter".
    • The actresses for Sarah Jane and Rose also received the same treatment for the last three episodes of Series 4: "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End" made up an epic that brought together all major new-Who characters, the names of main companions going by really fast, followed by "With Elisabeth Sladen and Billie Piper" for the most famous companion in show history and the first companion of the revived series, respectively. Piper also got the "and" treatment for the episode before them, "Turn Left".
    • For "The End of Time", David Tennant and John Simm got the initial credits, followed by an "And" for Bernard Cribbins, making this the first time in the revived series that an actor (Simm) playing a story's villain is listed in the opening titles — and before the companion, at that.
    • The main actor's face returns late in the Eleventh Doctor era and continues into the Twelfth, the two actors' names coming before it. However, "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" gives us Peter Capaldi's name alone followed by his face... and then we get "and Matt Lucas" after the face. Lucas' character being something of an Unexpected Character seems the only reason to give his name special treatment (you knew if you read everything about upcoming episodes, but if not, you had no reason to expect Nardole, a likeable-but-not-central guest star from the previous episode, to ever show up again, let alone immediately, let alone as a full-time companion.)
• Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 had "And James Van Der Beek".
• Doogie Howser, M.D. ended its credits with "and James B. Sikking as David Howser."
• Ryan Stiles was the last to be credited on The Drew Carey Show, but he was also the only one who was listed along with the character he played.
• Doom Patrol (2019) goes kind of crazy with this, to the extent that there are more specially credited actors on the show than "regular" stars. almost all of the variations mentioned in the trope description are used:
  • "Alan Tudyk as Mr Nobody"
  • "with Matt Bomer"
  • "and Brendan Fraser"
  • "special appearance by Timothy Dalton"
• The Dukes of Hazzard gave James Best an "and" credit, which was then followed by an "also starring" for Sorrell Booke in what functioned as the final "and" position. Both got an "as" added, but so did all of the supporting characters after the first three leads. When Best was temporarily replaced (by Dick Sargent!, among others) in season 2, the interlopers got the same treatment.
• Dynasty (1981) did this with three cast members during its run. Season 1 was "and starring Bo Hopkins as Matthew," season 2 had "and starring James Farentino as Dr. Nicholas Toscanni," and the most famous, of course, was "and Joan Collins as Alexis" for the rest of the series. In Season 2, Joan Collins was second-to-last and simply credited with "as Alexis Carrington."
• In Earth 2, the credits end with 'And Antonio Sabato, Jr. as Alonzo Solace' It's not quite as complete a example as some listed here, because in these credits all the characters names are listed anyway.
• Eastwick only billed the main cast members appearing in that week's episode, and in alphabetical order (hence some episodes had the credit "starring ashley benson," while others might say "starring jon bernthal" - and yes, the type used for the credits was all in lowercase)... with the exception of Paul Gross, who always came last and with the "and."
• Empire: "And Taraji P. Henson."
• ER gave the "and" credits to the following:
  • Eriq La Salle for Seasons 1-8. Unusually for the show, episodes in Season 8 in which La Salle does not appear have him removed from the opening titles. The actor who then ends up credited last does not receive "and" before their name.
  • Paul McCrane for Seasons 9-10.
  • Laura Innes following the departure of McCrane in the middle of Season 10 until Season 12.
  • The opening titles were changed and drastically shortened for Seasons 13-15, and no longer included any cast credits. The cast were credited with on-screen text during the beginning scenes of the episode, and during this time, the final person did not recieve "and" before their name.
  • The original opening was reinstated for the series finale, when Angela Bassett got the "and" credit.
• Everybody Loves Raymond had "with Doris Roberts as Marie and Peter Boyle as Frank".
• Debrah Farentino got one of these credits in the short-lived yet critically acclaimed EZ Streets.
• "And Nancy McKeon as Jo" in The Facts of Life.
• Family Matters, initially gave this position to Telma Hopkins as Aunt Rachel; after her departure, the slot remained vacant for a few seasons, even though Jaleel White as Steve Urkel was so obviously the Breakout Character. He was credited last in any event, but it wasn't until well into the show's run that he finally got the full "Jaleel White as Steve Urkel" credit.
• In the ending credits of Fate: The Winx Saga, the main cast roll concludes with "and Eve Best".
• In the second season of The Flight Attendant, Rosie Perez is credited this way for her role as Megan Briscoe. In the episodes in which Cheryl Hines appears as Dot Karlson, it is "with Cheryl Hines as Dot Karlson and Rosie Perez as Megan Briscoe."
• The extremely short-lived TV adaptation of Foul Play, starring Barry Bostwick in the Chevy Chase role, gave separate "And...As" credits to twins Greg and John Rice.
• Frasier had John Mahoney (Martin Crane) as the "And" credit.
• Full House gave the "And" to Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the final season. Also the only time they are credited as separate people.
• Future Cop: "Starring Ernest Borgnine in Future Cop, also starring Michael Shannon as Haven, John Amos as Bundy."
• Game of Thrones:
  • The cast list in the opening sequence ends with "and Peter Dinklage" in season 1. This was dropped in season 2, where his name was simply listed first instead, likely due to the critical acclaim and Emmy win his performance netted in the first season.
  • Jason Momoa is given "also starring" as his billing — rather unusually, this appears in the end credits, after the guest stars have been listed.
  • Unusually, starting with Season 4, Iain Glen receives the more prominent "with" credit at the end of the cast list, something usually reserved for the person listed penultimately in the cast list (the final name is typically given the "And.")
  • The prequel series House of the Dragon has "and Rhys Ifans''.
• Getting Together: "Pat Carroll as Rita Simon."
• On Gilligan's Island, there was "Also Starring Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III" and "And Also Starring Tina Louise as Ginger". Plus, the Professor and Mary Ann were at first credited simply as "And the Rest", with Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells being credited by name only in the closing credits. This was changed after the first season, with the two appearing together under "with" after Tina Louise's credit (but no "and" between them). When all is said and done, the credits, when looked at together, are very ungrammatical: "Gilligan's Island, starring Bob Denver, Alan Hale, also starring Jim Backus as Thurston Howell III, Natalie Schafer, and also starring Tina Louise as Ginger, with Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells". Geez...
