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| 6 | ->''"Hey, is it time for the cameo yet? Mine, I mean."'' |
| 7 | -->-- '''Creator/StanLee''', ''WebAnimation/BadDays'' teaser |
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| 11 | One popular form of TheCameo is to have a franchise's creator, or a film's director or producer, appear in the franchise itself. |
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| 13 | Similar to AuthorAvatar, but an Author Avatar is a creator appearing as more or less themselves, as opposed to a cameo as someone else. Many comics will have either their original creators or the artists of the current ComicBookRun drawn in as background characters, although they rarely have dialogue. In video games, very likely to appear in any DevelopersRoom. |
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| 15 | May lead to DeathByCameo. When the creator plays the part of an actual character rather than a simple cameo, they're a DescendedCreator. See also InsertCameo and CompanyCameo. |
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| 17 | !!Examples: |
| 18 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 19 | |
| 20 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 21 | * One of the Advertising/AirNewZealandSafetyVideos, "An Unexpected Briefing", has an appearance from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/TheHobbit'' director Creator/PeterJackson. |
| 22 | * The Christmas 2015 Sainsbury advert featuring Creator/JudithKerr's ''[[Literature/{{Mog}} Mog the Forgetful Cat]]'' has Kerr appear as one of the neighbours. |
| 23 | [[/folder]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 26 | * Creator/OsamuTezuka does this a lot in his works. He appears as a museum tourist in ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion''. |
| 27 | * Tezuka makes appearances in several chapters of ''Manga/BlackJack''. |
| 28 | ** In "Legs of an Ant", Tezuka draws himself as a passer-by warning Mitsuo about a forest fire on the road ahead. Amusingly, he has "Why am I here anyway?" written on the back of his shirt. |
| 29 | ** In "U-18 Knew", Tezuka appears as a patient suffering from "chronic deadlinitis". |
| 30 | ** He also cameos as the doctor in "Tenacity" who helps cancer-ridden medical student Yamanobe to treat another cancer patient before he dies. |
| 31 | * Creator/GoNagai has appeared in many of his manga adaptations, including the live-action ''Anime/CuteyHoney'' (the movie saw Honey smashing the window of his car giving Nagai a nice PantyShot, while in ''Cutie Honey the Live'', he appears in the DVD exclusive 26th episode) and ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}'' productions. |
| 32 | * Creator/AkiraToriyama makes several cameos throughout his works, whether they're in the manga he draws or the anime based on them, usually to poke fun at himself or provide a throwaway quip. On [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zvTFoyG2c at least one occasion]] he even lent his voice to a guest appearance during an interlude in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/DrSlump''. |
| 33 | * [[Creator/ShinichiWatanabe Shinichi "Nabeshin" Watanabe]] has made this his signature, most prominently in ''Anime/ExcelSaga''. ES also heavily features Koshi Rikdo, the creator of the original comic, and many of the episode openings revolve around the two butting heads about what direction the story should go. |
| 34 | * Hiroaki Samura appears in the anime version of ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' as a pinwheel salesman. |
| 35 | * Fujiki Shun also appears on several occasions in his manga ''Manga/HajimeteNoAku''. |
| 36 | * A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example: In episode 13 of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Roy and Ed are having an alchemy duel and Roy sends one of his flame attacks into the crowd, causing them to fly into the air. One of the soldiers flies past the screen in such a way that his face takes up most of the screen at one point, and looks suspiciously Japanese, considering Ed's country is apparently supposed to be European of sorts. If you compare the man to a picture of the director of the anime, you'll see they're one and the same. |
| 37 | ** The bovine self-caricature of original creator Hiromu Arakawa makes stealth appearances in several episodes as well, including the scene in which Winry is yelling at a hospitalized Ed to drink his milk, and again much later on when Sheska is describing her UFO-related conspiracy theories to Winry. |
| 38 | * Director Kenji Kamiyama: |
| 39 | ** He appears briefly in one scene of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' -- he's driving a car in some security feed footage pulled up by Section 9 while they try to track down Hideo Kuze. |
| 40 | ** And his name is called in the airport during the final ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'' film. |
| 41 | * Creator/StanLee is seen quite a lot in ''Manga/HeroMan''. And in ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo''. In fact, the Stan Lee cameo (Dunstan) ''kicked off the plot'' by creating the mechanical boys. |
| 42 | * Creator/KenAkamatsu: |
| 43 | ** He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kh6aW6Ho7w appears to help out]] a couple of the residents of the Hinata Inn in the ''Manga/LoveHina [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Special]]''. |
| 44 | ** Motoko & Kitsune hijacked his boat in the New Years' special. He is always overtly called by his name in these situations, though... likely because no one would be able to tell who he was since he is drawn pretty much identically to Keitaro (to the surprise of no-one). |
| 45 | * Creator/MasashiKishimoto appears on a billboard in the third chapter of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. |
| 46 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 47 | ** In a movie short based on a soccer competition, the author of the manga, going by his nickname Odacchi, makes an appearance as the "world's best soccer player." His shot is the ''only'' [[SelfDeprecation one the goalie successfully catches and blocks]]. His team is not happy. |
| 48 | ** Eiichiro Oda later appears in the PlatformFighter ''One Piece: Gigant Battle 2'' as an assist character. He can weaponize objects he's drawn. (He has no collaboration on the game itself though.) |
| 49 | * Creator/YoshiyukiTomino appears in ''[[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Ideon: Be Invoked]]''. Not even he was spared. |
| 50 | * Series Director Yasuhiro Imagawa appears in ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'''s second opening, in the sequence showing [[HuskyRusskie Argo]] in a crowded Hong Kong street; Imagawa's the guy in the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Federation]] uniform. |
| 51 | * Music/DaftPunk, who helped create ''Anime/Interstella5555'', show up briefly at an award show the Crescendolls are attending. [[SelfDeprecation They didn't win any awards,]] by the way. |
| 52 | * The manga writer and voice actress Creator/MasumiAsano makes an appearance in each episode of ''Manga/SeiyusLife'' [[RecurringExtra posing as some background character]] or AsHerself. Doubles as a CelebrityParadox since ''Seiyu's Life!'' takes place in the same universe as ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' (where she voices Risa). |
| 53 | * Carl Macek often took small parts in the anime movies whose dubs he produced, such as Fox in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''. |
| 54 | * Played with in ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'', a loose adaptation of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play, in which an {{Expy}} of Shakespeare himself is a supporting character. |
| 55 | * This happened with ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'' where its creator Shuuichi Asou voices his AuthorAvatar god persona in the last segment of the 20th episode of the anime adaptation, telling Saiki that it's the 100th episode and it's airing on its 100th week. Except that Saiki tells him it’s the 20th week. He does it again in the last segment of the season 2 finale. |
| 56 | * In episode 7 of the ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' anime, one of the unseen bystanders that the TV reporter is talking to is named Mr. Okayado. |
| 57 | * ''[[Anime/DaiconIIIAndIV Daicon III]]'': Producers Toshio Okada and Yasuhiro Takeda cameo at the helm of the ''Daicon'' near the end of the short. |
| 58 | * ''Manga/MoonlightAct'': In the final chapter [[spoiler:after Gekko Iwasaki made his HeroicSacrifice sealing the BigBad along with himself from destroying both the fairy tale world and our world, his friends quickly rush to the mangaka studio of Creator/KazuhiroFujita begging him to create a new series to bring their friend back into our world.]] |
| 59 | ** Fujita almost made an appearance at the end of his short story “Shall we go out by walking into the night” where its revealed [[spoiler:that he was the great grandson of the main protagonist and his love interest a DamselInDistress.]] |
| 60 | * One of the crewmembers of ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' put himself on a billboard in the abandoned Times Square. |
| 61 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' spinoff ''Manga/FourTownFourReal'', the director of the film, Domee Shi, makes a cameo as a fan of 4*Town. |
| 62 | * [=UrumaDelvi=]'s segment in ''Anime/WinterDays'' stars their two {{Author Avatar}}s, who appeared in several more of their animations. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Art]] |
| 66 | * Creator/SandroBotticelli: In his "Art/{{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. |
| 67 | * ''Art/RaphaelRooms'': Creator/RaphaelSanzio's self-portrait is hidden in the crowd of Greek philosophers in "The School of Athens"; he's set apart from the others by the AsideGlance he gives to the audience. |
| 68 | * Creator/RembrandtVanRijn did many self-portraits, but one of his best-known is a mostly-obscured figure in ''Art/TheNightWatch'', looking directly at the viewer. |
| 69 | ** This was parodied in Paul Kidby's cover of the Discworld book ''[[Literature/NightWatchDiscworld Night Watch]]'', where he put Josh Kirby, who did most of the cover art for the previous books, in Rembrandt's place. |
| 70 | * French author and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the restoration of [[UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} Notre-Dame de Paris]], including the addition of the famous spire at the crossing (which was destroyed in a fire in 2019). The spire was decorated with statues of the Twelve Apostles, and the statue of Thomas was given Viollet-le-Duc's face. |
| 71 | * Velázquez painted himself into ''Art/LasMeninas''; he's the leftmost figure at the easel. This gives the impression that he was about to paint a royal portrait, but then painted himself painting it instead. Notably, he is bearing the honor of the Santiago Cross, which he did not yet have at the time this was made; it may have been added in at a later date. |
| 72 | * ''Art/VenusAndCupidGentileschi'': Venus' face bears Gentislechi's features. Since this painting was part of a bigger commission by a rich patron (there were more artists hired), it counts as a cameo. |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 76 | * ComicBook/BlueBeetle creative team Len Wein and Paris Cullins appear in the fourth issue of Ted Kord's first DC solo series. |
| 77 | * Creator/GrantMorrison has a door in the 4th wall. They even appear in comics that they didn't write (''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' #58, ''Tales of the Unexpected'' v2 #7, and ''[[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harley Quinn/Power Girl]]'' #3). |
| 78 | * Creator/{{Herge}}, the author of ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'', was quite fond of making cameos in his own comics, and later the cartoon series. [[http://www.tintinmilou.free.fr/rg/where.htm Full list here]]. He shows up in a very heartwarming cameo in the very beginning of [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011 the Spielberg/Jackson film]], as well. As the film opens, Tintin is in a flea market getting a caricature of his face drawn (in the style of the comic, naturally), and when we get a glimpse of the artist, it's Hergé! He remarks that Tintin's face is very familiar, and wonders if he's drawn him before. |
| 79 | * Creator/StanLee had cameos in Creator/MarvelComics from the beginning; he and Creator/JackKirby were denied access to [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Sue and Reed's]] wedding. One more memorable (and more recent cameo) casts him as the priest who marries James Hudson and Heather [=McNeil=] (Guardian and Vindicator of ComicBook/AlphaFlight.) |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': A Stan Lee and Jack Kirby cameo appears in an early issue of Creator/ChrisClaremont's ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' 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. |
| 81 | * Paul Jenkins, the writer who created ComicBook/TheSentry, appeared as himself in a ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' story that revolved around the character's origin. |
| 82 | * ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Cary Bates appears in ''ComicBook/TheFlash1959'' #228. |
| 83 | * Artist Kurt Schaffenberger drew himself into many stories he illustrated. (Look for a tall, thin, dark haired man with a mustache and wearing glasses.) |
| 84 | * ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' creators Creator/KurtBusiek, Brent Anderson, and Creator/AlexRoss appear as three bank robbers hiding in a sewer in the "Confession" story arc. |
| 85 | * The co-creators of ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'', writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener, appear in ''Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time'' #5 as Louis and Martin, respectively, the two bumbling Action Scientists who almost accidentally end the universe. |
| 86 | * In ''Literature/DirtyPair: Fatal but Not Serious'', a picture of author/illustrator Adam Warren appears on the label of "Adam's Cranberry Lambic" beer. |
| 87 | * Creator Fred Perry of ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' often loves doing these in his comics. He's usually the bald black person meandering around in the background or doing news reports. |
| 88 | * Albert Uderzo frequently drew himself and René Goscinny into ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' as background characters. In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'', the second book after Goscinny's death, Uderzo gives him a greater role as the Gauls' Judean ally Saul ben Ephishul. There is a list of appearances [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070210093509/http://www.asterix.co.nz/fun/findauthors/index.html here]]. |
| 89 | * ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'': Goscinny and especially Tabary made occasional cameo appearances in the series. |
| 90 | ** In "The Time Machine", the time-travelling scientist who suddenly appears in the palace is drawn to look like Jean Tabary. |
| 91 | ** The title object in "The Magic Calendar" transports Iznogoud forward through time when he tears off pages; he tears off too many and ends up in Tabary's studio in the 20th century. |
| 92 | ** In "Dark Designs", when Iznogoud's art skills are not good enough to trigger a magic pencil and paper that makes anyone drawn with it disappear when the paper is torn in half, he takes art lessons from Tahbari al-Tardi (Tabary being noted for his inability to keep to a schedule). |
| 93 | ** Jean Tabary is one of the unfortunate victims of the title object in "The Box of Souvenirs", a camera that traps people and objects in its photographs, as we discover when Wa'at Alahf presents an exhibition of the camera's output after his boss inevitably gets himself trapped in a photograph. |
| 94 | * ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Writer Creator/PeterDavid cameos as the priest who officiates the wedding of the Hulk's friend Rick Jones to Marlo Chandler. |
| 95 | * In an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', Spider Jerusalem is accosted in a bar by a man who wants his son mentioned in Spider's column. He bears a striking physical resemblance to the comic's writer, Creator/WarrenEllis, while the man accompanying him looks just like its artist, Darick Robertson. |
| 96 | ** Both Ellis and Robertson show up several issues later, drawn much more like themselves, as people attending the election night party in Spider's apartment. |
| 97 | * In ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', the [[RecursiveAdaptation comic book adaptation]] of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', the Terrible Trio of the Perfessor, the Mastermind, and Mr Nice are based on the then Creator/DCComics group editors: Denny O'Neil, Mike Carlin, and Archie Goodwin. |
| 98 | * Creator/ChrisClaremont appears a few times over the course of his fifteen years writing the ''X-Men'' series, and when he does, something awful usually happens to him. In an early appearance, he's nearly crushed by falling debris during a fight between Phoenix and Firelord. Later, he has his car stolen by Kitty Pryde in the ''Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem'' one-shot and ends up marooned in the middle of nowhere in Scotland, and an employee of Mojo's who acts a lot like him gets killed. |
| 99 | * In ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' #511, the Fantastic Four go to meet God, and find Jack Kirby at his drawing board. |
| 100 | * Creator/JohnByrne: |
| 101 | ** During his run on ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', appeared in the comic as the guy who wrote and drew the in-universe ''Fantastic Four'' comic. The Watcher actually picked him up and brought him into space so both he and Byrne could watch the trial of Reed Richards. |
| 102 | ** He also appeared in a ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' story and in ComicBook/StarBrand, during a Comic-con. |
| 103 | * Mark Gruenwald and [=Tom DeFalco=] both appear in Creator/MarvelComics. |
| 104 | * John Wagner appeared in a ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' strip called ''Old Pals Act'', where he runs amok around the Big Meg in a [[ItMakesSenseInContext bathtub]]. |
| 105 | * Ponies resembling both Katie Cook and Andy Price appear in the first issue, page 3 of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW''. Pony!Katie briefly appears later to laugh at a mule joke, who happens to represent her husband (he hates Fluttershy, so this was revenge). This also counts as an indirect example of InterspeciesRomance. Andy has drawn himself along with his wife as pony characters at least twice (Issue #1, and [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries the Rarity Micro-comic]]). |
| 106 | ** Wild Fire, the pony avatar of series storyboard artist Sabrina "Sibsy" Alberghetti, appears in issue #1. |
| 107 | ** The troll in issue #2, named Jim in story, is [[https://twitter.com/AndyPriceArt/status/286653854882332672 based on Jim Miller]]. |
| 108 | ** An early panel of #7 shows [=OCs=] of Sibsy (Wild Fire) and fan musician Mando Pony and a later panel has an appearance from Holly Giesbrech (Holly Dash) among other background ponies in Ponyville. |
| 109 | * The ponies based on Katie Cook, Andy Price, and his wife from Issue #1 of the [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW ongoing]] return in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3. Katie can be seen playing cards during the after-party, while Andy and his wife are at the second fashion show. |
| 110 | ** Sleepy Skies, the OC of Cat Whitney who is a close friend of storyboardist Sabrina Alberghetti, appears in one shot. |
| 111 | ** [[spoiler:Creator/TaraStrong's fan-made OC (the one with the toga and heart-on-microphone cutie mark) appears during the second fashion show. An odd cameo, seeing as this issue doesn't focus on Twilight.]] |
| 112 | * The current director of Marvel's Project: Pegasus organization is a "Dr. Gruenwald," who's there to honor the late Mark Gruenwald, the Project's original creator. |
| 113 | * ''ComicBook/SupermanTheWeddingAlbum'' has Jerry Siegel as the priest, plus several artists who worked on the Superman titles, including all the then current creative teams, as attendants. |
| 114 | * ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats #38'' has an teenaged Dan De Carlo running into Josie with the [[HeadTurningBeauty usual results]] when he meets Melody. |
| 115 | * ''ComicBook/TooMuchCoffeeMan'': Shannon Wheeler is an independent comic author mistakenly referred to as "some girl", who haphazardly staples comic pages together and tries to sell them at a local comic shop. |
| 116 | * In ''What If Jessica Jones Had Joined the Avengers?'', Creator/BrianMichaelBendis is in the story, at a bar, narrating the story. |
| 117 | * The third issue of the second ''ComicBook/DuckTales'' comic features Ducks Comics writer and artist and Uncle Scrooge creator Creator/CarlBarks appear as Scrooge's banker who ends up assisting Glomgold. Barks was notably drawn in a cartoonish human style rather than designed as a duck or a dogfaced figure. |
| 118 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001'''s first writer was Creator/MarkMillar. A scene in an airport had a guy with a sign for "Millar". |
| 119 | * J.H. Williams III drew himself as a bar patron in issue #2 of ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}''. |
| 120 | * Writer Creator/TomKing and artist Mitch Gerads appear as audience members in issue #12 of ''[[ComicBook/MisterMiracle2017 Mister Miracle]]'', as do publishers Creator/DanDidio and Creator/JimLee. |
| 121 | * ''ComicBook/StarTrekUntoldVoyages'': The writer Glenn Greenburg and the editor Tim Tuohy are depicted as Starfleet officers on the third page of the fifth and final issue "Odyssey's End". |
| 122 | * The second Commander of ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri, Yuri Pogorelich, is modeled after writer Peter Gillis. |
| 123 | * ''ComicBook/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. |
| 124 | * The cover of ''ComicBook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'' #1 [[http://assets2.ignimgs.com/2015/12/23/rszpatsy2015001maincoverjpg-c736e0_1280w.jpg has writer]] Creator/KateLeth (tattoed blonde) and artist Brittney Williams (bespectacled black). In the comic itself, issue #7 has both getting autographs from the heroine, and the following one features them in a bar. |
| 125 | * ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'': ''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. |
| 126 | * ''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. |
| 127 | * ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': Creator/FranciscoIbanez is a semi-regular presence in his stories, some of them even plot-important. Usually in a SelfDeprecatingHumor manner. |
| 128 | * ''ComicBook/GiraffesOnHorsebackSalad'': In flashbacks, the Surrealist Woman's father resembles Creator/SalvadorDali. |
| 129 | * Creator/AlexRoss included Creator/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster, Creator/BobKane, Creator/BillFinger, Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston, H.G. Peters, and Martin Nodell in the background of ComicBook/KingdomCome, behind their respective creations; ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/WonderWoman, and ComicBook/GreenLantern |
| 130 | * ''Comicbook/NightwingInfiniteFrontier'' #79 introduces Marv & George's Pizza, a pizzeria named after Creator/MarvWolfman and Creator/GeorgePerez; the creators of the Nightwing identity in ''Comicbook/TheNewTeenTitans'', and the owners are clearly modelled on the creators. In #112, Dick takes the whole Batfamily there. Marv tells Dick he's proud of everything he's done, and so was George. This scene was actually written by Wolfman. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 134 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'': Creator Greg Evans and his daughter/co-writer Karen showed up in their strip to [[http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2014/09/28 wish the title character a happy 18th birthday]]. They could also be seen (along with Greg's wife Betty) among the guests at [[http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2016/12/11 Brad and Toni's wedding]]. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 138 | * In ''Fanfic/TheApprenticeTheStudentAndTheCharlatan'', the author Rytex inserted his ponysona Quantum Bit into a few chapters in Neighton, and then had him show up in the finale chapter BrainwashedAndCrazy to get the shit beat out of him by Aegis. In the noncanon interlude chapter, Q-Bit even interacts with Aegis a bit more directly as the author, and not as a character. |
| 139 | * In one ''[[Fanfic/TheMansionverse Mansionverse]]'' story, the Hatbox Ghost complains about the fact that one of the authors of the comics never draws his hatbox well. The name of the comics author in question is not cited, but the Hatbox Ghost gives enough clues to conclude that it is supposed to be user Benthehyena, one of the primary members of the team that developed the Fan Verse. |
| 140 | * In ''Fanfic/TheNumbershots'', there are occasionally cameo appearances by the author or some of his friends who created the characters: |
| 141 | ** Taylor Gorrel, the author of the Fanfiction, appears as himself in Deckshibition Chapter 10. He is an Armor Monster duelist who ends up dueling Yuma. |
| 142 | ** Yin-Yang Yoh (the original creator of Mia, the love interest for Astral in this Fanfiction) appears in Chapter 3 of Numbershot 1 as a competitor of the tournament with an Alien Deck, where he duels Yamoto. |
| 143 | * In the April Fools' Day chapter of ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'', the Man in the Top Hat is quite obviously the author of the story, who appears to to his characters in a body resembling his avatar pic. |
| 144 | * In ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'', in order to convey the correct amount of surprise in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12971269370A74820100&page=18585#464601 this]] post, Jacob's author made a gif of himself doing Jacob's expressions. |
| 145 | * In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' steampunk AU series ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/112004 A Society of Academics]]'', in which all the Doctors are ''particularly'' eccentric professors at a generally eccentric university (under the names of their actors), the university board comprises showrunners (Miss [[Creator/VerityLambert Lambert]], Mr Letts, Mr [[Creator/JohnNathanTurner Turner]], Mr [[Creator/RussellTDavies Davies]] and Mr [[Creator/StevenMoffat Moffat]] are mentioned in their first appearance). The Baker brothers, Dr [[Creator/TomBaker Thomas]] and Dr [[Creator/ColinBaker Colin]], have had their father named as "Old [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Pip_and_Jane_Baker Pip]]". |
| 146 | * In ''Fanfic/ThoseLackingSpines'', all six members of Organization VI show up in some capacity [[SelfDeprecation only to be killed off in some way]], but Gexegee deserves special mention for showing up out of no were on the G.S.S. ''Existentialist'', calling for Xaldin from the bedroom, asking him to bring whipped cream, and then being [[ThrownOutTheAirlock ejected into space.]] |
| 147 | * The author of ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' appears in the epilogue of the first story, discussing the events with her "editor," [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Varric Tethras]]. She also returns for the prologue of the sequel, and is mentioned repeatedly in the [[NoteFromEd editor's notes]] which pepper the entire series. |
| 148 | * ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': The story's writer [=FlowerPrincess11=] occasionally makes an appearance, as she is the one who runs the dating service. |
| 149 | * While by its very nature of being an SI fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13501363/1/Chaos-Effect Chaos Effect]] has the writer in it the Creator Cameos instead come in the form of the second Christmas Filler Arc, as Mr. Chaos has nearly a dozen of his author friends cameo as guests at his SI's birthday party. |
| 150 | * In the latter half of Chapter 10 of ''Fanfic/IveGotYourBack'', the author's Inkling persona briefly appears after they almost hit a spectating [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Pearl]] in the head with a Power Clam. |
| 151 | * In ''Fanfic/BeyondTheStorm'', Tropers/{{Meshakhad}} [[WordOfGod states]] that Ms. Angelo (Max's history teacher) is a self insert for herself. |
