21 Directors Who Made Sneaky, Hilarious, Or Clever Cameos In Their Own Movies

1.Taika Waititi is the actor underneath the CGI as Korg in Thor: Ragnarok.

2.Zack Snyder shows up in a coffee shop in his Justice League cut.

3.Emerald Fennell plays a beauty vlogger giving a makeup tutorial for "blowjob lips" in Promising Young Woman.

4.M. Night Shyamalan often appears in his movies, playing Dr. Hill in The Sixth Sense and Ray Reddy in Signs.

5.George Lucas is standing outside the opera dressed as a Pantoran man named Baron Notluwiski Papanoida in Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.

6.Peter Jackson appears as a man eating a carrot in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, a Rohan soldier in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and one of the Corsairs of Umbar in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

7.Jon Favreau voices Mr. Narwhal in addition to playing the doctor who gave Buddy a paternity test in Elf.

8.Richard Curtis plays one of the trombone players in the opening wedding scene of Love Actually.

9.Quentin Tarantino plays Mr. Brown in Reservoir Dogs, Jimmie in Pulp Fiction, and a LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. employee in Django Unchained.

10.Chris Columbus is shopping with a young girl during the toy store scene in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

11.David Lynch plays a spice worker in Dune.

12.Tim Burton plays one of the thugs who approaches Pee-wee in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.

13.Jennifer Lee voices Queen Iduna in Frozen.

14.Francis Ford Coppola makes a meta cameo as a TV crew director in his film Apocalypse Now.

15.Martin Scorsese plays a passenger who pays to watch his cheating wife in Taxi Driver.

16.John Hughes plays Brian's dad and picks him up from detention in The Breakfast Club.

17.Alfred Hitchcock regularly made cameos in his films, but his humorous role as the man who misses the bus in the opening of North By Northwest is one of the most notable.

18.Steven Spielberg voices the Amity Island dispatcher who calls Quint's boat in Jaws.

19.Michael Bay plays a civilian who is thrown into a taxi by Megatron in Transformers.

20.Julie Taymor is one of the bus passengers heading to the Woman's March in The Glorias.

21.And Christopher Guest plays Harlan Pepper in his dog-owner mockumentary, Best in Show.

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