# Weird Idiosyncracies of Directors?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 10, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-idiosyncracies-of-directors/838458 "2019-08-10T15:06:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-idiosyncracies-of-directors/838458/21 "2019-08-13T10:22:06Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Not “frequent.” He had a cameo in every movie starting with _The Lodger_ in 1926. In _Lifeboat,_ which takes place entirely in a lifeboat, he was in the “before” photo in a newspaper ad for a diet system.

Nitppick: According to [this page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfred_Hitchcock_cameo_appearances), he did cameos in “only” 39 of his 52 extant films, and the unbroken run starts with his first American film, _Rebecca_, 1940. Also, _The Lodger_ was 1927, not 1926.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-idiosyncracies-of-directors/838458/22 "2019-08-13T10:35:55Z")

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I was going to mention Werner Herzog, a man who got shot in the abdomen halfway through an interview and didn’t bother to mention it because “it was not a significant bullet”, but I’m not sure where to start.

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-idiosyncracies-of-directors/838458/23 "2019-08-13T14:25:27Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> I was going to mention Werner Herzog, a man who got shot in the abdomen halfway through an interview and didn’t bother to mention it because “it was not a significant bullet”, but I’m not sure where to start.

Well, if you survived working with Klaus Kinski, a small bullett won’t bother you.

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