Nitppick: According to this page, 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.
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.