  • Interestingly, the opening credits and theme song were changed only on the insistence of Bob Denver who wanted all the lead characters explicitly named. When the studio refused to make the requested changes saying that it would be too expensive, Denver, whose contract said that his name could appear wherever he wanted it, demanded that he be removed from the opening and only be given credit at the end. Knowing that they couldn't leave their star out of the title sequence, the studio agreed to a new theme song and opening credits.
• The last two spots in the opening credits for Gilmore Girls were always "and Kelly Bishop" followed by "special appearance by Edward Herrmann" (Emily and Richard Gilmore, respectively).
• Girl Meets World:
  • Subverted with Ben Savage as Cory taking second in the opening credits.
  • However, the intro does have "And Danielle Fishel", who plays Topanga.
• GLOW (2017) has "and Marc Maron" for Season 1 and 2, and in Season 3 has "with Chris Lowell and Marc Maron".
• Good Luck Charlie has "And Jason Dolley", who plays the eldest son, rather than one of the two parents as is more typical for family sitcoms (though Eric Allan Kramer gets a "with" credit). This is probably because of his years of long and loyal service to the Mouse House.
• Good Times saw breakout star Jimmie Walker graduate from a gang "with" combining the three children (with Tony-nominated Ralph Carter listed first) in season 1 to a triple-barreled and/also starring/as by season 5.
• Gossip Girl (2007) has "with Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle," while in the final season Michelle Trachtenberg receives "And" billing for her appearances.
• Gotham had "Jada Pinkett Smith" in the first season.
• Since Robert Culp was a much bigger star than the actor playing the lead, William Katt, the credits for The Greatest American Hero went "Starring William Katt" followed by "Starring Robert Culp as Bill Maxwell"—with "as Bill Maxwell" in a box, to emphasize it even further, resulting in his freeze-framed face being mostly obscured with credit text. Poor Connie Sellecca, who came third (and who was literally an afterthought when it came to casting the regulars), just got a title card with her name and nothing else.
• Grey's Anatomy has done this through the entire run: Patrick Dempsey has always been the "and", while Isaiah Washington was the "with", until he got kicked off the show. Recently, it was rumored that Chandra Wilson would inherit the "with", as her character is arguably the best-loved on the show, but it seems that for now, things will stay the way they are.
  • Private Practice's credits end with "with Taye Diggs, and Amy Brenneman".
• Gunsmoke practically invented this trope in later seasons, when all of the main cast would have their credits read before the actual star of the show's credit was read as: "And Starring James Arness as Marshall Matt Dillon."
• Laurence Fishburne gets the "And" credit on Hannibal.
• "And Tom Bosley as Howard Cunningham" finished the intro to Happy Days. The producers originally wanted to put Fonz at the end, but Henry Winkler refused, saying he didn't want to upstage the original stars.
  • The tenth season of the series gave an additional credit to Scott Baio and/or Erin Moran whenever they made a guest appearance.
• The original Hawaii Five-O took this to ludicrous extremes — Jack Lord had starring billing on the opening (and from season 6 closing) credits, and all the other regulars were relegated to "With" billing (and had the names of their characters to boot). Averted on the revival, which simply lists the names of the actors.
• Here Come the Brides: Starring Robert Brown, co-starring Bobby Sherman, David Soul, Bridget Hanley, Mark Lenard, and Joan Blondell as Lottie.
• Hill Street Blues "and Veronica Hamel as Joyce Davenport."
• Home Improvement gave the "and" to Jonathan Taylor Thomas in Season 7, then to Richard Karn after Thomas left in Season 8, which also added a "with" to Zachery Ty Bryan.
• For the first few seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street, the opening credits always ended with "And Ned Beatty as Bolander". (Especially noticeable, since everyone else was credited strictly in alphabetical order.)
• Honey West: Starring Anne Francis, co-starring John Ericson.
• How I Met Your Mother: "With Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan".
  • "And Kim Cattrall" on How I Met Your Father.
• In order to maintain the "big up front, big out back" sandwich, the opening credits on Hustle have always opened with Adrian Lester and closed up with "and Robert Vaughn as Albert Stroller"
• Interview with the Vampire (2022): The end credits have "And Eric Bogosian."
• A twofer: the credits for the 1980 restaurant sitcom It's a Living (later retooled after the strike-truncated first season as Making a Living) seem to build up to the credit for the blonde bombshell, "And Ann Jillian as Cassie". But then the credits keep going, listing more supporting characters (the pianist, the chef, etc.) before coming back around to another "star" waitress with the credit "And Barrie Youngfellow as Jan".
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has "and Danny Devito as Frank Reynolds" after he joins the cast in season 2.
• JAG: David James Elliott (Harmon Rabb) had the "starring" for all ten seasons, "and John M. Jackson as Admiral Chegwidden" at the end for the eight seasons in which he appeared in the opening titles.
• Janda Kembang: The opening credits uses "introducing" for the child actress Abigail (Laila).
• Jessie: "And Kevin Chamberlain"
• Justified had "And Walton Goggins" from the second season on.
• The King of Queens had "And Jerry Stiller as Arthur" as the final credit in the opening sequence. He was also the only cast member to have their character name included in the credit.
• Kings Crossing, a short-lived 1982 ABC prime time serial: "And Beatrice Straight as Louisa Beauchamp."
• "Starring Hugh Beaumont, June Lockhart, Jon Provost as Timmy, and of course Lassie."
• L.A. Law: "and Richard A. Dysart"
• Thora Hird and Jean Alexander were billed as Special Guest Apperances during their times on Last of the Summer Wine.
• When Craig Ferguson went to Scotland with his friends, the opening for each episode of The Late Late Show credited the guests, Weird Cows, Kilts, "music by the Imagineers, introducing Jordan Malone as Young Craig, with Secretariat and Geoff Peterson as Geoff Peterson, and now, Craig Ferguson."
• The final season of Laverne & Shirley gave an "Also Starring" credit to David L. Lander, making him the only cast member other than Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams to be listed in the opening credits.
• Law & Order:
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit had "and Dann Florek" through the middle of season fifteen.
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent had "and Courtney B. Vance as ADA Carver" through season five.
  • In Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Fred Dalton Thompson was always given a "with" in the second-last (and later final) position in the opening credits. For the only two episodes the late Jerry Orbach was able to film, he was credited in full as "and Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe" at the end of the opening credits.
