Odd cameos in films that are often missed

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  1. Jord

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    Elvis Presley in Home Alone

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  2. Rick Bartlett

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    Who likes a good mystery?

    By some accounts, Clint Eastwood appears as a 'cameo' in 1957's 'The Enemy Below' unaccredited.
    I've watched this movie 100 times, it's one of my all time favorites, and I'm never entirely convinced.
    Some speculation of if or maybe it's him in background scenes, but nothing seems 'official'.
    The movie is available on YT:

    There's some back and forth discussion it's the guy at 28:28 in the red helmet, but I don't think so.
    The only guy I've seen in the film that comes close, is the guy in the back at 31:14 standing between
    the 'XO' and the 'Capt'.....
    However, if you forward to 1:04:22, assuming it's the same guy, looks nothing like Clint before putting his helmet on.
    It's bugged me for a long time........
    If anybody has any ideas, I'd like to know.
    ;)
     
  3. Sammy Waslow

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    Cate Blanchett in Hot Fuzz. :)
     
  4. Sammy Waslow

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    Richard Dreyfuss in The Graduate hardly qualifies as a cameo.

    Tony Curtis in Rosemary's Baby is voice only, talking on the phone to Rosemary. He plays Donald Baumgart, the actor who goes blind and is replaced by Guy.
    Mia Farrow had not been told who would be delivering the lines. She recognised his voice but could not place it. Her slight confusion was exactly what Polanski hoped for.
     
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  5. Wildest cat from montana

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    Oh ! I always thought I recognized that voice but just couldn't place it !
    Thanks for that.
     
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    Stephen Colbert in The Hobbit.
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  7. Bingo Bongo

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    I did not know that.:shrug:
     
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  8. finslaw

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    I assume you knew that was Mike Myers as the producer saying, "we need a song teenagers can bang their heads to in a car. Bohemian Rhapsody is not that song."

    I didn't until someone told me.
     
  9. Scooterpiety

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    Penny's appearance in 1941 wasn't really a cameo; most of her scenes was cut from the theatrical print, but the longer versions shown on TV and video restore her scenes.
    There are several other "cameos" in 1941 - James Caan, Patti Lupone, Mickey Rourke, John Landis, Sam Fuller, "Lenny & Squiggy"...
     
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    Has that been positively confirmed? I seem to remember some question about his appearing in the film.
     
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    I find that funny, I recognized his voice the first time I saw the film in 1984. You never see his face very clearly, but his voice is unmistakable.
     
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    William Windom & Kevin Bacon in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Both actors had recently appeared in another John Hughes film, She's Having a Baby.
     
  13. Wiserforthetime

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    He is the voice on the phone of the actor that switched ties with John Cassavetes.
     
  14. MortSahlFan

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    Al Kooper in "Nashville"
     
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  15. The Panda

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    John Irving in World According to Garp
    Ackroyd again in Twilight Zone
     
  16. MikaelaArsenault

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    How about Danny Aiello in The Godfather Part II?
     
  17. SmallDarkCloud

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    This is the first one that came to my mind when I saw this thread.

    Deborah Winger makes a cameo in E.T. in a Halloween costume. She's wearing either zombie makeup or a mask (it's hard to tell), so it's not obvious.

    Maybe not unusual, but Jamie Lee Curtis provided the voice of a telephone operator in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, so, technically, she's in the first three Halloween films.
     
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  18. Oatsdad

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    Aykroyd has a large enough role in "Twilight Zone" that I wouldn't call it a "cameo".

    Also, no one missed him in the part - he was front and center...
     
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    I assume that The List of Adrian Messenger doesn't count...............:D
     
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    Spielberg in that 1980 'Chicago Disaster Movie'.
     
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  21. Timeless Classics

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    Chris Isaak in Silence of the Lambs
     
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    robert duvall

    invasion of the bodysnatchers 1978

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  24. audiodefiled

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    I've seen that movie over 5 times and never caught that either, and I'm usually pretty good at recognizing people. Just watched born on the fourth of july for the first time since it's release and I don't recall spotting stone as the reporter first time around. I probably didn't know what he looked like back then.
     
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    David Bowie was supposedly on set and in the background of a couple shots of
    Killing of a Chinese Bookie in the 70's

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    there was a long thread on imdb with people picking him out, i cant remember seeing him tho
     
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