Talk:James Anderson (American actor)

Middle initial/period

Is the lack of a period on the middle initial accurate (as with, for example, Harry S Truman, despite the redirect to a page headed with an S carrying a period) or a typo? Is the initial itself legitimate? His IMDb page gives no indication of it, or any alternative. Perhaps Jim Anderson (actor), since he is said to have been billed that way sometimes, or James Anderson (American actor), would be better anyway. --Tbrittreid (talk) 22:32, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

I performed searches in the Social Security Death Index for "James Anderson", both on birth date and death date, but was unable to come up with a match that might have answered the question. It's possible that "James Anderson" was his screen name, but that his legal name was something different. He had an actress sister, Mary Anderson (apparently still living as of 2013), so it seems the only thing of which we can be reasonably certain is that his real surname was Anderson. It's also possible that he never had a Social Security number, or his heirs or executors never bothered notifying the Social Security Administration after his death. The credits in The Thing That Couldn't Die showed him as just "James Anderson", without a middle initial. I also got a hit at Pinterest.com with a photo borrowed from NNDB.com, indicating his full name was "James Kyle Anderson", but no documentation on how the full name was obtained. The NNDB.com entry has a filmography, and perhaps additional clues might be found in the credits of those films. The Find-A-Grave site didn't yield any results. — Quicksilver^{T @} 17:23, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

NNDB is deprecated as a source (WP:NNDB), so its content should not be relied upon. Find-A-Grave would not be much help even if you found something there because much of its content is WP:USERGENERATED. Eddie Blick (talk) 21:49, 23 September 2021 (UTC)