  • Law & Order: LA had "and Terrence Howard".
  • The first two seasons of Law & Order: Organized Crime had "and Dylan McDermott".
• The League ends its main cast credits with "And introducing Jon La Joie."
• "And starring Jerry Mathers as the Beaver" was the last line of Leave It to Beaver's opening credits.
  • Parodied in the opening credits of SCTV with "and Dave Thomas as The Beaver", even though John Candy actually played The Beaver in their parody sketch of that show.
• Lewis uses this not for its main cast members, but for notable guest stars in individual episodes — for instance, the pilot gave the "and" to Jemma Redgrave due to her being... well, Jemma Redgrave.
• The Librarians 2014: The main cast ends with "and John Larroquette." Meanwhile, Fake Guest Star Noah Wyle is always credited as a special guest star; apparently this was due to guild reasons as you can't star in two shows at the same time.
• Irwin Allen's Lost in Space opening titles featured 'Special Guest Star' Jonathan Harris as Dr. Smith — and in the same vein, Land of the Giants had Kurt Kaznar as Fitzhugh.
  • Lost in Space also listed "And Angela Cartwright as Penny."
• The L Word put its actors' names in the credits in strict alphabetical order... with the exception of the final name: "and Pam Grier as Kit". It presumably helped that Jennifer Beals, its other big-name star, has a name early on in the alphabet.
• Mad Men: Starting in Season 2, "...and John Slattery." (In Season 1, Slattery's character Roger Sterling didn't appear in every episode and Slattery was listed as a guest star).
• Magic City: Danny Huston as Ben Diamond.
• Frankie Muniz, despite playing the title character, was credited last on Malcolm in the Middle.
• Make It Pop bills all four of its leads as "Featuring" ("Featuring Megan Lee", "Featuring Louriza Tronco", "Featuring Erika Tham", "Featuring Dale Whibley").
• For the NBC seasons of Mama's Family, it was "And Rue McClanahan as Aunt Fran''. Additionally, when Carol Burnett, Betty White, and/or Harvey Korman guest-starred, they were credited in the opening titles as well. Betty White made one final appearance in the syndicated seasons and was given opening sequence credit again, but Allan Kayser, the last star credited in the syndicated seasons, received no special credit treatment (other than being the only one to have his credit picture updated, which happened in the final season).
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Marvel Studios:
    • WandaVision: "with Kat Dennings" / "and Kathryn Hahn".
    • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: "with Daniel Brühl" / "and Don Cheadle".
    • Loki (2021): "Tara Strong as Miss Minutes" / "Special Guest Star Jonathan Majors" / "Special Guest Star Richard E. Grant" / "and Owen Wilson".
    • Hawkeye (2021): "Special Guest Star Linda Cardellini" / "with Simon Callow" / "and Vera Farmiga".
    • Moon Knight (2022): "Saba Mubarak as the voice of Ammit" / "F. Murray Abraham as the voice of Khonshu" / "Special Guest Star Gaspard Ulliel" / "and Ethan Hawke".
    • Ms. Marvel (2022): "Special Guest Star Farhan Akhtar" / "with Aramis Knight".
    • She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: "Special Guest Star Mark Ruffalo" / "Special Guest Star Benedict Wong" / "Special Guest Star Charlie Cox" / "with Renée Elise Goldsberry" / "and Tim Roth".
    • The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special: "Featuring Vin Diesel as Groot / Bradley Cooper as Rocket / Sean Gunn / the Old 97's / with Michael Rooker / and introducing Kevin Bacon".
    • Secret Invasion (2023): "with Emilia Clarke" / "with Olivia Colman" / "and Don Cheadle".
  • Netflix:
    • Across all of the shows, for episodes in which Claire Temple appears, Rosario Dawson gets a "with Rosario Dawson" credit.
    • Daredevil (2015): "and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk".
    • Jessica Jones (2015): "with Carrie-Anne Moss", followed by "and David Tennant" in season 1, or "and Janet McTeer" in season 2.
    • The Defenders (2017): "with Rosario Dawson" / "and Scott Glenn" / "and Sigourney Weaver".
    • Luke Cage (2016): "and Alfre Woodard".
    • Iron Fist (2017): "and David Wenham".
    • The Punisher (2017) season 1 is the only season where the "and [x]" credit isn't used for a villain character. In this case, it's given to Deborah Ann Woll for the four episodes in which Karen Page (the female lead on Daredevil) appears.
• On M*A*S*H, Gary Burghoff received a unique special credit ("also starring Gary Burghoff as Radar") when he returned for the two-part Season Eight episode "Goodbye, Radar" after having decided to leave the series.
• Masked Rider: "And introducing FERBUS".
• Matt Houston: "And Buddy Ebsen as Uncle Roy."
• Melrose Place had Heather Locklear as "Special Guest Star" once she joined the show. The rest of the cast had to make do with alphabetical order credits.
• Miami Vice: "and Edward James Olmos as Castillo"
• Midnight Caller: "and Arthur Taxier as Lt. Carl Zymak."
• The Mod Squad: "and also starring Tige Andrews", later modified to "and also starring Tige Andrews as Captain Greer".
• Monk has "and Ted Levine as Stottlemeyer".
• The Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "The Buzz Aldrin Show" has a fake credits sequence that includes "AND INTRODUCING F. B. GRIMSBY URQHART-WRIGHT AS THE VOICE OF GOD".
• Conrad Janis received an "Also Starring" credit for Mork & Mindy. During the show's final season, Jonathan Winters was given as "Special Guest Star" credit after Janis.
• The Munsters: "and starring Fred Gwynne as Herman" (in the first season only; Gwynne was later given top billing).
• Various Muppet productions have given this credit to Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and Caroll Spinney, among others.
  • The short-lived Little Muppet Monsters gave this credit to five Muppet performers: Henson, Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, and Kathryn Mullen.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: Several "and introducing" jokes including a few for Frank at the beginning of season 2 and one for Jim Mallon in Mystery Science Theater 3000 S02 E03: Jungle Goddess.
• Nashville: "With Kimberly Williams-Paisley And Powers Boothe"
• NCIS has "With Rocky Carroll And David McCallum" starting Season 6. McCallum got the citation all to himself in the first five seasons. Starting in the show's twentieth season, Gary Cole was given an 'and' credit following the already existing 'with' credits for Carroll and Mc Callum.
  • NCIS: Los Angeles: "With Linda Hunt And LL Cool J". Hunt is an Oscar-winning actress.
  • NCIS: New Orleans: "And C.C.H. Pounder".
• The publicity for the drama New York News featured Mary Tyler Moore, but the "and" credit went to Madeline Kahn, followed by a "with" credit for Mary ("as Louise Felcott") in the final position.
• Peter MacNicol on NUMB3RS. In previous seasons, it was Diane Farr that was credited this way.
• Once Upon a Time had "And Robert Carlyle"
