Ah man, I was looking forward to mentioning that one. Jamie Bamber (BSG’s Apollo) also had a minor role as a platoon Lt. in Easy Company.
Odd role for Fallon though. I think it is probably his only serious role to date.
Not really all that strange… it was a popular show, he’s a popular actor,… and also… they were married at the time… so there’s that.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Jon Hamm at the end of the A-Team.
I think, but I’m not sure, that Moe Howard has a cameo in “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Brother Shemp has an real role in the film. Moe, if it is, pokes his head only halfway out of a car window and shouts at someone. You only see half his face, but with Moe, that was all you needed.
Except that was in no way a cameo appearance. It was a highly publicized guest starring role, like Julia Robert’s appearance on the show.
Brad Pitt in Being John Malkovich.
What?
Mel Gibson’s hands appear nailing Jesus to the cross in “The Passion of the Christ”
Not surprised – I’ve heard he doesn’t like Jews.
And with Jesus doing magic tricks like that water-into-wine thing, I guess Mel would really hate him. He’d count as a “Jew Controlling The Entertainment Industry”!
Jack Nicholson in the Streisand musical “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”. Nicholson plays Streisand’s brother. It is such a strange roll for him. He is credited, so it is not exactly a cameo, but he plays it as if it were a cameo. He is so out of place in it.
In the movie of continuous cameos, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World,” my favoite cameo is Jerry Lewis as the motorist who drives over Spencer Tacy’s hat.
Charlie Chaplin in his final directorial effort “The Countess from Shanghi” briefly plays a steward on a ship who gets seasick. (I could be a touch off on that title - I’m doing this from memory).
Dick Cheney plays a cop in Die Hard with a Vengeance…
In Cameron Crowe’s Singles, Tim Burton shows up briefly as a guy named Brian and he has just one line: “Twenty.”
Tom Cruise and Jon Bon Jovi both had cameos in Young Guns. Tom getting shot and killed in the ‘escape from the burning house’ scene.
I think that’s a hoax. No way is that Dick Cheney: Photo and Video Storage | Photobucket
Looks more like a younger Lee Iacocca.
David Bowie shows up randomly in Zoolander to judge a model “walk-off”.
IIRC Billy Zane was in there too…
Fallon was the bands manager in Almost Famous - regular role, credited, but he is almost unrecognizable.
The reason behind that is because the part was original much larger, including several songs, which were cut. It is not a cameo but was a legitimate role in the movie which was left on the cutting room floor to give Babs more screen time. Yves Montand had another song as well which was cut.
Speaking of Montand, I watched* Let’s Make Love *with Marilyn Monroe over the weekend and it is peppered with cameos. Montand’s character – a Donald Trump-like billionaire – hires the likes of Milton Berle to teach him to be a comedian, Bing Crosby to teach him to sing, and Gene Kelley to teach him how to dance. All ironic considering that Montand was fairly good at all three of these disciplines.
According to some discussion on IMDB, this “credit” started because in the director’s commentary on the DVD, he identified him as Cheney. I haven’t heard it personally, so I don’t know that he actually said that. And if he did, then the question is “Is he pulling our leg or does he actually believe it?”
Then, by this definition, this is not a cameo, either, but I always look for him in the first Christopher Reeve “Superman.” He’s one of the military radar techs, tracking the missiles.
Alex Trebek showed up in The X-Files as (I think) a MIB with one line. Seemed kinda out of nowhere.