| 152 | * ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'' features a few cameos from its creator, mattwilson83: |
| 153 | ** On page 471, from Chapter 25, he has drawn himself in the second panel, standing next to Sasuke. |
| 154 | ** He makes another cameo on page 1519, from Chapter 78. On that page, he appears as a cashier working at the movie theater. |
| 155 | * ''WebAnimation/TheMandelaMagazine'': Video creator Creator/SrPelo appears as both a photograph and an illustration in the section comparing people with their Alternates. The real-life photo of Pelo is used to represent the Alternate. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
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| 158 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 159 | * In the film ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'', director Satoshi Kon and original author Yasutaka Tsutsui provide the voices for the spectral bartenders at Paprika's bar. In one cast interview, actor Tōru Furuya revealed that even he didn't know this until he looked at the back of the film's bill at the premier. |
| 160 | * Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon: |
| 161 | ** Shortly after ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' gives his bread to starving children, two men discuss the prince who is passing on the street. They are modeled and voiced by the film's directors, John Musker and Ron Clements (other characters are drawn like crew members -- for example, fertilizer salesman Crazy Hakeem is based off of story artist/Genie animator Tom Sito). Musker and Clements are also victims of WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}' cart-pulling equivalent of DrivesLikeCrazy, appear as an alien/droid pair that give [[WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet Jim Hawkins]] directions to the ''RLS Legacy'', and toss beads during the Mardi Gras parade in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''. While they don't "physically" appear in ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', caricatures of them can be seen on a tapestry in Motunui. |
| 162 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': Mushu scares co-directors Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft out of the fireworks tower. |
| 163 | ** Besides Creator/ChrisSanders's role as the latter title character, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' has him and co-director/co-writer Dean [=DeBlois=] appearing in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo as two tourists running past Cobra Bubbles after being scared by Stitch angered by camera flashes at Lahui Beach. |
| 164 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', instead of having [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Zangief]] voiced by Peter Beckman, his English voice actor at the time in the video games, he's voiced here by the film's director Creator/RichMoore. |
| 165 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', the English lyrics of "We Know The Way" are sung by co-composer Creator/LinManuelMiranda, while the Samoan/Tokelauan lyrics are sung by co-composer/lyricist Opetaia Foa'i in-character as Matai Vasa. |
| 166 | * Creator/{{Pixar}} does this all the time, usually because the director does a placeholder voice for a minor character and it ends up good enough to be kept in. |
| 167 | ** The most prominent is Creator/BradBird as Edna "E" Mode in ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'' films (as Creator/LilyTomlin said the voice he demonstrated for her was good enough) - he would also cameo in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''. |
| 168 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': After the Omnidroid is defeated, two elderly men comment on the Parr family’s good work. They’re voiced by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the last two surviving members (at the time) of Creator/DisneysNineOldMen. |
| 169 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', head sea-turtle Crush is director Andrew Stanton (he also voiced the lobster with the New England accent as well as the seagulls); he would later board the Axiom in ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. |
| 170 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' has Lee Unkrich as the jack-in-the-box who yells "New toys!" when the gang arrive at Sunnyside; Unkrich did half the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots (along with John Lassetter) in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''. |
| 171 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'''s co-writer Bob Peterson voices both Dug and Alpha. He also did [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Roz]] and [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Mr. Ray]]. |
| 172 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' director Pete Docter does the campmaster who commends Russell in the end, and later voices Dad's Anger in ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut.'' |
| 173 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'', Creator/JohnLasseter appears as pit chief John Lassetire. He previously did [[DeathByCameo a bug that hits a zapper]] in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' (his friend who tries to convince him otherwise is Andrew Stanton). |
| 174 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Jesse is voiced by Creator/FinneasOConnell, who co-composed 4*Town's music. |
| 175 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' directors Creator/PhilLordAndChrisMiller both make appearances in the film as mini-figures: Phil as one of the Master Builders celebrating during the ending, and Chris as the TV presenter for the ShowWithinAShow "Where Are My Pants?" |
| 176 | * According to the film's [[http://smurfsproductionblog.tumblr.com/ tumblr blog]], Nosey Smurf in ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'' is voiced by the film's director, Kelly Asbury. |
| 177 | * ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' director Creator/WesAnderson voices the Weasel who sells the tree home to Mr. Fox. |
| 178 | * In ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', the figure in the "Eleanor Rigby" segment smoking a cigar is producer Al Brodax. |
| 179 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'' gives us a particularly heartwarming example at that. The late Creator/{{Herge}} appears at the beginning of the film as a caricaturist who Tintin pays to draw his likeness. While drawing him, Hergé comments that [[HaveWeMet Tintin looks familiar]] and then reveals his finished work: [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} a portrait of the comic book version of Tintin.]] |
| 180 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'': Voice director Creator/AndreaRomano appears as a reporter. |
| 181 | * The feature film adaptation of ''[[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008 Horton Hears a Who!]]'' features a Who-ified portrait of Creator/DrSeuss. |
| 182 | * ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': Creator/NDStevenson, author of the [[Webcomic/{{Nimona}} original webcomic]], voices an in-universe cereal mascot named Kwispy Dragon. |
| 183 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheWarToEndAllWarsTheMovie'': The members of Music/{{Sabaton}}, who co-created the film in addition to recording the album used for its soundtrack, appear as InkSuitActor versions of themselves several times playing rank-and-file soldiers of various armies. They also provide some of the voice work, and frontman Joakim Brodén appears AsHimself in the live-action epilogue. |
| 184 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'': Will Vinton provided the masculine half of [[Literature/TheMysteriousStranger the Mysterious Stranger's]] voice, though he went by the pseudonym "Wilbur Vincent" in the credits (while Becky's voice actress Michele Mariana did the feminine half). |
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| 187 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 188 | * Creator/AlfredHitchcock might be the TropeMaker. He has a cameo in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfred_Hitchcock_cameo_appearances almost every film he ever directed]]. He likened these cameos to an artist adding their signature to a painting. Hitchcock eventually started making these cameos near the beginning of the film so audiences wouldn't be distracted by looking for him. (His cameo in ''Film/{{Rebecca|1940}}'' is by far the latest, coming after the two-hour mark; he walks past Creator/GeorgeSanders as Favell as the latter is being questioned by a policeman.) |
| 189 | ** His first cameo was in his third film, ''Film/TheLodger''. Reportedly Hitchcock, who can be seen from behind answering a phone at police headquarters, only did it because the extra who was supposed to appear onscreen didn't show up. |
| 190 | ** In most cases, he carries an item, like musical instrument cases (a violin in ''Film/{{Spellbound|1945}}'', a cello in ''Film/TheParadineCase'', a double bass in ''Film/StrangersOnATrain'', a bugle in ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'') or dogs on a leash (''Film/TheBirds''; the dogs were his own Sealyham terriers, Geoffrey and Stanley), to symbolize his control of the film (his cameo winding the songwriter's clock in ''Film/RearWindow'' is similarly themed). In other cases, he depicts that control by ignoring the other actors, as when he is engrossed in a newspaper while standing near Creator/JoelMcCrea in ''Film/ForeignCorrespondent'', when he stares straight ahead while sitting next to Creator/CaryGrant on a bus in ''Film/ToCatchAThief'', and when he conspicuously does not applaud the speaker in the opening scene of ''Film/{{Frenzy|1972}}''. (His cameo in ''Film/{{Stage Fright|1950}}'' inverts this as he turns to look at a disguised Creator/JaneWyman.) |
| 191 | ** Other cameos were more self-deprecating; he plays a litterbug outside a theatre in ''Film/The39Steps1935'', and he runs up to a bus only for the doors to slam in his face in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' (fittingly, just as his director credit slides off the screen). |
| 192 | ** Sometimes they had to work hard to get the cameo in. In ''Film/{{Lifeboat}}'', the entirety of which takes place in the eponymous lifeboat, he's depicted in a newspaper advertisement. In ''Film/DialMForMurder'', a stage play adaptation most of which takes place in a single apartment set, he's a face in a class reunion photo. In ''Film/{{Rope}}'', all of which takes place in one apartment, his famous profile is shown in neon lights as part of an advertisement. |
| 193 | ** In ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', Hitchcock is seen standing outside the office when Marion Crane returns from lunch. In the 1998 shot-for-shot remake, a Hitchcock lookalike is seen in the same place, talking to Gus Van Sant, director of the new version. |
| 194 | ** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "Incident at Lot 7". Jessica Fletcher visits Hollywood to speak with a movie producer who's adapting one of her books to the screen, and ends up investigating a murder that took place on the Universal lots, specifically the Bates Motel set from ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. At the beginning of the episode, a portly balding man, vaguely resembling Hitchcock, is seen crossing the street, complete with a few bars of "[[{{Leitmotif}} Funeral March of the Marionette]]". |
| 195 | * In ''Film/DangerDiva'', writer/director Robert [=McGinley=] plays bit parts as one of the brain cattle and a Grey Zone extra. |
| 196 | * Ever since Creator/StanLee appeared as a hot dog salesman in ''Film/XMen1'' (and over a decade prior, as a juror in ''The Trial of Series/{{The Incredible Hulk|1977}}''), [[TheCameo/StanLee almost every Marvel Comics adaptation of his characters (and some that weren't even his creations!) features him]], including all the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse films until ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. The Tim Story ''Film/{{Fantastic Four|2005}}'' movies are the cheekiest: in the first, he's downright one of his characters, mailman Willie Lumpkin; and the sequel has him barred at the door of Sue and Reed's wedding, as the guard doesn't believe his claims of being Stan Lee (which is itself a reference to a Creator Cameo he and Creator/JackKirby made in the Fantastic Four comics for the same wedding). |
| 197 | * In ''Film/HoldBackTheDawn'', director Mitchell Leisen plays film director Dwight Saxon, on the set of another, real Mitchell Leisen movie, ''Film/IWantedWings''. |
| 198 | * Creator/KingVidor plays himself in the last scene of ''Film/ShowPeople'', a film about the movie business. In ''Film/OurDailyBread'', he appears briefly as one of the workers on the collective farm. |
| 199 | * In ''Film/EllaCinders'', director Alfred Green appears onscreen as...a motion picture director. |
| 200 | * In ''Film/AWomanOfParis'', director Creator/CharlieChaplin, who was stretching himself by directing a drama that he didn't star in, appears briefly as a railway porter. |
| 201 | * Creator/MartinScorsese appears in almost all of his films, usually in a small but symbolic role. |
| 202 | ** The passenger who fantasizes about killing his wife in ''Film/TaxiDriver''. |
| 203 | ** A photographer in both ''Literature/TheAgeOfInnocence'' and ''Film/{{Hugo}}''. |
| 204 | ** The TV director in ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'' who says to Tony Randall, "I can't do anything. I'm just the director." |
| 205 | ** The head of the wealthy household burglarized by Jenny in ''Film/GangsOfNewYork''. |
| 206 | ** A guy with the spotlight in the punk club in ''Film/AfterHours''. |
| 207 | ** The club stagehand in the final scene of ''Film/RagingBull''. |
| 208 | ** The voice of the male radio dispatcher in ''Film/BringingOutTheDead''. |
| 209 | ** The voice of John, the first cilent to whom Jordan Belfort sells penny stocks to over the phone in ''Film/TheWolfofWallStreet'' |
| 210 | ** Jimmy Shorts, the shooter in ''Film/MeanStreets''. |
| 211 | ** A radio show producer reading the epilogue of ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon''. |
| 212 | * Besides Stan Lee's cameo (a young Matt Murdock stops him from crossing the street right into traffic), ''Film/Daredevil2003'' also has Creator/FrankMiller, who created Elektra and wrote the run the movie was inspired by, appear as [[DeathByCameo one of Bullseye's victims]]. Creator/KevinSmith, who wrote the well-regarded Marvel Knights ''Daredevil' relaunch, shows up as well. |
| 213 | ** Frank Miller also plays the priest killed in the confessional in ''Film/SinCity''. |
| 214 | * ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'': |
| 215 | ** Stan Lee appears in all movies, in the first two saving someone from falling rubble, and in the third talking to Peter Parker about heroism, before saying one of his catch phrases ("Nuff said!") |
| 216 | ** Creator/SamRaimi has a couple of cameos in the movies; as the outtakes from ''Film/SpiderMan2'' point out, he plays the student whose backpack smacks Peter in the head during a {{montage}}. |
| 217 | ** Christopher Young, who scored ''Film/SpiderMan3'', can be seen as the pianist next to Creator/KirstenDunst in the rehearsal scene. |
| 218 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': |
| 219 | ** Stan Lee sells hot dog in the first movie, sees Jean Grey manifest his powers in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', and witnesses the launch of nuclear warheads (while next to his wife) in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. |
| 220 | ** Creator/DavidHayter, one of the scriptwriters for the first two ''X-Men'' movies, appears in [[Film/XMen1 the first one]] as [[DeathByCameo a security guard whom Sabretooth attacks]] at the Statue of Liberty. |
| 221 | ** Creator/ChrisClaremont appears in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' (right before Stan Lee's appearance), ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' (inspired by [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga his]] [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast works]]; ''Days of Future Past'' also has ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} creator Len Wein next to Claremont in a government committee). |
| 222 | ** In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', director Bryan Singer and cinematographer Newton Thomas Siegel appear as guards in ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s prison. Singer gets his own pic, uniform and all, while the rest are given stock male photos. He also wheels the professor into the cell. The other security guards for Magneto's prison are all named after production staff. Additionally, screenwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris appear as surgeons on Wolverine's flashback. |
| 223 | ** Singer and Siegel appear again in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' -- during the Paris scene, Singer films Magneto and Mystique disguises herself as Siegel. |
| 224 | ** In ''Film/Deadpool2016'', ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s creator Creator/RobLiefeld can be seen leaning up against the bar several times in "[[BadGuyBar Sister Margaret's Home for Wayward Girls]]". And Wade says hello to him, too! |
| 225 | * Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (not including the TheCameo/StanLee cameos): |
| 226 | ** Creator/JMichaelStraczynski and Creator/WaltSimonson are in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. |
| 227 | ** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': |
| 228 | *** Winter Soldier creator Creator/EdBrubaker is one of the scientists in the character's flashback. |
| 229 | *** Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen [=McFeely=] appear as ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} interrogators. |
| 230 | *** Co-director Joe Russo appears as a doctor treating Nick Fury. |
| 231 | ** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Composer Tyler Bates appears as a Ravager pilot. |
| 232 | ** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', co-director Joe Russo is [[DeathByCameo the dead ambassador killed and impersonated by Zemo]]. |
| 233 | ** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Creator/KennethBranagh - director of the first ''Film/{{Thor}}'' movie - voices the Asgardian distress signal in the beginning of the film. |
| 234 | ** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' has one of the effects supervisors appearing in front of a store as a miniaturized car drives by. |
| 235 | ** In ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', Creator/KellySueDeConnick appears as a bystander on the train station who walks past Carol while giving her a very confused look. |
| 236 | ** ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'s creator, Jim Starlin, is in the support group Cap leads in the first act of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. Joe Russo is also in this scene and has a bit speaking part. |
| 237 | * ''Film/ThePerfectWeapon1991'': The director, Mark [=DiSalle=], makes a brief cameo as the football coach who checks on Erickson's condition after Jeff injures him. |
| 238 | * Creator/QuentinTarantino also has minor walk-ons in his own films, sometimes more. He plays Mr Brown in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' and Jimmie in ''Film/PulpFiction''. He wrote out his own part in ''Film/KillBill'' to give the role to an actor he respected and admired. He has two cameos in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': he is the first German soldier we see being scalped up close, and his hands replace those of Christopher Waltz hands during the shots not showing his face as Landa is [[spoiler: choking Creator/DianeKruger's character to death.]] Most of his cameo appearances fall into DeathByCameo. |
| 239 | ** Also in ''Film/PulpFiction'', producer Lawrence Bender appears as a long-haired yuppie in a coffee shop. |
| 240 | * ''Franchise/LupinIII'' creator Monkey Punch appears in the [[Film/LupinThe3rd 2014 live-action film]] as an airplane passenger. |
| 241 | * The author of the novel ''Film/{{Holes}}'', Creator/LouisSachar, makes a cameo in the film version as Mr. Collingwood, a bald man who Sam the onion picker gives a supposed "Hair tonic". |
| 242 | * ''Film/TheDisasterArtist'', a film based on the making of ''Film/TheRoom2003'', features a [[TheStinger post-credits scene]] in which ''The Room'' creator Creator/TommyWiseau (played by Creator/JamesFranco) is approached at a party by a stranger who wants to talk with him. Said stranger is played by none other than the real Tommy Wiseau. |
| 243 | -->'''Franco!Wiseau:''' I stop you- I stop you right there. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall What is this accent? It sound familiar.]] |
| 244 | * Creator/HideakiAnno makes an appearance in the 2004 live-action movie of ''Anime/CuteyHoney'', as does manga author Creator/GoNagai. |
| 245 | * Hideaki Anno makes a cameo in ''Welcome to the Quiet Room'' as a doctor. [[SelfDeprecation He gets horribly injured and is then insulted by a nurse]]. |
| 246 | * ''Film/TheBlackHole'' features its director, Gary Nelson, as the [[spoiler:zombified crew member]] unmasked by Durant. |
| 247 | * Creator/FrancisFordCoppola shows up briefly in ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', playing a documentary-maker, and is aided by prominent crew members Dean Tavoularis and Vittorio Storaro. |
| 248 | * Creator/MikeWhite shows up in the movies he writes, some of them cameos such as ''Film/OrangeCounty'', others in a more major role such as ''Film/SchoolOfRock''. |
| 249 | ** During ''School of Rock'', Creator/JackBlack's character shows White's a photograph of them from their days in a goth band called "Maggot Death". The third member of the band, who only appears in that picture, is the film's director Creator/RichardLinklater. |
| 250 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': |
| 251 | ** Creator/IanFleming allegedly has a cameo in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. |
| 252 | ** Director Creator/MartinCampbell is one of the cyclists who fall over in ''Film/GoldenEye'', and the driver of the hijacked tanker truck in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. |
| 253 | ** Producer Michael G. Wilson has made cameos in most of the films since ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. |
| 254 | *** In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', he is a member of the Soviet Politburo. |
| 255 | *** In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', he is the Montenegro police chief who gets arrested. In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', he reads a newspaper in Haiti. |
| 256 | *** In ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' and ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', he actually got lines. |
| 257 | * Creator/PeterJackson films: |
| 258 | ** He put a cameo of himself in each one of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies: as a human eating a carrot in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', as a Rohirric soldier throwing a spear at an Orc in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'', and he was actually killed by Legolas and Gimli in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''.[[note]]In the director's cut, that is. Jackson is captain of the pirate ship that is sailing downriver to support the orcs assaulting Minas Tirith. In the theatrical version he is seen only briefly, walking the deck.[[/note]] His children show up in several of the crowd scenes, too. |
| 259 | ** And in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' scene, all the other pirates are played by the production team as well. |
| 260 | ** Jackson's sword arm doubles for Sean Astin's, in the first shot of the scene where Sam confronts Shelob. |
| 261 | ** ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'' starts with a flashback of Thorin meeting Gandalf at the Prancing Pony in Bree. Jackson took the opportunity to reprise his carrot-chewing ''Fellowship'' cameo. The substantial amount of weight he'd lost makes him surprisingly believable as a younger version of the same guy. |
| 262 | ** Jackson actually cut out his own cameo in ''Film/TheFrighteners'', because he was unsatisfied with his own American accent. However, in the extended version of the movie, Creator/MichaelJFox bumps into him shortly after noticing who will be the next victim. |
| 263 | ** ''Film/KingKong2005'': |
| 264 | *** Jackson appears as a biplane gunner in the climax. This is an {{homage}} to a similar cameo made by Merian C. Cooper in the original ''Film/KingKong1933''. |
| 265 | *** Music/HowardShore plays the orchestra conductor during Kong's intro in New York... despite the fact he eventually left the movie score and was replaced by Music/JamesNewtonHoward. |
| 266 | ** In ''Film/{{Braindead}}'', Jackson plays the giggly assistant to the mortician tending to Vera's body before her memorial service. Meanwhile his wife, who co-wrote the film, appears as a mom in a park. |
| 267 | ** In ''Film/TheLovelyBones'': When Susie's dad is dropping off rolls of film to be developed, Jackson's in the store trying out a film camera. |
| 268 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 269 | ** Creator/GeorgeLucas made a cameo in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', as a RubberForeheadAlien in the lobby of the opera house when Anakin goes to see Palpatine. The woman he's talking to is his daughter. |
| 270 | ** Makeup artist Creator/RickBaker played the Modal Nodes band's leader Figrin D'an in ''Film/ANewHope''. |
| 271 | ** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' director Richard Marquand voices the sadistic droid in Jabba's palace and portrays a rebel fighter. He and co-producer Robert Watts play the AT-ST pilots who get pulled out of their vehicle's cockpit by Chewbacca. |
| 272 | ** Sound designer Creator/BenBurtt (now best known as the voice of WesternAnimation/WallE) appears in ''Jedi'' as the Imperial soldier who finds Han in the shield generator and shouts "Freeze," only to promptly be killed. He even tries to imitate the [[StockScream Wilhelm Scream]] he popularized! |
| 273 | ** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' director Creator/JJAbrams sings a song in the background of the first scene at Maz Kanata's cantina, along with Creator/LinManuelMiranda. Abrams would have another creator cameo in ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' as the voice of droid D-O. |
| 274 | ** Creator/GarethEdwards made a cameo in ''Film/RogueOne'' as the rebel soldier who disabled Tantive IV's docking mechanism, allowing the ship to escape. ''Film/TheLastJedi'' director Creator/RianJohnson, as well as that film's producer Ram Bergman, cameo as two of the technicians operating the Death Star laser, and in return Edwards also got a cameo in ''Last Jedi'' as one of the soldiers in Crait (where his clothes even have "R1" in Aurabesh). |
| 275 | ** Longtime composer Music/JohnWilliams made a cameo in ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' (which he has confirmed will be his final film for the series) as Oma Tres [[SignificantAnagram (an anagram of 'Maestro')]]. |
| 276 | * Creator/StephenKing frequently appears in very minor roles in film adaptations of his books/stories (e.g. the grocery store clerk in ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', the pizza delivery person in ''Series/RoseRed''... and in a very meta sense, ''Film/ItChapterTwo'', as a pawn shop owner who complains to an AuthorAvatar about his writing), with the exception of the ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill", where he plays the title character.[[note]]"Meteor shit!"[[/note]] This goes the opposite way in his own literature: his appearance in ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series becomes important. |
| 277 | * ''Film/AbandonedMine'': Jeff Chamberlain, the director of the movie, appears at the end as the reverend presiding over [[spoiler:Brad's funeral]]. |
| 278 | * The directors of ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' ([[Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker]]) all appear, with Abrahams as a religious zealot and the Zuckers as airport ground crew. |
| 279 | * ''Film/WingCommander'' series creator Chris Roberts, who also directed the movie, had a brief appearance as the rescue pilot from the end of the movie, welcoming Blair to Sol System. |
| 280 | * Creator/UweBoll had a cameo in the ''Film/{{Postal}}'' film. |
