# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/101 "2010-12-28T05:25:02Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > …Also, Cristopher Loyd played a Klingon in TWOK. That was Christopher Lloyd, and it was in _ST III: The Search for Spock_. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/102 "2010-12-28T05:27:05Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > George Clooney towards the end. Oh yeah, I forgot about him. A three hour movie full of homely, indistinguishable mud-covered men bookended by two clean shaven handsome Hollywood stars. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/103 "2010-12-28T05:28:32Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > Sarah Silverman was in an Episode of ST: voyager. It was a time travel episode where for some reason they were on earth in the '90’s. > > Also, Cristopher Loyd played a Klingon in TWOK. Neither were cameos; both were significant parts. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/104 "2010-12-28T19:30:42Z")
How about Joe Piscopo in TNG: The Outrageous Okona… ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/105 "2010-12-28T20:49:57Z")
John Tesh was one of the Holodeck Klingons who tested Worf on his birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/106 "2010-12-29T02:14:07Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > John Tesh was one of the Holodeck Klingons who tested Worf on his birthday. Yup. Even referred to as “K’Tesh” in the CCG!: [Klingon Rite of Ascension Chamber holograms | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Klingon_Rite_of_Ascension_Chamber_holograms#Klingon_1) ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/107 "2010-12-29T10:07:32Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi were both in the episode about the kid who controls lightning. My wife still calls Giovanni Ribisi ‘Lightning Boy’ every time we see him on screen. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/108 "2010-12-29T11:35:10Z")
Johnny Carson showed up once as a train conductor taking tickets in a Get Smart episode. ---
**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 29, 2010, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/109 "2010-12-29T11:57:09Z")
Christian Slater was a big Star Trek fan as a kid, he messed up his eyebrows trying to look like Spock. ---
**Author:** ![CornTheHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@CornTheHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CornTheHead)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/110 "2010-12-29T13:34:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I think that’s a hoax. No way is that Dick Cheney: [Photo Storage](http://media.photobucket.com/image/%22dick+cheney%22+%22die+hard%22+/Nem-Wan/dick-cheney-in-die-hard-with-a-vengeance.jpg) That looks a heck of a lot like [Dave Thomas](http://www.kipnotes.com/FoodSe1.jpg)of Wendy’s fame…or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/111 "2010-12-29T14:36:37Z")
> [@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. As “Ray D. Tutto”, which was a joke - “Re di Tutto” (or “Tutti”, surely?) means “King of Everything”, a reference to a line in the film. Christian Slater had a cameo in the first Austin Powers film too, complete with weird eyebrow action. And sherbet. And speaking of Mike Myers, my favorite cameo ever: [Charlton Heston in _Wayne’s World 2_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yluZgzkA8MM). Possibly also my favorite Heston appearance ever. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/112 "2010-12-29T14:52:58Z")
> [@Flip\_Pancake](#): > > David Bowie shows up randomly in _Zoolander_ to judge a model “walk-off”. > > IIRC Billy Zane was in there too… David Bowie’s numerous strange cameos might need their own thread. He showed up as Pontius Pilate in **The Last Temptation of Christ**. ---
**Author:** ![BomTek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bomtek/32/21364_2.png) [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/113 "2010-12-29T15:51:22Z")
I just watched \*\*The Holiday \*\*for the second time last night. It’s a fun little romantic comedy in which Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet swap houses for Xmas and fall in love with Jude Law and Jack Black, respectively. Nothing profound, but it’s a harmless way to pass the time. Anyhoo, Jack Black’s character is a composer for Hollywood, and he’s giving Kate Winslet a lesson in “Great Movie Scores 101” at a Blockbuster when he picks up **The Graduate**. At this point the camera cuts to Dustin Hoffman browsing in the same Blockbuster. It’s pretty clearly supposed to be him and not a character played by him, or at least it’s pretty clear to me. He simply glances sideways at Jack Black, smirks, and maybe mumbles a line or two under his breath, but the other two characters don’t even acknowledge his presence. It definitely fits the criteria for a strange cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/114 "2010-12-29T16:54:37Z")
This wouldn’t really qualify as “strange,” but. . . In the movie “Feds” (1988) Gordon Liddy shows up toward the end of the movie in an uncredited, non-speaking role. I remember him being a scene with Fred Thompson where Thompson is giving the FBI wannabes the facts of their first test mission. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/115 "2010-12-29T17:34:44Z")
[Officer William Obanhein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Obanhein) played himself in Alice’s Restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/116 "2010-12-29T17:45:22Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Oh yeah, I forgot about him. A three hour movie full of homely, indistinguishable mud-covered men bookended by two clean shaven handsome Hollywood stars. Not really unrealistic. The majority of the movie was set in the field during a battle. But the opening and closing scenes (where Travolta and Clooney appeared) were set behind the lines. ---
**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 29, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/117 "2010-12-29T17:47:43Z")
At the start of Into the Wild, the guy who gives the boots to the actor was the guy who in real life gave his boots to Chris McCandless. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/118 "2010-12-30T02:19:02Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > David Bowie’s numerous strange cameos might need their own thread. He showed up as Pontius Pilate in **The Last Temptation of Christ**. Yeah. And as Andy Warhol, whom he knew pretty well, in _Basquiat_: [http://www.wired.com/underwire/wp-content/gallery/david-bowie/bowie\_basquiat.jpg](http://www.wired.com/underwire/wp-content/gallery/david-bowie/bowie_basquiat.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![brdwybnd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@brdwybnd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brdwybnd)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/119 "2011-01-06T01:50:53Z")
Jeff Goldblum in Annie Hall. He was on screen for like 5 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411/120 "2012-06-04T20:34:39Z")
I saw [Innerspace (1987)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093260/) this weekend. There’s a scene in which grocery store cashier Martin Short is having trouble ringing up Kathleen Freeman’s \*order. The two customers behind her in line are Ron Howard’s dad Rance (who has shown up in bit roles forever)–but behind him is none other than legendary cartoon director extraordinaire Chuck Jones. He even has a line (referring to how much Short’s register is overcharging) “At these prices who would [buy that bottle of aspirins].” \*His register goes haywire and ends up ringing her buggy as over $100,000. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-actor-cameos/564411.md?page=7)