• The opening credits for One Day at a Time (1975) featured "and Valerie Bertinelli" from season 5 on, with "as Barbara Cooper/Royer" added on starting with season 6. But fan favorite Pat Harrington Jr.—already "as [Dwayne] Schneider" back in season 1—also needed prominence, and when they added big-name new regular Howard Hesseman he needed to be featured too. So the season 9 credits ended up as:
  STARRING [all caps] Bonnie Franklin; Howard Hesseman;
  starring [lowercase] Pat Harrington as Schneider;
  Boyd Gaines; Mackenzie Phillips [temporarily]; Michael Lembeck; Nanette Fabray [in some episodes];
  and starring Valerie Bertinelli as Barbara Royer.
  • There were actually several iterations of this trope across the 9 seasons.
    • The all-caps "STARRING" (on its own screen) was there from the beginning in the season 1 credits, which ended with "with Valerie Bertinelli / also starring Pat Harrington as Dwayne Schneider". The sans serif "STARRING", originally just meant to contrast the brush script used for the names, survived the font change at the start of season 2 and remained to the end.
    • The first set of credits for season 2 was a reuse of the specially shot "moving to a new apartment after the divorce" season 1 credits but with a plainer font; the billing was initially the same as season 1. After a few episodes a new set of credits was developed using clips from the show. These had "Pat Harrington as Schneider" moved up to third position and ended with "with Valerie Bertinelli / and Marie Louise Wilson".
    • When Wilson was removed for season 3 Bertinelli was in last position, but lost her "with"—she was title card only for the first time. Season 4 billing was unchanged.
    • Season 5 started the same way, but when Michael Lembeck joined the cast a few episodes in as Julie's husband, Bertinelli, still in the final position, was given an "and"; this remained after Philips was removed.
    • Season 6 was when she got the added "as Barbara Cooper". This was the basic set-up (Bertinelli with an "and" at the end, she and Harrington both getting an "as") until Bertinelli and Harrington got the extra, lower-case "starring" in season 9, as noted above.
    • The STARRING/starring/and starring distinction might very well be unique to this show and its final season.
• One Tree Hill had "With Craig Sheffer and Moira Kelly" in the first three seasons, then "And Paul Johansson" in Seasons 7 and 9.
• Orphan Black had "And Maria Doyle Kennedy".
• The Orville had "and Norm Macdonald" at the end of the special guest stars part of the opening credits whenever Yaphit appears.
• In Out of This World (1987), Maureen Flannigan is listed as "and introducing Maureen Flannigan as Evie."
• The opening credits for The Osbournes go through the four family members, ending with "And Ozzy Osbourne as 'The Dad'"
• Marking the point where And Starring meets Billing Displacement, Deka Beaudine got this credit ("And Deka Beaudine as Ashley") on all the CBS episodes of The Paper Chase (it later moved to Showtime) — although she only appeared in the pilot.
• Parks and Recreation: The Season 2 finale had "And Introducing Rob Lowe" as an in-joke, as it was Lowe's first episode of the series, and as an in joke about Lowe's long distinguished career. Starting with the Season 3 premiere, "And Rob Lowe" was added to the opening credits, which remained until he left the show.
• The Partridge Family: Starring Shirley Jones, co-starring David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Brian Forster,^note Jeremy Gelbwaks in the first season Suzanne Crough, and Dave Madden as Reuben Kincaid.
• Party Down: "and Lizzy Caplan".
• Peacemaker (2022): "And Robert Patrick".
• On Pee-wee's Playhouse, during the end credits, Paul Reubens' role as Pee-wee Herman is saved for last and worded as "And Pee-wee Herman as Himself".
• Person of Interest: "And Michael Emerson." Changed in Season 3 to "with Sarah Shahi and Michael Emerson."
• Poker Face: "And Benjamin Bratt"
• Parodied (of course) in the opening credits of Police Squad!:
  • "And Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln," who is seen getting shot at — and firing back — in the theater and never appears again.
  • After the Abraham Lincoln credit, each episode credits that episode's 'Special Guest Star', who is promptly killed in their credit scene and not seen again.
• As the credits evolve throughout the season, Power Rangers often ends up with several actors listed this way; Power Rangers: Dino Thunder used "And", "With" and "Also Starring" all at the same time.
• The Pretender had "and Jon Gries as Broots" at the end of the guest credits until he was moved to the opening credits in the last season. The show also had "with Paul Dillon" whenever his character, Angelo, was involved in the episode.
• Prison Break
  • Season 1: "And Sarah Wayne Callies".
  • Season 2: "And Sarah Wayne Callies", followed by "With William Fichtner".
  • Season 3: "And Jodi Lyn O'Keefe", followed by "With William Fichtner".
  • Season 4: "With Jodi Lyn O'Keefe", followed by "With Sarah Wayne Callies", and finally concluding with "And William Fichtner".
• With Psych, it's "And Corbin Bernsen", since he's probably the most generally known of the main cast (with Dule Hill a mildly distant second).
• Punky Brewster season two had "and T.K. Carter as Mike."
• Starting from the second season of Raising Hope had "And introducing Cloris Leachman as Maw Maw" added to its credits as a good-natured poke towards Leachman's extensive career. Leachman herself found it hilarious and agreed.
• The Really Loud House:
  • The opening credits end with "With Jolie Jenkins" / "And Brian Stepanek".
  • The guest star credits of "The Princess and the Everlasting Emerald: A Royal Woods Fairytale Part 2" end with "With Kevin Chamberlin as Flip Phillipini" / "And Stephen Tobolowsky as Walter Phillipini".
• Red Dwarf had some fun with this, in the third season second episode "Time Slides". Because they spliced in some old German World War II footage, they were able to put in "Adolf Hitler, as himself" into the opening (prompting a chuckle from the Studio Audience).
  • Chloë Annett's first appearance as Kochanski had her listed as "and introducing Chloe Annett as Kochanski" — in the end credits, as Red Dwarf has no cast credits in its opening titles. Given that this certainly wasn't her first ever on-screen performance, it's likely that this was to acknowledge her being The Other Darrin.
• Riverdale: "With Mädchen Amick And Luke Perry."
• Rome featured two in the opening credits of Season One. The penultimate name on the credits was "with James Purefoy as Mark Antony" followed by "and Ciarán Hinds as Caesar". Purefoy got this carried over into Season Two, becoming the only cast member to be accompanied by "with".
• ''TheRookies: "and Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Lt. Ryker".
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch:
  • For the first four seasons, Nick Bakay received last billing in the opening credits for his voice role, styled: "And Nick Bakay as Salem the Cat".
  • In the last three seasons he was displaced to the penultimate spot by the actress for Sabrina's roommate Roxie King, who received last billing styled: "And Soleil Moon Frye as Roxie".
• Saturday Night Live frequently has "featured players", who are listed after the main cast; usually some work their way up to the main cast.
