# Suprising/Enjoyable Cameos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872 "2004-06-23T20:55:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/1 "2004-06-23T20:55:32Z")
I enjoyed - and was surprised by - the cameo by Patrick Swayze in “Donnie Darko”. He really fit, and must have enjoyed it. Another enjoyably surprising cameo was Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman in “Sleepy Hollow” Any favorites you all would care to mention? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/2 "2004-06-23T21:13:00Z")
Christian Slater as a walk-on ensign on Captain Sulu’s ship in Star Trek: Generations. Didn’t even take credit for it. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/3 "2004-06-23T21:41:43Z")
Kurt Vonnegut helping Rodney Dangerfield cheat in _Back To School_. Later, the English Professor flunks him: “I don’t know who you got to write your term paper, but he doesn’t know a thing about Vonnegut!” ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/4 "2004-06-23T21:54:37Z")
Linda Blair [the Exorcist] in ‘Scream’ Charlie Sheen in ‘Being John Malkovitch’ and ofcourse Marcel Marceau in ‘Silent movie’ 😃 ---
**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:** [June 23, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/5 "2004-06-23T23:09:23Z")
David Bowie in Zoolander! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/6 "2004-06-23T23:22:48Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > David Bowie in Zoolander! I second that. And Robbie Coltrane was good in Frasier last episode - 1 (I havent’t seen the second part yet) ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/7 "2004-06-23T23:38:34Z")
_Dodgeball_ has three great surprising ones: David Hasselhoff coaching the German dodgeball team, and Lance Armstrong guilting Vince Vaughn into coming back to the team, and Fucking Chuck Norris! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/8 "2004-06-24T00:32:45Z")
There were some great cameos at the beginning of _Austin Powers: Goldmember_. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/9 "2004-06-24T00:38:32Z")
A lot of people hated the movie but Sean Connery’s arrival as King Richard in the Kevin Costner “Robin Hood” completely redeemed it. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/10 "2004-06-24T01:22:53Z")
Willie Nelson in Half Baked–not exactly high art, but a hilarious cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/11 "2004-06-24T03:03:58Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Christian Slater as a walk-on ensign on Captain Sulu’s ship in Star Trek: Generations. Didn’t even take credit for it. It was Star Trek VI. I love Patrick Stewart’s arrival at the end of Robin Hood: Men in Tights. I also like Connery’s appearance at the end of Prince of Thieves. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/12 "2004-06-24T04:12:25Z")
I was thinking earlier today of the following cameo. It’s not a particularly good performance, but maybe that’s the point. What’s clever is that you had to watch both a movie and its sequel carefully to understand the joke. In the movie _Scream_, one character is telling Neve Campbell that if they ever make a movie about the events that are happening to them, her character should be played by “a young Meg Ryan.” Campbell replies, “Yeah, well, with my luck, my character will be played by Tori Spelling.” In _Scream 2_, they have in fact made a movie about the events in the first movie. You are only offhand told little bits about this movie within the movie. At one point on a TV in the background you see an interview with the actress who plays Neve Campbell’s character in the movie within the movie. It’s Tori Spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/13 "2004-06-24T08:10:28Z")
I actually fell out of my chair laughing at Oliver Stone’s cameo in _Dave_. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/14 "2004-06-24T08:16:13Z")
I saw _Dave_. Where was Stone? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/15 "2004-06-24T12:40:08Z")
In the movie _Dave_, Kevin Kline plays both a President who has a stroke which incapacitates him and the actor who’s hired to pretend to be the President. (Yeah, it’s not very realistic.) Nobody notices the switch, and a lot of people like the actor better, since he comes across as a funnier, friendlier guy. However, you see _The Larry King Show_ on TV at one point, and Oliver Stone is the guest. He’s the only person who’s noticed the switch. He’s trying to convince people that it’s not the President anymore, but everyone considers it just one more of his nutty conspiracy theories. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/16 "2004-06-24T12:43:45Z")
Stone was on TV saying that there was a conspiracy surrounding the president. A few of my favorites: Marshall McLuhan in **Annie Hall** (maybe the greatest of all time) Mel Gibson in **Father’s Day** as a guy into body piercing Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff in **The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek** , reprising their roles from **The Great McGinty** Bing Crosby in **My Favorite Brunette** James Coburn in **California Suite** – very easy to miss – he’s Maggie Smith’s co-star in her movie within a movie. Walter Huston in **The Maltese Falcon** – helping his son out in a nonspeaking part. Joseph Cotton in **Touch of Evil** – showed up on the set and Welles put him in a couple of scenes. Margaret Rutherford in **The Alphabet Murders** ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/17 "2004-06-24T13:23:11Z")
**Tom Petty** in **The Postman**. (Movie was only so-so, but the cameo was entertaining.) Didn’t Molly Ringwald do a recent cameo as a teacher in a teen movie? Didn’t see the movie, but that sounds like a great cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/18 "2004-06-24T13:28:53Z")
Robert DeNiro as the commando repairman in _Brazil_. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/19 "2004-06-24T13:31:03Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Didn’t Molly Ringwald do a recent cameo as a teacher in a teen movie? Didn’t see the movie, but that sounds like a great cameo. She played a flight attendant at the end of [Not Another Teen Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277371/) who tries to talk sense into the male & female leads who fall into a cliched teen movie romance of the rich/popular guy with the poor/unpopular girl. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/20 "2004-06-24T15:00:08Z")
> [@Winnie](#): > > She played a flight attendant at the end of Not Another Teen Movie who tries to talk sense into the male & female leads who fall into a cliched teen movie romance of the rich/popular guy with the poor/unpopular girl. Some great lines from her part (Practically all her lines) Background: **Jock** is trying to win back **Nerdy Girl** before she boards her plane. **Jock** : _some nonsense_ **Nerdy Girl** : _crushing on him_ **Molly Ringwald** : What? That’s a line for She’s All That! **Nerdy Girl** : Hey I shoulda known that. I masturbate to this movie. **everyone** : _weird looks_ **Nerdy Girl** : _embarrassed_ **Jock** : _to Molly_ Do you mind? **Molly** : Not at all, I think masturbation is quite healthy. later on **Jock** : _more nonsense_ **Nerdy Girl** : _still crushing_ **Molly** : Wait a minute. That’s from Pretty in Pink! **Nerdy Girl** : Are you sure? **Molly** : Errr, yeah! Lines are totally off the top of my head, and I haven’t used spoilers becuase if you are really that angry at being given spoilers of this movie then you need to get a life [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872.md?page=2)