# Film Cameos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831 "2003-11-07T04:20:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/21 "2003-11-08T04:15:16Z")
Didn’t Harrison Ford have an uncredited cameo in _Jimmy Hollywood_? I seem to recall a cameo as the credits were rolling. He was reading for a role in the film. And what about Robin Williams in _Shakes the Clown_? ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/22 "2003-11-08T04:40:19Z")
What about Robin William’s voice in **A.I** as the animated professor? He gets around doesn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Babbington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mr.Babbington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Babbington)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/23 "2003-11-08T05:30:15Z")
Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver Robert Duvall in The Conversation Samuel L. Jackson in Out of Sight. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/24 "2003-11-08T08:12:10Z")
Of all Hitchcock’s cameos, I think my favorite was Life Boat. Since the movie mostly took place in a small boat and there wasn’t a lot of extras, he shows up as the before and after picture in a weight loss ad. He had lost a significant amount of weight right before this picture was filmed. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/25 "2003-11-08T11:39:59Z")
From **The Great Muppet Caper** : Peter Ustinov: “What are you doing here?!” Oscar The Grouch: “A very brief cameo.” Peter Ustinov: “Me too.” ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/26 "2003-11-08T11:50:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DaPearl \* > \*\*Gene Hackman in _Young Frankenstein_. Best cameo ever. \*\* “Cigars!” ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/27 "2003-11-08T18:47:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Christian Slater waking up James Kirk in _Star Trek VI_. > \*\* Christian Slater woke up Captain Sulu. ---
**Author:** ![Marc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Marc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/28 "2003-11-08T22:00:13Z")
The Clash as Street Scum in The King Of Comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/29 "2003-11-08T22:38:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Babbington \* > \*\*Samuel L. Jackson in Out of Sight. \*\* Where did this happen? What scene? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/30 "2003-11-08T22:53:09Z")
David Bowie in _Yellowbeard_ as The Shark. Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy (as their _Trading Places_ characters Mortimer and Randolph Duke) in _Coming to America_. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/31 "2003-11-08T23:04:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cholo \* > \*\*What about Robin William’s voice in **A.I** as the animated professor? > > He gets around doesn’t he? \*\* He does indeed. Have you looked at his [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/) page? He’s got a series of uncredited and pseudonymous appearances (including as “Sudy Nim”) throughout his career, including the startling uncredited appearance as Andy Kaufman’s grandmother in 1979. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/32 "2003-11-09T01:04:15Z")
Sly Stalone makes an uncredited cameo in Staying Alive The greatest (&saddest) 3 Stooges cameo ever IMO was Curly Howard appearing as the sleeping train passanger in the sort Hold that Lion. Shemp rejoins the Stooges (for the first time since they became movie-famous) and Curly is post-stroke and in his last Stooge film. IIRC he could not walk or talk at the time but he was there performing. Bittersweet/sad cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/33 "2003-11-09T12:12:01Z")
Francois Truffaut in _E.T._ ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/34 "2003-11-09T16:04:23Z")
Samuel L. Jackson in Kill Bill. He was the organist at the wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/35 "2003-11-09T17:51:49Z")
**Menocchio** , that’s in _Vol 2_, which isn’t out yet. According to [www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/), he doesn’t appear in volume 1. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/36 "2003-11-09T22:01:38Z")
Chuck Yeager, the man who broke the sound barrier in the X-1, played a bartender in a couple of scenes in _The Right Stuff_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/37 "2003-11-09T22:23:32Z")
> [@](#): > > _jehovah68 says:_ Francois Truffaut in E.T. Truffaut was in **Close Encounters** , not _E.T._, and it was virtually a starring role, not a cameo. > [@](#): > > _Baker says:_ Walter Matthau appeared uncredited in two scenes, as a drunk, in Earthquake. Actually, he was credited (sort of), as Walter Matuschanskayasky ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/38 "2003-11-10T01:01:17Z")
There is a bizarre gem of a movie called _The Magic Christian_ with Peter Sellers and one of the Beatles. There is a cameo in the movie that just knocks me out but to give it away would spoil it. The movie is worth seeing for its own sake. But the movie with surprise appearances to beat anything I’ve ever seen is _The List of Adrian Messenger._ ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/39 "2003-11-10T05:26:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ArchiveGuy \* > \*\*Truffaut was in **Close Encounters** , not _E.T._, and it was virtually a starring role, not a cameo.Actually, he was credited (sort of), as Walter Matuschanskayasky \*\* :smack: if he didn’t use his own name, wouldn’t that qualify as a cameo? ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831/40 "2003-11-10T06:44:05Z")
The Mel Gibson flick **Maverick** has a whole slew of cameos as the passengers of the casino-riverboat at the end of the film. Mostly country-western musicians (with the oddly notable exception of Alice Cooper. Yeah, that Alice Cooper), with a fair number of older western movie and tv stars and stuntmen. Bruce Campbell (the chin) has a cameo at the end of **Darkman**. The studio nixed him as the original lead, in favor of Liam Neeson, claiming Campbell couldn’t pull off the serious dramatic leading role. (Did they _read_ the shooting script? Serious drama?) He also turned up in another Raimi flick as the ring announcer in **Spider-Man**. Don’t recall if that one was credited, or not. **Gyrate** ’s post has caused me to go diggin’ for my old videotape of **Yellowbeard** , now… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-cameos/211831.md?page=3)