J.R.R. Tolkien was a woman?
This is really stretching it, but I’ll mention it anyway:
There was an absolutely completely dreadful almost unwatchable adaptation of Breakfast of Championsa few years ago. If you’ve read the book then you know that Kurt Vonnegut is a major character in the story- essentially he’s God. In the movie they got rid of most of Kurt’s “scenes” and lines and scattered around the rest of his dialogue and narration, so he’s not really a character, unless you count it as basically a PowerPoint of the book.
Anyway, Kurt Vonnegut appears as the director of a commercial for Dwayne Hoover’s Pontiac Dealership. (He also appears in Mother Night in which he wasn’t a character, though Howard Campbell [the main character] is a supporting character in both the novel and the movie versions of Slaughterhouse 5 in which Kurt does appear, so if you want to stretch it to the point of the filament thin you could make an argument.)
More to the OP:
Ghosts of Mississippi is a movie about the conviction of Byron de la Beckwith, the murderer of Medgar Evers, in 1994 (31 years after the murder). The children of Medgar Evers are portrayed as young kids in the flashback scenes and by themselves in the 1994 scenes. Bobby Delaughter, Myrlie Evers (Medgar’s real life widow played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film), Delmar Dennis (KKK member turned FBI informant who testified in the Beckwith trial and numerous others), and several other members of the Evers, and DeLaughter families and or associated with the case (detectives, court reporters, etc.) appear in courtroom shots, parade scenes, and as extras in the courthouse (it was filmed on location).
Yep, and had a lifelong lesbian affair with C(laudia) S(uzanne) Lewis.
Author James Dickey played the Sherrif in the movie of his novel Deliverance.
Several of the people who were portrayed by actors in the movie *Searching for Bobby Fischer *appear in the movie (Bobby Fischer is NOT one of them).
It was a three-way with T.S. Eliot.
In addition to his role in Garp (which I’d forgotten) John Irving also played the train conductor in The Cider House Rules, for which he wrote the screenplay from his novel.
I watched that for the first time on Hulu a few weeks ago; I don’t think the character of Louie appeared in any of the Taxi scenes.
Who was also a furbie with a cat fetish.
A nice twist on the O.P.'s scenario would be the original Broadway production of Arsenic and Old Lace. The villain of the play, Jonathon Brewster, becomes extremely violent whenever anyone points out his resemblance to Boris Karloff (the result of a botched face alteration procedure performed by a hungover plastic surgeon). Naturally, the role of Jonathon was played by…Boris Karloff.
This is the one I was going to mention but for a different reason. Bob Zmuda, played by Paul Giamatti, played a producer of Fridays.
Who later in life found her Sapphic soulmate, e e cummings.
Trivia: the actor and the reference were replaced with Bela Lugosi for the national tour. (In the last Broadway revival [1980s] it was Jonathan Frid of Dark Shadows fame, later replaced by Abe Vigoda, but the Karloff references were kept [and the aunts were played by Marion “Mrs. Cunningham” Ross and Jean “Dingbat” Stapleton).
Blimey - you lot were busy while I was asleep!
Who, incidentally, had a passionate collegiate romance with E(loise) B(elinda) White.
OK, OK. I know that initials don’t always signify a female author, but it is a well known trick used by female authors to disguise their gender.
Mary Higgins Clark played a reporter in the TV movie adapted from her book “Where are the Children?”
In “Call Me Anna,” based on her autobio, Patty Duke played herself as an adult, but two other actors played her as a child and teenager (and Matthew Perry played Desi Arnez Jr.!)
That’s just what J(ohn) K(enneth) Rowling wants you to think.
Frank Abagnale had a brief cameo as the cop that takes his character into custody near the movie’s end in Catch Me if you Can.
In the Little Rascals movie, one of the kid’s parents was played by the actor who played the kid in the original series. I think it was Alfalfa, but I won’t swear to it. Does that count?
Further trivia: Boris Karloff was unable to make an appearance as Jonathon in the movie version of Arsenic and Old Lace because of his commitment to the Broadway production, which was still running. The part was played instead by Raymond Massey, who looked far more like Abraham Lincoln’s evil twin than like Karloff. Not to say he didn’t do a fantastic job.
Yeah, but when men write books they should use their real names, like George Sand.