Two out of the three stooges make a very brief cameo appearance in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”
Actually, Kelsey Grammer had a bit role as the Captain Batesman of the starship Bozeman that kept crashing into the Enterprise over and over in Cause And Effect. He had at least three or four minutes of camera time.
In the film 2010 , Arthur C Clarke is sitting on a bench in front of the White House. Some pan and scan TV versions cut him out but he there in the widescreen.
Rather, his ship, the Bozeman, had about 3-4 minutes of camera time. It wasn’t until the very end, when the Enterprise-D figured a way out of the time loop that they were able to then hail the Bozeman and talk to Capt. Morgan Bateson directly. It was more like 30 seconds.
As does practically everyone else alive in Hollywood at the time.
Then there was ST6 (I think it was 6) where Christian Slater had one of those 30 second appearances.
Kevin Smith, “Reaper” pilot.
“I’m Jewish, you jerk!”
Yes. He was the yeoman who woke up Capt. Sulu for some reason or other.
Googling about it, its somewhat interesting how that happened (at least I thought it was interesting). Apparently his mom was in charge of casting the movie, and he was a big fan of Star Trek, so he basically begged his mom to let him have a small part.
He as the US President and Stanley Kubrick as the Soviet premiere are on the cover of (IIRC) Time, also.
There’s a similar cameo in the movie version of Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas - during Hunter Thompsons’ (played by Johnny Depp) flashback to seeing the Jefferson Airplane at the Matrix. Thompson (played by Depp) is meandering through the club, monologuing, when suddenly he passes a man seated by himself at a table, does a double-take and “says” (in voiceover) “Whoa! There I am!” He immediately continues on with his monologue and walks away. Of course, the man at the table was the real Thompson.
And as for the OP’s question about Frasier - During the scenes in which Frasier in on air and talking to call-in listeners, the voices of the people calling in are all celebrity cameos. Lily Tomlin, Burt Reynolds, Rufus Wainwright, Zsa Zsa Gabor, James Woods and I think even Ray Romano were “callers” sometime or other on the show.
Michael Dukakis playing himself with a minor injury went into the emergency room in St Elsewhere during an episode’s opening teaser.
This is from memory so I’m sure I’ve got some details wrong, but there is an episode of “The Office” where Michael is in New York. He is in the area near Rockefeller Center looking out for famous people, and while his back is turned Conan O’Brien walks right past him.
Wasn’t there something similar with Lorne Michaels?
On the episode of Ellen where Ellen DeGeneris’ character came out, I thought I saw Jorja Fox in the background when Ellen’s character made her announcement. I never went back to check, but as Jorja Fox was playing a gay character on ER at the time, it would have made sense.