Best Cameo Appearance of All Time?

5/26/06 | Reaganesque

[Reaganesque]

It's the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend. We've had our silliness thread to start things off now, how about this:

Who do you think had the best cameo performance in any movie or TV show? You know, someone who had a bit part but stole the show for you.

[Lancey Howard]

Paul Winfield, as Harriets' long lost father, on 'Family Matters'.

[MistrX]

There were some good cameos on the old Batman TV series.

[joy361]

My pick: Mike Smith (Bubbles on TrailerParkBoys) in "A Hole In One".

Hubbys pick: Willy Nelson in "Electric Horseman".

[SaveTheChief]

The part he played was that of the "good actor"

Wayne asks a gas station attendant for directions to the church where Cassandra is about to be married. Unimpressed with the answer, Wayne turns to the camera and asks if they could get a better actor. You then see hands pulling the guy off, then Charlton Heston steps in.

[FormerACLUmember]

Will Farrell as Chazz Reinhold in the Wedding Crashers:

"Yeah, her boyfriend just died. In a hang-gliding accident! What an idiot! What a loser!" [sarcastically imitating dead boyfriend] "Hey, I'm hang-gliding! Aaaahhh! Take a picture, honey, I'm dead!"

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"HEY MOM! CAN WE GET SOME MEATLOAF?"

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"Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac."

[Glenn]

The father of my children...in their lives.

Nice to see you've moved on.

[monkapotamus]

David Letterman: Cabin Boy.

[bannie]

Woof!

[Jaysun]

Bob Saget in Half Baked: "Marijuana is not a drug, I used to suck di*k for coke...Now that's an addiction, man. did you ever suck some di*k for marijuana?"

Or maybe Farrah Fawcett in "This and Scat and Bacon Fat", a little known film I'll admit.

[theDentist]

On a show about Christina Applegate (Kelly Bundy), Ed O'Neill (Al Bundy) went onto her new sitcom set while she was offstage awaiting her queue. Apparently they hadn't seen each other for some time, and when she opened the door he says "It's about time you come home, little girl!" She practically leapt across the set into his arms.

[stillonaroll]

Best Cameo Appearance of All Time?

Howard Jarvis in Airplane.

[bannie]

HAHAHA!!! I just thought it was funny.

:-p

I did, however, expect to take some flack over it. Sometimes a laugh is worth it.

;-)

[Henchster]

Gene Hackman as the blind man in Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein."

"Wait! Where are you going? I was going to make expresso!"

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Barbara Billingsly in Airplane!

[tje]

What about 'Police Squad'? Short lived, but didn't their guest star always get murdered within the first few moments of the show? It might have been during the opening credits.

[A CA Guy]

[AnnaZ]

Ann-Margrock and Cary Granite.

;^)

[SaveTheChief]

Ah yes! That's a good one! Hackman is one of my favorite actors, and it's funny to see him in that movie. Another good one from that movie is Peter Boyle as the monster.

[Energy Alley]

Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall, "you know nothing of my work"