| 281 | * Creator/GeorgeRomero appeared in ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead'' in a news broadcast. He was wearing a covering hat at the time so it's quite hard to recognize him. |
| 282 | ** He also appears as a news director in the original ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. |
| 283 | * Creator/MelBrooks was a comedic performer in addition to a writer and director, so he usually appears as a DescendedCreator. In the films where he has only a cameo: |
| 284 | ** He has his voice in one line of the "SpringtimeForHitler" production number in the original version of ''Film/TheProducers''. This remained in the ScreenToStageAdaptation, where Brooks' prerecorded voice was also used for ThatPoorCat (and in the [[RecursiveAdaptation film of the play]], Mel himself appears in TheStinger). |
| 285 | ** He voices the [[ThatPoorCat Cat Hit By Dart]] and Frankenstein's grandfather in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. And one of the castle gargoyles is modeled to look like him. |
| 286 | ** ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': Brooks shows up as a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief, the governor who appointed Bart, an aviation pilot among the villains hired by Lamarr, and a couple voice cameos in Lili von Shtupp's musical number. |
| 287 | * In the film adaption of ''Literature/RequiemForADream'', Hubert Selby Jr, the author of the book, played the yelling, racist Southern guard. |
| 288 | * James Dickey appears as a cop in ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'', adaptation of his book. |
| 289 | * In ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'', Creator/ArthurCClarke is seen feeding pigeons on a bench near the White House. Later in the film, Clarke and Creator/StanleyKubrick also appear as the US President and [[FailedFutureForecast Soviet Premier]], respectively, on a ''Time'' magazine cover. |
| 290 | * Creator/JohnWoo appears as a jazz bartender in ''Film/HardBoiled''. |
| 291 | * Harry Warren and Al Dubin appear in ''[[Film/FortySecondStreet 42nd Street]]'' as writers of a [[StylisticSuck bad song]]. They wrote the movie's better songs, too. |
| 292 | * Creator/JossWhedon appears in "The R. Tam Sessions" filmed as a tie-in to ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' as the Alliance operative interviewing River. |
| 293 | * Jonathan Safran Foer can be seen holding a leaf blower at the beginning of ''Film/EverythingIsIlluminated''. |
| 294 | * Creator/AmyTan appears as a party guest in the first few minutes of ''Literature/TheJoyLuckClub''. |
| 295 | * Creator/TerryGilliam made an uncredited appearance in ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' as a sinister man smoking on the stairs of Shangri-La Towers. |
| 296 | * In ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', Creator/StevenSpielberg watches a CNN report about the dinosaurs, and screenwriter David Koepp is eaten by the T. rex. Spielberg also "appears" in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' (his voice is heard), and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' (at the airport, along with producers Creator/GeorgeLucas and Frank Marshall). |
| 297 | * Creator/MichaelBay: |
| 298 | ** He's is a NASA scientist in ''Film/Armageddon1998'' |
| 299 | ** He nearly has his car taken in ''Film/BadBoysII''. In [[Film/BadBoysForLife the third movie]], which he doesn't direct, he's a priest. |
| 300 | ** In ''Film/Transformers2007'' he's the guy Megatron [[DeathByCameo flicks]] into a taxi cab. "Disgusting." |
| 301 | * Creator/RichardDonner is one of the sheriffs on [=ATVs=] near the end of ''Film/TheGoonies''. |
| 302 | * Peter Collinson was briefly seen in ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'' when the Minis drove onto the coach. |
| 303 | * Ted Turner, producer, is Col. Waller Tazewell Patton in ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'', and plays the same character in the prequel ''Film/GodsAndGenerals''. |
| 304 | ** Amusingly, he was credited in the latter as "[[PunnyName R.E. Turner]]." |
| 305 | * ''Franchise/MenInBlack'' |
| 306 | ** In ''Film/MenInBlack'', among the celebrities-who-are-actually-aliens are both director Creator/BarrySonnenfeld (and his daughter) and executive producer Steven Spielberg. Lowell Cunningham, the creator of the original Men in Black comic, had a cameo as an [=MiB=] HQ employee. |
| 307 | ** ''Film/MenInBlackII'': Sonnenfeld appears (along with his wife and daughter) when [[spoiler:K raids his old apartment for weapons to use against Serleena]]. Make-up artist Creator/RickBaker appears as an MIB agent putting a wig in an alien. |
| 308 | ** ''Film/MenInBlack3'': Sonnenfeld and his wife appear as a couple at home watching the moon launch. His daughter Chloe appears as the flower child who tells Boris "Make love, not war." |
| 309 | * Creator/JimHenson shows up in a ton of Muppet stuff. ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'' cleaning up after everyone, ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' as a photo subject of Gonzo's, ''The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years''... |
| 310 | ** ''Film/TheMuppets2011'' features a particularly nice tribute, with a picture of Henson and Kermit prominently displayed in Kermit's home. |
| 311 | * In the 1971 film ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain'', one of the doctors who does not speak in the operating room where Mark Hall gets called up by the army is played by Creator/MichaelCrichton, author of the book. |
| 312 | * ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' had a cameo from Creator/IrvineWelsh as drug dealer Mikey Forrester. |
| 313 | * ''Film/{{Precious}}'' the author Sapphire has a cameo in the very beginning, in one of Precious' fantasy sequences. |
| 314 | * In the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' film series, Creator/StephenieMeyer appears as a patron in the diner, and later in ''Breaking Dawn Part 1'' as a guest at Bella's wedding. This might actually be a case of being an AuthorAvatar, because she's actually addressed as "Stephenie" by the waitress. |
| 315 | * Creator/RomanPolanski had a cameo in ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'' cutting Jake Gillis' nose. |
| 316 | * [[ComicBook/TheCrow James O'Barr]] appears in ''Film/TheCrow1994'' as a man who steals a TV from the burning pawn shop. |
| 317 | * In ''Film/AngelsRevenge'', writer/director Greydon Clark makes a cameo as the director of Terry's film shoot. |
| 318 | * Denis Johnson, author of the book ''Jesus' Son'' appeared in [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film adaptation]] as a guy with a knife in his eye. |
| 319 | * Jonathan Ames is a patron at Sally's in TheFilmOfTheBook ''Literature/TheExtraMan''. |
| 320 | * Creator/PeterBenchley, the author of ''Literature/{{Jaws}}'', had a brief role as a TV reporter in [[Film/{{Jaws}} the film]]. |
| 321 | ** Also Creator/StevenSpielberg is the voice of the coast guard on the radio. |
| 322 | * Creator/JohnWaters has these fairly often. Mostly he'll be heard rather than seen - he's the uncredited narrator of ''Film/PinkFlamingos'', the voice of Ted Bundy in ''Film/SerialMom'', and a prank-calling pervert in ''Film/{{Pecker}}'' for example. He also has cameos in both the original ''Film/{{Hairspray|1988}}'' and the film version of TheMusical: In the former he has a couple of brief scenes as Penny Pingleton's psychiatrist, and in the [[Film/{{Hairspray|2007}} latter]] he's a flasher. |
| 323 | * Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the authors of ''Film/NickAndNorahsInfinitePlaylist'', can be seen in the background of a diner in the movie version. |
| 324 | * Creator/TerrenceMalick has a cameo an hour into ''Film/{{Badlands}}'', as the architect who knocks on the door of the fancy house, looking to see the rich man that VillainProtagonist Kit is holding captive inside. This is a particularly interesting one in that Malick has avoided publicity throughout his career and is rarely photographed. |
| 325 | * Spoofed in ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'' - a couple walk by the hero, who mutters to his partner "Don't look now, honey, this is the obligatory scene where the director always has to walk through with his wife... Egomaniac." |
| 326 | * In ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'', Creator/EdWood plays a bum who decides NoMoreForMe after seeing the flying saucers. |
| 327 | * Creator/DavidLynch: |
| 328 | ** He appears in his ''Film/Dune1984'' as the foreman of the spice mine that's destroyed by a sandworm. |
| 329 | ** In ''Film/InlandEmpire'', he voices a sound engineer that gets bossed around by the film director character (played by Jeremy Irons), which inverts his own role as the actual director. |
| 330 | * ''Film/KingKong1933'' directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack are fighter pilots in the climax, after Cooper off-handedly suggested in real life "We should kill the son of a bitch ourselves." Peter Jackson copied this in his remake. |
| 331 | * A couple of examples in ''Film/TheFlintstones'': William Hanna and Joseph Barbera of the original series appear as an executive at the meeting and a man driving a Mersandes respectively, and director Brian Levant is the voice of the prehistoric pig at the bowling alley. |
| 332 | ** William Hanna and Joseph Barbera are guests at Fred's wedding in the sequel. |
| 333 | * In ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' director Creator/JoeDante plays the director of The Grandpa Fred show and he voiced the gremlin that was shot by Brain Gremlin and the one in the witch costume. |
| 334 | ** In his earlier film ''Film/{{Piranha}}'' he was one of the scuba divers near the middle that was presumably eaten off screen. |
| 335 | * The LiveActionAdaptation of ''Vampirella'' has a short, full screen shot of ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' creator Forrest J. Ackerman as a music club patron. |
| 336 | * The punk on bus with the ghetto blaster in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' was played by associate producer Kirk R. Thatcher. The scene wasn't his idea, but he did insist on writing the song "I Hate You" for use in it. He also does the Vulcan computer's voice. |
| 337 | * Screenwriter Creator/AaronSorkin briefly appears as an ad executive in ''Film/TheSocialNetwork''. |
| 338 | * Screenwriter and producer James Vanderbilt appears in Creator/DavidFincher's ''Film/{{Zodiac|2007}}''. |
| 339 | * ''Film/{{Dead Air|2009}}'': Director Corbin Bernson appears briefly as DJ "Doc F" in the beginning of the film to deliver a single line while the protagonist DJ Logan Burnhardt is walking in late to the studio. |
| 340 | -->'''Logan:''' Hey Doc!\ |
| 341 | '''Doc:''' Ah, he arrives... Megan! Hold the door! |
| 342 | * Creator/MikeJudge plays a small character role in his movies ''Film/OfficeSpace'' and ''Film/{{Extract}}''. He also voices two announcers in ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'', the one for the Masturbating Channel and the stadium one for Rehabilitation. |
| 343 | * Surprisingly, famed recluse Creator/StanleyKubrick is the voice over the radio when Joker's platoon calls for support in ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. He also sits in a table next to Tom Cruise in ''Film/EyesWideShut'', is in a mansion in ''Film/{{Lolita}}'', [[https://i.redd.it/ufexjyux78001.jpg watches a fight on his very first movie]], ''Day of the Fight'', and in a weird case, Bowman's hyperventilating in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' is actually Kubrick's own breathing! |
| 344 | * Creator/NikitaMikhalkov plays Tsar Alexander III in ''Film/TheBarberOfSiberia''. |
| 345 | * In ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'', Andy Heyward (head of Creator/DICEntertainment, the creators of [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget the original cartoon series]]) is seen at the party as a guest named "Mr. D.I.C." |
| 346 | * ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': |
| 347 | ** Comic author Bryan Lee O'Malley and his wife Hope Larson are seen in the bar before The Clash at Demonhead perform at Lee's Palace. Additionally, O'Malley's sister Stacey appears as a customer using her laptop at Second Cup. |
| 348 | ** Co-writer Michael Bacall is seen talking to Comeau in the opening party. |
| 349 | * In ''Film/TronLegacy'', series creator Steven Lisberger is the bartender at the End of Line Club. The credits and supplemental material list his character's name as Shaddix. The Club also has Music/DaftPunk, who wrote the score, as DJ programs. |
| 350 | * ''Film/OhGod'' director Carl Reiner appears in the movie as a guest on the Dinah Shore Show (before Jerry's segment). |
| 351 | * In ''Film/TheJerk'' Reiner plays himself, heading a mass lawsuit against Navin Johnson. |
| 352 | * Although Music/HowardShore's score for Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/KingKong2005'' was thrown out, Shore himself appears in the movie as the conductor of the pit orchestra for the Kong stage show. |
| 353 | * In addition to scoring both ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' movies, Music/JerryGoldsmith appears in them as well (looking directly at the camera in the convention scene in the first one and as a disgruntled cinema patron in the second). |
| 354 | * A sideways example -- in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', Creator/LarryHama (the most influential writer of the ''Joe'' comics) appears as a general at the M.A.R.S. presentation. |
| 355 | * Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, the writers of ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', appear as the annoying waiters serving ice cream to Napoleon. They also appear in [[Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney the sequel]] as guests at Missy's seance. |
| 356 | * In ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' the picture of Magnus which contributes to [[spoiler:Miss Trunchbull's downfall]] is actually a portrait of Creator/RoaldDahl, author of [[Literature/{{Matilda}} the original book]]. |
| 357 | * In ''Film/YesMan'', Danny Wallace, the author of the original book appears in one scene. |
| 358 | * ''Film/Spawn1997'' has the character's creator Creator/ToddMcFarlane as a homeless man. |
| 359 | * Noel Clarke, writer and co-director of ''Film/FourThreeTwoOne'', has an entire supporting role as the manager of the store Creator/EmmaRoberts works at (and he not only has Emma and another cast member discuss his sex appeal - and gives himself "AND" billing in the closing credits to boot - but ''actually appears on the poster''!). |
| 360 | * In ''Film/TheCannonballRun'', screenwriter Brock Yates appears as the race organizer and director Hal Needham appears as the ambulance EMT who inspires J.J. and Victor to use an ambulance as their vehicle. |
| 361 | * Creator/HunterSThompson has a cameo in ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' during a flashback to 1966. [[AuthorAvatar Raoul Duke]] actually recognizes him and reacts with surprise, but then it's [[MindScrew that kind of movie]]. |
| 362 | -->'''Raoul Duke:''' There I was... ''(sees Hunter S. Thompson sitting at a table)'' Mother of God, ''there I am!'' Holy fuck–?! |
| 363 | * Creator Dave Stevens shows up in ''Film/TheRocketeer'' as a prototype rocket pilot appearing in a top secret Luftwaffe documentary smuggled out of Germany. |
| 364 | * Creator/JohnCarpenter: |
| 365 | ** In the original ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'', he is the voice of Annie's boyfriend Paul. |
| 366 | ** He was also a gang member in ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'', Bennett the carpenter in ''Film/TheFog1980'', a Norwegian in ''Film/TheThing1982'', and a Gas Station Attendant in ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995'' among others. |
| 367 | * ''Film/TheGraduate'' features Buck Henry, who co-wrote the screenplay, as the hotel desk clerk ("Are you here for an affair, sir?"). |
| 368 | * In ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', director Rob Cohen is Draco's singing voice. He also makes an appearance in the second con scene (the one where the water is too shallow): he is the villager that walks out and says "Meat!" first. |
| 369 | ** Cohen also has a cameo in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious2001'' as the pizza delivery guy who has to take a detour because of a street race. In the DVDCommentary, Cohen refers to himself as [[SelfDeprecation a terrible actor who he should have fired.]] |
| 370 | * Creator/JamesCameron appears in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' at the start of the movie: he is the third-class passenger getting his beard checked. He makes other appearances throughout the film, up to and including the sinking. Also, when it shows "Jack's" hands sketching Rose, they are actually Cameron's hands; you'll notice that they look too old to be Jack's. |
| 371 | * Due to a lack of extras, when Richard is escaping from the facility in ''Film/{{Clonus}}'', the guard he punches out is the director, Robert S. Fiveson. |
| 372 | * The 2008 [[TheFilmoftheBook film]] ''Literature/{{Choke}}'' features author Creator/ChuckPalahniuk sitting next to Victor Mancini on a plane. |
| 373 | * In the ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' movies, Jeff Kinney, the author of the ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' books, appears as Holly Hills' father. |
| 374 | * The film of ''Theatre/DamnYankees'' has choreographer Creator/BobFosse as Lola (Gwen Verdon)'s nameless dance partner in "Who's Got the Pain?" |
| 375 | * In the film of ''Doctor in theHouse'' Richard Gordon, who wrote the book series, has a cameo as an anesthetist. |
| 376 | * Creator/LucioFulci is fond of doing this. |
| 377 | ** The newspaper editor in ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}''. |
| 378 | ** Appears [[http://content7.flixster.com/photo/11/60/16/11601601_ori.jpg with an SMG]] in ''Film/Contraband1980''. |
| 379 | ** The librarian in ''Film/TheBeyond''. |
| 380 | ** The chief of police in ''Film/TheNewYorkRipper''. |
| 381 | ** In ''Murder-Rock: Dancing Death'', he appears as the talent agent who phones Candice. |
| 382 | ** Though uncredited, as Inspector Carter in ''Demonia''. |
| 383 | ** He's the protagonist of ''Cat in the Brain''. |
| 384 | * In ''Film/TheFly1986'', Geena Davis' character has a nightmare where she gives birth to a giant maggot. The doctor who delivers it is director Creator/DavidCronenberg. |
| 385 | * ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' gives its executive producer, Creator/WilliamCastle, a cameo as the man waiting outside a phone booth while Rosemary makes a call. |
| 386 | * Creator/BryanSinger has two in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''. The most traditional is that his hands double as the hands of Keyser Soze in one scene. The less obvious is also a case of ThrowItIn: during the line-up scene, after Benicio del Toro mumbles one of his lines in a bizarre voice, Singer can be heard, presumably as one of the cops, shouting "In English, please!" That was actually Singer-as-director shouting, because he had no idea what del Toro was doing with the character, but he decided to leave that take in the movie. The other cop giving orders to the characters is played by screenwriter Creator/ChristopherMcQuarrie. |
| 387 | * Bob Kane was supposed to cameo in the original ''Film/Batman1989'' film as the newspaper cartoonist who gives Knox a mocking drawing of Batman. He didn't end up playing the character in the final cut, but the drawing is signed in his name with his very distinct box-shaped signature. His widow, Elizabeth Sanders Kane, appears in all three sequels. She shows up in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' as a woman talking about the Penguin's new celebrity status, and in ''Film/BatmanForever'' and ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' as a gossip columnist named "Gossip Gerty." |
| 388 | * Creator/DouglasAdams's face is all over ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005''--his head is a planet on the Magrathean factory floor and the last thing the Heart of Gold turns into before disappearing, and Humma Kavula's church is in the shape of his nose. Adams' 2001 death prevented him from making a personal appearance in the film. |
| 389 | * The director of ''Film/RockabillyZombieWeekend'' appears as the helicopter pilot in the last scene. |
| 390 | * ''Film/EndersGame'': Creator/OrsonScottCard, the author of this adapted book, appears in a voice cameo as a pilot making an announcement to his passengers. |
| 391 | * Creator/OliverStone has appeared in numerous uncredited roles in his own films, including the UCLA instructor in ''Film/{{The Doors|1991}}'', the bum who is the first victim of ''Film/TheHand'', a soldier in ''Film/{{Alexander}}'', and a trader on ''Film/WallStreet''. |
| 392 | * Creator/VCAndrews appears very briefly washing a window in ''Film/FlowersInTheAttic''. |
| 393 | * Music/PinkFloyd bassist and songwriter Music/RogerWaters appears in the film version of ''Film/TheWall'', as the best man during the wedding scene. |
| 394 | * ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' writer Brannon Braga makes an uncredited appearance in the holodeck nightclub scene. |
| 395 | * Creator/WesCraven appears in ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'' as Fred the Janitor, who is named after and dressed like Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. |
| 396 | * As well as scoring ''Film/TheMonumentsMen'', Creator/AlexandreDesplat plays a member of the Resistance. |
| 397 | * Willie Mosconi, 15-time winner of the World Straight Pool Championship, was the technical advisor for ''Film/TheHustler1961''. He trained Creator/PaulNewman on pool techniques, and has a cameo during the first match as the bystander who holds the stake money. |
| 398 | * Monkey Punch, the creator of the original ''Franchise/{{Lupin III}}'' manga, appears in the 2014 live-action ''Lupin III'' movie as an airline passenger. |
| 399 | * In ''Film/Paddington2014'', ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'''s author, Michael Bond is seen outside a café as they drive through London in a taxi. He smiles at Paddington and raises his glass of wine to him. In return, Paddington doffs his hat. Bond's character is credited as "Kindly Gentleman". |
| 400 | * ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' ends with a potential new hunter being approached by a would-be recruiter. That prospective hunter is played by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of both the novel the movie is based on and the screenplay. |
| 401 | * For ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'', Creator/JohnGreen was supposed to play the father (it was a [[GenderFlip mother]] in the book) whose child wanted to try on Hazel's cannula, but the scene was cut. |
| 402 | * Director Fatih Akin appears as a Romanian border guard in ''Film/ImJuli''. |
| 403 | * Screenwriter Erika Mann appears as a governess in the 1957 screen adaptation of ''Literature/ConfessionsOfFelixKrull''. |
| 404 | * The Creator/LaurelAndHardy short "Pardon Us" has cameos from producer Hal Roach and director James Parrott. |
| 405 | * In ''Film/AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight'', the writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour plays a small role as a girl in skull make-up at a Halloween party. She also acted as a body double for the lead actor Sheila Vand during skateboarding scenes, as Vand couldn't skate. |
| 406 | * ''Film/JudgeMinty'': Greg Staples, one of Dredd's artists, appears as Joe Dredd himself when Minty is decommissioned in the hospital. |
| 407 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'': |
| 408 | ** Series Creator Stephen Hillenburg has a vocal cameo in the film as the voice of a live-action baby who says, "[=SpongeBob=]!" |
| 409 | ** Showrunner Paul Tibbitt voices Kyle the seagull. |
| 410 | * Like Alexandre Desplat and Jerry Goldsmith, Music/DavidNewman is one of the few composers to make a non-musical appearance in a movie he scored - he appears briefly in 1992's ''The Runestone'' as one of the cops who faces the monster. [[DeathByCameo It doesn't end well for him.]] |
| 411 | * Author of the book series Veronica Roth has a cameo in ''Film/{{Divergent}}'' during the zipline scene. She's the first person to come through the door onto the roof. |
| 412 | * James Dashner, author of the book, has a cameo in the end scene of ''Film/{{The Maze Runner|2014}}'' - sitting to the right of Ava Paige. |
| 413 | * The real Creator/RlStine appears near the end of ''Film/Goosebumps2015'' as Mr. Black the drama teacher. |
| 414 | * Director Creator/UweBoll has a small role in ''Film/RampageCapitalPunishment'' as the head of the news company. |
| 415 | * In ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', director Creator/IvanReitman voices both Slimer and Zuul (yes, it's him doing "[[EvilSoundsDeep there is no Dana, only Zuul]]"), while producer producer Joe Medjuck crosses in front of the camera in the library. |
| 416 | * ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'': |
| 417 | ** Creator/IvanReitman, who directed the first two movies, walks behind the mayor on one of the last scenes. |
| 418 | ** Katie Dippold, the film's writer, plays the rental agent who finds the Ghostbusters their base of operations. |
| 419 | ** Director Paul Feig has two voice cameos, the "Ghost Hunters" announcer, and the boss mistreating Rowan through the radio (his on-screen appearance at the concert scene was eventually cut). |
| 420 | * ''Film/DeepwaterHorizon'': Director Creator/PeterBerg plays Mr. Skip, the person Jimmy speaks to just after getting off the helicopter. |
| 421 | * ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': New Line Cinema head and ''Nightmare'' producer Robert Shaye has cameos in many of the films, including a newscaster in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 the first movie]], a bartender at a gay club in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge the second movie]], a high school teacher in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster the fourth movie]], and a creepy ticket salesman in [[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare the sixth movie]]. |
| 422 | * ''Film/MammaMia'': Executive producers Rita Wilson and Björn Ulvaeus both appear as Greek gods, and fellow executive producer Benny Andersson appears as a piano player during "Dancing Queen". The latter two also [[Music/{{Abba}} wrote and performed the songs in the 1970s]]. |
| 423 | * ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'': director Creator/TimBurton plays the thug in the alley way. |
| 424 | * ''Film/{{Mythica}}: The Darkspore:'' Co-writer and producer Kynan Griffin appears as "Frozen Wizard". |
| 425 | * ''Film/Vagabond1985'': Creator/AgnesVarda takes the voice-only role of the police investigator. |
| 426 | * In a rare case of Creator/ClintEastwood doing this in a movie he only directs, in ''Film/{{Breezy}}'' he walks by the two protagonists in a pier. |
| 427 | * The dead guy in the opening scene of ''Film/Se7en'' is screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker. |
| 428 | * ''Film/Rampage2018'' has the designer of the original arcade (who also has an entry in the video games folder below) running from George in the Chicago streets. |
| 429 | * ''Permanent Midnight'': The real Jerry Stahl, upon whose memoirs the film is based, appears as Dr. Murphy. |
| 430 | * ''Dumplin''' has Julie Murphy, author of the original novel, as a patron at a drag bar. |
| 431 | * In the live-action adaptation of ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', Creator/TerryPratchett appears in one of the movie's final scenes as the Toymaker. |
| 432 | * Creator/ZackSnyder: |
| 433 | ** Appeared as a soldier/mercenary protecting the evacuation of the Capitol in the opening of ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}''. |
| 434 | ** Appeared as an American soldier accompanying the Comedian in the Vietnam War scene of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''. |
| 435 | ** Voiced Truck ("Yeah, we got it") in the [[BadFuture Knightmare]] scene of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' and appeared as a World War I British soldier holding a Lewis Gun in the background of the 1918 group photo featuring Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor's team. |
| 436 | ** He can be seen inside a Metropolis café near Superman's memorial site as Lois Lane goes to mourn the Man of Steel in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague''. |
| 437 | * ''Film/Shazam2019'' director Creator/DavidFSandberg portrays one of the [[spoiler: Crocodile Men]] the kids briefly encounter during the film's final act and also voices [[spoiler: Mister Mind]] in TheStinger. |