  • Parodied in their rap video "One Voice", which makes fun of overstuffed songs. It starts with just three emcees (Big Chris, Shantasia and Yung Bitch), but more keep joining despite Big Chris's attempts at putting a stop to it. Eventually, he gives up and just has everyone get on stage and rap. It turns into a cacophony, since everyone starts rapping a different song, and he just ends it.
• On Saved by the Bell, "...and Dennis Haskins as Mr. Belding''.
  • The peculiarities of this trope and of billing placement in general are best illustrated in the Good Morning Miss Bliss episodes that were repackaged for syndication as Saved by the Bell. In the original episodes, the actors are credited as: "Starring Hayley Mills, Dennis Haskins, Joan Ryan, Max Battimo/Dustin Diamond/Mark-Paul Gosselaar (all on the same title card), Heather Hopper/Lark Voorhies (again on the same title card), and T.K. Carter as Mylo". But in the Saved by the Bell version, this is changed to "Starring Hayley Mills, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Joan Ryan, Dennis Haskins, Lark Voorhies, Dustin Diamond, Heather Hopper, Max Battimo, and T.K. Carter as Mylo". Mills and Carter retain their bookending positions, which was likely contractually mandated; Ryan, curiously, is billed third in both versions of the credits, despite everyone else being moved around (and other than Mills, only Ryan is billed ahead of actors who moved on to Saved by the Bell).
• Scandal had "And Tony Goldwyn".
• Scream Queens (2015) had "And Jamie Lee Curtis".
• SeaQuest DSV's first season used "And Stephanie Beacham as Dr. Kristin Westphalen." Season three had "And Peter DeLuise as Dagwood, despite the character being introduced in the second.
• The credits of Seinfeld ended with "And Jason Alexander as George", as he had arguably the highest profile as an actor of the four principals.
  • And, too, because the character of George was a fictionalized portrayal of series co-creator Larry David.
• Severance: "With John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette"
• Shadow and Bone gave this honor to Ben Barnes, which makes sense considering he's the most high-profile actor in a cast primarily comprised of relative newcomers.
• Shadowhunters: The main cast credits ends with "with Isaiah Mustafa and Harry Shum Jr.".
• The Shadow Line had "and Stephen Rea", because he was one of the biggest names in the cast and had his own separate plot for most of the series.
• Shoestring: "Starring Trevor Eve with Michael Medwin, Doran Godwin, Liz Crowther."
• In Six Feet Under, the titles ended with "And Rachel Griffiths as Brenda" despite her not being an inordinately significant (a la Giles) or different (a la Mary Alice) character. On the other hand, in the episodes in which he did appear, "Richard Jenkins as Nathaniel Fisher" was a more typical example of this trope (the character is dead.)
• Skins did a variant; while the opening sequence had no credits and was almost entirely standardised each season, with clips of all the main characters hanging out, the last clip was always of the episode's Rotating Protagonist(s), indicating them as the And Starring.
• Sliders: John Rhys-Davies was listed last with 'as Professor Arturo'.
• Small Wonder had "and Tiffany Brissette as Vicki the Robot".
• Smallville had "Starring," "With" and "And" credits for Tom Welling, Annette O'Toole and John Glover respectively, and then finished it off with "John Schneider as Jonathan Kent."
  • In Season 10, we have "and Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan" whenever she appears. This is because she had seniority by at least 3 seasons over every other cast member from the opening credits except Welling, who's listed first. Quite an interesting case as only she gets the "and" despite only appearing in less than half of all episodes. If she's not there, neither is the "and".
• The first two seasons and prequel of Spartacus: Blood and Sand had "And Lucy Lawless".
• In Stargate SG-1, Richard Dean Anderson got his name above the title, and Beau Bridges was credited as "with". Upon returning to the show after a season away, Michael Shanks was listed at the end as "And Michael Shanks as Daniel Jackson". The "and" even carried over to the posters for the DVD films.
  • Though never credited in the title sequence, after two seasons Teryl Rothery graduated to "And TERYL ROTHERY as Dr. Fraiser" in the post-title credits.
  • The Stargate Atlantis opening titles have at the end "and David Hewlett as Dr. McKay". During his Promotion to Opening Titles, the credits also include "with Paul McGillion as Dr. Carson Beckett" in the second-last place.
  • After she was promoted to a regular in the middle of season 1, the credits for Stargate Universe now end with "and Ming-Na".
• Stargirl (2020): "With Amy Smart and Luke Wilson".
• Starsky & Hutch: "Starring David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, with Antonio Fargas as Huggy Bear, Bernie Hamilton."
• Star Trek
  • Star Trek: The Original Series showcased its Power Trio — the credits ended with "Starring William Shatner / Also Starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock / And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy". Except for the first season, where Kelley was omitted; Nimoy was already listed with 'also' rather than 'and', in an odd violation of grammar. Everyone else ended up as co-stars in the end credits.
    • Leonard Nimoy's "Also Starring" was actually a promotion from "Co-Starring" in the two original pilots (though he was still listed "As Mr. Spock"). Also note that Shatner's name is larger than Nimoy's and Kelley's. Apparently this was contractually obligated.
    • The first few episodes didn't even have "Co-Starring"... just "Starring William Shatner / Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock". (This may have been changed for the credits of the remastered versions).
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation began its credits with "Starring Patrick Stewart / Jonathan Frakes" and thereafter listed the main cast members in alphabetical order, beginning with "Also Starring LeVar Burton".
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager did something similar, each only crediting the commanding officer under "Starring" before listing the rest of the cast alphabetically with "Also Starring". DS9 began with "Starring Avery Brooks as Commander Sisko^note later "as Captain Sisko" / Also Starring René Auberjonois as Odo". VOY began with "Starring Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway / Also Starring Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay".
    • In the Deep Space Nine episode "Heart of Stone", to avoid spoiling the surprise that Kira is actually the Female Changeling, Salome Jens (who played the latter) consented to be listed in the end credits, but was listed as "Special Guest Star" rather than her usual "Guest Star."
  • Averted with Star Trek: Enterprise, which simply listed the entire cast in order alphabetically with no "Starring" at all. Notably, Scott Bakula (who played Captain Jonathan Archer) came first alphabetically anyway.
