List of Nonhuman "actors"
IMDB has a number of non-humans listed as actors, while it does have animals there is at least some sense to that, for now, I am focusing on those that are more inanimate objects.
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MacInTalk was born in 1984 in California, USA. He is an actor, known for WALL·E (2008), Swingers (1996) and Atop the Fourth Wall (2008).Text to voice program- Actor
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Herbie the Love Bug is a beloved 1963 Volkswagen Beetle appearing in several Disney & non-Disney projects, both as itself & as several minor roles.
Herbie received his first on-screen credit in the 1969 hit 'The Love Bug'. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco, 'The Love Bug' featured Herbie saving the day as he fueled a down-on-his-luck race car driver's quest for victory and romance. Initially unmarked and all white, Herbie was emblazoned with his famous number '53' to compete in the races. 'The Love Bug' was one of the top-grossing films of 1969.
Herbie then took the title role in 'Herbie Rides Again' (1974), 'Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo' (1977) and 'Herbie Goes Bananas' (1980). He also had a television career, with the short-lived TV series 'Herbie The Love Bug' (1982), the 1997 made-for-TV film 'The Love Bug' (1997), and "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005). Along the way, he inspired many imitators and collected die-hard fans.
Herbie got his name from a Buddy Hackett comedy routine. In his Las Vegas stage show, Hackett joked about a snow bunny who only dates guys named Herbie. Herbie's number 53 came from baseball player Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Producer Bill Walsh was a fan, and used his jersey number on Herbie. Herbie's official factory color is Pearlweiss (pearl white) which is a creamy, non-metallic white.
Oddly, Herbie is never referred to as a Volkswagen or a Beetle in the first film. He is called 'the Douglas Special' or 'the little car'. All of the Volkswagen branding was removed from the car as well. However, Volkswagen was on board for the second film and beyond, and the name and branding returned.Volkswagen Beetle- Otto is one of the most iconic movie objects of all time, not only recognized by audiences around the world for his only film performance in the massive hit Airplane! (1980), but he also has a profile page on IMDb along with other film cultural icons like Volleyball, Wilson the and Robby the Robot. Otto was an inflatable balloon born in 1979, created and conceived by three fathers, the ZAZ trio of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker. They specifically wrote a part for him as an airplane's autopilot in this parody of plane disaster films, which became a spectacular hit that eventually got a sequel made in 1982 - in which Otto didn't appear. His charismatic and positive loving character always smiling captured audiences' attention from the get-go, turning him into one of the most remarkable icons of the 1980's.
Little is known about his fate and other possible projects, except that he disintegrated in Jerry Zucker's garage house some years after his famous film role.Inflatable - Robby was the brainchild of, and designed by industrial designer, Japanese-American engineer Robert Kinoshita. It was built in mid-1955 by the MGM prop department, at a reported cost of $125,000, to 'star' in the epic science fiction classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and its B-movie followup The Invisible Boy (1957) a year later. Robby the Robot has become one of the most popular robot icons in the history of movies and media, as recognizable as George Lucas' erstwhile comedy team of R2-D2 and C-3PO who 'co-starred' in his epic sci-fi fantasy Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).Robot
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'Alan Smithee' is a common pseudonym for directors whose film was clearly taken away from her/him and recut heavily against her/his wishes in ways that completely altered the film.
The Directors Guild contract generally does not permit a director to remove her/his name from films. The Directors Guild has been striving for decades to establish the director as the "author" of a film, and part of getting the credit for the successes is taking the blame for the failures. The only exceptions they make are cases in which a film was clearly taken away from a director and recut heavily against her/his wishes in ways that completely altered the film. Directors are required to appeal to the Guild in such cases. If the appeal is successful, their name is replaced by Alan Smithee. So if you notice a film directed by Alan Smithee, it is certain it is not what its director intended, and likely that it is not any good.Not exactly an inanimate object, but a special case none the less.- Robot
- The original Golden Hinde was the flagship of Sir Francis Drake, used during Drake's circumnavigation of the world. The ship had originally been called the Pelican, but as the ship was to enter the Straits of Magellan, Drake ordered that the ship be renamed in honor of his patron Sir Christopher Hatton (the golden hind was a feature of Hatton's family heraldry). She was originally built circa 1577, and was under sail until 1580, when she returned (with barely more than half her original crew still alive). Drake's voyage enriched both him and Queen Elizabeth (although the Spanish would complain that the enrichment was more or less at their expense) and the ship's voyage made Drake a household name in England.
The ship, as with most vessels of the time, was broken up and essentially cannibalized for other ships' use after her voyage had ended. 400 years later, in 1973, at Appledore, in North Devon, a replica was hand-crafted, using the traditional building methods to recreate the ship. She has retraced the round-the-world voyage of the original, and was in San Francisco to celebrate the anniversary of Drake's claiming of California for Queen Elizabth. This ship has been used in three films: 1976's Swashbuckler (for which she received an on screen credit), the 1979 TV miniseries Shogun, and the 1979 film Drake's Venture. She still sails, and has logged more than five times the mileage of the original, although recently she has been berthed at London and is used as a museum ship.Ship - Actress
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Miss Piggy is known for The Muppets (2011), The Muppets Thought of the Week (2017) and Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten (1969).Pig Muppet- Actor
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Kermit the Frog is known for Atop the Fourth Wall (2008), Paul Williams: Still Alive (2011) and A Capitol Fourth (1980).Frog Muppet- Fozzie Bear is known for Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten (1969), Big City Greens (2018) and @midnight (2013).Bear Muppet
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Xtranormal is known for iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo (2010), Lutheran Satire (2011) and Sleeping with Charlie Kaufman (2010).Speech and video creation software