| 438 | * In ''Film/TheSpiritOf76'', director Lucas Reiner appears briefly as a fireworks salesman. |
| 439 | * ''Film/LiveForeverAsYouAreNowWithAlanResnick'': Creator/WhamCity member Ben O'Brien appears as the man who shot Alan in his dream. |
| 440 | * ''Film/TheGravedancers'': |
| 441 | ** The slim man talking to Kira at the wake is the film's writer, Brad Keene. |
| 442 | ** Director of Photography David Armstrong has a cameo as a policeman in the flashback where Emma is discovered playing the piano. |
| 443 | * ''Film/{{Dobermann}}'': Director Jan Kounen is the man trapped in the bank doors. |
| 444 | * Similar to the anime version from above, Shuuichi Asou does a cameo for the live action movie adaptation of ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'' but as a student for PK Academy. |
| 445 | * In addition to doing the narration, Jean Shepherd (the author of the book on which the story is based) appears in ''Film/AChristmasStory'' as the angry father who tells Ralphie where the end of the line to see Santa is. |
| 446 | * In ''Film/JaneWantsABoyfriend'', scriptwriter Jarret Kerr plays Bottom in a production of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''. |
| 447 | * ''Film/{{Clickbait}}'' has co-director Sophia Cacciola in a full-fledged (if minor) role as Mrs. Wilson. The other co-director, Michael J. Epstein, has more of a cameo: A man who arrives at a costume party in a Donald Trump mask, who quickly throws his mask off in frustration and leaves when no one wants to talk to him. The cameo ends up providing a plot point - protagonist Bailey soon finds herself stalked by someone else in a Trump mask painted solid white, so it's a small clue that the stalker was also at the party (where they either swiped the mask or just saw it being discarded and got a good idea for a disguise). |
| 448 | * In ''Film/LongWeekend'', director Colin Eggleston provides the voice of Marcia's lover on the phone. Additionally, producer Richard Brennan appears as the dugong. The scene where the black walrus like sea creature is seen swimming in the ocean is actually the film's producer in a marine mammal water-costume-rig. |
| 449 | * In ''Film/EvilBreedTheLegendOfSamhain'', the maggot-covered head found by Gary the caretaker is actually the head of the director, Christian Viel. |
| 450 | * In ''Film/{{Necronomicon}}'', director Brian Yuzna appears as the cabbie who drives Lovecraft to the library at the start of the film and picks him again at the end. |
| 451 | * In ''Film/TheEroticRitesOfFrankenstein'', writer and director Creator/JessFranco appears briefly as Dr. Frankenstein's [[TheIgor ill-fated assistant]] Morpho. |
| 452 | * ''Film/DriveHeSaid'' features director Creator/JackNicholson as a bearded guy wearing sunglasses during the military draft scene. |
| 453 | * ''Film/SorryWrongNumber'': Where Henry is having lunch with Sally, he asks his waiter if he knows who the gentleman is in the dark glasses at the table behind him. The man is director Anatole Litvak. |
| 454 | * ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'': Director Creator/RichardAttenborough briefly appears in a scene where the British paratroopers are observed by lunatics who escaped when an insane asylum was bombed; he's wearing glasses and has a beard. This was his only acting role in one of the films that he directed. |
| 455 | * ''Film/ClownMotel'': Director Joseph Kelly makes an appearance at the beginning of the movie as Brooke's fiance, having a video chat with her. |
| 456 | * ''Film/Godzilla1954'': Creator/IshiroHonda is the guy who flips the switch that electrocutes Godzilla. |
| 457 | * ''Film/MadMax1'': Co-writer James [=McCausland=] appears as a bearded man watching police cyclists drive away from a diner. |
| 458 | * ''Film/TheDeparted'': Producer Graham King appears in a photograph as Costigan's deceased father. |
| 459 | * ''Film/SchindlersList'': |
| 460 | ** Liam Neeson appears AsHimself in the final scene to place flowers on Oskar Schindler's grave. Creator/StevenSpielberg appears in the scene of the Schindler Jews walking across the fields slightly earlier. |
| 461 | ** In Schindler's introduction, the maitre'd is producer Branko Lustig, a Holocaust survivor himself. |
| 462 | * ''[[Film/Escape2000 Bronx Warriors]]'' series: Director Enzo G. Castellari appears as a corporate flunky in ''Bronx Warriors'' and the mustachioed radio operator in ''Escape 2000''. |
| 463 | * ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'': The man who rents out the mountain for sermons is Music/GeorgeHarrison, as a reward for funding the film. |
| 464 | * ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'': Production assistant Steve Miner appears as a hippie taunting the bumbling cops. |
| 465 | * ''Film/TheHitcher'': Screenwriter Eric Red can be seen in a cameo role toward the end of the film as a sheriff's deputy escorting the prisoner to the transfer bus. |
| 466 | * ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': Creator/RobReiner voices the Rodents of Unusual Size. |
| 467 | * ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'': |
| 468 | ** Producer Frank Marshall is a pilot knocked out by Marion. |
| 469 | ** Creator/HarrisonFord's stunt double Terry Leonard appears as a Nazi truck driver. |
| 470 | ** Stunt coordinator Glenn Randall, Jr., appears as a mechanic. |
| 471 | * ''Film/{{Predator}}'': Right after the alien blows himself up, the helicopter pilot commenting on the explosion is Creator/KevinPeterHall, the man who wore the Predator suit. |
| 472 | * ''Film/TheTerminator'': |
| 473 | ** Creator/JamesCameron is the guy who calls Sarah Connor to cancel their date. |
| 474 | ** Co-writer William Wisher is the cop who tries to help the T-800 and gets knocked out for his efforts. |
| 475 | * ''Film/ThePumpkinKarver'': Director Robert Mann voices a radio DJ in the opening. |
| 476 | * ''Literature/{{Misery}}'': Creator/RobReiner appears in the film as a helicopter pilot. |
| 477 | * ''Film/AllTheBoysLoveMandyLane'': |
| 478 | ** The film's producers appear as football coaches. |
| 479 | ** Later, the film's writer and production designer appear as fireworks salesmen. |
| 480 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'': Howard Hill, the archer who fired all the arrows in the film, plays the man in the archery contest who scores a bullseye only to have Robin split his arrow (of course, he really fired that shot too). |
| 481 | * ''Film/JackO'': Director Steve Latshaw appears as a cable installer. |
| 482 | * ''Film/TheAnthropophagusBeast'': Creator/JoeDAmato is seen exiting a cable car. |
| 483 | * ''Film/GraduationDay'': Director Herb Freed plays the killer when he's chasing Creator/LinneaQuigley. |
| 484 | * ''Film/{{Shaft}}'': Director Gordon Parks briefly appears as a landlord. |
| 485 | * ''Film/Transylvania65000'': The animal discovered in the bushes is actually the writer/director Rudy De Luca. He filmed that scene with his pants down and bare butt showing, but it was edited out to get a PG-13 rating. |
| 486 | * ''Film/TheGodfather'': Associate producer Gray Frederickson appears as an actor in Woltz's studio in the first film. |
| 487 | * ''Film/LittleEvil'': Creator/EliCraig appears as a guy with a clipboard at a soapbox derby. |
| 488 | * ''Film/ScaryMovie'': Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans appears as a slave in the ''Film/{{Amistad}} 2'' trailer. |
| 489 | * ''Film/Hellboy2004'': Both original comic author Mike Mignola and director Creator/GuillermoDelToro appear, dressed as a knight and a dragon respectively, in the scene where a costume party is attacked. |
| 490 | * ''Film/PresidentsDay'': Director Chris [=LaMartina=] appears as a student smoking pot beneath the bleachers. |
| 491 | * In ''Film/TheProwler1951'', the uncredited voice of radio announcer John Gilvray heard throughout the film is actually that of uncredited screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Trumbo being blacklisted in Hollywood at the time). |
| 492 | * ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'': Director Ruggero Deodato appears sitting on a blanket in front of NYU. |
| 493 | * ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'': Writer-producer Douglas Kenney appears as a guest in the dining room scene. |
| 494 | * ''Film/JennifersBody'': Creator/DiabloCody appears as the Melody Lane's bartender. |
| 495 | * ''Film/{{Waar}}'': Director Bilal Lashari appears as a sniper. |
| 496 | * Cinematographer and co-writer/director Matthew Campagna appears as Milton Joyce, the pilgrim killed by The Nomad in the opening scene of ''Film/SixReasonswhy''. When the bullet rigging was first being done for the various gunshot effects, he volunteered to be the first to be squibbed, saying that the only way to direct an actor with explosives strapped to him, is to get blown up first. |
| 497 | * ''Film/MidnightRun'': Director Creator/MartinBrest appears as a ticket clerk. |
| 498 | * ''Film/BatmanBegins'': Producer Larry Franco appears as a cop during a chase scene. |
| 499 | * ''Film/TheHowling1981'': Co-producer Creator/JohnSayles appears as a morgue attendant. |
| 500 | * ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'': Director Tommy Wirkola appears as one of Berringer's deputies. |
| 501 | * ''Film/HighHeelsAndLowLifes'': Director Creator/MelSmith appears pushing past Mason at the train station while he is trying to explain to the ticket collector why he doesn't have a ticket. |
| 502 | * In ''Film/IThinkIDo1997'', producer Lane Janger appears as a bartender at a gay nightclub. |
| 503 | * ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'': Director Creator/AriAster is the voice calling about Annie's art exhibit. |
| 504 | * John R.Cherry, who directed and wrote many of the Film/ErnestPWorrell films, makes cameos in the last few films, including ''Film/SlamDunkErnest'' and ''Film/ErnestGoesToAfrica'', and has a more feautured role as Ernest's best friend Ben in ''Film/ErnestInTheArmy''. |
| 505 | * ''Film/TheExorcist'': William Peter Blatty, author of the original book and screenwriter of the film, appears on Burke Dennings' film set. |
| 506 | * ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'': Director Creator/KenRussell is seen walking past the farm in the beginning. |
| 507 | * ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': |
| 508 | ** Director Creator/RobertRodriguez cameos as the lead singer of the bar band, played by his real-life band Chingon. |
| 509 | ** Makeup supervisor Howard Berger appears as the vampire who turns Sex Machine. |
| 510 | ** Executive producer Lawrence Bender is seen sitting in a dining booth. |
| 511 | * Both LiveActionAdaptation movies of ''Comicbook/MonicasGang'' have creator Mauricio de Sousa briefly appearing. In the first, adequate to a comic book adaptation, he's running a newsstand. In the second, he's running a school cafeteria, and when BigEater Maggy asks to be served everything in the menu, he comments [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "who created this monster?"]] |
| 512 | * Creator/KevinGrevioux: |
| 513 | ** In addition to playing Raze in ''Film/Underworld2003'', Grevioux co-wrote the film. |
| 514 | ** Likewise, he wrote the original graphic novel ''Film/IFrankenstein'' was based on and in the film, he plays Dekar. |
| 515 | * ''Film/TheBigNight'': Director Joseph Losey' assistant, future director Creator/RobertAldrich, appears as the spectator at the boxing match who shares his whiskey with George. |
| 516 | * Creator/ToddPhillips [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF1bowxKGDQ appears in most of his movies]], mostly as a sleazy guy. |
| 517 | * Creator/EdwardBunker appeared in minor roles in ''Film/StraightTime'' and ''Film/AnimalFactory'', which were both adaptations of his novels. |
| 518 | * Creator/JonFavreau appears as a general practitioner in ''Film/{{Elf}}'', to confirm to Walter Hobbes that [[{{Manchild}} Buddy]] is his son. |
| 519 | * Director Creator/JessFranco appears uncredited as the cabaret pianist in ''Film/TheAwfulDrOrloff''. |
| 520 | * In ''Film/ReadyOrNot2019'', director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin is the voice of the driver of the sports car, and writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy are the crossbow experts in the [=YouTube=] video. |
| 521 | * ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'': Screenwriter James Gunn appears as the father of the family whose car crashes, and director Lloyd Kaufman is credited as "Shocked Onlooker". |
| 522 | * In the [[Film/GreatestDays film adaptation]] of Music/TakeThat JukeboxMusical ''Theatre/GreatestDays'', band members Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald briefly appear as buskers on a train in Athens, performing an acoustic version of their song "Shine". |
| 523 | * In ''Film/StarredUp'', Nurse Bankford, [[ChromosomeCasting the only female role in the film]], is played by casting director Aisha Bywaters. |
| 524 | * ''Film/JaggedMind'': The director, Kelley Kali, has a cameo as a hostess who brings Billie to the private veranda with Alex. |
| 525 | * Creator/EdgarWright has appeared in most of his own films, beginning with his student film ''Film/DeadRight,'' where he gave himself the small (meta) role of the film's director who gets killed by the serial killer villain, and his first feature, ''Film/{{A Fistful of Fingers}]'', where he walks into a support beam. |
| 526 | ** In ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' he can be seen as a zombie collapsing in the distance. |
| 527 | ** In ''Film/HotFuzz'' he can be seen as a stockboy pushing a rolling shelf of trays. |
| 528 | ** In ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' he has an audio-only cameo, as one of the construction workers yelling at [[Creator/SimonPegg Gary]]. |
| 529 | ** His cameo in ''Film/BabyDriver'' was unplanned; he was reflected in a shop window during [[Main/TheOner the title sequence]] as he walked along following the shot in a portable monitor. He was originally going to remove himself in post but decided to leave it in. |
| 530 | * In ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', Robert Shaye, who was a producer on every ''Elm Street'' film (as well as ''Freddy vs. Jason''), appears as high school principal [[TheDanza Mr. Shaye]]. |
| 531 | * ''Film/DoctorSeries'': The author of the original ''Doctor'' novels, Richard Gordon, appears in [[Film/DoctorInTheHouse1954 three]] [[Film/DoctorAtLarge of the]] [[Film/DoctorInDistress1963 films]] as Stubbins, an anesthetist. He also played a doctor in ''Film/DoctorInLove''. |
| 532 | * ''Film/RaisingTheWind'''s writer, Bruce Montgomery, appears briefly as a conductor (just as he was in RealLife). |
| 533 | * In ''Film/MysticRiver'', the novel's author Creator/DennisLehane can be seen waving from the back of a convertible in the parade sequence. |
| 534 | [[/folder]] |
| 535 | |
| 536 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 537 | * In Creator/ThomasMann's novel ''Literature/ConfessionsOfFelixKrull'', the main character successfully cons a Scottish lord who is physically identical to Mann. |
| 538 | * Creator/KimNewman's short story "Pitbull Brittan", in the ''Literature/{{Temps}}'' anthology edited by Alex Stewart, features a brief mention of a bullied schoolboy named Sandy Stewart asking the title character for help. Later in the story, Sandy's pleas having been ignored, a news report reveals he has [[DeathByCameo committed suicide]]. |
| 539 | * Martin Amis in the novel ''Money'' - he beats his protagonist at chess. |
| 540 | * Creator/CliveCussler loved this trope. Cussler's character will usually give the protagonists his current vehicle to aid them in their mission. He can also be a MrExposition to relay some information on a historical event. Even if he doesn't appear, he is still likely to be mentioned in passing, at one point even being referred to "that author," referencing his novels ''within'' his novels. |
| 541 | ** Often, the character will be identified by some nickname for a while and only when making his farewell will reveal he's Cussler. Notable is that he's never the same occupation in each cameo. Every time, [[Literature/DirkPittAdventures Dirk Pitt]] or other characters find something oddly familiar about him but then shrug it off while noting what an odd name it is. |
| 542 | ** The whole thing started by accident. When writing ''Dragon'', Cussler, on a lark, had himself as a guy competing with Dirk Pitt at a race. Cussler figured his editor would get a chuckle out of it and then change the character's name. He was astounded it ended up in the published version and readers loved it. |
| 543 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 544 | ** Jan Kantůrek, the Czech translator of Creator/TerryPratchett's books, managed to include himself in his translation of ''Literature/{{Jingo}}''. At one point, a character says that Carrot talked like "a little schoolteacher"; naturally, he translated the word as "kantůrek" ("little teacher"), and italicized it for good measure. |
| 545 | ** Amongst the various references to {{Fandom VIP}}s and friends of Terry in the business directory of ''The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide'' (credited as being "aided and abetted by the Discworld Emporium") are Mitchell and Pearson, mapmakers. This is a reference to Ian Mitchell and Bernard Pearson of the aforementioned Emporium. Similarly, ''Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook'' mentions the ''Mitchell Inn Guide'' to Quirmian eateries. |
| 546 | ** In ''Literature/WheresMyCow'', there's a portrait of Terry hanging in Young Sam's room. |
| 547 | ** For ''Literature/NightWatchDiscworld'', the first book to have a cover by Paul Kidby, he did a pastiche of Rembrandt's ''Art/TheNightWatch''. In the place where Rembrandt painted himself, Kidby put the late Josh Kirby, the original ''Discworld'' cover artist. |
| 548 | * Creator/AynRand shows up in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' as one of the denizens of Galt's Gulch, a fishwife who's also one of the best authors there. She notably also pines for John's affection. |
| 549 | * ''Literature/DonQuixote'' features a few characters discussing Cervantes' work at a BookBurning. It's massive SelfDeprecation, with the characters offering some pretty sharp criticisms. |
| 550 | * ''Literature/EastOfEden'' being partly about the author's family, obviously has him there a few times, mainly in one intercalary chapter explaining one of his Uncles. But it's most notable that he has a scene where Adam Trask shows up to his mother's house to speak with his Grandma, and they meet as John Steinbeck and his sister stand behind their mother. |
| 551 | * The authors of ''Franchise/StarWars'' guide book ''The Essential Atlas'', Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry, appear in an illustration as two hyperspace scouts in the book's section on galactic navigation. Chris Trevas, the illustrator who supplied that image, among others in the book, is also seen as participating in a holochess game in another picture. |
| 552 | * ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' is Edgar Rice Burroughs's uncle. |
| 553 | * ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' is written by Salman Rushdie. He disguises his cameo by placing it in the middle of a long list of irrelevant names: |
| 554 | -->Naturally, the prefects had the pick of the ladies; I watched them with passionate envy. Guzder and Joshi and Stevenson and '''Rushdie''' and Talyarkhan and Tayabali and Jussawalla and Waglé and King... |
| 555 | * LarryCorreia makes two appearances in ''Tom Stranger: Interdimensional Insurance Agent''. First as Larry the writer at a sci-fi convention, who was covered under the comprehensive policy of the other Larry Correia, Interdimensional Lord of Hate and CEO of Correia-Tech. |
| 556 | * Creator/RogerZelazny makes a brief appearance in ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber The Hand of Oberon]]'', as a palace guard who chats with Corwin about the "philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity" that he's currently writing. |
| 557 | * Creator/DouglasCoupland wrote an exaggerated version of himself into ''Literature/JPod'' referred to as the "Anti-Doug". |
| 558 | * The ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' novella ''The Pit of Death'' by A.L. Kennedy, later expanded into the novel ''The Drosten's Curse'', is set in 1978, both literally and in terms of ''Doctor Who'' continuity, and is written very much in the [[Creator/DouglasAdams Adamsesque]] style of the period. It also happens to feature a character named David Agnew, the AlanSmithee name under which the late seventies production team wrote ''The Invasion of Time'' and the extremely Adamsesque ''City of Death''. |
| 559 | * In ''[[Literature/NightWatchSeries Twilight Watch]]'', Anton enters Gesar's office and sees his boss berating two human contractors for their poor performance and ordering them to work separately. Based on the humans' descriptions, an astute reader might recognize Creator/SergeyLukyanenko (the author of the whole series) and Creator/VladimirVasilyev (his ''Day Watch'' co-author and author of ''The Face of the Dark Palmira'' spin-off). |
| 560 | * ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Creator/RobertJordan [[https://13depository.blogspot.com/2009/03/tor-questions-of-week.html wrote himself]] into the series as a small bronze statue that's enchanted to contain a library. |
| 561 | * The opening scene of ''Digging to America'' takes place at Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI), and Anne Tyler, who wrote the novel, has said she and her daughter are the mother and daughter being described in the arrivals lounge. |
| 562 | * Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen, creators of ''Literature/TatuAndPatu'', appear in many of the books on one page, most commonly in crowd scenes. |
| 563 | * In the 2009 Axel Scheffler illustrated edition of ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats'', the final illustration of the book shows Creator/TSEliot greeting Cat Morgan on his way into Faber & Faber's offices. |
| 564 | [[/folder]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 567 | * ''Series/RuyisRoyalLoveInThePalace'': Liu Lian Zi, author of the novel the series is based on, has a very minor role as the duchess of Xianqin. |
| 568 | * Whedonverse: |
| 569 | ** ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 570 | *** In "[[Recap/AngelS02E21ThroughTheLookingGlass Through the Looking Glass]]" and "[[Recap/AngelS02E22TheresNoPlaceLikePlrtzGlrb There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb]]" Creator/JossWhedon gets to play Lorne's brother Numfar, who does both the Dance of Joy, the Dance of Honor, and the Dance of Shame. |
| 571 | *** David Fury later played the Creator/JimHenson {{Expy}} in "[[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime Smile Time]]" and appears as an audience member in the front row along with script supervisor Petra Jorgensen during Lorne's performance in "[[Recap/AngelS04E03TheHouseAlwaysWins The House Always Wins]]". |
| 572 | *** Creator/MartiNoxon sang the theme song for ''[[ShowWithinAShow Cordy!]]'' in "[[Recap/AngelS03E11Birthday Birthday]]". |
| 573 | *** Creator/DavidFury appeared as a demon worshiper in one episode. |
| 574 | ** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 575 | *** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, With Feeling]]", writers Marti Noxon and David Fury both have small singing parts - bemoaning a parking ticket and celebrating successful dry cleaning, respectively. |
| 576 | *** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie to Me]]", the fake vampire lying in a coffin who greets Willow enters a club ("Hi" Vampire in the credits) is played by Todd [=McIntosh=], the show's makeup supervisor. |
| 577 | *** Creator/JossWhedon was the voice of a newscaster in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E8IRobotYouJane I Robot, You Jane]]". |
| 578 | ** ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': |
| 579 | *** Joss had planned to perform the theme song (the "Ballad of Serenity"), which he wrote; before Sonny Rhodes was chosen to record it. A recording of Joss singing the theme song is included as a special feature in the DVD box set. |
| 580 | *** Creator/JossWhedon appears, though just in the background, at the end of "[[Recap/FireflyE12TheMessage The Message]]". |
| 581 | *** He also played the scientist interviewing River in "The R. Tam Sessions". [[spoiler:She kills him]]. |
| 582 | ** In a cross between Whedon and Marvel, ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has the obligatory Creator/StanLee cameo, as a train passenger who berates an undercover Coulson (Lee also appears in ''Series/AgentCarter''). |
| 583 | * ''Series/CougarTown'': In episode 2 series creator Creator/BillLawrence plays one of the cops who first reprimand then party with Jules. |
| 584 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Subverted. George R.R. Martin was a guest at Daenerys' wedding in the unaired pilot, but scheduling conflicts have prevented him from making another despite his prominent involvement in the production. |
| 585 | ** Played straight in Season 8, where writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss play two wildlings after the Battle of Winterfell. |
| 586 | * Creator/TerryPratchett plays the toymaker in the Sky One miniseries based on the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''. |
| 587 | ** And the Arch-Astronomer of Krull in ''Film/TheColourOfMagic''. |
| 588 | ** And a postman in ''Literature/GoingPostal''. |
| 589 | *** And gets the literal last word of dialogue in all three! |
| 590 | * Creator/NeilGaiman appears in the background in one scene in the TV version of ''Series/{{Neverwhere}}''. On the commentary for the film version of ''Film/{{Stardust}}'', he laments not doing a cameo in the film, but the only scene he was on set for (the scene at the fake inn) was one where an extra's presence would make no sense. |
| 591 | * Creator/JMichaelStraczynski shows up to [[spoiler:switch off the lights before the station gets demolished]] in the GrandFinale of ''Series/BabylonFive''. |
| 592 | ** Fans swear he's the one who starts the SlowClap when Sheridan comes back from the dead, but he denies it. |
| 593 | ** Before this final episode, he was fond of saying "I don't make cameos, my initials do." |
| 594 | ** [[spoiler:The entire production crew shows up right before the credits, with group photos in rapid fire freeze-frame style.]] |
| 595 | ** Creative consultant Creator/HarlanEllison also makes a brief cameo in one episode as a Psi Cop. |
| 596 | ** In the season 5 intro, Straczynski's creator credit is actually ''written on the back end of the station''. |
| 597 | ** Executive producer Douglas Netter appeared as President Luis Santiago in the first season. |
| 598 | ** Most of the cast, crew and even their children were mobilized for mass scenes such as those in the Casino, both in the pilot movie and during the series. |
| 599 | * Jeff Lindsay, author of the ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' novels, appeared as a police officer in the third season of the TV series. |
| 600 | * Executive producer/showrunner Carlton Cuse has done multiple voice cameos on ''Series/{{Lost}}'', including a newscast in "Through the Looking Glass" and Jacob's call for help in "The Man Behind the Curtain." Co-creator/showrunner Damon Lindelof voices the pilot of the plane Jack is on in "Through the Looking Glass" and claims to have [[InsertCameo "played"]] Locke's hand when Locke flips the Pearl's lightswitch in "?" |
| 601 | * Longtime ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' writer Creator/ChrisClaremont shows up in an episode of ''Series/TheGifted2017'' as a conspiracy theorist obsessed with mutants. |
| 602 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 603 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Spearhead From Space]]", producer Derrick Sherwin appears uncredited as the UNIT commissionaire. |
| 604 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]", the faces seen during the mind-bending contest are production unit manager George Gallaccio, Creator/RobertHolmes, production assistant Creator/GraemeHarper, director Creator/DouglasCamfield, Creator/PhilipHinchcliffe, production assistant Christopher Baker, writer Robert Banks Stewart, and director Christopher Barry. |
| 605 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity "Arc of Infinity"]], producer Creator/JohnNathanTurner is seen briefly on a street in Amsterdam. He was (in real life) keeping Amsterdam people out of the frame, and a lot of people think he was filmed by accident, and since they were in a hurry, [[ThrowItIn they decided to keep it]]. |