  • Star Trek: Discovery had "And Jason Isaacs" in the first season and "And Anson Mount" in the second season, for each of the actors playing the captain. "Special Guest Star Michelle Yeoh" followed in the opening credits of episodes where she appeared.
  • Star Trek: Picard's opening credits has "With Santiago Cabrera And Harry Treadaway." in the first season. The second season replaces Treadaway's credit with "And Brent Spiner". There is also a "special guest star" credit whenever an actor from a previous Trek series ^note Spiner and Jeri Ryan in the first season before both were Promoted to Opening Titles in season two (Spiner is a guest again in season 3), Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Del Arco, John de Lancie, Whoopi Goldberg, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Michelle Forbes, Daniel Davis, Tim Russ, and Alice Krigemakes a guest appearance. The season two finale saves Wil Wheaton's special guest star credit for the end credits, as his cameo is a big surprise. Season 3 moves the cast credits to the end of the episode and no one has the "with" or "and" credit.
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has "and Rebecca Romijn".
• Stranger Things has "and Matthew Modine" in season 1.
  • Season 2 has "With Sean Astin and Paul Reiser".
• The late '90s-era NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan did this with all of its main cast members not named Brooke Shields in a Running Gag ("Also Starring", "Not to Mention", "And Let's Not Forget", etc.)
• The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as well as its After Show has "And Phill Lewis."
• Suits ends its cast credits with "and Gina Torres".
• Swamp Thing (2019): With Will Patton and Jennifer Beals", plus "Special Appearance By Kevin Durand".
• Switch (1975): "Also starring Charlie Callas, Sharon Gless."
• T.J. Hooker: For the first two seasons, it's "and Richard Herd as Captain Dennis Sheridan". After that, it's "and James Darren as Jim Corrigan".
• Taxi: "And Andy Kaufman as Latka Gravas."
• In seasons 1-3 of Three's Company, the words "And Starring as the Ropers" would appear before Audra Lindley's and Norman Fell's credit clips were shown. The show had an interesting format in that they had two different opening gags with the Ropers. In one, Norman was credited first, and in the other, Audra was credited first. The show would go back-and-fourth between the two gags every other episode.
• The Thundermans: "With Chris Tallman and Rosa Blasi."
• Titans (2018): "With Alan Ritchson and Minka Kelly", plus "With Special Appearance By Esai Morales".
• Trapper John, M.D.: "And Charles Siebert as Dr. Riverside" (Season 1 had this near the end, and then a co-starring credit for Christopher Norris, and an "and-as" credit for Brian Mitchell, presented side-by-side ["Christopher Norris as Ripples", and "And Brian Mitchell as Jackpot"]).
• The Tudors never kept the same cast between seasons, and thus had a new "And Starring" for every season. In the first season, Jeremy Northam got it; in the second, it was "with special guest star Peter O'Toole and Jeremy Northam"; in the third, it was "with Max von Sydow"; and in the last, it was "with special guest star Joely Richardson".
• Ugly Betty always gave Vanessa Williams the "And" credit, and in the latter half of Season 1 into Season 2, she was proceeded with "With Rebecca Romijn."
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: "With Carol Kane and Jane Krakowski".
• The only regular to be credited in the Opening Titles for each episode of The Untouchables was Robert Stack as Elliot Ness. The other credits in the opening titles, though key players in the day's episode, were usually one offs; notable exceptions include Bruce Gordon who played Al Capone's Enforcer: Frank Nitti and, in later episodes, Barbara Stanwyck who played an agent focused on locating missing persons. This makes the "with Special Guest Star" credit that was sometimes used this Trope, as there was no consistent series-wide hierarchy between the "guest stars" and the "co-"stars". The voiced-over only credit, "And narrated by Walter Winchell", also counts.
• Veronica Mars has "and Enrico Colantoni".
• The Walking Dead had "And David Morrissey" in Season 3 and the first half of Season 4. The "And" citation then becomes vacant until Season 7 when Jeffrey Dean Morgan gets Promoted to Opening Titles. He's then joined by Samantha Morton starting Season 9 being preceded by a "With" citation.
• Wednesday has "with Christina Ricci", and in episodes 1 and 5, "guest starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman".
• Martin Sheen is listed as "And" in The West Wing. In the later seasons, Jimmy Smits is listed just before him under the modifier "With". Alan Alda, being the cast member who comes first in alphabetical order anyway, goes first and thus gets "Starring" before his name once he is added to the opening credits in the seventh season.
• This trailer for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp takes it to extremes, using "and", "also with", "also", "also also", "plus", "featuring", "don't forget", "guest starring", and the Hebrew word for "featuring". To top it all off, Jon Hamm gets an "And Introducing" credit.
• For most of the 1970s and 1980s, The Announcer on Wheel of Fortune would introduce only the host (Chuck Woolery until 1981, Pat Sajak from 1981 onward), who in turn would introduce the co-host (Susan Stafford until 1982, Vanna White from 1983 following a few substitutes). Starting in the 1990s, the opening spiel was changed to end in "...the stars of America's game, Pat Sajak and Vanna White!" and they walked out together.
• Who's the Boss? had "And Katherine Helmond as Mona".
• Ross Martin receives "And" billing on all season 1 episodes of The Wild Wild West — and on several season 4 episodes as well (specifically the episodes made after his heart attack, like "The Night of the Diva" (as shown on the Columbia House video releases) — this was likely due to CBS shuffling the order of the episodes so ones where Martin appears, like "The Night of the Pistoleros," would alternate with ones where he doesn't, like "The Night of the Bleak Island").
• Eric Close gets the "and" distinction in the credits for Without a Trace.
• The Wiz had "Introducing Shanice Williams as Dorothy" for the live TV version.
• Wizards of Waverly Place: has "And David Deluise".
• Howard Hesseman was always last to be credited among the main cast on WKRP in Cincinnati, both in the closing credits (seasons 1 and 2) and opening credits (seasons 3 and 4). Like Ryan Stiles above, he was also credited with "as Dr. Johnny Fever."
• Wonder Woman (1975): This was done frequently. The pilot, "The New, Original Wonder Woman" had Cloris Leachman for a Special Guest Star. Red Buttons was the first one listed in the Starring section. The next episode, "Wonder Woman meets Baroness von Gunther" had a Special Appearance by Bradford Dillman as Arthur Deal, III. And there were many others.
• Young Blades has "with Bruce Boxleitner and Michael Ironside." Sheena Easton also gets a "with" credit in later episodes, leading to the odd-sounding sequence "with Sheena Easton, with Bruce Boxleitner, and Michael Ironside."
• Young Sheldon: "With Annie Potts and Jim Parsons as the voice of '(older) Sheldon'".

