It’s common for administrators to star in their very own motion pictures. Alfred Hitchcock famously made cameos in nearly all of his motion pictures and Quentin Tarantino seems in all of his in a technique or one other. It’s rarer for a director to look in a fellow director’s film. It’s hardly unparalleled, as we discovered loads of attention-grabbing examples. So with out additional ado, right here is our listing of administrators who appeared on different administrators’ motion pictures.
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Steven Spielberg – The Blues Brothers
Before the tragic accident on the set of The Twilight Zone, John Landis and Steven Spielberg have been good mates. So good, actually, that Spielberg confirmed up in a cameo within the Landis basic The Blues Brothers. Spielberg performs the Cook Country Accessor on the finish of the film who takes fee from Jake and Elwood.
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David Lynch – The Fablemans
In a really meta second, David Lynch performs one other nice director, John Ford, in Steven Spielberg’s The Fablemans . The late Lynch did not present up in motion pictures typically, even his personal, so it is a enjoyable second in a film by a legend, starring a legend as a legend.
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John Landis – Spider-man 2
John Landis has twice finished cameos in Sam Rami motion pictures, each occasions showing as a health care provider, essentially the most well-known of which was in Spider-Man 2 the place he performs a health care provider killed by Doctor Octopus after performing surgical procedure on the villain. It’s a tremendous fast second and one that’s simple to overlook.
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David Fincher – Being John Malkovich
David Fincher has sometimes popped into his personal motion pictures, together with taking part in the voice of John Doe on the phone in order to not give away the shock later. He additionally has proven up in different administrators’ motion pictures, particularly as a puppet skilled in Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich .
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Roger Corman – The Silence Of The Lambs
Legendary B-movie director Roger Corman has a behavior of exhibiting up in different administrators’ work. It is smart as he is an enormous hero to many filmmakers who grew up watching his motion pictures. In Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs , Corman performs the FBI director in a single scene.
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George Lucas – Beverly Hills Cop III
Beverly Hills Cop 3 is a reasonably horrible film, although fortunately the franchise was redeemed a long time later with Axel F. Still, there’s a fairly humorous cameo within the film when none aside from George Lucas pops into the film as a disgruntled patron of the amusement park that’s central to the story.
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Tim Burton – Singles
Tim Burton just isn’t a director that reveals up on the opposite facet of the digicam fairly often. In reality he has fleetingly few performing roles, however he does seem in Cameron Crowe’s Singles . Crowe additionally has a cameo himself within the movie.
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Sam Raimi – Miller’s Crossing
Sam Raimi is a director with quite a lot of performing roles on his resume, in his personal movie and within the motion pictures by mates of him. One such cameo is in Miller’s Crossing , a film by the Coen Brothers. Raimi additionally has a cameo in one other Coen Brothers film, The Hudsucker Proxy .
Gus Van Sant – The Canyons
Gus Van Sant has a bit greater than only a cameo in The Canyons, a film that flew means below the radar when it was launched in 2013, starring Lindsey Lohan. Van Sant performs a psychologist within the film and has greater than a pair traces, not like many on this listing.
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Quentin Tarantino – Sleep With Me
Quentin Tarantino is at all times glad to solid himself in his personal motion pictures, however even earlier than he was one of many premiere administrators in Hollywood, he was popping up in motion pictures he did not direct. In Sleep With Me, by director Rory Kelly, which got here out a month earlier than Pulp Fiction , Tarantino has a memorable second as a chatty get together visitor who breaks down the film Top Gun in a really unconventional means.
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Martin Scorsese – Quiz Show
Martin Scorsese’s most well-known on display second is as a rider in Travis’ (Robert De Niro) cab in his personal film, Taxi Driver . He additionally reveals up in Qui Show, directed by Robert Redford.
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Tobe Hooper – Sleepwalkers
Tobe Hooper is a horror film legend for his work directing the slasher basic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre within the Seventies. In 1992 he popped up in a cameo working alongside Stephen King within the adaptation of King’s novel Sleepwalkers.
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John Waters – Something Wild
Director John Waters has been in a lot of his personal motion pictures, however he sometimes reveals up in different motion pictures as effectively, like Something Wild by director Jonathan Demme in 1986. Waters performs a sketchy automobile supplier within the film and is among the most enjoyable elements of the film.
Amy Heckerling – Into The Night
1985’s Into the Night was John Landis’ return to directing after being cleared of manslaughter costs because of the on-set tragedy in the course of the filming of The Twilight Zone film. In the film, one other director, Amy Heckerling reveals up in a cameo as a waitress.
Jonathan Demme – That Thing You Do!
Appropriately Jonathan Demme, who had quite a lot of administrators seem in his movies, performs a movie director in That Thing You Do! It’s a quick function, after all, and it is among the solely occasions the late Demme appeared in one other director’s movie. Into the Night by John Landis being one other.
