It sounds like he might have drawn on this role for the lead in Hardcore. (In which he played a very straight midwestern furniture factory owner searching for his daughter in the sleaze of the LA porn industry.)
:dubious: I don’t consider that to be a cameo.
I think you mean Hot Fuzz, as a crime scene investigator. She was Simon Pegg’s ex-girlfriend.
Sting had a cameo in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as a soldier. I expected he was going to have some kind of glamorous role because he was such a big sex symbol at the time. Instead, he only had one line, and then some bureaucrat-in-charge ordered him to be executed for being too heroic. “Can’t have everybody thinking they can disrupt the nature of things.”
Shakes the Clown, starring Bobcat Goldthwait as the titular clown, opens with him waking up in his skanky girlfriend’s bathroom, who turned out to be Florence Henderson. LaWanda Page (Aunt Esther from Sanford & Son) and Milton Berle also had cameos as clown barflies.
•Colonel Sanders, as himself, in 1970’s biker/crime drivein film, Hell’s Bloody Devils.
(Quite logically, as it turned out—KFC was into providing free catering for such films, as long as they got featured onscreen. Very effective, low-cost advertising.)
•Glenn Close in 1991’s Hook, as a pirate. A bearded, male pirate.
Colonel Sanders also had a cameo in the 1967 Jerry Lewis film The Big Mouth. They promoted it at KFC outlets with a picture of Jerry mugging next to the Colonel
Dean Martin and Groucho Marx(!!!) both have cameos in Soupy Sales’ forgettable* 1966 comedy Bird Do It
- Even Sales later said he didn’t like it.
Mel Blanc as (the voice of) Father McKenzie in Strange Brew always puzzled me.
Alfred E. Neuman had a cameo in a Peanuts comic strip.
These days, with Pastis and Tatulli and others sort of openly brawling, parodies, cameos and pastiches are almost common. Even tired old Parker and Hart have been dabbling in the game lately.
Spies Like Us is loaded with cameos, most of them well-known directors: Sam Raimi, the Coen Brothers, Michael Apted, Terry Gilliam, , Martin Brest, Costa-Gavras, Bob Swaim and Larry Cohen.
Also in it were Frank Oz, B.B. King, Ray Harryhausen and (of course) Bob Hope.
I keep wanting to read the thread title as Oldest cameo in a movie.
Carry on.
Count Basie and his band in the middle of the desert in Blazing Saddles
And of course, [reverent tone]Randolph Scott![/rt]
Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as dating game contestants in **Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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Possibly Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation?
Ray Harryhausen and Terry Moore both had cameos in the Disney remake of Mighty Joe Young
Cyril Lord? I remember him. A carpet salesman from the UK in the '60s.
Gorilla is one of my favourite albums, for what its worth.
Neat. Somebody asked me that once and the only thing I could think of was the old Bob Hope movies with cameos by Bing Crosby.
I was thinking of author Elinor’s Glyn’s appearance in It just to explain what “It” was and why Clara Bow had It–but that wasn’t until the 1920s. Two presidents cameoing in the 1910s has that beat.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote “Mother Night” so it’s not surpring he’d be offered a cameo spot in the movie. His appearance in “Back to School” was a surprise, though. He got the role because he was a neighbor of Rodney Dangerfield. So was spy novelist Robert Ludlum, who got a shout out in that same movie.
That’s not odd, is it? It’s the point of the joke.
Peter Jackson, the director, also cameos in Hot Fuzz. Martin Freeman appears very, very briefly as well. They would go on to make The Hobbit series later.
What a world.