| 606 | ** The 25th-anniversary story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]" featured a number of current and previous crew and cast as extras in the Windsor Castle scenes. |
| 607 | ** Creator/MarkGatiss appeared, uncredited, as a Spitfire pilot in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]], a role which he reprises in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]] (also cameoing in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]] under heavy make-up and a pseudonym in the credits). Downplayed as Gatiss is a writer-actor who previously appeared in a major credited role as the villain in the episode "The Lazarus Experiment", and later as Captain [[spoiler:Lethbridge-Stewart]] in "Twice Upon a Time". |
| 608 | * Gatiss' appearances in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', which he co-created, as Mycroft Holmes were initially intended to be only brief cameos, but he ended up gradually becoming more and more important to the series in later seasons (hence why he is uncredited in the first series, but credited in all others). |
| 609 | * Creator/TonyKushner has a cameo as a rabbi in the ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'' miniseries. |
| 610 | * In the series finale of ''{{Series/Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', Creator/RonMoore appears as a bystander reading a magazine article on robotics as Head Six and Head Gaius read over his shoulder. |
| 611 | * Kathy Reichs, the author of the Temperance Brennan books, gets a cameo in season 2 of ''Series/{{Bones}}''. |
| 612 | * Creator/DouglasAdams appeared a couple of times in the televised version of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981''. Most notably, he walks into the ocean stark naked after the actor who was hired didn't show up. |
| 613 | ** He can be seen enjoying a beer in Arthur's local when Ford and Arthur take their six pints to a table. |
| 614 | ** His likeness also appears in animated sequences as a director of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation ("a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes"), and in a dress and hair-bunches as Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings. |
| 615 | * ''Series/JPod'' has a cameo by Creator/DouglasCoupland, who wrote the novel that inspired the series. |
| 616 | * Creator/SusanNickson had a small role on ''Series/TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps''. |
| 617 | * Creator/BryanSinger appears in at least one, possibly two, episodes of ''Series/{{House}}'' |
| 618 | * Ed Bye, director of ''Series/RedDwarf'', appeared as the Grim Reaper in ''Only The Good...'' |
| 619 | ** And Rob Grant, one of the writers, appeared in ''Backwards'' as a man unsmoking a cigarette. |
| 620 | ** Andrew Ellard, the script editor of ''Back to Earth'' and Series X, has a blink and you'll miss him appearance in a chase scene in ''Back to Earth'' Part 3. |
| 621 | ** Richard Naylor, co-producer of Series X and son of co-creator Doug Naylor, has a background role as a student in the classroom scene at the start of ''The Beginning''. |
| 622 | * Creator/ColinDexter, writer of the ''Series/InspectorMorse'' novels, has appeared in nearly every single episode of the TV series. He also turns up, though less frequently, in the spin-offs ''Series/{{Lewis}}'' and ''Series/{{Endeavour}}''. |
| 623 | * Series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas appear in a late first-season episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' as fake paramedics who take part in Barney's "greatest pickup line of all time." |
| 624 | * Creator/MarkWahlberg appeared [[SpecialGuest as himself]] on ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', playing with Vince and Drama at a charity golf tournament. |
| 625 | * Robert J. Sawyer, author of the novel ''Literature/FlashForward'', has a brief, no lines cameo in the pilot of [[Series/FlashForward2009 the TV series]] |
| 626 | * Creator/StephenKing, as with his films, tends to make cameos in his TV works. These include a bus driver in episode 5 of ''Series/GoldenYears'', a pizza delivery guy in the TV adaptation of "Rose Red", and the finale of ''Series/KingdomHospital'', in which the RunningGag of their janitor Jonathan B. Goode never being around finally ends, as Goode is played by King himself. |
| 627 | * Grahman Linehan can be seen in ''Series/TheITCrowd'', as a scientist who runs across the screen during the FightScene between Reynholm Junior and his girlfriend who was from Iran used to be a man. |
| 628 | ** He's a bit of a fan of this one. He's turned up in ''Series/TheITCrowd'' 4 times, ''Series/BlackBooks'' twice and a fair number of times in ''Series/FatherTed.'' In the script book for the latter, he expresses particular satisfaction that the final image of series two is a lingering close-up of his face. |
| 629 | * "Two Cathedrals," the second season finale of ''Series/TheWestWing'', has flashbacks to the president's teenage years, where we meet his abusive father. He's played by Lawrence O'Donnell, who was a producer on the show. The cameo wasn't planned, but O'Donnell read the part at a read-through before it had been cast and it was decided that he was very convincing in the role. In "The Debate" a heckler during the titular debate by played by director and executive producer Christopher Misiano. In the series finale, Creator/AaronSorkin also appears briefly and silently in the inauguration scene. |
| 630 | * Charlaine Harris, author of the ''Sookie Stackhouse'' novels, is seen in Merlotte's talking to Sam in the final episode of the second season of ''Series/TrueBlood''. She reappears as a camerawoman on the set of Eric and Pam's commercial in the series finale. |
| 631 | * In the first season ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' episode "The Giuoco Piano Affair", series co-creator/executive producer Norman Felton, series co-creator/producer Sam Rolfe, associate producer Joseph Calvelli, and episode director Richard Donner all have cameos as guests at a party hosted by episode guest star [[RealLifeRelative Jill Ireland]] (then-wife of series co-star David [=McCallum=]). |
| 632 | ** And in an episode ("The Little John Doe Affair") of the DistaffCounterpart {{Spinoff}} ''Series/TheGirlFromUNCLE'', episode co-writer Joseph Calvelli also has a part as a police chief. |
| 633 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode ''200'' had a number of spoof concepts of how the series might look if it were based on another popular series. In the case of the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' spoof, the Scottish engineer was one of the producers. |
| 634 | ** Also, writer/directors Creator/PeterDeLuise and Creator/MartinWood had a habit of appearing briefly in their own (and each other's) episodes. |
| 635 | * Creator/DonaldPBellisario: |
| 636 | ** Appeared very briefly in a few episodes of ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. The episode "SWAK" has him in a walk in role [[http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/Kk7YXjyAyJzVQO1CheQicQ40972/GW342H218]] at a hospital and in "Cover Story" where his portrait is sitting next to [=McGee=]'s as authors in a book publishers office [[http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/yAtrzVxg7jOSuaYbkRtMUA85293/GW350H197]]. |
| 637 | ** He also appears, along with his son, as a man and child being evacuated from the island of Boragora when its volcano is erupting in the ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'' episode ''"A Distant Shout of Thunder."'' |
| 638 | ** And in ''Series/QuantumLeap'''s "A Portrait For Troian," he plays the man who Scott Bakula's leaped into that episode. |
| 639 | *** In a strange subversion, Bellisario appears in "Lee Harvey Oswald" although played by a different actor. |
| 640 | ** Also appears in ''Series/{{JAG}}'': First AsHimself at a [[CelebrityParadox Quantum Leap]] fan convention in season 3, as Hugh Blackadder in "To Russia With Love", and later on in the ninth season, his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is directly shown. |
| 641 | * In ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 642 | ** Andy Breckman makes an appearance in "Mr. Monk and the TV Star" as the guy that walks past the golf cart Monk and Sharona are riding on at the studio |
| 643 | ** Executive Anthony Santa Croce is in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan" where he is one of the guys sitting down in the background when Marci Maven begins bidding |
| 644 | ** In the start of "Mr. Monk and the Actor", when Monk and Natalie meet Randy at the crime scene, they see Stottlemeyer chatting with the show's producer David Hoberman and looking at a TV script. |
| 645 | ** And on a series-long version, Tony Shalhoub is not just Monk, he is also one of the executive producers. |
| 646 | * In a season 2 episode of ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'', two guys from the Russian mafia come and threaten Charlie by sitting in the back of the room while he's teaching. One of them is Creator/{{Nicolas Falacci|AndCherylHeuton}}, one of the show's creators. |
| 647 | * Simon Nye cast himself in two minor, non-speaking role in ''Series/MenBehavingBadly'' - as "Catatonic Man" in 'Gary and Tony', and as Gary's Only Other Friend, Clive (previously TheGhost) in 'Wedding'. |
| 648 | * ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'': Increasingly blind Big Otto is played by Series Creator Kurt Sutter. |
| 649 | * In the first episode of ''Series/WireInTheBlood'', Val [=McDermid=] can be seen in the crowd outside the police station as a suspect is being transferred. |
| 650 | * Creator/ChrisCarter appeared in two episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'': in the final episode of season 2 he has a brief role as "Another Agent" questioning Scully in one scene, and has a non-speaking cameo as a cinema audience member at the beginning of season 7 episode "Hollywood A.D." He also appears in the background of a hospital scene in the second movie. |
| 651 | * Most of Creator/StephenJCannell's on-camera appearances were in [[Series/MagnumPI other]] [[Series/Castle2009 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). |
| 652 | * In ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' the costume designer Eilish appears in season 4's "A Knight To Remember" seen in a picture with Paige from one of her work parties. |
| 653 | * Frequent ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' director Rowan Woods plays an acting role (rather more than a cameo) in the episode "John Quixote" as the fat male Zhaan-impersonator. Woods also had a cameo in "A Human Reaction" alongside production designer Ricky Eyres and actor Anthony Simcoe (who normally plays D'Argo but appeared without his extensive prosthetics) in a scene where Crichton steps into the men's room at a bar. |
| 654 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': Creator/BarryLevinson, one of the show's producers and directors, makes a cameo AsHimself in "The Documentary" when Lewis, Kellerman, and Brodie chase a suspect into his movie set. |
| 655 | * In ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'', creators Susan Coyne and [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall Mark McKinney]] play supporting roles as Anna Conroy and Richard Smith-Jones. The final member of the creative team, Bob Martin, makes his cameo as accountant Terry and gets a chance to deliver the "brief candle" monologue from Theatre/{{Macbeth}}. |
| 656 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' co-creator Creator/LarryDavid, in addition to having an AuthorAvatar as a main character (George), appears in extra and bit roles, sometimes thinly disguised but just as often clearly recognizable. In spite of the frequency, this is never lampshaded, and he never develops into a consistent character as in ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm''. |
| 657 | ** Writer Larry Charles, easily recognizable by his huge beard, had a few cameos too, most memorably the guy who stinks up the airplane bathroom before Elaine uses it in "The Airport." |
| 658 | * Creator/DanHarmon appears as English Memorial in the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS3E14PillowsAndBlankets "Pillows and Blankets"]], and may also be seen on some [[FreezeFrameBonus admissions posters at Greendale]]. |
| 659 | * ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' had Sara Shepard, the author of the original books the show is based from, as a substitute teacher. |
| 660 | ** Ditto showrunner I. Marlene King showing up in the last episode as one of the guests at Ezra and Aria's wedding. |
| 661 | * Mark Goodson turned up on the panel of ''Series/MatchGame'' when panelist Charles Nelson Reilly was late. |
| 662 | * ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' was created way back in 1956 by Bob Stewart, who infrequently turned up, notably on the nighttime show, to assist in staging merchandise the contestants were bidding on. |
| 663 | * ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' was told to hold a contest to add interest to the show. Not wanting to give away standard prizes like a free ticket to attend a taping, they decided the prize for their contest was going to be the right to poke Paul Bellini with a stick, one of the shows writers. The fact that Paul Bellini appeared in his skits wearing only a towel, never spoke, and the contest was called "Touch Paul Bellini," increased the absurdity of it. Before long, the Paul Bellini fan club had a [[EnsembleDarkHorse larger membership]] than the Kids In The Hall fan club. He had a few more cameos (including a second contest where the prize was to have breakfast with him) before one speaking line during the final scene of series. |
| 664 | -->'''Paul Bellini''': ''Thank God that's finally over.'' [''dances on their graves''] |
| 665 | * In the last episode of ''Series/PerryMason'', Creator/ErleStanleyGardner appeared as a judge. (Members of the crew also guested as -- the crew of a television show.) |
| 666 | * Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the ''Literature/GossipGirl'' books, has a cameo as herself in "The Wrong Goodbye" meeting Serena van der Woodsen. |
| 667 | * On the first season of ''Series/TwinPeaks'', Creator/DavidLynch voices an FBI (ahem) director that Agent Cooper talks to over the phone. By the second season, that character, Gordon Cole, became an AscendedExtra, and in ''The Return'' (the renewed series, made over twenty years later) he's now one of the leads. |
| 668 | ** Creator/MarkFrost, who co-created the show with Lynch, had a cameo in one episode as a news reporter on TV. He appears again in ''The Return'' walking his dog in the woods. It's meant to be the same character, named Cyril Pons, but you could be forgiven for not recognizing him. |
| 669 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' creator Creator/BillLawrence appears as bohemian Justice of the Peace "Van" (stretch it out - Vaaan[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w14s5j2Vuvg]]) in season 8 "My Soul on Fire: Part 1" and "My Soul on Fire: Part 2". He marries the Janitor and Lady with the line "It is now time to join these two, as only the creator can." |
| 670 | ** Later, in the show's finale (My Finale: Part 2), he appears as a janitor and he and J.D. deliver the final goodbye of the show. |
| 671 | * Terry Deary, author of the ''Literature/HorribleHistories'' book series, has frequent cameos on the [[Series/HorribleHistories show]], including one singing role as the bishop in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__I_looDNA Funky Monks song]]. Historical consultant Greg Jenner appears occasionally in nonspeaking roles, and producer Caroline Norris makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in the "Stupid Deaths" introduction. |
| 672 | * ''Series/PersonOfInterest:'' In the second season finale, "God Mode," Creator/JonathanNolan, Greg Plageman, and Richard J. Lewis all make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo appearance near the end. |
| 673 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': Creator/DouglasAdams, who co-authored several sketches in the fourth series, had brief on-screen appearances in two episodes: near the beginning of "The Light Entertainment War" as a surgeon, and in "Mr. Neutron" as a Pepperpot loading a missile. |
| 674 | * ''Series/{{Reacher}}'': Author Lee Child is the very tall, older gentleman passing Reacher as he leaves the diner in the final minutes of the first season's last episode. |
| 675 | * ''Series/ReadingRainbow'': Laurence and Cecily Lancit, as well as other real-life crew members, are seen in the third episode, ''Bea and Mr. Jones,'' making an episode of the show. |
| 676 | * On ''Series/{{Soap}}'', creator Susan Harris appears in a few episodes as Babette, the prostitute. |
| 677 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' |
| 678 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Writer/Director/Producer Doug Sloan appeared as Kimberly's uncle Steve, Kimberly's mom's date for Parents Day, and had two separate stints as a reporter before becoming a DescendedCreator in the latter half of ''Zeo'' as the voice of Prince Gasket. |
| 679 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': Director Koichi Sakamoto guest starred as the alien warrior, Tritor in the episode "King for a Day." And his stuntwoman wife later played A-Squad Pink in ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' and a mother in ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. |
| 680 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'': |
| 681 | *** Writer/Director/Producer Judd "Chip" Lynn appeared as a floating head in the two part finale. |
| 682 | *** Writer Jackie Marchand appeared as a bongo player in "The Song of Confusion" and later voiced MonsterOfTheWeek Mamamite in "Grandma Matchmaker" the following season. |
| 683 | * In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint", watch for Shimako Iwai, writer of the original novel. '''''She plays the torturer.''''' |
| 684 | * In "Charlie X" of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', Gene Roddenberry himself voiced the ship's cook. |
| 685 | * In an episode of ''Series/TrueDetective'', creator Nic Pizzolatto makes a cameo appearance as a bartender. Possibly lampshaded as well. Woody Harrelson's character is interogatting the bartender. He then asks the bartender, "why are you making me say this shit?" |
| 686 | * In "Endless", the SeriesFinale of ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', [[TheDanza Jack]], the equivalent of Artie at the future version of the Warehouse, is played by executive producer Jack Kenny, who also directed the episode. |
| 687 | * In an episode of ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'', Creator/JackKirby played a police sketch artist. |
| 688 | * Creator/JuddApatow, executive producer of ''Series/TheBenStillerShow'', played the pseudo-network mascot Foxy the Fox, and also did a Creator/JayLeno impersonation that he reprised on one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', on which he worked as a consultant. |
| 689 | * ''Series/SledgeHammer!'' creator Alan Spencer can be seen in the backgrounds of several episodes, usually at the precinct. |
| 690 | * Unusual for the GameShow genre, but ''[[Series/OneThousandHeartbeats 1000 Heartbeats]]'' creator Paul Farrer conducts the live string quartet that plays to the beat of the contestant's heart. (He also wrote all the music for the show.) |
| 691 | * In ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt,'' series co-creator Creator/TinaFey plays Marcia, an incompetent prosecutor in the case against Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. |
| 692 | * ''Series/MadamSecretary'' executive producer Creator/MorganFreeman guest-stars as the chief justice of the US Supreme Court in the season two premiere "The Show Must Go On". |
| 693 | * Scott Gimple, Executive Producer of''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'', has appeared in the show five times as a zombie, as of the beginning of the sixth season. |
| 694 | * In one episode of ''Series/SunesJul'', the titular protagonist is watching a parody of the {{julekalender}} series ''Vilse i pannkakan''. The hosts in this parody are played by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson, the authors of the original ''Sune'' books. |
| 695 | * On episode 14 of ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'', series co-creator Javier Olivares and director Marc Vigil appear in portaits as two former Ministry undersecretaries. |
| 696 | * ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': |
| 697 | ** Creator/PaulJennings, the script writer, had several non-speaking cameos in the first series: he appears as a hospital patient in "Birdsdo", Ben Byron's ghost in "Without My Pants", and among a crowd in the finale "Lighthouse Blues". |
| 698 | ** One of the series directors Steve Jodrell also appears in "Birdsdo" (which he didn't direct) as a doctor. |
| 699 | * The PilotEpisode of ''Series/TheKicks'' features an appearance by Alex Morgan, the author of the books. |
| 700 | * ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': Series creator Ben Elton appears in the episode "Bambi" as Mr. Kendall Mintcake, part of the opposing team on "University Challenge". |
| 701 | ** In the first episode ("Demolition") he also played Baz, the presenter of "Nozin' Aroun'", a program for young adults, by young adults, focusing on issues that affect young adults, that Rik was interested in watching. |
| 702 | * The Welsh radio newsreader in episode 9 of ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' is Creator/RussellTDavies. |
| 703 | * ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'': The writers of the direct-to-DVD sequel movies each appear in their respective movies: Keiichi Hasegawa in the ''Kamen Rider Accel'' movie as a bar patron who almost gets pick-pocketed, and Riku Sanjo in ''Kamen Rider Eternal'' as the Sweets Dopant fought by Double at the start of the movie. |
| 704 | * The original ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'' TV movie saw Creator/SamRaimi, who co-created it, as a loon interviewed by the police who claims to know M.A.N.T.I.S. |
| 705 | * Creator/NeilGaiman is the voice of {{God}} in the ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'' episode "Once Upon a Time". Gaiman created the ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' comic which the show is based on. |
| 706 | * Gaiman cameoed in two episodes of ''Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories'': in "Foreign Parts" he's the Voice on the Radio and "Looking for the Girl" ends with TV show the main character was being interviewed for continuing with an interview with Gaiman AsHimself, with the result that he's [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall discussing how his stories work]] as the credits run. |
| 707 | * In ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'', Gaiman has a voice cameo in "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E11ADreamOfAThousandCatsCalliope A Dream of a Thousand Cats]]", as the Skull Bird that the central character meets in her dream. |
| 708 | * ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'': |
| 709 | ** In "Silence," assistant director Eldon Burke can be seen polishing the Torino. He later appears in "The Action" as a gambler and in "Photo Finish" as a patrolman. |
| 710 | ** Makeup artist Layne "Shotgun" Britton appears in "Murder on Stage 17" as a crew member [[TheDanza named Shotgun]]. |
| 711 | * ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In the SeriesFinale "The Great Leap Forward", the series' executive producer Ira Steven Behr makes a cameo appearance in a crowd scene. |
| 712 | * ''Series/TheBoys2019'': |
| 713 | ** A tweet by Eric Kripke shows up in episode 6. |
| 714 | ** Seth Rogen appears as himself in the same episode. |
| 715 | * A RunningGag in ''Series/{{Frontline}}'' is writer/producer/director Tom Gleisner appearing in one episode per season as photocopier repairman Colin Konika, who gets no lines. |
| 716 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E27PersonOrPersonsUnknown Person or Persons Unknown]]", the patient who believes himself to be UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill is played by the director John Brahm. |
| 717 | * In ''Series/GoodOmens2019'', 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.) |
| 718 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': |
| 719 | ** Robert Downey, Sr., who directed "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E3 Children's Zoo]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E7 Teacher's Aide]]" and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E16 Tooth and Consequences]]", played Mr. Miller in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E2 Wordplay]]". |
| 720 | ** Creator/WesCraven, who directed seven episodes, played Edgar, one of the imprisoned parents, in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E3 Children's Zoo]]". |
| 721 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E10 Opening Day]]", the director Creator/JohnMilius plays a party guest who tries to sexually harass Sally Wilkerson. |
| 722 | * In the SeasonFinale of Season Three of ''Series/BlackLightning2018'', 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. |
| 723 | * All the masks used on ''Series/KingOfMaskSinger'' are designed by Hwang Jaegeun. He eventually appeared as a contestant in episode 219. |
| 724 | * ''Series/CrazyLikeAFox'': Director Paul Krasny appears in an episode he directed, "Fox in Hollywood", in a cameo as a director whose shot is interrupted by Harry chasing the bad guy across the movie set. |
| 725 | * ''Series/ForLife'': Music/FiftyCent, the producer, appears as scary prison gang leader Cassius Dawkins. |
| 726 | * Philip Martin, writer of Creator/TheBBC series ''Series/{{Gangsters}}'' appears as a gang leader in the original ''Series/PlayForToday'' pilot, who gets killed by the main character, Kline. He also appears as another character in the GrandFinale, where he [[BookEnds kills Kline]]. |
| 727 | * In a variant, the director of the original ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Creator/RobReiner, makes an appearance in ''Series/HomeMovieThePrincessBride'' first playing the Grandfather, and later playing the Grandson. |
| 728 | * ''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'': Creator/SpikeLee, who had created the original film it's based on and executive producer here, briefly shows up as a waiter in one episode. |
| 729 | * ''Series/{{Hex}}'': In the first episode, writer Julian Jones and producer Julian Murphy both get cameos, respectively as a cop and as the owner of a parked car. |
| 730 | * ''Franchise/CSIVerse'': |
| 731 | ** Franchise creator Creator/AnthonyEZuiker appears in three episodes of the original series; first as a casino cashier, then as a heckler at at stand-up comedy joint, and finally as a security guard. |
| 732 | ** ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Writer/producer/editor Creator/JohnDove appears as [[TheDanza Det. John Scagnetti]] in three episodes of Season 2. |
| 733 | * A few examples from Mike Schur series ''Series/{{The Good Place}}'' include a food worker who calls the police on Pillboi in a flashback, one of Eleanor's soulmates during the reboot sequence, and a violin street performer in season 3, much of which is discussed during [[Podcast/TheGoodPlaceThePodcast the podcast series]]. Perhaps the most notable example would be Glenn, the lovable Bad Place demon played by writer Josh Siegal, who would go on to be an occasional guest star throughout the four-season run of the show. |
| 734 | * ''Series/LasVegas'': Gary Scott Thompson turns up as the psychiatrist's patient Sam interrupts in "3 Babes, 100 Guns and a Fat Chick". |
| 735 | * ''Series/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians2023'': Executive producers Creator/RickRiordan, the author of [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians the original books]], and his wife Becky have cameos in the series: |
| 736 | ** In the first episode, Rick appears as a Yancy Academy staff member who is present during Percy's expulsion. |
| 737 | ** In the third episode, statues of Rick and Becky are present in Medusa's collection. |
| 738 | * Writer Jimmy Perry played a plaster bust of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte in the final episode of ''Series/TheGnomesOfDulwich''. |
| 739 | * At this point, Lorne Michaels, the producer/creator of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has made so many cameos over the show’s nearly 50 years on the air, you could practically consider him a recurring character of the show as well. A full archive of all his appearances can be found [[http://www.snlarchives.net/Crew/?Lorne_Michaels here]]. |
