# Oddest cameo in a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213 "2016-12-20T06:35:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/141 "2018-11-15T02:03:15Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Yul Brynner in drag, singing seductively to Roman Polanski at a bar in _The Magic Christian_ (1969). :eek: I’ve always wanted to see this, but maybe not anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/142 "2018-11-15T02:51:28Z")
Ben Carson played himself, sort of, in a comedy movie called _Stuck on You_. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/143 "2018-11-15T03:17:45Z")
John Cleese as the sheriff in Silverado: “Today, my jurisdiction ends here!” Dan Aykroyd as a code breaker in Pearl Harbor Gene Hackman as the Blind Monk in Young Frankenstein ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/144 "2018-11-15T04:57:14Z")
Dan Aykroyd as a fussy British airline official in _Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_: [Dan Aykroyd in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaayfLtwYw) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/145 "2018-11-15T05:20:49Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Steve Martin’s, “The Man With Two Brains,” has an odd cameo by Merv Griffin; I dunno why, it’s not all that funny or interesting. It was fantastic ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/146 "2018-11-15T05:23:15Z")
In “Elvis Has Left the Building,” Tom Hanks has a cameo as a dead guy. All you see is about 1 1/2 second of a head in a mailbox. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8ZzbnvQGCG0/hqdefault.jpg "Elvis Has Left the Building - 10. "Mailbox Head"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZzbnvQGCG0) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/147 "2018-11-15T10:05:59Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > _Airplane!_ has a cameo of Howard Jarvis sitting in a cab waiting for the driver (Hays) to come back. > > Howard Jarvis was the leader of the infamous Prop 13 campaign in California. > > That’s it. That was all he was known for. Not ALL. He was also the founder and namesake of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which some people consider to be an evil organization. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/148 "2018-11-15T19:09:02Z")
Maybe not the oddest but one of the weirdest was Bob Keeshan playing himself in _The Stupids_. It makes a bit more sense if you know that the main plot is Mr. Stupid trying to prove that Mr. Keeshan is the head of some vast conspiracy. I thought it was pretty strange that they managed to get Christopher Lloyd to appear on _The Simpsons_ and all he does is his Jim Ignatosky imitation. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/149 "2018-11-15T23:22:28Z")
That wasn’t that much more surprising than Christopher Lloyd appearing on _The Big Bang Theory_ as a character somewhat like his character on _Taxi_. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/150 "2018-11-16T02:56:48Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I should have remembered Robert Patrick, who like Stone and Bogart was a walk-by. Other than his multi-episode role in Sopranos, Patrick seems to have spent a lot of his career reprising the T-1000 character for joke/shock value. You know typecasting is rough when your IMDB credit list is filled with non-stop work and you’ve done several hundred episodes of prime time TV in the main cast, yet most people think all you do is reprise your most famous role from 25 years ago. When this was posted Patrick was in the middle of a 93 episode run of Scorpion, which was not that long after 69 episodes on The Unit, and he had 4 other double digit episode runs on other shows, not counting his 40 episodes on the X-Files. Plus, he’s had about 35 film roles in the past 15 years. I didn’t even know about his 3 appearances on The Sopranos. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Burly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frank_burly/32/24_2.png) [@Frank\_Burly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_Burly)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/151 "2018-11-16T04:50:42Z")
Kristen Wiig in Mother, where she makes a 30 second appearance to shoot people in the head. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/152 "2018-11-16T06:33:47Z")
Believe it or not, Tom Cruise was in Young Guns… and he died! ---
**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 16, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/153 "2018-11-16T10:43:33Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > When this was posted Patrick was in the middle of a 93 episode run of Scorpion To be fair, I’m trying very hard to forget the utter Walter wankfest that is _Scorpion_. Also: what, no references to the cameos by Matt Damon, Sam Neill and Hemsworth the Lesser in _Thor: Ragnarok_? Comedy freaking gold, right there. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/154 "2018-11-16T15:43:29Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Believe it or not, Tom Cruise was in Young Guns… and he died! There was also Cruise’s cameo in the second Austin Powers movie, spoofing his MI antics. (Apologies if this one has been mentioned upthread.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/155 "2018-11-16T17:53:08Z")
Is Cruise’s almost-unrecognizable role as a bigshot Hollywood producer in \*Tropic Thunder \*small enough to be considered a cameo?: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6Wr-S8KKs) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/156 "2018-11-16T18:30:15Z")
Katie Couric played a prison guard in Austin Powers Goldmember ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/157 "2018-11-16T19:05:35Z")
Matt Damon’s cameo in [_Eurotrip_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356150/) singing “[Scotty Doesn’t Know](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vyj1C8ogtE)” may be the most famous scene from this movie ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/158 "2018-11-16T19:51:45Z")
Rather long onscreen time to be called a “cameo” but what in the hell was Dick Cavett doing in **Beetlejuice**? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213.md?page=7)