When “Young Frankenstein” was first released, Gene Hackman’s role as the Old Hermit was uncredited.
I’m sure that every issue brought up here on the Dope has already been addressed here somewhere!
In one Billy Crystal movie, Mel Gibson appeared as a pierced and swacked punk.
In the movie Casper, there were very brief cameos of Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Rodney Dangerfield (the ghosts made the father character see those reflections of himself in a mirror).
There were also hilarious cameos by Father Guido Sarducci and Dr. Ray Stantz.
New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert on 30 Rock.
Not sure if it’s suprising but Chuck Yeager getting a few lines in The Right Stuff is fun.
Another cameo in Annie Hall at 5:49 in this video:
That’s Sigourney Weaver as Alvy Singer’s date, although you probably won’t be able to recognize her at this distance.
Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore
“The price is wrong, bitch!”
Wouldn’t that be more like “bit part by an actress in of her first movie roles who later went on to become a famous actress?”
That’s the way I’m leaning.
I like all the cameo appearances of R2D2 and C-3PO in various films. Raiders and Close Encounters come to mind. I know there are more.
For what it’s worth, it was Weaver’s second role in a film. She appeared in Serpico in a slightly longer bit role four years earlier. She was also known as a stage actress at the time. She had originally been cast in a larger role in Annie Hall but decided not to take it because she had gotten a stage role that conflicted in time with it. Woody Allen then asked her to do a bit role in the film. He shot a longer scene with the two couples on dates meeting, but the scene was trimmed in editing to just that one long shot. I’m getting this from several books I own on Woody Allen, but there’s a little about this in this Wikipedia entry:
Apparently, because Cruise’s character is a significant part of the movie.
Apart from the McLuhan one already mentioned, my favorite cameo remains this one. In fact, that may well be my favorite movie appearance by that actor.
From the old TV show Mannix, starring Mike Connors as a private detective working in the SF Bay area. He goes into a club in the Haight-Ashbury district, and the band playing at the club is Buffalo Springfield He’s in the club long enough to hear two of the band’s hits (Bluebird and For What It’s Worth).
In 1967 I was just getting into music and Buffalo Springfield was my first “personal discovery.” 45 years later they still might be at the top of all time.
In the movie Kingpin, a buddy of mine was hired to play an Amish dude. He was paid for two days of shooting. A bunch of us got together to watch the VHS tape, straining to catch his scene(s). Turns out he was only used in the closing credits, and by that point we were all too drunk/stoned to care much.
I had to do a double take watching the “extended” version of Buckaroo Banzai…in the opening sequence his mother is played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
Wait, what? I’m going to have to find my copy, I guess. I hadn’t noticed that. (Do I *have *the extended version?)
Billy Idol in The Wedding Singer comes to mind, but given the film’s '80s setting, maybe it’s not all that surprising.
Also, how about Phoebe teaching Chrissie Hynde how to sing “Smelly Cat” on Friends?
Buckaroo Banzai alternate opening.
Jamie Lee’s smile (to me, anyway) is unmistakable.
Christian Slater has an uncredited cameo in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Wolverine in X-Men: First Class.
Timothy Dalton playing what amounted to an aging 007 in The Tourist.