Music

• Before Clarence Clemons' death in 2011, Bruce Springsteen would introduce the members of the E Street Band during his concerts, and would invariably introduce Clarence last, usually shouting "And last but not least..." In the DVD of one of the band's 2000 concerts in New York City, Bruce handled the band intros during an extended bridge before the third verse of "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out". When he got to Clarence, he shouted, "Do I have to say his name?" while the rest the of the band led the audience in chanting "CLAR-ence! CLAR-ence!", segueing seamlessly into the first line of the third verse, "The change was made uptown and the Big Man joined the band!"
• Similarly to Springsteen, Mick Jagger will introduce his fellow members of The Rolling Stones culminating with Keith Richards, and often right before a song or two where Richards sings lead; Mick's usual intro for him is "On guitar and now the vocals, Keith Richards!"
• For some reason, the second (and final) album by short-lived Country Music duo The McCarters credited the group as "Jennifer McCarter and the McCarters".
• Billy Dean and Suzy Bogguss's 2001 single "Keep Mom and Dad in Love" featured a new singer named Jillian (full name: Jillian Jacqueline); it was credited on the charts as "Billy Dean and Suzy Bogguss Introducing Jillian".
• Pavement put an "...and" before the last song title on their album Terror Twilight in this style. Because the trope is usually only applied to people, it led to confusion as to whether the song was officially titled "...And Carrot Rope". It was later released as a single as just "Carrot Rope".
• Disco One-Hit Wonder Santa Esmeralda ("Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood") gave their lead singer special notice by officially billing themselves as "Santa Esmeralda starring Leroy Gomez"

Puppet Shows

• On Bear in the Big Blue House, Brad Garrett and Gilbert Gottfried received a "with" credit for voicing possums in the second half of "Welcome to Woodland Valley," while Whoopi Goldberg received an "and" credit for voicing "The Great Bandini." Regular cast members Lynne Thigpen and Tara Mooney (Luna and Shadow) also normally received a "with" credit, though in the second half of "Welcome to Woodland Valley," they received an "and" credit, despite being billed before Garrett and Gottfried.
• The Chica Show: Chica, Kelly, Stitches, Bunji, Mrs. C, and Mr. C.

Radio

• Hamish and Dougal has 'and Sir Ian McKellen' credited as Jolly Mick the Undertaker. A parody, as this is radio and Jolly Mick doesn't actually say anything.

Theatre

• The 2011 Broadway revival of Follies had "Starring Elaine Paige as Carlotta." Billed above her and the title are the players of the four principal characters.
• The original production of Bye Bye Birdie had "and Kay Medford" (who played Mae).
• Wicked had "and Joel Grey as the Wizard."
• The original production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ended the list of principal cast members with "also Raymond Walburn / and / John Carradine." (They played Erronius and Lycus, respectively.)
• The Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie had "and introducing Sutton Foster as Millie."
• City of Angels had a boxed final credit for "and René Auberjonois" (playing Buddy Fidler).
• Its A Bird Its A Plane Its Superman's principal cast listing included "Patricia Marand as Lois Lane" and culminated with "and Bob Holiday as Superman."
• The back cover for the 1984 composer-conducted recording of West Side Story credits the four principal singers with the names of their roles, followed by "and Marilyn Horne singing 'Somewhere'" because that song is performed in the show by a nameless character who does nothing else.

