Well, your Uncle Marcellus is a millionaire.
Billy Crystal and Carol Kane in "The Princess Bride"
Bye, bye boys! Have fun storming the castle!
Marcel Marceau (famous French mime) in Mel Brook's movie "Silent Movie." The movie is totally silent but for Marceau's response to Mel Brook's character's invitation to be in his new movie: "No."
This was not exactly a 'cameo' performance as such, but in 1962, Clint Eastwood, played himself, in an episode of 'Mr. Ed'...I am a Mr. Ed fan, so seeing Clint Eastwood, playing Mr. Eds brief time neighbor, was quite a treat...
Alfred Hitchcock's Cameo Appearances
Family Plot
In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of
Births and Deaths, 41 minutes into the movie.
Frenzy
In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat, three
minutes into the film; he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
Topaz
Being pushed in a wheelchair in an airport, half an hour in.
Hitchcock gets up from the chair, shakes hands with a man, and walks off to the right.
Torn Curtain
Early in the film, sitting in the Hotel d'Angleterre
lobby with a blond baby.
Marnie
Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi
Hedren passes by, five minutes in.
Birds,The
Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers as Tippi
Hedren enters.
Psycho
Four minutes in, through Janet Leigh's window as she returns
to her office. He is wearing a cowboy hat.
North By Northwest
Missing a bus during the opening credits.
Vertigo
In a gray suit walking in the street, eleven minutes in.
Wrong Man, The
Narrating the film's prologue.
Man Who Knew Too Much, The
Watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace (his back to the
camera) just before the murder.
Trouble With Harry, The
Walking past the parked limousine of an old man who is looking
at paintings, twenty minutes into the film.
To Catch A Thief
Ten minutes in, sitting to the left of Cary Grant
on a bus.
Rear Window
Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment, a half
hour into the movie.
Dial M for Murder
On the left side of the class-reunion photo,
thirteen minutes into the film.
I Confess
Crossing the top of a staircase after the opening credits.
Strangers on A Train
Boarding a train with a double bass fiddle as
Farley Granger gets off in his hometown, early in the film.
Stage Fright
Turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as
Marlene Dietrich's maid.
Under Capricorn
In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue
coat and brown hat, in the first five minutes. Ten minutes later, he is one of three men on the steps of Government House.
Rope
His trademark can be seen briefly on a neon sign in the view from the apartment window, approximately 55 minutes into the movie.
Paradine Case, The
Leaving the train and Cumberland Station,
carrying a cello.
Notorious
At a big party in Claude Rains's mansion, drinking
champagne and then quickly departing, an hour after the film begins.
Spellbound
Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel,
carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette, 40 minutes in.
Lifeboat
In the "before" and "after" pictures in the newspaper ad for Reduco Obesity Slayer.
Shadow of A Doubt
On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards.
Saboteur
Standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the
saboteur's car stops, an hour in.
Suspicion
Mailing a letter at the village postbox about 45 minutes in.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Midway through, passing Robert Montgomery in front of his building.
Foreign Correspondent
Early in the movie, after Joel McCrea leaves his hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper.
Rebecca
Walking near the phone booth in the final part of the film
just after George Sanders makes a call.
Lady Vanishes, The
Very near the end of the movie, in Victoria
Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
Young and Innocent
Outside the courthouse, holding a camera.
39 Steps, The
Tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie
Mannheim run from the theater, seven minutes into the movie.
Murder
Walking past the house where the murder was committed, about an hour into the movie.
Blackmail
Being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book in
the subway.
Easy Virtue
Walking past a tennis court, carrying a walking stick.
Lodger, The
At a desk in a newsroom and later in the crowd watching an arrest.
TELEVISION
Dip in the Pool, Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As a cover picture on a magazine a passenger is reading. This is the only cameo Hitch took in a television show. (His opening remarks on Alfred Hitchcock Presents do not count)
Well this really goes back a ways, but I think one of my favorite cameo appearances was Jerome Howard (Curly) of the Three Stooges showing up in "Hold That Lion" (1947), it is the only Stooge flick where all three brothers Moe, Curly AND Shemp were together. Curly was cast as an ordinary passenger on a train, sleeping with a hat over his face and a clothespin on his nose, and the unveiling of Curly was truly hilarious.
And as long as I'm talking about the Stooges, I'll put in a plug for the made-for-TV movie "The Three Stooges" that was produced and directed by noneother than Mel Gibson in 2000 (a rabid Stooge fan), Paul Ben-Victor played Moe, Evan Handler played an amazing Larry Fine, and Michael Chiklis (of the "Commish") played the role of Curly and IMHO, he should have received an Oscar, an Emmy, SOME sort of recognition, because he played Curly SO well, that you would begin thinking that he had ALWAYS been Curly, and that Jerome Howard had played Chiklis. It was that phenomenal a performance, I heartily recommend it and it is suitable for all ages too. :)
John Hurt in Spaceballs.
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In: Richard Nixon
Newhart: Suzanne Pleshette
I thought Martin Sheen's appearance in Hot Shots was good.
You hit the nail on the head with Marcel Marceau. In the silent movie, the Mime was the only one who spoke in the entire movie.......
Funny, how I noticed that.........
Richard Nixon. Laugh In. "Sock it to ME?"
Mr. Kimball in Green Acres and Larabee in Get Smart.
Robert DeNiro and the real Joe Pesci showing up on the SNL "Joe Pesci Show" (Jim Breuer playing Pesci)
Barney: "Harris!"
Harris: "Hitchcock does it!"
Sean Connery as Richard the Lionhearted, in Kevin Costner's wretched version of Robin Hood.
I'll have to think about this. (Someone should link this thread into tonight's Freeper Canteen!)
TS
While not technically a "cameo", I would say Suzanne Pleshette in the final episode of Newhart. Sort of a cameo-cameo.
John Wayne on Maude where he walks in while she's ranting about his politics and renders her speechless.
Mel Torme on Night Court.
Tony Curtis as "Stony Curtis" on The Flintstones.
Oliver North on J.A.G.
Charles Nelson Reilly as science fiction writer Jose Chung on The X-Files.
Penn and Teller on Babylon Five.
The Tribbles and Captain Kirk on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine : )
Howard Jarvis in Airplane.