| 740 | [[/folder]] |
| 741 | |
| 742 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 743 | * Round Trip, writer of "Music/AlternateRealities", voices Shining Armor's only line in the song. |
| 744 | * Derek Riggs, creator of Music/IronMaiden mascot Eddie, inserted [[http://derek.server311.com/riggsart/Pages/maiden.dir/13something04.html himself on a piece of art]] (left on the front row - he's even wearing his signature on a jacket) and had Eddie [[DeathByCameo throw him out of an airplane]] [[http://derek.server311.com/riggsart/Pages/maiden.dir/14fright667.html in another]] ("[[WriterRevolt did you think that was an accident or a co-incidence? it was a comment]]"). He also put the band in the back cover of ''Somewhere in Time'', and the singers who were being expelled in two singles (Eddie [[DecapitationPresentation holds the head]] of Paul Di'Anno in the rejected cover for the EP ''[[http://derek.server311.com/riggsart/Pages/maiden.dir/02killers04.html Maiden Japan]]'', and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales]] Music/BruceDickinson in "[[http://derek.server311.com/riggsart/Pages/maiden.dir/13something03.html Hallowed Be Thy Name]]"). |
| 745 | * Klaus Voormann, a friend of Music/TheBeatles who did the cover of ''Music/{{Revolver}}'', hid his face in George's hair, right below John's mouth (he even wrote his name right above). When he was brought back for a collage in ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'', that piece of the cover was reused with a contemporary picture of Voorman. |
| 746 | * Music/{{Nelly}}'s song "Dilemma" samples Music/PattiLaBelle's "Love, Need and Want You", and Patti [=LaBelle=] guest stars in the music video. |
| 747 | * Music/VanHalen's "Unchained" famously has producer Ted Templeman cutting out Music/DavidLeeRoth's banter with "Come on Dave, give us a break!" ("One break, coming uuuuup!"). |
| 748 | * The video for Music/GeorgeHarrison's 1988 song "When We Was Fab" features a cameo from the song's producer and co-writer [[Music/ElectricLightOrchestra Jeff Lynne]]. |
| 749 | * [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Arin Hanson]] tends to cameo in the music videos he directs for Music/NinjaSexParty (given that he's friends with both members). His cameos range from being a backup dancer in "Attitude City" and "Road Trip", [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the DJ killed by Ninja Brian]] in "Party of Three", and [[ItMakesSenseInContext the homeless man Danny hires to dress as a dragon]] in "Dragon Slayer". |
| 750 | ** Arin also animated and provided grunts for the dinosaur segments in the NSP video "Dinosaur Laser Fight". |
| 751 | * The 1984 video for Music/TheDoors' song, "Strange Days" features a cameo from keyboardist Ray Manzarek. |
| 752 | * Music/DestinysChild's video for "Bootylicious" features a few brief shots of Music/StevieNicks playing a guitar, as the song samples her song, "Edge Of Seventeen". |
| 753 | * Music/StevieRayVaughan's video for "Superstition" ends with the black cat getting picked up by Music/StevieWonder, who walks off singing the chorus. |
| 754 | [[/folder]] |
| 755 | |
| 756 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 757 | * According to the artist, the driver shown on the backglass of ''[[Pinball/HighSpeed The Getaway: High Speed II]]'' is designer Steve Ritchie. |
| 758 | * In ''[[Pinball/CaptainFantastic Capt. Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy]]'', Bally artist Creator/PaulFaris and Marketing Vice-President Tom Nieman can be seen in the backglass crowd. |
| 759 | * Creator/PaulFaris likes to insert himself or his family members in his pinball art: |
| 760 | ** Faris and his wife are the BarbarianHero and DamselInDistress featured in ''Lost World'' and ''Pinball/{{Paragon}}''. |
| 761 | ** In Creator/DataEastPinball's ''Pinball/BackToTheFuture'', Faris and Brian Schmidt (music) are on the right side of the playfield. |
| 762 | * On the backglass of ''Pinball/RedAndTedsRoadShow'', creator Creator/PatLawlor is driving a red Corvette, while Country singer Carlene Carter (who voices Red) appears on a billboard. |
| 763 | * ''Pinball/WhiteWater'' has a surprised man on the backglass that was modeled after the artist, John Youssi. Also, {{Bigfoot|Sasquatch and Yeti}} is modeled after the designer, Creator/DennisNordman. |
| 764 | * Lots of them on the backglass in ''Pinball/FishTales'': |
| 765 | ** The fishermen are artist Pat [=McMahon=] and designer Mark Ritchie. |
| 766 | ** The fisherman in the water filled waders (wearing a baseball hat) is Carl. |
| 767 | ** The worm is Jim Patla. According to Creator/BrianEddy, "it kind of fit his personality at the time." |
| 768 | * The crowd for Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''Pinball/{{Rocky}}'' pinball includes designer Creator/JohnTrudeau and artist David Moore. |
| 769 | * The Joker playing cards in Creator/SternPinball's ''Pinball/HighRollerCasino'' have the face of company president Gary Stern on them. This might have also been intended as a stealth TakeThat, due to designer Creator/JonNorris' relationship with Stern at the time. |
| 770 | * For ''Pinball/MedievalMadness'', artist Creator/GregFreres did the voice of the jousting announcer. |
| 771 | * Creator/PatLawlor is the man driving the "Storm Blasters" weather van in ''Pinball/{{Whirlwind}}''. |
| 772 | * ''Pinball/CirqusVoltaire'' shows designer Creator/JohnPopadiuk as a high-wire artist on the backglass. Also, some members of the design team appear as the [[HoldUpYourScore score judges]] at the end of each ball. |
| 773 | * [[WordOfGod According to]] Creator/JohnTrudeau, the backglass for ''Pinball/BlackRose'' shows himself, Greg Freres, and Pat [=McMahon=] among the pirates. |
| 774 | * ''Pinball/TheChampionPub'' uses programmer Duncan Brown as the model for the boxing man. |
| 775 | * Creator/DennisNordman can be seen on the sides of ''Pinball/ThePartyZone'''s cabinet. |
| 776 | * In ''Pinball/TimeMachineDataEast'', artist Margaret Hudson is the GranolaGirl hippie in the time machine. |
| 777 | * The truck driver in ''Pinball/TruckStop'' is Joe Dillon, who was Williams' Sales Vice President at the time. |
| 778 | * ''Pinball/{{Baywatch}}'': |
| 779 | ** Gregory J. Bonann, producer of the television show and a RealLife lifeguard, appears on the far playfield panel as the man carrying a surfboard. |
| 780 | ** Producer Douglas Schwartz is the man with the mustache near the bumpers, while across from him is executive producer Michael Berk and Jolly Backer, Sega's Director of National and International Sales. |
| 781 | ** Artist Markus Rothkranz' girlfriend appears as the surfboard-carrying blonde in the corner of the backglass. |
| 782 | * For ''Pinball/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', artist Creator/PaulFaris' daughter was the model for Christine Dae on the backglass. |
| 783 | * The Director's assistant in ''Pinball/LightsCameraAction'' (a woman wearing a tank-top with the name "Jeanine") is artist Constantino Mitchell's wife. |
| 784 | * Two of the buildings in ''Pinball/Fire1987'' include "Oursler's Arcade" (for designer Barry Oursler) and "Sprenger 1st National Bank" (for artist Mark Sprenger). |
| 785 | * Keith Elwin's games tend to have him appear in out of the way places: |
| 786 | ** An EasterEgg in ''Pinball/IronMaidenLegacyOfTheBeast'' occasionally depicts him running through the woods during "Fear of the Dark" (which was [[PermanentPlaceholder originally a placeholder animation that was later replaced with a different one, before being re-added even later]]). |
| 787 | ** ''Pinball/JurassicParkStern'' has [[https://i.redd.it/a4lbpp3j2gd31.png a picture of him smoking a pipe taped to a computer screen]]. |
| 788 | * ''Pinball/DialedIn'' shows designer Creator/PatLawlor whenever you tilt (saying "[[Pinball/FunHouse1990 Hey, it's only pinball!]]", no less). |
| 789 | [[/folder]] |
| 790 | |
| 791 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 792 | * Ron Feinstein, who owned Wrestling/RingOfHonor's first distributor, RF Video, served as the Christopher Street Connection's manager, Fun Athletic Guy. The other man who got the idea to start the promotion, Gabe Sapolski, served as commentator Jimmy Bower.[[/folder]] |
| 793 | |
| 794 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 795 | * During the Club Dubonet scene in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', Gonzo starts going around the tables taking pictures of people. His first subject is none other than Jim Henson himself. |
| 796 | * At the end of ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'', Creator/JimHenson is shown at the kitchen door, looking approvingly at the Muppets enjoying themselves, before deciding that he's going to have to wash the dishes. |
| 797 | * Similarly, at the end of ''The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years'', Grover gives Jim the bill for the evening. |
| 798 | [[/folder]] |
| 799 | |
| 800 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 801 | * In the AudioAdaptation of ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', the security guard at Richard's work and the Fop With No Name are played by Creator/NeilGaiman. He also plays the Ferrymen in the adaptation of ''Literature/HowTheMarquisGotHisCoatBack''. |
| 802 | * In the Tertiary Phase of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' Agrajag is voiced by the late Creator/DouglasAdams, who recorded his bit before his death. In the Quandary Phase, Arthur's producer at Creator/TheBBC is played by the original ''Hitchhiker's'' producer, Geoffrey Perkins. |
| 803 | * In the AudioAdaptation of ''Literature/GoodOmens'', Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/NeilGaiman are the cops who try to stop Crowley's Bentley (and [[TheDanza named as Terry and Neil]]). Available as a trailer (with InkSuitActor comic-panels) [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02cv5cn here]]. |
| 804 | * ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre'': Creator/NoelCoward was interviewed on the air during the December 28, 1936 broadcast of ''Film/{{Cavalcade}}''. |
| 805 | * In the AudioAdaptation of ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'', Gaiman plays Seth, the villager who discovers baby Tristran. |
| 806 | [[/folder]] |
| 807 | |
| 808 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 809 | * Creator/WilliamShakespeare was an actor (or "player", as they were called back then) as well as a playwright and was known to act in the plays of others (particularly those of his longtime friend/rival Ben Jonson) and tradition holds that he originated several of the roles in his own plays, particularly the Ghost in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and Adam in ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''. |
| 810 | * On the 1960 Columbia recording of ''Theatre/OnTheTown'', composer Music/LeonardBernstein not only conducts but also sings the part of the barker at Coney Island ("Rajah Bimmy"). When the recording was first issued, the singer was credited as [[SignificantAnagram Randel Striboneen]]. (It also had Betty Comden and Adolph Green in their original roles, which are hardly cameos.) |
| 811 | [[/folder]] |
| 812 | |
| 813 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 814 | * At [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]], Stan Lee makes not one, not two, but ''six'' cameo appearances in ''Ride/TheAmazingAdventuresOfSpiderMan''. |
| 815 | * Mary Blair, the art director for ''Ride/ItsASmallWorld'' at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks, makes a hidden appearance in doll-form in the ride's Western Europe scene. |
| 816 | * Several of the windows on [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Main Street, USA]] contain references to various Imagineers and others who worked on the parks. These include Marc Davis, an animator, Ken Anderson, an art director, Blaine Gibson, an animator and master sculptor, Fred Joerger, a miniature and model builder, Wathel Rogers, a pioneer of the Audio-Animatronic technology that is now synonymous with the parks, and Elias Disney, Walt's father. |
| 817 | ** In the same vein, [[Series/DavyCrockett Fess Parker]]'s name appears in Frontierland as the proprietor of a Coonskin cap company. In the Magic Kingdom's version of Tom Sawyer Island, Harper Goff, one of the major designers and planners of the parks, is immortalized in Harper's Mill. |
| 818 | ** Although Creator/WaltDisney's face is [[SigilSpam hard to miss]] in the parks, the Magic Kingdom features a smaller statue in the Hub of Walt's brother Roy and Mickey Mouse reclining on a bench. Roy spearheaded much of "the Florida project" after Walt's death, and was the one to suggest the name change from "Disneyworld" to "Walt Disney World" in his honor. |
| 819 | * Both versions of the "pre-flight" video in ''Ride/StarTours'' feature Imagineers and their families acting as space travelers. |
| 820 | [[/folder]] |
| 821 | |
| 822 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 823 | * The head sculpt for the ''Toys/GIJoe'' action figure "Tunnel Rat" is based on Creator/LarryHama, the longtime writer of the ''Joe'' ComicBook. This was done by the toy developers as a tribute. |
| 824 | [[/folder]] |
| 825 | |
| 826 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 827 | * The first ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has a cameo by Shu Takumi's dog Missile, as an enthusiastic (but not very useful) police dog. |
| 828 | ** 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. |
| 829 | ** Jacques Portsman's design is based on his voice actor, Yuuki Furukawa. |
| 830 | ** 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. |
| 831 | ** 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. |
| 832 | ** In the ''Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' film adaptation, Shu is seen in the gallery celebrating with Larry Butz after Edgeworth's trial. |
| 833 | * ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': Shuhei Yoshida, the head of [=PlayStation=] Indies, appears as a resident of Skopp City discussing his love of video games. |
| 834 | * Mothense, the composer of ''VideoGame/{{APICO}}'''s music, can be found on the upper-left island. They sell the game's OST as [=CDs=] that [[SoundTest can be played in the jukebox.]] |
| 835 | * ''VideoGame/{{Aquaria}}'' has a DevelopersRoom[[note]]located (spoilered in case you [[EasterEgg wanna find it yourself]]) [[spoiler: in The Abyss]][[/note]] with two unattractive ([[LampshadeHanging according to Naija humorous narration]]) fish that happen to have hair, one short and blonde, the other long and black. Now, in case you didn't know before, one of the amazing features of this game was that it was made just about entirely by two men. |
| 836 | * Creator/JeffVogel is a [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breaking]] EasterEgg near the end of ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}} 3''. |
| 837 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', as Bayonetta and Jeanne are fighting on top of the missile, the missile flies by the Platinum Games building at one point. The P+ logo is also seen at the bottom of the screen during the Angel Attack mini-game. |
| 838 | * The last level of the freeware ''VideoGame/BinaryBoy'' has the game's creator, Jared Johnson, standing in your path halfway through. Walking into him results in a trippy InterfaceScrew. |
| 839 | * ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' features the MiniBoss Ultra Pride, which is a DualBoss modelled after Creator/EdmundMcMillen and lead programmer Florian Himsl. [[SelfDeprecation Edmund's attacks are based on Sloth]]. |
| 840 | * The ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series has Ken Levine as the uncredited voice for the Circus of Value machines as well as the Dollar Bill ones from ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite''...using the ''exact'' same voice. He also appears (still uncredited) in the original game as Martin Finnegan, one of Sander Cohen's pupils. Concept artist Mauricio Tejerina voices the El Ammo Bandito machine. |
| 841 | * In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'', [=IGA=] himself appears as an OptionalBoss as part of the Kickstarter stretch goal. His attacks are very remnescent of [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} Dracula]], and he even opens the fight by tossing his wine glass. |
| 842 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series has Gearbox president Randy Pitchford voicing Crazy Earl, a minor character who serves as a questgiver in the first game and the BlackMarket vendor in the second. |
| 843 | * ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' has (as of its second piece of downloadable content) a bust of [[Creator/TimSchafer some guy]] available to put up on Mount Rockmore. [[Music/OzzyOsbourne The Guardian of Metal]] [[LampshadeHanging thinks he knows him from somewhere]]. |
| 844 | * Sonic Team's Saturn firefighting game ''VideoGame/BurningRangers'' has you rescue civilians, who email you with letters of thanks after each mission. Several of the civilians are Sonic Team members, who include cheat codes, production sketches and the like with their emails. (There's also a real-life Japanese poet who sends you a couple of poems - she's a friend of then-Team head Yuji Naka.) |
| 845 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' famously based its most elusive ending around this trope. Should the player manage to access the fight against Lavos without checking the bucket in the End of Time or by using the Epoch and then defeat him (this can be done using a gate that appears in Lucca's teleportation device at the start of a NewGamePlus or by being strong enough to defeat Lavos during the normally-UnwinnableByDesign encounter with him in the Ocean Palace), they'll gain access to a special version of the End of Time where they can travel around and speak with the game's development staff, who all share their own thoughts and feelings on the game and its development process. In Spekkio's room, they can even speak with the game's higher-ups (who Gaspar calls "The Dream Team"), who are all given their own custom sprites for the game (save for Music/NobuoUematsu). Afterwards, the credits will zoom by in the span of five seconds as a way of acknowledging how quickly the game was beaten. ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' did the same thing if the player beats the Time Devourer right at the start of a NewGamePlus, though this time everyone is just depicted with regular enemy sprites. |
| 846 | * Sid Meier has served as an advisor to the player throughout the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' series; in later games, his digital avatar even runs the tutorial. |
| 847 | * ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'': Ambrose Covenant's voiced by none other than Clive Barker himself. |
| 848 | * Dominic Lockhart in ''[[VideoGame/{{Crysis}} Crysis 2]]'' is modeled after Cevat Yerli, Crytek's CEO. |
| 849 | * ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': |
| 850 | ** Morro Rock Radio's ConspiracyTheorist DJ Maximum Mike is voiced by none other than ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' tabletop game creator Mike Pondsmith. And even better? [[GeniusBonus Those conspiracy theories of his are actually plot points from various supplements and adventures from the game's prior editions.]] Of course, in-universe, this just means [[CassandraTruth his theories aren't as crazy as they sound...]] and yes, this includes the one about [[https://www.scribd.com/document/108890144/World-of-Future-Darkness Vampires roaming Night City,]] [[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1250/Nights-Edge with some in notable positions of power.]] |
| 851 | ** CDPR founders Marcin Iwiński and Adam Kicinski [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnhKjA2ScA show up in the Phantom Liberty DLC]] selling braindances from a van, a reference to their start selling cracked copies of games in the Warsaw marketplace. |
| 852 | * ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'' has K*E*P*A mode, a game mode where you try and keep designer Kepa Auwae alive for the entire run. |
| 853 | * ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'' has creator Adam Heart voicing the character Kenny. |
| 854 | * ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'': |
| 855 | ** To win ''VideoGame/DoomII'', you must defeat the Icon of Sin, whose inner core takes the form of [[spoiler:[[Creator/JohnRomero oremoR nhoJ]]]]. |
| 856 | ** In ''VideoGame/Doom3'', one of the guards is voiced by Creator/JohnCarmack. "Welcome to the Dungeon, Marine" indeed. |
| 857 | * A hard-to-find EasterEgg RandomEncounter in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' features a "Gaider" (i.e. David Gaider, the lead writer for the series) fleeing from a crew of bratty kids yelling at him about what they want to hear in a story (including "zombie kittens!"). (Oddly, he's not voiced by Gaider, making it sort of a half-cameo.) |
| 858 | * In ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' and ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', the voice that says "OK desu ka?" [[note]]which translates to "Is this OK?" in English[[/note]] when a player names a character is actually a recording of creator Shigesato Itoi. He was recorded without his knowledge while speaking to one of the game's sound designers. |
| 859 | * ''VideoGame/EasternMindTheLostSoulsOfTongNou'' lets you get inside its creator's head in more ways than one. The green-tinted face of Osamu Sato represents the island of Tong-Nou, and you'll have to ''crawl into one of its orifices'' to retrieve your soul from the AcidTripDimension within. |
| 860 | * ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' composer Phyrnna has cameoed twice in the series: |
| 861 | ** ''VideoGame/BulletHeaven2'' features her as a playable character, unlocked in the Shop for 10,000 coins. |
| 862 | ** ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' gives Phyrnna a cameo in the video game Matt plays in the opening cutscene. She also appears in the [[GladiatorSubquest Battle Arena]] as an NPC, giving the aptly-named Phyrnna's Blessing skill once all five solo challenges there are finished. |
| 863 | * ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity'' has various Creator/AmbrosiaSoftware employees as [=NPCs=]. |
| 864 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'', David Cage is modeled for and voices the intro/tutorial of ''Indigo Prophecy''. |
| 865 | * In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', [[SnakeOilSalesman Parker Quinn]] is voiced by and [[InkSuitActor modeled after]] Emil Pagliarulo, the game's lead designer. |
| 866 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has Naoki Yoshida appearing as himself during every Rising event, usually to thank the player for sticking by the dev team by playing their game. |
| 867 | * Scott Cawthon, creator of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1'', is the voice of the "Phone Guy" who leaves voice-mail messages for you throughout the game. He reprises his role as Phone Guy in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' [[spoiler:because it's a [[StealthSequel Stealth Prequel]]]], and ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' in what is basically archival recording, and also as "Phone Dude", the employee of Fazbear's Fright. |
| 868 | * The author of the fanmod ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtVault5'' voices the robots and Nicolaus Ainsworth (aka the mod's Phone Guy). |
| 869 | * ''VideoGame/FootballManager'' occasionally creates new players that take the name, birthday, birthplace and a few other traits (such as favourite teams or personnel) from Sports Interactive staff members, or voluntary nation researchers. You can find them all by searching for "faceinthegame". |
| 870 | * Jane Jensen appears in ''VideoGame/GabrielKnight: The Beast Within'', on the cover of a German newspaper Gabriel picks up at the Hunt Club, and in ''Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned'', when Gabriel looks through the bookstore's window in Rennes-le-Château. |
| 871 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Glider}} PRO'', the four creators of "Slumberland," john calhoun, Paul Finn, Ward Hartenstein and Steve Sullivan, each have their portrait on the wall of a room named for them. |
| 872 | * ''VideoGame/GoatSimulator'' allows you to visit an in-game version of Coffee Stain Studios' offices, where you can encounter various employees and play ''[[VideoGame/FlappyBird Flappy Goat]]''. |
| 873 | * In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', part of the main quest has you meeting a dwarf named Raeb in his tavern. He's voiced by his InkSuitActor and one of the game's composer, Music/BearMcCreary. |
| 874 | * In ''VideoGame/GoingUnder'', [[PlayerCharacter Jackie]] has a poster of Aggro Crab, the game's developer-company, in her bedroom, and the opening cutscene displays Aggro Crab's logo among those companies' logos who were acquired by [[MegaCorp Cubicle]]. |
| 875 | * In ''VideoGame/GoodbyeVolcanoHigh'', several background dinosaurs seen throughout the game are based on members of the game's development team. |
| 876 | * ''VideoGame/GwentTheWitcherCardGame'': |
| 877 | ** One of the Scoia'tael units, Pavko Gale, is based on and voiced by community manager Pawel Burza. He sometimes cosplays as Pavko for various media outings such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEPgHDP27Q this Studio Tour]]. |
| 878 | ** Walter Veritas, a Syndicate unit, is based on game director Jason Slama. |
| 879 | * ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'': |
| 880 | ** [[Creator/ValveSoftware Gabe Newell]] has an office in Black Mesa's administration center. |
| 881 | ** Earlier than that, the lockers of the employees of Sector C all have the names of Valve team members. Same goes for the lockers in the Security Facilities in ''VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift'', which feature the names of Creator/GearboxSoftware employees. |
| 882 | ** The names mentioned by the Black Mesa Announcement System are also those of Valve developers. |
| 883 | * In ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'', various Jackbox Games employees make cameos, especially as incidental characters or background voices during sign-in. |
| 884 | * ''VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureThe7thStandUser'': Creator/HirohikoAraki, the mangaka of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' appears as the SuperBoss representing the hardest fight of the game. |
| 885 | * In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', the convenience store "Aura Mart" is named after one of the lead writers of the game. |
| 886 | * Creator/KeijiInafune: |
| 887 | ** In ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'', say hello to a weaponized [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXAl8skbocQ Keiji Inafune.]] |
| 888 | ** The third game of the series introduces him ''as a freaking [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmjsWnI6Ha4 battleship!]]'' Oh and he brings former Xbox Mission Division spokesman Izawa along for the ride. |
| 889 | * In ''VideoGame/KillingFloor'', the characters of Masterson and Briar are voiced by Tripwire Studios executives Alan Wilson and Mark Hayler. The roles were recast for ''VideoGame/KillingFloor2'', but "classic" versions were still available, this time with the Classic characters actually modeled after their actors. |
| 890 | * In both ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass'' and ''VideoGame/SixAges'', some of the portraits of the randomized nobles are based on various members of the creative teams. As a result, a few ''Six Ages'' nobles have an uncanny resemblance to those in ''King of Dragon Pass''. Distant ancestors, perhaps? |
| 891 | * Many of the newer VideoGame/{{LEGO Adaptation Game}}s feature cameos from the creators of their source material: |
| 892 | ** Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/ColinTrevorrow appear as playable characters in ''VideoGame/LegoJurassicWorld'', unlocked after beating all the story missions. |
| 893 | ** Creator/PeterJackson's aforementioned carrot-chewing cameo in ''Fellowship of the Ring'' is recreated in ''VideoGame/LegoTheLordOfTheRings''. |
