Can we add just year of birth/death somehow?

MAT13 wrote 4 years ago: 1

For older actors sometimes exact date of birth or death may not be known but only a year. Without us being able to add the unknown date the person's age will be counted indefinitely.

For example, for Helene Santley here...

https://www.tvmaze.com/people/315236/helene-santley

...only year and month of date are known (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1897285/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm) but the engine doesn't support this.

Is there a work around this somehow to leave month or day in such cases? I tried adding just 1986-06 or just 1986 but the engine reported this as an invalid date. Do we just select first in the known month or year to force-enter it or just leave it unknown indefinitely?

Aidan wrote 4 years ago: 1

Wkikipedia have her exact death date. Google does too on their main search result page.

tnt wrote 4 years ago: 1

@MAT13 wrote:

Is there a work around this somehow to leave month or day in such cases?

No, there's not, unfortunately. It was suggested a few times, but for a time being you can add only a full date.

MAT13 wrote 4 years ago: 1

@Aidan wrote:
Wkikipedia have her exact death date. Google does too on their main search result page.

No, that is different actress. I've seen her too. They have different last name. Stanley and Santley. They both appear in separate Perry Mason but in different seasons and episodes.

Helene Santley - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1897285/

Helene Stanley - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0822492/

I've watched Episode 11 today and captured her photo, and you can see it's a different person...

https://www.tvmaze.com/images/798414/receptionist-image-798414