# Strange actor cameos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411 "2010-12-16T20:01:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/21 "2010-12-16T21:15:56Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Rocky Marciano had a brief (and uncredited) cameo in an episode of “Combat!” His face fills the screen, and he has one line. That’s it. There is also an episode “Glow against the sky” with baseball player Warren Spahn as a German soldier right before the opening credits. For a German-American, Spahn doesn’t look like a German. > **[Glow Against the Sky](http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/episodes/glow_against_the_sky.html)** > > Review of COMBAT episode 'Glow Against the Sky.' > Billy is wounded, and the squad is trapped in a German-occupied town. Features > cameo appearance of Warren Spahn. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/22 "2010-12-16T21:16:18Z")
> [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](#): > > Other oldies for me include Sean Connery popping up as King Richard in Costner’s version of _Robin Hood_,… In _Time Bandits_, Kevin travels back to the time of Agamemnon, and when we first see him, he’s in armor and a full helmet. I read somewhere that Terry Gilliam wrote a line in the script something like “and the king takes off his helmet to reveal that he is Sean Connery (or someone equally impressive)”. Of course, this was one of his first movies apart from Monty Python; a pretty small budget and no chance of attracting any really big stars. So when it came time to cast that role, they wound up with… …Sean Connery. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/23 "2010-12-16T21:25:30Z")
Kathy Bates as the Squirrel Lady in Rat Race is one of my favourites. She has one scene, but it’s one of the highlights of the film. ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/24 "2010-12-16T21:25:54Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > He wasn’t a famous actor, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s role in _Airplane!_ always strikes me as an odd decision for the famously shy, hermit-like basketball player. I don’t think it was that odd. He wasn’t a big movie star, but Kareem had a decent acting career. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/25 "2010-12-16T21:30:14Z")
Robin Williams had a pretty big role in Gilliam’s THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, but he wasn’t credited under his own name. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/26 "2010-12-16T21:50:14Z")
Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie was the mouthless girl in Twilight Zone: The Movie. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/27 "2010-12-16T22:09:05Z")
Mike Myers was in Inglorious Basterds as a British officer Christian Slater was in Star Trek 6 as a crew member ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/28 "2010-12-16T22:11:44Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie was the mouthless girl in Twilight Zone: The Movie. I’m afraid that was Nancy Cartwright. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/fullcredits#cast](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/fullcredits#cast) ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/29 "2010-12-16T22:48:59Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Robin Williams had a pretty big role in Gilliam’s THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, but he wasn’t credited under his own name. The odd quick cameo I remember from this movie was Sting as a soldier reporting from the front lines. ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/30 "2010-12-16T22:57:45Z")
David Bowie had a cameo as the shark in _Yellowbeard_, an otherwise very forgettable movie. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/31 "2010-12-16T23:13:07Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie was the mouthless girl in Twilight Zone: The Movie. > [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](#): > > I’m afraid that was Nancy Cartwright. > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/fullcredits#cast](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/fullcredits#cast) How do you know which is which? Both Cherie Currie and Nancy Cartwright are listed as appearing in the third segment of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/32 "2010-12-16T23:16:46Z")
Actually, Nancy Cartwright had a much bigger role - she was Ethel, who got wished into the cartoon. Cherie Currie was in an earlier scene where she was just sitting there mouthless watching TV. “Oh, that’s my other sister. She doesn’t talk much.” The audience saw her with no mouth, but Helen did not. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/33 "2010-12-16T23:33:41Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > How do you know which is which? Both Cherie Currie and Nancy Cartwright are listed as appearing in the third segment of the movie. I believe Nancy Cartwright was the sister that got wished into cartoonland. So the sister with no mouth was probably Cherie Currie. (No lines.) Ach! Ninja’d by Morbo! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/34 "2010-12-16T23:40:49Z")
My favorite: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwKDoeCck4) ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/35 "2010-12-17T00:02:13Z")
Cate Blanchett as an uncredited completely masked CSI type in Hot Fuzz would be good, but pointing out George Lucas’s appearance in Beverly Hills Cop 3 probably wins the thread! It was just so weird and pointless… -Joe ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/36 "2010-12-17T00:18:18Z")
“Holiday In Mexico” and “Easy To Wed”, both Hollywood movies from 1946, supposedly feature young Fidel Castro as an extra. I just saw “Easy To Wed” a few weeks ago on TCM and the host mentioned this, to watch the ‘pool scene’ to catch a glimpse. So I did, but it was so long ago, Fidel no doubt looked completely different from what we think of today. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/37 "2010-12-17T00:54:25Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > “Holiday In Mexico” and “Easy To Wed”, both Hollywood movies from 1946, supposedly feature young Fidel Castro as an extra. I just saw “Easy To Wed” a few weeks ago on TCM and the host mentioned this, to watch the ‘pool scene’ to catch a glimpse. So I did, but it was so long ago, Fidel no doubt looked completely different from what we think of today. I dunno about anyone else, but when I look at Fidel Castro, all I see is the beard, the hat, and the cigar. It would be easy to miss him in a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/38 "2010-12-17T01:19:48Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > My favorite: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwKDoeCck4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwKDoeCck4) OMG! i thought I had seen “The Magic Christian”, apparently I was wrong! :eek: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/39 "2010-12-17T01:29:06Z")
Marcel Marceau had a speaking line in _[Silent Movie.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075222/)_ The only speaking line in the entire flick. A mere word, even. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/40 "2010-12-17T02:53:13Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > “Holiday In Mexico” and “Easy To Wed”, both Hollywood movies from 1946, supposedly feature young Fidel Castro as an extra. I just saw “Easy To Wed” a few weeks ago on TCM and the host mentioned this, to watch the ‘pool scene’ to catch a glimpse. So I did, but it was so long ago, Fidel no doubt looked completely different from what we think of today. John F. Kennedy is rumored to have had his back to the camera in a casino scene in the original _Ocean’s 11_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411.md?page=3)