Truman Capote in Annie Hall.
The Greatest Story Ever Told had John Wayne pop up at the end of the movie as a Roman centurion. Imagine a centurion doing his very best John Wayne imitation saying, “Truly, this man was the son of God.”
The Story of Mankind (which was pretty odd by itself, even without celebrity cameos) had Groucho Marks as Peter Minuit (the guy who [DEL]stole[/DEL] bought Manhattan Island from the natives,) Harpo as Sir Isaac Newton:eek: and Chico as a monk.
The Story of Mankind has some of the weirdest casting and cameos.
Peter Lorre as Nero
Hedy Lamarr as Joan of Arc
Virginia Mayo as Cleopatra
John Carradine as Khufu
Edward Everett Horton (!) as Sir Walter Raleigh
Franis X. Bushman as Moses*
Add the non-cameo roles of Ronald Colman as The Spirit of Man and Vincent Price as Mr. Scratch (The Devil – OK, this one makes sense), and you’ve got one bizarre film.
Chico’s character, by the way, was there to talk to Christopher Columbus.
*well, heck, he’d already been in the silent Ben Hur, although as the antagonist. He’s like the proto-Charlton Heston.
…including the Three Stooges as firemen at the airport. Onscreen for about five seconds, with “Three Blind Mice” musical sting.
He also shows up post-closing credits in Trail of the Screaming Forehead, having just missed that particular alien invasion.
In the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing, Albert Finney, who plays Leo the mob boss, also turns up, in drag, as a middle-aged matron in the lady’s room fight between Tom Reagan and Verna.
The very brief cameos by Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Rodney Dangerfield in “Casper” were pretty startling.
“Last Action Hero” had very brief cameos by Sharon Stone and Humphrey Bogart.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In Rodney Dangerfield’s “Back to School.”
Not to mention Robert Patrick as the T-1000
And Tina Turner as the Mayor of Los Angeles (having played the Mayor of the Apocalyptic Bartertown in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)
And Joan Plowright (Lawrence Olivier’s widow) as a teacher showing his “Hamlet” to kids, while mentioning that he was in “Clash of the Titans”
F. Murray Abraham was in it, too (“Stop him! He Killed Mozart!”), but his part is too big to be called a “cameo”
There’s a whole host of cameos in that film
Sam Jaffee (Dr. Zorba in Ben Casey) appears for a moment–as a doctor, of course–in an episode of *The Donna Reed Show. *
Vonnegut also appeared in the movie version of his Mother Night, as a man walking toward Nick Nolte.
Danny Glover as the masked robber in* Maverick.*
My favorite in that movie is Marshall McLuhan. (Jeff Goldblum also has a tiny part as a party guest, but that’s more of a “before they were famous” thing. Several like that. But his is the oddest of that ilk, IMHO.)
Near the end of the Icelandic film Children of Nature, Bruno Ganz shows up as the angel Damiel from the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire. Totally out of left field though not out of place given the somewhat magical nature of the movie.
Johnny Carson did a cameo as a conductor on a train in Eastern Europe in one Max Smart episode. It was just a complete surprise.
Director George Stevens instructed John to “say it with awe!” In the next take, Wayne said “Aw, truly this man was the Son of God.” :smack:
In the ***Batman ***TV series, photos of producers William Dozier and Howie Horwitz were at the top of the Batcomputer’s Rogues’ Gallery.
Also, Lemmy in Airheads.
“I played D&D too!”
Speaking of the Three Stooges, Moe Howard has a cameo as Man in the Audience in the 1973 horror movie Doctor Death, Seeker of Souls
I’m still amazed that Ron Howard showed up for a cameo in Bruce Kimmel’s The First Nudie Musical. Maybe it’s because Happy Days sometime guest Cindy Williams was one of the stars.
Ooh, do voice actors count? Because Ellen McLain fired up her GLaDOS voice for the (not at all evil) AI in Pacific Rim.