# 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:** 2
**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 24, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/21 "2004-06-24T21:36:28Z")
Not that anybody outside of Wisconsin would care but **Brett Favre** in Something About Mary was good. And even though many thought it was a stinker it was good to see **Lou Ferigno and Stan Lee** in last summer’s The Hulk. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/22 "2004-06-24T23:16:15Z")
Jack Nickolson in \*Broadcast News \* Charlie Sheen in _National Lampoon’s Loaded Wepon_ ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/23 "2004-06-24T23:38:23Z")
Robin Williams as a defrocked psychiatrist, turned stockboy/green grocer in _Dead Again_. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/24 "2004-06-25T00:01:21Z")
Billy Crystal in _This Is Spinal Tap_: “Come on, people! Mime is money!” ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/25 "2004-06-25T02:01:53Z")
Is this regulated to walk ons? What about a celebrity doing a cameo voice or voice-over? For instance, when I saw the “Inspector Gadget” movie, the only thing I liked was the very end when Don Adams made a cameo as the voice of Brain, the dog. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/26 "2004-06-25T02:07:25Z")
No lines, no acting…Just Cameron Diaz sitting there on the train in **Minority Report**. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/27 "2004-07-04T08:02:11Z")
Wesley Snipes in **Waiting to Exhale**. He asked to have his name left out of the opening credits, because it was the women’s movie. I saw it on opening night, so naturally, no one was forewarned, and when he walked onscreen, there was a spontaneous “_Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh!_” **spoke** : La Ringwald played a teacher in **Killing Mrs. Tingle**. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/28 "2004-07-04T08:03:41Z")
**TEACHING Mrs. Tingle**. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/29 "2004-07-04T17:24:19Z")
Alfred Hitchcock in _Lifeboat_ . Of course he was know for having a cameo in all his movies…but how do you do that in a movie that takes place entirely in a tiny boat without a lot of room for milling in the background? He appeared in a photograph one of the actors was reading. Deft, that. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/30 "2004-07-04T18:04:48Z")
Most of you are probably too young to appreciate it, but in the first Superman movie, there is a scene where the adolescent Clark Kent is racing a train. Looking out the window is a family. The mother is the actress who played Lois Lane in the Superman T.V. show. Of course if I remembered her name that would be a good thing… ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/31 "2004-07-04T19:42:24Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Most of you are probably too young to appreciate it, but in the first Superman movie, there is a scene where the adolescent Clark Kent is racing a train. Looking out the window is a family. The mother is the actress who played Lois Lane in the Superman T.V. show. Of course if I remembered her name that would be a good thing… Noel Neill, who retired from acting after the Superman series ended. As far as I know she is still alive; I believe she made an appearance at a Superman festival in Metroplis IL last year. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/32 "2004-07-04T20:01:04Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Most of you are probably too young to appreciate it, but in the first Superman movie, there is a scene where the adolescent Clark Kent is racing a train. Looking out the window is a family. The mother is the actress who played Lois Lane in the Superman T.V. show. Of course if I remembered her name that would be a good thing… I remember my Mom pointing that out to me in the theater. The appearance of Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul in the Starsky and Hutch remake was telegraphed as soon as the scene ended with Snoop, Ben, and Owen headed outside the precinct. I still enjoyed it, though. Me? I kept looking for the original Huggy Bear, Antonio Fargas, to interact with Snoop Dogg. That totally would have made the movie for me! Oh, for a kid’s movie chock full of cameos – you really can’t beat the first two Muppet Movies. Also, my main man Samuel L. Jackson as the piano player in Kill Bill Vol. 2. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/33 "2004-07-04T20:13:19Z")
_Trading Places_’ Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche reprising their roles as the Duke brothers _Coming to America_. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/34 "2004-07-04T20:26:38Z")
The heavily-disguised **Emma Thompson** in a bit role in _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_. She was very funny as the kooky divination professor. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/35 "2004-07-05T16:29:38Z")
Just watching Ghostbusters II on ComedyCentral… **Cheech Marin** has a one liner at the docks when the Titanic comes in to port. “Better late than never” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/36 "2004-07-05T16:56:39Z")
Sharon Stone and Robert Patrick (as a cop) in the underrated _Last Action Hero_. ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/37 "2004-07-06T16:31:00Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > No lines, no acting…Just Cameron Diaz sitting there on the train in **Minority Report**. You mean Cameron Crowe right? Or did they both have a cameo? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/38 "2004-07-06T17:45:55Z")
Peter Falk in \*Wings of Desire \* and _Faraway, So Close!_. The movies are about angels who decide to become human and live amongst us mortals. (Hollywood later used the concept in _City of Angels_, which was not nearly as good as the German films.) Peter Falk plays an angel who became human, moved to Hollywood, and then became the star of _Columbo_! 🆒 ---
**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:** [July 6, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/39 "2004-07-06T17:46:24Z")
As usual for these threads, people are confusing cameo appearances and uncredite appearances. Robin Williams in **Dead Again** was uncredited. Alfred Hitchcock in most of his later films (once this became his trademark) are cameos. Bellamy and Ameche also fit into this category. A cameo role can be credited: Alanis Morisette in **Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back** is a cameo, and it’s also credited. Emma Thompson in **Harry Potter** was neither – it was just a minor role. An uncredited role is one in which the actor has some actual lines and more than one scene, but, for contract reasons, the actor forgoes a credit. Robin Williams did this several times. A cameo role is one where the actor appears in a single scene, with one or maybe two lines, and (more arbitrary) the point of the appearance is to make audiences say “Look! There’s X!” A cameo role can usually be removed from the film and it wouldn’t affect the plot. Speaking of **Jay and Silent Bob** , the entire film is filled with cameos of both well-known people (Carrie Fisher, Jon Stewart, Jules Asner, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven, Shannon Doherty) and characters from other Kevin Smith movies (Dante, Randall Holden McNeal, Alyssa Jones, etc.) Other cameos include Martin Scorsese in **Taxi Driver** and **The King of Comedy** (another great one). ---
**Author:** ![Corixidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Corixidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corixidae)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872/40 "2004-07-06T18:12:50Z")
> [@bafaa](#): > > You mean Cameron Crowe right? Or did they both have a cameo? According to the [IMDb trivia page for Minority Report](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/trivia), both Cameron Crowe and Cameron Diaz make cameo appearances on the train. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suprising-enjoyable-cameos/251872.md?page=3)