| 894 | ** ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes'', ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelsAvengers'', and ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes2'' all have Creator/StanLee as a civilian who must be rescued in every level and in multiple parts of the hub world. ''Avengers'' also has him filling the role of various one-liner characters, such as the old man who stands up to Loki in Stuttgart. In all three games, rescuing him every possible time rewards you with the ability to play as him, and in all three games [[InfinityPlusOneSword he has the powers and abilities of almost all the main heroes combined.]] |
| 895 | ** ''[[VideoGame/LegoBatman LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'' has Creator/KevinSmith and Creator/GeoffJohns as {{Quest Giver}}s in the hub world, who can eventually be unlocked as playable characters. Creator/AdamWest also appears as the "In Peril" character, with the game featuring several references to the campy ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' series he starred in, culminating in a bonus level that plays out like an episode of it. |
| 896 | ** ''[[VideoGame/LegoStarWars LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens]]'' has Creator/JJAbrams and Creator/KathleenKennedy as unlockable characters. |
| 897 | ** While technically not part of the LEGO Adaptation Game series, the ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' Story Pack of ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' features Creator/PaulFeig as the "In Peril" character. |
| 898 | * Stan Lee continues his trend of Marvel cameos in ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance2'', appearing in-game as Senator Lieber, whom you rescue from Titanium Man. ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, per his FourthWall breaking antics, claims he knows him from "somewhere". |
| 899 | * ''VideoGame/MercenaryKings'' has six of its top Website/{{Kickstarter}} backers appear as abducted hostages. This includes Creator/PendletonWard. |
| 900 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': |
| 901 | ** Creator/HideoKojima lends his voice to [[spoiler:Psycho Mantis' passing-on scene]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''. |
| 902 | ** He also acted as the motion-capture actor for the sailor aboard [[spoiler:the ''Missouri'']]. |
| 903 | ** He is also recruitable in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', found inside a truck at the Crater Base before fighting the Pupa. The console versions give you a trophy/achievement for finding him. |
| 904 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'' expands this cameo as having Kojima go undercover at Camp Omega and Snake having to rescue him during one of the Side Ops. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' turns him into a recruitable soldier like in ''Peace Walker'', complete with a Side Op involving rescuing him if you didn't in ''Ground Zeroes''. |
| 905 | ** He also appears briefly in the prologue of ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' as one of the [=BTs=] that tries to drag Igor into the tar. |
| 906 | * Naming a mob either "Grumm" or "Dinnerbone" in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' flips it upside-down. Naming a sheep jeb_ makes it cycle through all possible wool colors in a loop, though it will still give wool in its original color when sheared. These are the screen names of a few of Minecraft's developers. |
| 907 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' sound and music designer Dan Forden appears in a few of the games (''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatII II]]'' ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 3]]'', and all since ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 9]]'') popping up in the corner of the screen to say "TOASTY!" when one of the fighters performed an uppercut. The falsetto soundbite also shows up after Scorpion's KillItWithFire Fatality in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat4 4]]'' (it's even "TOASTY, 3D!"), as a minigame defeat taunt in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]]'', and during combo chains in ''''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatShaolinMonks Shaolin Monks]]''. |
| 908 | * ''VideoGame/TheMummyDemastered'' seems like it keeps Creator/RussellCrowe as Dr. Jekyll from [[Film/TheMummy2017 the movie]], but the director [[https://youtu.be/WlgsQZxVqOo?t=62 said that it's actually him with Crowe's hair]] given the actor denied to license his likeness. |
| 909 | * In ''VideoGame/NeverGivesUpHerDead'', you can read graffiti written on the walls of the Stonehenge area. The tags listed are the (usually first) names of people who helped beta test the game. |
| 910 | * One title in the ''VideoGame/NHLHockey'' series allows you to basically create members of the EA development team if you input their names in the Create-A-Player option. |
| 911 | * The news anchor who appears in the opening sequence of ''VideoGame/NinthRock'' is in fact the lead programmer. |
| 912 | * Wolf in ''VideoGame/PAYDAYTheHeist'' and [[VideoGame/PAYDAY2 its sequel]] was modeled after and voiced by Overkill Software's then-CEO, Ulf Andersson. The two also share a similar backstory (software designers whose companies went bankrupt in the recession) and name ("Ulf" is Swedish for "Wolf"). |
| 913 | * The writer of ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'' has a cameo as the female patient in the mental asylum who tells Curtis that he's "{{Sick and Wrong}}!" |
| 914 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has one in every single one of its main games. They are in the developers room. They also usually give you a certificate [[GottaCatchEmAll if you fully complete your Pokédex]]. |
| 915 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', you actually get to battle one of the employees. Shigeki Morimoto to be specific. [[spoiler: Too bad he doesn't have Mew on his team...]] |
| 916 | * ''VideoGame/Postal2'' developers Running With Scissors have an office in the game's town of Paradise. The game's first day has the Postal Dude pick up his paycheck from the RWS offices for being a part of the game. |
| 917 | * ''VideoGame/RabiRibi'' features [=CreSpirit=]'s office as a location you can visit in-game, [[PermanentlyMissableContent but only during one particular point]] as it is in a [[OneTimeDungeon one-time arva]]. Defeating each member of the development team will make them tell you about the secret techniques that are required to perform a MinimalistRun. |
| 918 | * The opening cutscene of ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'' reports on three humans mutated into the playable monsters. The people pictured are designer Brian Colin as George, his wife Rae as Lizzie, and programmer Jeff Nauman as Ralph. |
| 919 | * ''VideoGame/RescueOnFractalus'': The programmers posed in costume as pilots for the packaging and manual. |
| 920 | * ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'''s cast of enemies consist of some members of the Developers of Incredible Power, such as George Broussard as the [[DemonicSpiders Triad Enforcer]], Joe Siegler as [[Series/RedDwarf Sebastian "Doyle"]] Krist, and Tom Hall as the FinalBoss El Oscuro. |
| 921 | * In ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorldTheGame'', 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.]] |
| 922 | * ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'': |
| 923 | ** George Lucas makes a brief cameo in ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' as a man in a troll suit. |
| 924 | ** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', there is a mention of a "Nor Treblig" (Creator/RonGilbert backwards) through the series, and Murray [[{{MST}} mentions many staff members of [=LucasArts=] and Telltale Games in the end credits of Chapter 3]], including Dan Connors and Kevin Bruner (whose portrayals in two picture frames as "D.C. Grosscup" and "K.B. Popnecker" appear in the Courthouse in Chapter 4). |
| 925 | * Yuji Naka is referenced in dialogue as a civilian in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''. |
| 926 | * Creator/{{Sierra}} is found within their own games. Staff are found in ''[[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry Leisure Suit Larry 3]]'', ''[[VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella King's Quest IV]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon Space Quest III]]'', a programmer is in ''The Hoyle Book of Games'', and future versions of Sierra are referenced in ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers Space Quest IV]]''. Magazines and hint books establish a DirectLineToTheAuthor. Al Lowe is found in the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' VGA remake. The Two Guys from Andromeda, Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, appear or are mentioned in ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon Space Quest III]]'', [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers IV]], [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestVTheNextMutation V]], [[VideoGame/SpaceQuestVIRogerWilcoInTheSpinalFrontier VI]], and ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI''. Ken and Roberta Williams are inside Daventry castle in ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuestITheSarienEncounter Space Quest I]]''; Ken Williams appears in some versions when typing Ken in the opening screen. Other characters resembling Ken Williams appear in ''Space Quest'' I and III, and the manual for V. |
| 927 | * Due to budget limitations members of Creator/CrypticStudios often do their own voice-acting for ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''. A particular case is Jeremy "Borticus" Randall, a programmer who voiced Captain James Kurland, the CO of Deep Space 9. After one of his lines in "Boldly They Rode" went memetic, he commented that [[SelfDeprecation it wasn't his best work]] and even added the line to his forum signature. |
| 928 | * While not technically the game's creators, the band Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe shows up as performers in bars in ''VideoGame/SteamWorldHeist'', while one of their songs is playing. |
| 929 | * Current ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series producter Takenobu Terada states he's part of the chorus for the new song from ''Music/JamProject'' for ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsX'', "The Steel Warriors". |
| 930 | ** Also, [[Creator/YoshiyukiTomino Tomino]]'s character from Anime/GundamReconguistaInG appears in one stage as a secret. If you land on a certain square with a UC Gundam main character, he'll give you some special items. Amuro even remarks that he "almost feels like father". |
| 931 | * Creator/MasahiroSakurai lent his voice to King Dedede in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''. |
| 932 | * 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. |
| 933 | * In ''VideoGame/TheTalosPrinciple'', [[spoiler:you can pass through a fake wall and end up in a secret area where androids with the devs' names and faces are running around]]. There's also another one if [[spoiler:you manage to ascend the tower without releasing Shepherd]]. |
| 934 | * Katsuhiro Harada, creator of the ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' series, appears as an opponent in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur V]]'' (which he helped work on as part of the Project Soul team) using the "Soul of Devil Jin" fighting style. |
| 935 | * ''[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2]]'' allows you to play as staff members of the game's developer Neversoft. After entering a cheat at the main menu, you can go to Create Skater and enter one of several names (such as Joel Jewett and Mick West, two of the company's founders), and your character will change into them. |
| 936 | * ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'': Richard Garriott is on Neptune in ''VideoGame/UltimaII'', and in prison in ''VideoGame/UltimaIX''. In ''VideoGame/UltimaV'', Christopher the farmer is Chris Roberts, a game designer at Origin. Dr. Cat in ''Ultima V'' and ''VideoGame/UltimaVI'' is writer David Shapiro. Denys in ''[[VideoGame/WorldsOfUltimaTheSavageEmpire Savage Empire]]'' is artist Denis Loubet. Warren Spector is referenced as Dr. Spector in ''Savage Empire'' and ''[[VideoGame/UltimaWorldsOfAdventure2MartianDreams Martian Dreams]]'', and "a spectre named Warren" in ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld''. In ''Ultima IX'', the stove in the Avatar's house shows the stove designer's reflection. |
| 937 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'', Creator/ShinjiMikami appears as an NPC ally. |
| 938 | * ''VideoGame/WelcomeToTheGame'': Adam, the protagonist's friend who teaches the player how to play via Skype, is both voiced and named after the creator. |
| 939 | * ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' creator Chris Roberts: |
| 940 | ** He provided the voice for the Communications Officer for the TCS ''Coventry'', one of the destroyers escorting your carrier later in ''Wing Commander III''. |
| 941 | ** Roberts also has a cameo in the big trial scene at the end of ''Wing Commander IV'' when you win the game, as the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Black Lance]] member who proclaimed "...and I couldn't go on!" |
| 942 | * ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' has Creator/HidekiKamiya [[spoiler: as one of the unlockable [[SecretCharacter secret characters]]. He is very much a LethalJokeCharacter, with a variant of [[EnergyWeapon Unite Goggles]] that is different from Wonder-Goggles', but take so much as a scratch with him as the leader, [[OneHitPointWonder and it's a one-way ticket to the continue screen]]]]. |
| 943 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Wreckfest}}'', a large balloon in the shape of Creator/BugbearEntertainment's bedsheet-ghost logo flies over Drytown Desert Circuit. |
| 944 | * ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' lets you get super-units when you use the names of certain members of the staff on your troops. Sid Meier and Ken Levine are among them. |
| 945 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}'', you can get its creator's, Chris England, face on one of your poor redshirts. |
| 946 | [[/folder]] |
| 947 | |
| 948 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 949 | * ''WebAnimation/BadDays'' sticks its animators and writers into a number of scenes, such as one in which they get squished by Franchise/{{Godzilla}}. As seen in the page quote, sponsor Creator/StanLee also frequently shows up, and almost always becomes the only person to deliver spoken dialogue. |
| 950 | * ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'' writer/director Brooke Burgess (a bit reluctantly) agreed to be the voice actor for Gabriel when voices were recorded for the DVD. Like with Shayamalan's cameos, this is actually a meaty role and more than just a regular cameo. |
| 951 | * At least once an episode of ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'', the name 'Etra' will be mentioned as a company or as a brand. |
| 952 | ** Etra herself appears in the one-year anniversary [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpmLFeR7DWM video]] and as the announcer of the short film festival in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSt2XlFkpVU video]]. |
| 953 | ** Etra appears in a restaurant named after her in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLkuYmnIouQ video]]. |
| 954 | * ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In the pilot, I.M.P accidentally enters a church when using a portal to the living world. Everyone in the church is a crew member of the series. |
| 955 | * ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' creator Adam Katz calls [=MePhone=] from time to time letting him know about an aspect of the show that needs changing, usually regarding fan favourite Bow. In addition, Baseball, Nickel and Test Tube are all voiced by Adam Katz. [[spoiler:Taco]] was also voiced by Adam, but upon her appearance in season 2, she got a new voice actor due to Adam being too old to play the part. |
| 956 | ** In episode 9 of ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanityInvitational'', the cartoons created by the teams feature Adam himself playing the main character. |
| 957 | * In ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'', ''all of the characters'' were voiced by the creators Cary and Michael Huang (except for the Announcer, for [[SyntheticVoiceActor obvious reasons]]). In ''WebAnimation/BattleForBFDI'' they still voice nearly half of the characters, with Cary voicing Ruby, Match, Pin, Marker, 8-Ball, Bracelety, Grassy, Spongy and X, and Michael voicing Woody, Donut, Eraser, Firey, Yellow Face, Flower, Blocky, Coiny, Snow Ball, Cloudy, Robot Flower, Pencil, Pen, Loser, Leafy, Golf Ball and Four. |
| 958 | * In one of the episodes of ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', upon hearing about the Second Founding and the current state of Space Marines, the God-Emperor proceeds to rant how now there could be Space Marines Chapters the teachings and acceptance standards of which go against what the Imperium stands for, and that some of them might even be so bad that they look like something "out of disgustingly horrible and shitty fanfiction." And then the camera cuts to a scene of the show's creator Alfabusa's own Alfa Legion, featuring Alfabusa himself along a couple of other real-life members of Alfa Legion. This is PlayedForLaughs, of course. |
| 959 | * Webanimation/RoosterTeeth tends to have its employees doing small roles - for instance, composer Nico Audy-Rowland as an informant in the miniseries ''MIA'', Creator/MontyOum as [[https://youtu.be/xYj0ZpDe-5I?t=26 a waiter]] in the miniseries ''Holiday Plans'' and a soldier in a season 12 episode, and machinimatordirector Josh Ornelas does the closing narration in [[Recap/RedVsBlueS14E14GreyVsGray one season 14 episode]]. |
| 960 | * ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'': |
| 961 | ** Creator/SrPelo himself appears down the street in "It's spooky month", screaming as he gets abducted by Frank. |
| 962 | ** In "The Stars", one of the various ice creams advertised on Frank's van is based on Pelo's AuthorAvatar. |
| 963 | ** One of the background artists for "Deadly Smiles", Sifyro, [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHZQ6vFWQAYkqgS?format=jpg&name=large snuck a plush]] [[https://d.furaffinity.net/art/blitzdrachin/1584595977/1584595980.blitzdrachin_sifyro.png of her author avatar]][[note]]More specifically, the [[https://d.furaffinity.net/art/blitzdrachin/1636915634/1636915634.blitzdrachin_imp_sify_model.jpg "imp" version]] of her[[/note]] into one of the backgrounds she did. |
| 964 | [[/folder]] |
| 965 | |
| 966 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 967 | * ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale'' has the author and artist, atomicbritt, as a minor character based on herself named [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/183920661339/episode-6-no-new-friends-page-1-charlies-so Java Chip]] who's the owner of the Clowny Island comic shop, Atomic Comics. She's in multiple background shots and during the [[https://cirqueduroyale.tumblr.com/post/705544894929911808/episode-9-lantern-day-pt-25-guest-clowns town meeting]] during Lantern Day, she [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on various comic issues under the guise of complaining about an unnamed in-universe comic to Quinn and Kingston. |
| 968 | * ''Webcomic/CloseToYouHeart'': The comic artist Afrothunder briefly appears in a FourthWall break in Blixer's TravelMontage where he's traversing multiple settings to get home. |
| 969 | * ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' has its author, Scotty Arsenault (or at least a FunnyAnimal version thereof) [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2012/07/22/welcome-to-the-machine-2/ show up in a]] [[HumanPopsicle stasis chamber]]. |
| 970 | * Tagalong, the writer, and Tria, the artist, make occasional appearances during BreakingTheFourthWall moments of ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany''. This usually ends with [[BloodKnight Tiren]] chasing them off. Tria also appears as a random student in the High School AU arc giving [[MrFanservice Elly]] Valentines Day chocolate before [[ShrinkingViolet bolting]] out the door. |
| 971 | * [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-09-17 This]] ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' strip (panel 6) has Dan Shive in a comic shop. Note that this is different from the AuthorAvatar character that appears in some non-canon strips. |
| 972 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' authors performed "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/radio/radio.php radio dramas]]". Note how their colorist Cheyenne Wright voices [[LargeHam ham-tastic]] Othar Tryggvassen ('''GentlemanAdventurer!'''). |
| 973 | * Sarah Ellerton puts herself in ''Webcomic/{{Inverloch}}'' as [[http://inverloch.seraph-inn.com/viewcomic.php?page=284 a mage]] who takes Acheron to see the Archmage of Aydensfell. |
| 974 | * Two differently aged Shaenon Garritys appear in the ''Li'l Mell'' story "Homeschool Joe Goes To School" accompanied by versions of Jeffrey Wells, co-creator of ''Webcomic/SkinHorse''. The younger pair are [[http://girlamatic.com/mell/2009/03/18/page-10-2/ Mell and Sergio's classmates]] (back row, behind half the ''Skin Horse'' cast), the older pair are [[http://girlamatic.com/mell/2009/05/06/page-15-2/ teachers]]. |
| 975 | * In [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0864.html Strip 864]] of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the thumb of Rich "The Giant" Burlew appears as "Sir Thumb the Digit Knight". |
| 976 | * Jeph Jacques appears as an extra in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2066 this]] ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' strip. |
| 977 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' webcomic sometimes have own author appear, most notable one being one where he complained about many new characters being difficult to draw! |
| 978 | ** Also contains a meta example. The storyteller is more or less identical to Phil from ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie''. |
| 979 | * ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': When Tessa changes schools, series author Creator/MaryCagle makes a cameo as her homeroom teacher, [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-6-page-32 Miss Cable]]. If [[SueDonym the name]] doesn't tip you off, she's almost identical to Mary as she appears in ''Webcomic/LetsSpeakEnglish'', her autobiographical comic about teaching in Japan. She's described by her students as being "[[SelfDeprecation kinda goofy]]," and apparently wastes time during class talking about "life or dogs or something." |
| 980 | * An interesting take on this is that Tom, one of Stjepan Sejic's major characters in ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' looks ''identical'' to Sejic's drawings of himself, but Tom is a fleshed out character in his own right. |
| 981 | * ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'': The creator appears as the pizzaman who joins the main cast as they awkwardly walk in on Trace and Flora. He appears again as caricature letting the readers know about about the scene along with a break occuring. |
| 982 | * [[http://ashley-janew.deviantart.com/ Ashley Jane]] is [[http://uncommonanimals.thecomicseries.com/comics/3/ checking out the view]] on the first page of ''Webcomic/UncommonAnimals''. |
| 983 | * David Willis occasionally appeared in the ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'', mainly in the more comedic comic ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', in which he is apparently Ethan's 'rival' on the Transformers Wiki. Willis states his 'character' does exist in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' as the creator of ''Dexter and Monkey Master'' and ''Ultra Car'', but won't make a physical appearance in the comic. |
| 984 | * Occasionally, a stick figure addressed or referred to as "Randall" will show up in ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''. |
| 985 | [[/folder]] |
| 986 | |
| 987 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 988 | * ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' has quite a few: |
| 989 | ** All three Whedon brothers lend their voices to the Bad Horse Chorus. |
| 990 | ** Jed Whedon also plays both Chorus member #2 onscreen, and ELE member Dead Bowie. |
| 991 | ** Zack Whedon gets a bit part as a paramedic during the ending. |
| 992 | ** Maurissa Tancharoen is one of Captain Hammer's groupies. |
| 993 | ** And it's actually Creator/JossWhedon's fist that smashes Dr. Horrible's van-controlling device. |
| 994 | * ''WebVideo/{{Gameboys}}'' - Director Ivan Payawal drives the brown Innova fake-out in Episode 4. You can also see the names of various people involved in production sprinkled around as social media accounts. |
| 995 | * On the ''VideoGame/LEGOIndianaJones'' website, there is a short cartoon that ends with minifigs of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg watching the short itself, complete with a E.T baseball cap and a plaid T-shirt. |
| 996 | * "WebVideo/{{Nightfall}}": As typical for a college film, writer/co-producer Creator/DemiJong appears in the film with a [[BitCharacter bit part]]; the news anchor giving {{Exposition}} in the background. |
| 997 | * Creator/SamAndMickey have dolls that look and sound like them sometimes appear in their videos. |
| 998 | * In ''WebVideo/SuperAcademy'', director Ben Lifson appears as [[AsHimself "Blifson the Clown"]], whose sole role in the film is to [[GoodIsNotNice fall victim]] to Dark Cop's EstablishingCharacterMoment. |
| 999 | * In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', [[LoveInterest Carlos]] [[ScienceHero the Scientist]] is first voiced by series writer and co-creater Jeffrey Cranor. |
| 1000 | [[/folder]] |
| 1001 | |
| 1002 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 1003 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "Sprig's Birthday", showmaker Matt Braly can be seen at a hot dog vendor during the hot air balloon's flight. |
| 1004 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': The founders of Studio Fortiche are shown as [[SelfDeprecation cheery drunks]] celebrating Progress Day. |
| 1005 | * WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: ''WesternAnimation/FerdinandTheBull'' features several of the animators drawn into the parade scene, with Walt Disney himself as the matador. |
| 1006 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheNiftyNineties'', animators Creator/FredMoore and Creator/WardKimball appear as a comedy duo during a vaudeville show. |
| 1007 | * Supervising director Creator/DaveFiloni provides the voice of the {{bounty hunter}} [[Characters/StarWars Embo]] in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'', though it can be hard to tell due to the editing. As a bonus, the character also sports a nice hat, just like his voice actor! |
| 1008 | ** And in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', Filoni provides the voices for incidental characters and even [[spoiler: a main character - the astromech Chopper!]] |
| 1009 | * Creator/MattGroening appears as one of the heads in the head museum in the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. |
| 1010 | ** Groening appeared in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where they went to a sci-fi convention and everyone was excited to see the creator of ''Futurama''. He was also a boss in ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame''. |
| 1011 | ** Speaking of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Leela once enters an internet chat room filled with nerds, all of whom are drawn after members of the production crew. |
| 1012 | ** And the animators also sometimes inserted themselves into episodes, such as "The Last Temptation of Krust", where stepping through the zip-pan from Krusty and the marketers to the Canyonero waiting outside reveals a hidden scene with several staffers (and Jay Leno). |
| 1013 | ** The ''Itchy & Scratchy'' production crew seen in the "Itchy and Scratchy and Poochy" episode are all based on the real-life writers and animators. |
| 1014 | ** The tall man from ''The Simpsons'' episodes "22 Short Films About Springfield" and "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is said to have been based on writer Ian Maxtone-Graham. |
| 1015 | ** A case of a voice-actor cameo - in the episode "I Am Furious (Yellow)", the actor chosen to voice Angry Dad in Bart's web series of the same name (based on his father, Homer) was a caricature of Dan Castellaneta, Homer's real-life voice actor, voiced by Dan Castellaneta using his normal voice. The voice he demonstrates for Angry Dad sounds exactly like his Homer Simpson voice, naturally. |