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Roger Corman – The Godfather Part II
Roger Corman, one of the vital influential administrators of all time had a couple of cameos over his profession with one of the vital memorable coming in The Godfather II , the place he performed one of many senators grilling Michael Corlene (Al Pacino) within the Francis Ford Coppola basic.
Spike Jonze – The Game
Before David Fincher returned the favor for Spike Jonze in Being John Malkovich, Jonze appeared in Fincher’s The Game , one of the vital underrated motion pictures by a big-time director .
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Wes Craven – Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
The late Wes Craven appeared in motion pictures or TV reveals as an actor 24 occasions in accordance with IMDB, although most of his film appearances have been in his personal motion pictures. One exception was when he appeared in Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back taking part in a model of himself directing a cartoonish model of Scream .
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Frank Oz – Spies Like Us
Frank Oz has appeared as an actor in a bunch of flicks, together with The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Knives Out, to not point out all his puppet and voice work through the years. One of his finest cameos got here in Spies Like Us the place he performed the proctor of a civil service examination. It’s really a basic and possibly the funniest second within the film.
Cameron Crowe – Minority Report
Cameron Crowe has a very transient cameo as a person on driving public transportation in Minority Report by director Steven Spielberg. If you blink – or aren’t positive what he seems like – you are positive to overlook the second, however it’s there. In reality, one other Cameron, Cameron Diaz, is within the background of the identical scene.
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Robert Downey, Sr. – Boogie Nights
In his day, Robert Downey Sr. was fairly well-known. Of course, that fame has been eclipsed by his son, however that does not imply he did carry quite a lot of respect inside the business even late in his life. Like when Paul Thomas Anderson labored him right into a cameo in Boogie Nights.
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Frank Darabont – King Kong
For many, The Shawshank Redemption is the finest film of the Nineteen Nineties . It’s director, Frank Darabont, would not make a cameo in Shawshank or any of his different motion pictures, however he’s very briefly in Peter Jackson’s King Kong . It’s one other “blink-and-you-will-miss-it” sort of function.
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Lawrence Kasdan – As Good As It Gets
Writer and director Lawrence Kasdan is most well-known for writing each Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi . He’s additionally directed motion pictures like Grand Canyon, The Big Chill, and Silverado. On uncommon events, he is taken performing roles like he did in As Good As It Gets, by director James L. Brooks of Simpsons fame. Kasdan performs a psychologist within the film.
James Cameron – The Muse
The Muse, directed by Albert Brooks, encompasses a handful of cameos by well-known administrators together with Martin Scorsese and Rob Reiner. In a uncommon look on the opposite facet digicam can be director James Cameron, who solely has a couple of performing credit to his identify.
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Mel Brooks – The Muppet Movie
it is actually not shocking to see Mel Brooks on the massive display, however it’s uncommon to see in a film that he did not write and direct. That’s a part of what makes his cameo in The Muppet Movie a lot enjoyable. The legendary EGOT winner performs the evil Professor Krassman who’s working to regulate the minds of frogs. It’s price noting that regardless of his pleasant efficiency, it isn’t one which contributed to his EGOT.
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Eli Roth – Inglourious Basterds
Eli Roth is as a lot an actor as he’s a director, although in recent times he is targeting the latter. Sure he seems in his personal movies, however he is additionally been a collaborator with Quentin Tarantino a few occasions, first in Death Proof after which in a extra outstanding function in Inglourious Basterds.
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Jim Jarmusch – Sling Blade
Director Jim Jarmusch has a singular fashion as a director and so it is smart he would seem in a film with its personal distinctive angle, Sling Blade , by director and actor Billy Bob Thornton. Jarmusch performs the server at a meals truck within the film, serving up French fried potaters.
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David Cronenberg – Jason X
David Cronenberg has a protracted historical past with the Friday The thirteenth franchise, having directed an episode of Friday the thirteenth: The Series in 1988. He reveals up in a cameo in Jason X.
John Sayles – Malcolm X
John Sayles has directed some nice motion pictures through the years together with Eight Men Out and Passion Fish. He’s additionally sometimes finished a little bit of performing, principally in cameos like as a memorable FBI agent in Spike Lee’s basic Malcolm X.
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Werner Herzog – Jack Reacher
German director isn’t shy about being in entrance of the digicam as he typically seems in his personal movies and sometimes acts in different stuff, like taking part in an exquisite function on The Mandalorian on Disney Plus. He additionally makes an ideal cameo within the Tom Cruise-led Jack Reacher from 2012.
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Martin Brest – Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Before Martin Brest hit the massive time as a director of such ’80s classics as Beverly Hills Cop and the criminally underrated Midnight Run, he scored a small performing function as a coroner in Fast Times At Ridgemont High by director Amy Heckerling.
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Orson Welles – The Muppet Movie
Mel Brooks has a reasonably substantial function in The Muppet Movie, however he is not the one director to look within the film. Hollywood legend Orson Welles additionally seems within the film. Welles was an enormous fan of Jim Henson and the Muppets and labored with them on a couple of occassion as effectively.
