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Improve actor seen page

The Seen page for actors is currently really impractical to use. If my main purpose is to easily see a list of movies and TV Series an actor played in, and I visit the Seen page, I need to scroll through a potentially very long list, and detect the few entries I've actually seen. For example, Emma Thompson's page has 400+ entries and I've seen only 5, and to find out which ones, I need to scroll through the entire 400+ list to find out what I'm actually interested in. Just like there is a checkbox to "Hide titles I've seen", perhaps there could be an option to only show titles I've seen. Moreover, a checkbox is an awkward control to regulate this, I would suggest having buttons that perform these functions instead. In addition, as another idea suggested, I also believe the seen page would benefit from being able to sort the items. Alphabetically and chronologically are both useful. Being able to sort by seen state would be another way to enable the user to group the titles they've seen or those they've not seen. At any rate, currently the titles seem to be sorted randomly by default, which is confusing and not useful for any use case. Being able to choose only one title type and one role type seems like an unnecessary limitation. Perhaps the dropdown lists could be replaced by lists of checkboxes, so that the user could select a combination of, say, "Actor" and "Self", rather than just one at a time. Finally, I find that including episodes of TV series together with movies adds a lot of clutter to the page. An alternative would be: each series is listed once, and under that, indented, is a list of all episodes that the actor in question has been in, sorted in the same way as the outer list.

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3 years ago

Hi Col, thank you for your response. I appreciate you showing me how what I want can be done using the IMDB advanced search and via the "All topics" menu. I was aware of some of this, but not all. I hope you understand and agree that a lot of this information, though available, would be useful to have more accessible, possibly even included in the main actor page by default (the reason I started thinking about this, after all, is that the IMDB Android app displays a "You know them from" section in each actor page by default). So I hope that the devs will get around to update the seen page and make it more prominently accessible from the actor page, or even include some of its information by default. Thanks for the help.

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2 years ago

On the “seen” page for titles and actors such as https://www.imdb.com/seen/tt0821359/ there is a button to “hide titles I’ve seen.” It would be useful to have a button to do the opposite, that is, show only what HAS been seen from the list. I often come to IMDb to see where I’ve seen an actor before, and this button would really help. (For anyone reading this who doesn't know, if you go to the URL of an actor or title, etc. and replace the word "name" or "title" with "seen" you can mark which items you've seen.) Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Suggestion for "seen" page