It is 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 method or one other. It is rarer for a director to look in a fellow director’s film. It is hardly exceptional, 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.
Steven Spielberg – The Blues Brothers
Earlier than the tragic accident on the set of The Twilight Zone, John Landis and Steven Spielberg had been good buddies. So good, in reality, that Spielberg confirmed up in a cameo within the Landis traditional The Blues Brothers. Spielberg performs the Cook dinner Nation Accessor on the finish of the film who takes cost from Jake and Elwood.
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 usually, even his personal, so it is a enjoyable second in a film by a legend, starring a legend as a legend.
John Landis – Spider-man 2
John Landis has twice finished cameos in Sam Rami motion pictures, each occasions showing as a physician, probably the most well-known of which was in Spider-Man 2 the place he performs a physician killed by Physician Octopus after performing surgical procedure on the villain. It is a tremendous fast second and one that’s straightforward to overlook.
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 knowledgeable in Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich.
Roger Corman – The Silence Of The Lambs
Legendary B-movie director Roger Corman has a behavior of displaying 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.
George Lucas – Beverly Hills Cop III
Beverly Hills Cop 3 is a fairly horrible film, although fortunately the franchise was redeemed many years later with Axel F. Nonetheless, there’s a fairly humorous cameo within the film when none apart from George Lucas pops into the film as a disgruntled patron of the amusement park that’s central to the story.
Tim Burton – Singles
Tim Burton isn’t a director that exhibits up on the opposite aspect of the digital camera 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.
Sam Raimi – Miller’s Crossing
Sam Raimi is a director with a number of performing roles on his resume, in his personal movie and within the motion pictures by buddies 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 method beneath 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, in contrast to many on this listing.
Quentin Tarantino – Sleep With Me
Quentin Tarantino is all the time 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 social gathering visitor who breaks down the film Prime Gun in a really unconventional method.
Martin Scorsese – Quiz Present
Martin Scorsese’s most well-known on display screen second is as a rider in Travis’ (Robert De Niro) cab in his personal film, Taxi Driver. He additionally exhibits up in Qui Present, directed by Robert Redford.
Tobe Hooper – Sleepwalkers
Tobe Hooper is a horror film legend for his work directing the slasher traditional The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath within the Nineteen Seventies. In 1992 he popped up in a cameo working alongside Stephen King within the adaptation of King’s novel Sleepwalkers.
John Waters – One thing Wild
Director John Waters has been in lots of his personal motion pictures, however he sometimes exhibits up in different motion pictures as effectively, like One thing Wild by director Jonathan Demme in 1986. Waters performs a sketchy automobile vendor within the film and is likely one of the most enjoyable elements of the film.
Amy Heckerling – Into The Night time
1985’s Into the Night time was John Landis’ return to directing after being cleared of manslaughter fees on account of the on-set tragedy in the course of the filming of The Twilight Zone film. Within the film, one other director, Amy Heckerling exhibits up in a cameo as a waitress.
Jonathan Demme – That Factor You Do!
Appropriately Jonathan Demme, who had various administrators seem in his movies, performs a movie director in That Factor You Do! It is a temporary position, after all, and it is likely one of the solely occasions the late Demme appeared in one other director’s movie. Into the Night time by John Landis being one other.
Roger Corman – The Godfather Half II
Roger Corman, one of the influential administrators of all time had a couple of cameos over his profession with one of the memorable coming in The Godfather II, the place he performed one of many senators grilling Michael Corlene (Al Pacino) within the Francis Ford Coppola traditional.
Spike Jonze – The Sport
Earlier than David Fincher returned the favor for Spike Jonze in Being John Malkovich, Jonze appeared in Fincher’s The Sport, one of the underrated motion pictures by a big-time director.
Wes Craven – Jay And Silent Bob Strike Again
The late Wes Craven appeared in motion pictures or TV exhibits as an actor 24 occasions in response to IMDB, although most of his film appearances had been in his personal motion pictures. One exception was when he appeared in Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again taking part in a model of himself directing a cartoonish model of Scream.
Frank Oz – Spies Like Us
Frank Oz has appeared as an actor in a bunch of flicks, together with The Blues Brothers, Buying and selling Locations, Knives Out, to not point out all his puppet and voice work over time. One among his greatest cameos got here in Spies Like Us the place he performed the proctor of a civil service examination. It is really a traditional and perhaps the funniest second within the film.
Cameron Crowe – Minority Report
Cameron Crowe has a very temporary cameo as a person on using public transportation in Minority Report by director Steven Spielberg. For those who blink – or aren’t certain what he seems to be like – you are certain to overlook the second, however it’s there. In reality, one other Cameron, Cameron Diaz, is within the background of the identical scene.
Robert Downey, Sr. – Boogie Nights
In his day, Robert Downey Sr. was fairly well-known. In fact, that fame has been eclipsed by his son, however that does not imply he did carry a number of respect throughout the trade even late in his life. Like when Paul Thomas Anderson labored him right into a cameo in Boogie Nights.
Frank Darabont – King Kong
For a lot of, The Shawshank Redemption is the perfect film of the Nineteen Nineties. It is director, Frank Darabont, does 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 is one other “blink-and-you-will-miss-it” sort of position.
Lawrence Kasdan – As Good As It Will get
Author and director Lawrence Kasdan is most well-known for writing each Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi. He is additionally directed motion pictures like Grand Canyon, The Large Chill, and Silverado. On uncommon events, he is taken performing roles like he did in As Good As It Will get, 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 aspect digital camera can also be director James Cameron, who solely has a couple of performing credit to his identify.
Mel Brooks – The Muppet Film
it is definitely not shocking to see Mel Brooks on the large display screen, however it’s uncommon to see in a film that he did not write and direct. That is a part of what makes his cameo in The Muppet Film a lot enjoyable. The legendary EGOT winner performs the evil Professor Krassman who’s working to regulate the minds of frogs. It is value noting that regardless of his pleasant efficiency, it is not one which contributed to his EGOT.
Eli Roth – Inglourious Basterds
Eli Roth is as a lot an actor as he’s a director, although lately he is focused on the latter. Positive he seems in his personal movies, however he is additionally been a collaborator with Quentin Tarantino a few occasions, first in Demise Proof after which in a extra distinguished position in Inglourious Basterds.
Jim Jarmusch – Sling Blade
Director Jim Jarmusch has a singular model 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.
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 Collection in 1988. He exhibits up in a cameo in Jason X.
John Sayles – Malcolm X
John Sayles has directed some nice motion pictures over time together with Eight Males Out and Ardour Fish. He is additionally sometimes finished a little bit of performing, principally in cameos like as a memorable FBI agent in Spike Lee’s traditional Malcolm X.
Werner Herzog – Jack Reacher
German director isn’t shy about being in entrance of the digital camera as he usually seems in his personal movies and sometimes acts in different stuff, like taking part in a beautiful position on The Mandalorian on Disney Plus. He additionally makes an ideal cameo within the Tom Cruise-led Jack Reacher from 2012.
Martin Brest – Quick Occasions At Ridgemont Excessive
Earlier than Martin Brest hit the large time as a director of such ’80s classics as Beverly Hills Cop and the criminally underrated Midnight Run, he scored a small performing position as a coroner in Quick Occasions At Ridgemont Excessive by director Amy Heckerling.
Orson Welles – The Muppet Film
Mel Brooks has a reasonably substantial position in The Muppet Film, however he isn’t 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 multiple occassion as effectively.