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.
Jack Nickolson in *Broadcast News *
Charlie Sheen in National Lampoon’s Loaded Wepon
Robin Williams as a defrocked psychiatrist, turned stockboy/green grocer in Dead Again.
- Tamerlane
Billy Crystal in This Is Spinal Tap: “Come on, people! Mime is money!”
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.
No lines, no acting…Just Cameron Diaz sitting there on the train in Minority Report.
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.
TEACHING Mrs. Tingle. :smack:
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.
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.
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.
Trading Places’ Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche reprising their roles as the Duke brothers Coming to America.
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.
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”
Sharon Stone and Robert Patrick (as a cop) in the underrated Last Action Hero.
You mean Cameron Crowe right? Or did they both have a cameo?
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! 
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).
According to the IMDb trivia page for Minority Report, both Cameron Crowe and Cameron Diaz make cameo appearances on the train.