I have an example database, it contains tables for Movies, People and Credits. The Movie table contains a Title and an Id. The People table contains a Name and an Id. The Credits table relates Movies to the People that worked on those Movies, in a particular role. The table looks like this:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Credits] (
    [Id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    [PersonId]  [int] NOT NULL FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES People(Id),
    [MovieId]  [int] NOT NULL  FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Movies(Id),
    [Role]  [char] (1) NULL

In this simple example, the [Role] column is a single character, by my convention either 'A' to indicate the person was an actor on that particular movie, or 'D' for director.

I'd like to perform a query on a particular person that returns the person's name, plus a list of all the movies the person has worked on, and the roles in those movies.

If I were to serialize it to json, it might look like this:

{
  "name" : "Clint Eastwood",
  "movies" : [
     { "title": "Unforgiven",        "roles": ["actor", "director"] },
     { "title": "Sands of Iwo Jima", "roles": ["director"] },
     { "title": "Dirty Harry",       "roles": ["actor"] },
     ...
  ]
}

How can I write a LINQ-to-SQL query that shapes the output like that?

I'm having trouble doing it efficiently.

if I use this query:

  int personId = 10007;
  var persons =
      from p in db.People
      where p.Id == personId
      select new
      {
          name   = p.Name,
          movies =
                (from m in db.Movies
                 join c in db.Credits on m.Id equals c.MovieId
                 where (c.PersonId == personId)
                 select new {
                         title = m.Title,
                         role = (c.Role=="D"?"director":"actor")
                 })
      };

I get something like this:

{
  "name" : "Clint Eastwood",
  "movies" : [
     { "title": "Unforgiven",        "role": "actor" },
     { "title": "Unforgiven",        "role": "director" },
     { "title": "Sands of Iwo Jima", "role": "director" },
     { "title": "Dirty Harry",       "role": "actor" },
     ...
  ]
}

...but as you can see there's a duplicate of each movie for which Eastwood played multiple roles.

How can I shape the output the way I want?