History Main / CreatorCameo

* Cary Bates appears in ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' #228.

** A TV director in ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'' who says to Tony Randall, "I can't do anything. I'm just the director."
** The head of the household burglarized by Jenny in ''Film/GangsOfNewYork''.

** The male radio dispatcher in ''Film/BringingOutTheDead''.

* [[ComicBook/TheCrow James O'Barr]] appears in ''Film/TheCrow'' as a man who steals a TV from the burning pawn shop.

* Creator/SandroBotticelli: In his "Adoration of the Magi", the main focus is on the Three Magi kings arriving at Jesus' birthplace to shower him with royal gifts and worship him. One of the minor characters is Botticelli himself.
* Creator/RaphaelSanzio's self-portrait is hidden in the crowd of Greek philosophers from ''The School of Athens'', set apart from the others by the AsideGlance he gives to the audience.

* Cary Bates appears in ''Franchise/TheFlash'' #228.

* Another Stan Lee and Jack Kirby cameo appears in an early issue of Creator/ChrisClaremont's ''Franchise/XMen'' run; in it the two spot ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} and ComicBook/JeanGrey growing as a couple and comment on how far the two have come since they originally worked on the book.

* ''Series/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians2023'': Creator/RickRiordan, the executive producer and the author of [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians the original books]], has a cameo in the first episode as a Yancy Academy staff member. He's on the headmaster's right during Percy's expulsion.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: When working on a retool Creator/RobertKanigher drew himself in the comic, and had his avatar personally "fire" a bunch of characters from the book.

* ''ComicBook/{{Gwenpool}} Strikes Again'' has both an intermission from the character's creator, Christopher Hastings, and a scene where Gwen's exploitation of the fourth wall has her scaring artist David Baldeon to drop coffee on the page.

* In ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'', various Jackbox Games employees make cameos, especially as incidental characters or background voices during sign-in.

* Creator/HideoKojima lends his voice to [[spoiler:Psycho Mantis' passing-on scene]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''.

* George Lucas makes a brief cameo in ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' as a man in a troll suit.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}'' you can get its creator's, Chris England, face on one of your poor redshirts.

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* The first ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has a cameo by Shu Takumi's dog Missile, as an enthusiastic (but not very useful) police dog.
** A different Missile becomes a full-on cast member in Takumi's later game ''VideoGame/GhostTrick''. This time he's a Pomeranian, which is the same breed as Takumi's Missile.
** Jacques Portsman's design is based on his voice actor, Yuuki Furukawa.
** Buddy Faith was originally based on another member of the design team, who later asked them to make Buddy look less like him. Apparently he wasn't comfortable seeing himself as a corpse.
** In a more minor example, the characters' voices are provided by members of the dev team (the localization team for the English versions) rather than dedicated voice actors - for instance, Manfred von Karma is voiced by the first game's composer, Masakazu Sugimori, in the Japanese version, while his daughter Franziska is played by localizer Janet Hsu in the English version.
** In the ''Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' film adaptation, Shu is seen in the gallery celebrating with Larry Butz after Edgeworth's trial.
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', the convenience store "Aura Mart" is named after one of the lead writers of the game.
* The PSP visual novel ''VisualNovel/SweetFuseAtYourSide'' features the afformentioned Creator/KeijiInafune as the manager of an amusement park, with the player assuming the role of Saki Inafune, Keiji's (fictional) niece.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' :

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E92PersonOrPersonsUnknown Person or Persons Unknown]]", the patient who believes himself to be UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is played by the director John Brahm.
* In ''Series/GoodOmens'', Creator/NeilGaiman is a cinema patron in the scene where Hastur takes control of a film about cute bunnies to contact Crowley, and is also the voice artist in the film. Several creative methods are used to give Creator/TerryPratchett cameos despite his death, including his hat being left in Aziraphale's bookshop, and Paul Kaye, who played him in the DocuDrama ''Terry Pratchett: Back in Black'', as the Electricity Board spokesman on the radio (referencing Sir Terry's early job as a press officer for three nuclear power stations). (According to Gaiman, when Sir Terry was alive, he proposed that their cameo should be in the background of the scene in the sushi bar, so they could spend it eating sushi.)

** Robert Downey, Sr., who directed "Children's Zoo", "Teacher's Aide" and "Tooth and Consequences", played Mr. Miller in "Wordplay".
** Creator/WesCraven, who directed seven episodes, played Edgar, one of the imprisoned parents, in "Children's Zoo".
** In "Opening Day", the director Creator/JohnMilius plays a party guest who tries to sexually harass Sally Wilkerson.
* In the SeasonFinale of Season Three of ''Series/BlackLightning'', when the heroes are giving evidence at an inquiry into the ASA's actions, the judical panel includes Judge Isabella, played by Tony Isabella, and Judge von Eeden, played by Trevor von Eeden; the original ''ComicBook/BlackLightning'' creative team.

* Most of Creator/StephenJCannell's on-camera appearances were in [[Series/MagnumPI other]] [[Series/{{Castle}} people's]] productions, but he also appeared in ''Series/TenspeedAndBrownShoe'' and ''Series/SilkStalkings'', and had a recurring role on ''Series/{{Renegade}}'' (as the BigBad, no less).

* ''Comicbook/{{Grandville}}: Force Majure'' by Creator/BryanTalbot, has a brief appearance by a true-crime writer named Byron Turbot, who offers to write up Inspector [=LeBrock=]'s adventures. [=LeBrock=] is not impressed.

* In ''[[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Video Game]]'', in Lucas Lee's stage, twice a guy jumps into the action with [[BuffySpeak one of those things you use to yell "Cut!" or "Action!"]] and begin an encounter. The guy is Edgar Wright, the director of the film. [[DeathByCameo Wright can even be seen within the pile of dead bodies in the Stage 2 end cutscene.]]

* ''Film/TheHowling'': Co-producer Creator/JohnSayles appears as a morgue attendant.