Editing Cameo appearance (section)

===Film directors===
[[Alfred Hitchcock]] is known for [[List of cameo appearances by Alfred Hitchcock|his frequent cameos in his movies]], as early as in his third film [[The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog|''The Lodger'']] (1927). In ''[[Lifeboat (1944 film)|Lifeboat]]'', as the action was restricted to the titular lifeboat, Hitchcock appeared in a newspaper ad.

[[Quentin Tarantino]] provides brief cameos or [[Bit part|small role]]s in all his movies.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Vincent|first1=Alice|last2=Saunders|first2=Tristram Fane|title=Quentin Tarantino: his 10 best cameo roles|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/hateful-eight/quentin-tarantino-best-cameo-roles/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/hateful-eight/quentin-tarantino-best-cameo-roles/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=15 September 2016|date=10 December 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Likewise, [[Peter Jackson]] has made brief [[List of cameo appearances by Peter Jackson|cameos]] in all of his movies, except for his first feature-length film ''[[Bad Taste]]'' in which he played a main character, as well as ''[[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies|The Battle of the Five Armies]]'', though a portrait of him appears in the film. For example, he played a peasant eating a carrot in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug|The Desolation of Smaug]]'', a warrior of Rohan in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers|The Two Towers]]'', and a Corsair of Umbar boatswain in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King|The Return of the King]]''. All four were non-speaking "blink and you miss him" appearances, although in the Extended Release version of ''The Return of the King'', his character was given more screen time and his reprise of the carrot eating peasant in ''The Desolation of Smaug'' was featured in the foreground in reference to ''The Fellowship of the Ring''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sumra|first1=Husain|date=14 December 2011|title=Did you know that Peter Jackson made cameos in the Lord of the Rings films?|url=http://www.swiftfilm.com/did-you-know-that-peter-jackson-made-cameos-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-films/|access-date=15 September 2016|publisher=Swiftfilm|archive-date=20 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920174355/http://www.swiftfilm.com/did-you-know-that-peter-jackson-made-cameos-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-films/|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, when he was directing ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994), he appeared as a person bumping who is kissed by one the main characters, and in the ''Frighteners'', Jackson appeared as a man with piercings.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pryor|first=Ian|title=Peter Jackson : From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings|publisher=1st U.S. ed., Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press|year=2004}}</ref>
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Director [[Tim Burton]] briefly appears in his films. He made a short appearance as a street thug who confronts Pee-wee in the back alley in ''[[Pee-wee's Big Adventure]]'', and a visitor at the fair in Blackpool who gets a skeleton thrown at him in ''[[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film)|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Barkman|first1=Adam|last2=Sanna|first2=Antonio|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1038627977|title=A Critical Companion to Tim Burton|year=2017|publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-1-4985-5272-1|oclc=1038627977}}</ref>

Director [[Martin Scorsese]] appears in the background of his films as a bystander or an [[unseen character]]. In ''[[Who's That Knocking at My Door]]'' (1967), he played one of the gangsters; he was a lighting crewman in ''[[After Hours (film)|After Hours]]'' and a passenger in ''[[Taxi Driver]]''. He opened up his film ''[[The Color of Money]]'' with a monologue on the art of playing pool. In addition, he appeared with his wife and daughter as wealthy New Yorkers in ''[[Gangs of New York]]'', and as a theatre-goer and can be heard as a movie [[projectionist]] in ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]''. He also appeared in his 2023 work ''[[Killers of the Flower Moon (film)|Killers of the Flower Moon]]'', in a minor role as a [[radio drama]] narrator.

In a same way, [[Roman Polanski]] appeared as a hired hoodlum in his film ''[[Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown]]'', slitting Jack Nicholson's nose with the blade of his clasp knife.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Clarke|first1=Roger|title=Story of the scene: 'Chinatown' Roman Polanski (1974)|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/story-of-the-scene-chinatown-roman-polanski-1974-819366.html|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=15 September 2016|date=1 May 2008|archive-date=8 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808223224/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/story-of-the-scene-chinatown-roman-polanski-1974-819366.html|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- NOTE: Please do not add examples here, unless they illustrate something new; everything must be cited -->

[[F. Gary Gray]] has made many appearances in the films he has directed including ''[[Friday (1995 film)|Friday]]'', [[Set It Off (film)|''Set It Off'']], ''[[Law Abiding Citizen]]'', and [[Straight Outta Compton (film)|''Straight Outta Compton'']].<ref>{{Cite web |title=F. Gary Gray |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336620/ |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=IMDb |language=en-US |archive-date=1 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301030918/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336620/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In addition to [[George Lucas]]'s cameo in [[Revenge of the Sith|''Revenge of the Sith'']], his children were cast in a number of cameo roles across the [[Star Wars|''Star Wars'']] prequels. Amanda and Katie Lucas both had cameo roles as three different characters each across [[The Phantom Menace|''The Phantom Menace'']], [[Attack of the Clones|''Attack of the Clones'']] and [[Revenge of the Sith|''Revenge of the Sith'']] (in addition to Amanda's voicing a fourth character), and Jett Lucas has two cameo roles for different characters in [[Attack of the Clones|''Attack of the Clones'']] and [[Revenge of the Sith|''Revenge of the Sith'']].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-prequel-cameos-george-lucas-son-daughters/ | title=Star Wars: Every Prequel Trilogy Cameo by George Lucas' Family | date=30 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://collider.com/george-lucas-star-wars-cameo/ | title=There's Only One Star Wars Character Played by George Lucas | website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]] | date=5 October 2024 }}</ref>