Debra Winger’s got two: she was the digitally-altered voice of ET, and Emmert, the St Peter-ish entity in *Made in Heaven[/i[.
Okay, Okay. So I was wrong for once in my life! 
Kathy Bates seems to do this a lot. She was uncredited as the Squirrel Lady in Rat Race, and as Jennifer Aniston’s aunt in Rumor Has It.
Emmett; and I always had the feeling that Emmett was God-as-micromanager, not St. Peter.
This is sort of a special case.
There’s a Spanish actor/director/producer whose credits include the top three biggest box office hits in Hispanic movie history (even after you translate to "current dollars). He often has cameos in American movies where the director is a friend of his.
So if there is a Hispanic audience, when he comes up you hear whispers of “hey, is that Segura?” and you see people staying at the end to check the “little credits”. But his presence is always a sort of in-joke and nobody expects him to be a big box-office draw. Heck, he was the first one to be surprised by the successes of those three movies…
How actors are credited is a pretty sticky subject. If you want Jack Nicholson to star in your movie and appear in advertising for it, you have to give him top billing (above the title of the film, even) and pay him X bazillion dollars. He did an uncredited cameo in pal James Brooks’ movie Broadcast News, which he was only in for a few seconds; this clearly was not a Jack Nicholson Movie and was never presented to anybody as one.
Robin Williams does a fair number of uncredited cameos as favors. If he were to appear in the ads and credits for movies like Shakes the Clown, the movie would sell better, but Williams’ currency as a leading man who gets top billing and top dollar would be compromised. That would be a bad thing for Robin Williams. It might have spared us some craptastic “Oh the wonder of it all” movies like Being Human, Jakob the Liar and Patch Adams, but the guy is worth what he asks for.
I vaguely remember a time when Corey Feldman and Corey Haim would only lend their names to projects that referred to them as “major movie stars.” The gambit didn’t work for them, but it was probably worth a shot.
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The other problem with *that * role in that movie is the minute you heard his distinctive voice on the phone, you knew who the actor playing the bad guy is!
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I think the “uncredited” appearance I find most baffling is Don Cheadle in Ocean’s Eleven. There are a ton of uncredited appearances in that movie of course, but the rest are all very minor characters or actors playing themselves. And while in my perfect world Cheadle would receive billing above Pitt and Roberts, I don’t think it’s the case in the world we actually live in.
Then who is this Pat Welsh person?
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Sorry, Bricker, my bad. I just clicked ‘show more’’ on that page, and scrolled to the very bottom of the full cast and crew list.
“…chain smoking lead to her raspy voice, which was used simultaneously with Debra Winger in the film”.
Interesting. Winger is only credited on the IMDB page at the very end of ‘other crew’ (voice: partially-retained E.T. temp track).
Well, at least they have their political careers to look forward to.