In the movie they use a CG version of Arnold based on what he looked like in the original Terminator movie. According to the documentary on the disc they used molds taken of him back in the early 1980's.

According to the link below Arnold approved the CG verson of himself to appear in the film as a Terminator.

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The figure appears in "Terminator Salvation" as a living, breathing actor.

So I guess the question is, does this qualify as an uncredited cameo or is just a visual effect?


This also could start popping up in more and more films in the future as they use CGI to create characters. We have credited actors who did CGI characters before as well as manipulated real life people in films such as Forest Gump.



Thoughts?

Damn good question and one I would like get an answer to from the ONLY person who matters (Ken). Can't wait to read the guaranteed 20 pages of battle

No more than if his portrait appeared on the wall.

On this, I have no real opinion. I can see multiple sides to this argument. It was certainly entertaining to see the image of Ahrold in the film, I alm also relatively certain they had to get clearance from the Governor to include his image. Such things do happen and may be worthy of noting in some form or other, for example R2-D2 makes an appearance in Star Trek...(uncredited) of course.

While I have no real opinion, BUT these are far more interesting than bunch of random Puppeteers which are not part of a cast list, but some people argue that they have value. and claim they are "performers".

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I have to agree with Hal on this one. If an actor himself did not partake, even if it's just walking by in the background, then I wouldn't credit him.

eg: in many a Marvel movie, Stan Lee is seen either saying one line or just passing by an since it's the man himself, I think it warrants an 'uncredited' cast entry. CG versions of actors, I don't think so.

The question is: Would you also credit Duffy Duck, Tweety, Nemo or any other animated character?
Because that's what we have here, the fact that in this case the animation looks like a much younger version of an existing person doesn't make it the real person.

In The Last Action Hero Sylvester Stallone's image is used on the Terminator poster. It's the same deal with the Arnie image being used in salvation.

So he don't get credited.

It's not exactly the same as the poster situation though. That's a picture. This was a moving CGI generated character for the film. I'm not inclined to enter the actor for the online database, but when I actually buy the film (I still have a massive hate on for Christian Bale after learning what a douche nozzel he was) I'll probably enter Arnold in my local.