| 1016 | ** Subverted in the "138th Episode Spectacular" where the audience is shown a series of caricatures of producers Groening, Sam Simon, and James L. Brooks that look nothing like them. Groening in particular is portrayed as some sort of bald, quasi-fascist southerner with an eyepatch. |
| 1017 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' : |
| 1018 | ** The jury in the episode "The Trial of the Monarch" is entirely composed of people who work on the show, including the creators, making this exchange even better. |
| 1019 | --->'''The Judge:''' This is a trial by jury, and it's up to your peers to decide this.\ |
| 1020 | '''The Monarch:''' Peers? Peers?! How dare you! That repulsive display of humanity out there? |
| 1021 | ** Co-creator Doc Hammer [[http://i43.tinypic.com/ao5q9i.png also appears in Dermott's yearbook.]] |
| 1022 | * The creators of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' draw themselves in there all the time, In fact, it's hard to find an episode without a single reference to the creative team. |
| 1023 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' creator Joe Murray appears next to Rocko in a hospital bed after he had been in a coma and he comments on how Rocko is drawn OffModel. |
| 1024 | * Creator/JhonenVasquez makes a cameo in a couple of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episodes. He's the guy with the red hair and sunglasses who swallowed a piranha in "The Wettening". |
| 1025 | ** Other writers, such as Roman Dirge, Danielle Koenig, and Frank Conniff, also cameo frequently; storyboard artists and other production staff members also pop up. Executive producer Mary Harrington played a parody of herself in the "Mysterious Mysterys" episode, and--on arguably the funniest instance--Vasquez and director/producer Steve Ressel can be seen eating dinner together with a script marked "The Nightmare Begins" (the title of the first episode) on the table between them in "Germs." |
| 1026 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', series producers Creator/BruceTimm and Creator/PaulDini appear as men singing "Auld Lang Syne" in a diner on New Year's Eve, when Batman and Gordon sit down for their once-a-year coffee. |
| 1027 | ** Bruce Timm was actually the villain in the episode "The Grey Ghost Strikes!" -- though this is a [[ChekhovsGunman bit more]] than a cameo. |
| 1028 | ** Dini voiced the ineffectual guard who appeared at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. |
| 1029 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Bruce Timm voiced J-Man. |
| 1030 | ** When ComicBook/TheJoker is looking for a new Harley, among the [[TerribleIntervieweesMontage terrible candidates]] is a fat man in a Harley suit, who's a cameo (and SelfDeprecation) of Dini. Later {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Joker laments his choice of a [[TheDitz bubble-headed woman]] by saying "I should've gone with the fat guy." |
| 1031 | ** In "Harley and Ivy", three young men pull up to Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy at a stoplight and make cat calls at them. Two of the men are caricatures of Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski, but with their hair color mismatched. |
| 1032 | * ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': |
| 1033 | ** A couple of cops modeled after creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird would occasionally appear in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 second animated series]] whenever the plot required policemen, making them both this and {{Recurring Extra}}s. |
| 1034 | ** Also, several background extras in ''Back to the Sewer'' and ''Turtles Forever'' are [[http://e-mann.deviantart.com/art/TMNT-Chracter-Design-The-Team-156195668 based on people who worked on the series]], as well as some of their friends. |
| 1035 | ** While ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' has appearances by the Eastman and Laird cops, they also appear [[spoiler:in the end, in ''live action''. While they were played by different actors, Eastman and Laird actually supplied their voices.]] |
| 1036 | * Not only does ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' executive producer Creator/GregWeisman appear in the show's opening, Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee also made a cameo in the first episode of season 2. |
| 1037 | ** Stan also appeared in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996'', as She-Hulk's dad! |
| 1038 | ** And in the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' as HIMSELF! His wife, Joan Lee, had a recurring role on the series, playing the voice of Madame Web. |
| 1039 | *** He occasionally appears in the ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' cartoon as the janitor at Peter's school and interacts with both Pete and Spider-Man on occasion. |
| 1040 | * The creators and writers for ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' always appear in the last episode of a season and the first episode of the next one as part of a RunningGag where the show gets cancelled every year, usually accompanied by most of the staff dying in the process only for everything to get better next season. |
| 1041 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' creator Craig Bartlett portrayed numerous voices for the show, including Helga's asthmatic stalker, Brainy; radio station M-JAZZ deejay Nocturnal Ned; and Arnold's dad Miles in episodes "Arnold's Hat," "Parents Day," and "The Journal." Story editor Antoinette Stella portrayed Arnold's football-headed mom, Stella, in "Parents Day" and "The Journal." (Ironically, [[WordOfGod Bartlett]] says the character Stella is not named for her voice actress, but in honor of Music/TheGratefulDead's song "Stella Blue.") |
| 1042 | ** Also, Steve Viksten the show's head writer, voiced many background characters--Most notably wisecracking Lazy bum Oscar Kokoschka. |
| 1043 | * The Interdimensional Comic Con Panel that Bat-Mite sets up in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Legends of the Dark Mite" features animated versions of the actual show creators. The speech about how this show's LighterAndSofter Batman is no less valid that the grim avenger of the night was essentially the series' mission statement, and Executive Producer James Tucker's TakeThat to the critics. As an added bonus, the two detractors of this idea are ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' creators Bruce Timm and Paul Dini (Who actually wrote Legends of the Dark Mite) dressed as Joker and Harley Quinn respectively. |
| 1044 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "Journey to Ba Sing Se", the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Avatars.jpg fake Avatar holding the staff]] is producer Mike [=DiMartino=]. In "The Ember Island Players", playwright [[StealthPun Pu-on]] Tim is the episode's writer, Tim Hedrick. |
| 1045 | ** In "The King of Omashu," Aang has to fight a formidable foe. He gets to choose between [[http://dvdscreenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/atla/105/499.jpg Mike [=DiMartino=]]] and [[http://dvdscreenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/atla/105/497.jpg Bryan Konietzko]]. |
| 1046 | ** Also, a stealthy (and possibly even unintentional example): [[http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/818/818284/avatar-the-last-airbender-20070906004421301.jpg Bryan and Mike.]] Notice [[http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep53/ep53-1861.png anything familiar?]] |
| 1047 | * Outside of their two major roles, the creators of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, pop up from time to time as in universe avatars. In the Mission Marvel Special Stan Lee appears as a hot dog salesman (with a stand appropiately named "Excelsior Hot Dogs"). |
| 1048 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'', Dan and Jeff make a special live action appearance during the faster-than-light travel scene in which they are seen [[spoiler: pitching the story board sequence of the scene that they are currently in]]. |
| 1049 | * Creator and director of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', Creator/JohnKricfalusi is the voice of Ren, at least in the first two seasons. The minor character Mr. Horse is also confirmed to be heavily based on him, including repeatedly saying "What are ya?", which was a catchphrase of Kricfalusi's. |
| 1050 | * Casting agent and director Creator/MarkEvanier appears in a voice cameo as himself in the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Mistakes Will Happen", his voice can be heard telling Garfield that he could say a line better. |
| 1051 | ** A ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segment in season 6 has Wade actually running out of the cartoon and onto blank paper, where he engages in a conversation with an offscreen Jim Davis. |
| 1052 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' TV special "I Yabba Dabba Do", William Hanna and Joseph Barbera appear as themselves as wedding guests saying [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm]] were made for each other. |
| 1053 | ** It also serves as a bit of a BrickJoke. Their names pop up earlier when Pebbles is sending out wedding invitations. |
| 1054 | ** Not really a cameo but in the original ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts William Hanna provided most of the vocal sounds made by the titular characters; he even voiced them in a few instances were they actually spoke. |
| 1055 | ** Joe Barbera voiced Tom's master in "The Mansion Cat". |
| 1056 | ** Joe Barbera turned up in cartoon form in [[WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo ''Bravo Dooby Doo'']] and under pseudonyms in a couple of episodes of WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo. |
| 1057 | * Lots of examples in the animated adaption of ''The Bear''. Raymond Briggs, creator of the original cartoon book, appears as the face of the moon. Composer and songwriter Howard Blake is the pianist who sees the bears go past. Executive Producer Paul Madden is the seaman who spots the bear cub on the ice floe. Director Hilary Audus is the mother at the zoo with her family. Art Director Joanna Harrison is the cashier at the zoo shop. And the baby in the cot, with the initials JC on his romper suit, is supposed to be Producer John Coates. |
| 1058 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Tiny Toons Music Television," the music video for "Respect" features the executive producers in one shot and the writers in another. |
| 1059 | ** And in the very first episode, "The Looney Beginning," the WB animator who's charged with thinking up the series at the risk of being fired is voiced (uncredited) by [[Creator/StevenSpielberg the executive producer]]. |
| 1060 | ** In "Toons Take Over", the Tiny Toons attend a table read with the show's crew members, including voice director Andrea Romano (who does her own voice) and the episode's writer Peter Hastings. |
| 1061 | ** In "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian," the two bunnies board a plane with several of the show's staff, as well as Charlie Adler, Tress Macneille, and Joe Alaskey, the respective voices of Buster, Babs, and Plucky. |
| 1062 | ** Possibly the biggest example in show, the last sketch of K-ACME TV had the Acme tool kit commercial which featured nearly all caricatures of the writers and many artists who worked on the show. Plus 2 executive producers and Steven Spielberg. |
| 1063 | * In the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Mac is handed a cardboard with signings from all the imaginary friends. If you notice closely, the author's signing is in it too. |
| 1064 | ** Creator/CraigMcCracken also made an earlier one when Eduardo wrote to the creators of the ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' parody. He also calls out to someone named "Lauren" i.e. Creator/LaurenFaust, one of the producers of FHFIF and his wife. |
| 1065 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' has a cameo of both Craig and Lauren in the office that Mojo shows the girls at the climax of the film. They're the ones that are just out of the door. |
| 1066 | *** Also in the special ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 The Powerpuff Girls Rule]]'', there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo of Craig and Lauren after [[spoiler: Mojo goes back to his evil ways.]] They also appear in Blossom's dystopic vision under her rule. |
| 1067 | *** In "Collect Her" when the Mayor is doing a roll call of everyone in Townsville, he mentions "Gennedy [=McCracken=]", a reference to Creator/CraigMcCracken and animation director Creator/GenndyTartakovsky. |
| 1068 | ** ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'''s opening title sequence features a bust of Creator/CraigMcCracken caricatured as some kind of alien rabbit. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwN5HLiZ7_o Can be seen at 0:18 on the far left.]] |
| 1069 | * Butch Hartman is briefly seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' movie "Abra-Catastrophe!" |
| 1070 | ** Butch also makes a cameo as the maitre d' in [[Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner the live-action movie]]. |
| 1071 | ** Caricatures of the staff can also be seen in the title card of "Fairy Idol". |
| 1072 | * This is found in the animated adaptation of Hergé's ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comic books. While Hergé himself had died long before the series was made, the producers still included him as a character. An animated likeness of Hergé can be spotted in numerous crowd scenes, although he never says or does anything besides occasionally doodling in a sketch pad. He's also apparently Tintin's neighbor, as his name can be found on the mailbox next to Tintin's. |
| 1073 | ** This was also the case in the original comics. |
| 1074 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeMe'', the three girls always following Raffi around are based on the show's three creators. |
| 1075 | * On ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'', caricature of series producer Creator/RalphBakshi often turn up. In the episode "Night Of The Bat-Bat," Mighty Mouse scribbles a caricature of Creator/JohnKricfalusi on the side of the phone booth in which he's talking on the phone with Bat-Bat. |
| 1076 | ** On the Filmation Mighty Mouse series, producers Lou Schiemer and Norm Prescott were voices. Schiemer voiced Mighty Mouse and Prescott voiced Theodore Bear in the ''Quacula'' episodes. |
| 1077 | * Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/RandomCartoons'' short ''Moobeard The Cow Pirate'', creator Kyle A. Carrozza walks by an establishing shot in cat FunnyAnimal form, alongside a female FunnyAnimal cat who's apparently based on a friend who also works in animation. Carrozza also provided the voices for a couple of minor characters. |
| 1078 | * On ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic,'' senior storyboard artist [[http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/043/a/7/profile_picture_by_sibsy-d4piaej.jpg Sabrina "Sibsy" Alberghetti]] appears [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q62vyOSvYQQ/T5NsfwMvjTI/AAAAAAAADQA/aHicroPnnsw/s640/Capture.PNG as a pony]] in the show's season 2 finale, "A Canterlot Wedding". |
| 1079 | ** Animator Holly Giesbrecht beat Sabrina to it. [[http://princesschuchi.deviantart.com/art/Holly-Dash-175865424 She]] [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110408184102/mlp/images/3/31/Holly_Dash.png appeared]] in episode 10, "Swarm of the Century", as a pony named "[[{{Tuckerization}} Holly Dash]]", who was later made [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130205033747/mlp/images/e/ec/Crystal-Shine_Mystery_Pony_Holly_Dash.jpg a toy in the toyline]]. |
| 1080 | ** Directors Jayson Thiessen and "Big" Jim Miller have done voice acting in the series. |
| 1081 | *** The two voice Pinkie Pie's backup in "The Rappin' History of the Wonderbolts". |
| 1082 | *** Jayson voiced Bulk Biceps in his first appearance on the show in "Hurricane Fluttershy" and the professor during Twilight's song in "The Crystal Empire–Part 1" as well as other bit parts. |
| 1083 | *** Jim voiced King Sombra in "The Crystal Empire" and Troubleshoes in "Appleoosa's Most Wanted". |
| 1084 | ** Former director James "Wootie" Wootton voiced the unoffended mule in "Applebuck Season" and "Hurricane Fluttershy" |
| 1085 | ** Song composer Daniel Ingram has a small voice part as the pony Rarity gives her scarf to during her song in "Rarity Takes Manehatten". |
| 1086 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 1087 | ** Two of the fish who adopt pets from Plankton in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E2SpotReturnsTheCheckUp Spot Returns]]" are [[https://twitter.com/JohnTrabbic/status/892769375974903809 modeled after]] Brian Morante and Fred Osmond, storyboard artists from the show. |
| 1088 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E22GoonsOnTheMoon Goons on the Moon]]", Squidward has a brief run-in with his voice actor, Creator/RodgerBumpass. |
| 1089 | ** In "King Plankton", Karen watches a live-action soap opera. The woman acting in it is Creator/JillTalley, Karen's voice actor. |
| 1090 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E13SpongeBobsBigBirthdayBlowout SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout]]", two of the fish on the bus are [[https://twitter.com/BrianMorante/status/1149765205041152000 based on]] Morante's wife and daughter. |
| 1091 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS13E20FriendiversaryMandatoryMusic Friendiversary]]", we see a magazine with a [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/3/38/Friendiversary_075.png shot of Squidward attending a Kelpy G concert]]. Two audience members, a moray eel and an anglerfish, are actually [[https://twitter.com/SterlingScarlxt/status/1694850280972554252 versions]] of background designer Sterling Richter and her friend Sara 'Serval' Fisher (an animator on ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' and ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss''). |
| 1092 | * In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', co-producer Creator/GregWeisman voices Lucas "Snapper" Carr, formerly the Justice League's teen mascot and currently Miss Martian and Superboy's civics teacher. He originally auditioned for the role of Red Tornado, because he appears in way more episodes and shares a voice with his creator T.O. Morrow and brothers Red Torpedo and Red Volcano, [[MoneyDearBoy meaning he'd get paid more]]. Unfortunately, '[[VitriolicBestBuds that ogre]]' (and co-producer) Brandon Vietti thought Creator/JeffBennett did it better, and suggested Snapper as an alternative. |
| 1093 | ** One of the show's writers, Nicole Dubuc, voices Iris West-Allen, Kid Flash's aunt and Flash's wife. |
| 1094 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'''s Party Pat was based on (now former) storyboard artist, writer and creative director Patrick [=McHale=]. Gingerbread Pat ("The Enchiridion" with Gingerbread Pen, based on creator Creator/PendletonWard) and Punsy [=McHale=] from ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' are also based on Pat. |
| 1095 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "The Halls of Time", Billy breaks Maxwell Atoms' life hourglass, [[DeathByCameo causing him to die]]. Billy then remarks that it was probably nobody important. |
| 1096 | * In the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', Lance looks out the window and sees a crying kid who fell off his bike. His father comes to comfort him, referring to him as "Jacob." The father is Creator/GenndyTartakovsky (Jacob is his real son's name). |
| 1097 | * In the "Funny Face" episode of ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' the title character makes a funny face that's a real human face that's constantly making goofy facial expressions. Said giant realistic funny face is series creator Pete Browngardt wearing a fake mustache and wig. |
| 1098 | * In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short "WesternAnimation/NoHunting", the moose is voiced by the film's director, Jack Hannah, while the usher is voiced by writer Milt Schaffer. |
| 1099 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Quit While You're A Head," Tim Burton (creator and director of the movie) appears in caricature in a scene taking place in a Netherworld bar. |
| 1100 | * Hal Seeger's reboot of Max Fleischer's ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'' cartoons had the series' star, Koko The Clown, conversing with an "Uncle Max," presumably Mr. Fleischer himself. It's not clear who voiced Uncle Max, although it could have been Hal Seeger himself. |
| 1101 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Yes, Always", producer/creator Tom Ruegger, writer Peter Hastings, voice director Andrea Romano, and recording engineer Harry Androniss all appear as themselves. |
| 1102 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': In ''Laundry Day'', the fangirls that chase Robin around? Yep, some of the production staff. |
| 1103 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' cartoon "Tokyo Go" Mickey encounters a gang of punks on one of the subway cars, they are all caricatures of the animators. |
| 1104 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', Jorge R. Gutierrez, the director of film voices the character Carmelo and his wife, Sandra Equihua, voices Scardelita. Both are the team behind their previous work ''WesternAnimation/ElTigre''. |
| 1105 | * ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' co-creator Bill Burnett has done a few minor voices in various episodes, and has sung a few of the songs in the series ("Amazin' River", "What's My Line?", "Insect Aside"). He also served as backup vocals (alongside series regular Jess Harnell) in the music video segments. |
| 1106 | ** Guy Moon, who composed all of seasons one and two and half of season three provided backup vocals on "Insect Aside". |
| 1107 | ** The titular puppet in "Howdy Rudy" was voiced by storyboard artist John Fountain. |
| 1108 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Society of the Blind Eye", creator Alex Hirsch appears in Dipper's collection of photos of "Suspicious Townsfolk", with the written caption ''"Who?"'' |
| 1109 | ** Hirsch also appears in a cable car during the climax of "Roadside Attraction". |
| 1110 | ** Some of the female crowd members in "The Stanchurian Candidate" are based on storyboard artists. |
| 1111 | ** During the chase scene in "Weirdmageddon Part 1," Dipper and Wendy's voice actors [[note]]Jason Ritter and Creator/LindaCardellini [[/note]] briefly cameo as live-action versions of their characters. |
| 1112 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' creator/director Danny Antonucci voices a character in Jimmy's dream sequence from "The Eds are Coming". The credits name him as "Lupo D. Butcher," a reference to Danny's earlier work ''Lupo the Butcher''. |
| 1113 | ** Terry Klassen, the show's voice director, provided the voice of [[spoiler:Eddy's brother]] in TheMovie. |
| 1114 | * Creator/BobClampett shows up in the opening titles of ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil''. |
| 1115 | ** He also shows up as a gremlin in the ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' short "Russian Rhapsody," along with many of his other colleagues from Warner Bros. |
| 1116 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 1117 | ** Many of the show's crewmembers are {{Recurring Extra}}s, most often seen in crowd scenes. |
| 1118 | ** In "Cheeseburger Backpack", co-developer (and storyboard artist for this episode) Ian Jones-Quartey voices Steven's Mr. Queasy doll. |
| 1119 | * Roy E. Disney, the then-head of the Walt Disney Company, and the son of Roy/nephew of Walt Disney, appears several times throughout the show ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', often as a guest to the nightclub. |
| 1120 | * In episode 9 of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', the song playing as [[spoiler: Wirt sits on his bed in the modern day]] is sung by series creator Patrick [=McHale=]. |
| 1121 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': |
| 1122 | ** Creator Thomas Astruc provided additional voices in the original French dub for the season 1 episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E15TheGamer Gamer]]"... |
| 1123 | ** ...and then in Season 3, Thomas Astruc not only appeared in an episode as himself (as the unrespected director of an in-universe 2D-animated Ladybug and Chat Noir movie) but he also becomes the episode's villain, [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E02Animaestro Animaestro]], determined to show the power of 2D animation and just what a director of a cartoon can do. And yes, he voices himself in the French dub. |
| 1124 | ** After "Animaestro"'s airing, Thomas Astruc's character has made multiple cameos, such as attending a guys-only party at the Agreste mansion, or having the head of his incomplete wax statue come to life by a statue-animating villain to attack Chat Noir. |
| 1125 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'', Joe, the owner of Q's Cup o' Joe, is voiced by Creator/JoeQuesada. The coffee shop's name and logo is based on that of Quesada's ''Comic Book Resources'' column. |
| 1126 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': |
| 1127 | ** The recurring "Daniel Lennard" cosmetics brand is named after the show's executive producer (and vice-president of Cartoon Network Development Studios Europe), whose face is seen on advertising banners for the cosmetics in some episodes. |
| 1128 | ** Series director Mic Graves' name has been seen on everything from books and logos to TV appearances (cf. "The Signal" where half of Gumball's face is cut off with a clip from a talk show called The Jack Dingle Show that has the topic "Mic Graves Ate My Hamster"). |
| 1129 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': |
| 1130 | ** Tex Avery, director of many of the show's classic cartoons, voice acts in many of his cartoons such as "The Sneezin' Weasel," "Hamateur Night" and "The Bear's Tale." |
| 1131 | ** The two hapless shipwrecked men in "Wackiki Wabbit" are played by and modeled after the short's writers, Tedd Pierce and Michael Maltese. |
| 1132 | ** In "Hollywood Steps Out," producer Leon Schlesinger and financial officer Henry Binder appear briefly. |
| 1133 | ** In the WWII cartoon "Russian Rhapsody", many, if not most, of the gremlins are caricatures of the cartoon studio personnel. |
| 1134 | * Several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' feature Eustace laughing at a man on TV. It's actually series creator John Dilworth. There's also many episodes featuring a fictional company called "Dil's" or even more blatantly "Dilworth's". |
| 1135 | * ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' creator Tad Stones appears in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The Duck Knight Returns" , which features Darkwing Duck, as a security guard. |
| 1136 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TerryPratchettsTheAbominableSnowBaby'', when the narrator says Albert worked as a caretaker at Blackbury town hall, as his father and grandfather had before him, we see a photo of Sir Terry on Albert's wall. |
| 1137 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' short "Pink, Plunk, Plink" ends with the Panther acting as a conductor playing his famous theme. In contrast to the roarious applause heard earlier, by the end there is only one person in the audience. But it's composer Music/HenryMancini, so of course he approved the performance. |
| 1138 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In one episode, Mr. Cat and Stumpy watch the trailer for the in-universe Mr. Coolskin movie, which is entirely in Japanese. [[BilingualBonus The trailer's credits state that the movie was made by Rémi Chapotot and Tristan Michel, who are ''Kaeloo'''s creator and art director respectively.]] |
| 1139 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina:'' Various background and side characters across Tal'Dorei bear a striking resemblance to producer and DungeonMaster of [[WebVideo/CriticalRole the original D&D campaign]], Creator/MatthewMercer. He is usually the ButtMonkey of the scene, and [[TheyKilledKennyAgain often gets killed in various gruesome ways]]. |
| 1140 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The credits sequence of the series finale has cameos from the entire production and animation crew, including showrunner Creator/DanaTerrace, who appear as students of Hexside and the University of Wild Magic. |
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