Video Games

• Parodied in the game box cover art for Brain Dead 13, which says, "Starring Fritz".
• The first credit after the main title of The Curse of Monkey Island says, "STARRING: Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood".
• Nolan North gets the "And Starring" version for his role as David in The Last of Us. Likely because he's a major name in video game voice acting, but plays a supporting villainous role toward the end of the game.
  • The The Last of Us Part II also does this for Laura Bailey with the "And" version, who voices Abby and is a major villain in the story.
• The voice actor credits of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots end with "And Richard Doyle as Big Boss" (who had not yet appeared in the story). An extra scene then plays out with this character before the general credits roll.
• Zap Dramatic's Move or Die does this with Jackie Burroughs, who plays Mrs. Grimm.
• The Sims 2: In the GBA version of the game, where you’re an actor in a "Truman Show" Plot, each episode begins with an opening sequence for the Strangetown show you’re a part of, and the last part of the opening is you getting the “And introducing” credit.
• In Wing Commander III and IV, rounding out the All-Star Cast was "And Malcolm McDowell as Tolwyn". Also in IV, "With Tom Wilson as Maniac" was the first credit after the title, a promotion from the last game. In Wing Commander Prophecy, it was "With Ginger Lynn Allen As Chief Technician Rachael Coriolis, And Mark Hamill As Commodore Christopher Blair". Hamill, the lead in the two earlier games, had been first-billed in III, and Billed Above the Title in IV. Wilson, who also returned for Prophecy, remained second-billed, after the unknown who played the new lead, but lost his "with" designation.

Web Videos

• The Twilight Chronicles at one point credited Gen Borg with "and Gen Borg as Jacob" (she is in the credits as two different characters). As of Episode 8, Jamie Kathleen is credited with "And".
• This awesome 80s-retro Firefly intro sequence has "And Introducing Summer Glau as River Tam"
• This Buffy-style interpretation of the Doctor Who credits gives us "and Alex Kingston as River Song".
• Singer Olivia Thai in season one of Pretty Dudes and Power Ranger Yoshi Sudarso in season two.
• In the first Welcome to Night Vale live show, "Condos," the credits at the end with "And introducing Dylan Marron as Carlos." This was the first time that Marron voiced the character, after the show's co-writer Jeffery Cranor voiced him for a single episode, "The Phone Call." Cranor decided that he would give the part up since he, as a straight white man, felt uncomfortable playing a gay Latino man when the role could instead be given to a Latino or Hispanic man.
• The name of the Special Guest of certain React episodes is usually listed below the episode's title with a "Featuring" citation.
• Kickassia has "With Bhargav Dronamraju, Rob Walker, and Kevin Baugh as the President."
• Suburban Knights has "With Brian Heinz, Rob Walker, Bhargav Dronamraju, and Orlando Belisle Jr."
• To Boldly Flee has "With Elisa Hansen, Antonella Inserra, Jim Trokan, Orlando Belisle, and Rob Walker as The Executor."

Western Animation

• Animaniacs: Episodes featuring Rita and Runt end their cast list with "and Bernadette Peters as Rita"
• Archer: "And Jessica Walter"
• Carmen Sandiego has "And Finn Wolfhard as Player".
• The Cleveland Show has "And Seth MacFarlane" everytime any of his characters appear.
• Bojack Horseman "And Aaron Paul"
  • In-Universe, the Show Within a Show Philbert has "And Mr Peanutbutter as Fritz"
• The DuckTales (2017) Sitcom Homage Episode "Quack Pack!" gave Della an "Introducing" in the Special Edition Title as she was the only main character who wasn't part of the original 1987 series (or any animated work, for that matter).
• Family Guy: Parodied in "Family Guy Through the Years", where the 1956 version of the show has an announcer saying "And introducing Doodles Weaver as Brian the Dog!"
• Freakazoid!: "And Weena Mercatur as The Hopping Woman"
• Inside Job (2021): "And Brett Gelman"
• King of the Hill: "And Toby Huss"
• Recess: For the main cast credits (the main six kids and the three main teachers; the rest of the cast was listed separately as Unspecified Role Credits), Dabney Coleman (Principal Prickly) got the "And" most of the time. When Prickly only appeared in the background or didn't appear at all, the "and" went to Allyce Beasley (Miss Grotke). If Grotke didn't appear in the episode, had a background role, or it was a season one episode (before gaining Ascended Extra status), the "And" went to April Winchell (Miss Finster).
• The Simpsons: On the series, Harry Shearer gets the "And", while Marcia Wallace and Phil Hartman, despite being near-regulars (at least until their deaths), always get "Special Guest Star". In The Simpsons Movie, Shearer is credited last out of the regular show cast, Albert Brooks gets the "And", followed by assorted smaller roles, and Tom Hanks gets the final cast credit for his cameo.
• Sonic Boom: "and Bill Freiberger as Comedy Chimp and Lady Walrus", with the rest of the characters' voices apart from the main cast being listed under a generic "Additional Voices" heading. It probably helps that Freiberger is better known as the executive producer and head writer for the first two seasons.
• Before he quit the show, South Park always had the credit "and Isaac Hayes as Chef" after all the other actors were listed, even in episodes where he didn't appear. He's also the only one who has the character he plays listed, while all the other characters' voices are unspecified.
• Steven Universe:
  • "Maximum Capacity" has an in-universe example, with the credits for Li'l Butler ending with "and introducing Randy Anderson as Li'l Butler".
  • "Last One Out of Beach City" closes with a faux credits sequence, finishing with "and introducing Mystery Girl as herself".
• Toad Patrol: "and Long John Baldry as Mistle Toad".
• Many Winnie the Pooh projects through the years had the credit "and Paul Winchell as Tigger" until his retirement in the 1990s.

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