best cameo in a movie (since 1990)

donfers

I'm going to go with john turturro as jesus quintana in the big lebowski, beat that!

Hayzooz

Bruce Springsteen in High Fidelity, without a doubt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZE7OchG3DY

Second Place:

Janet Leigh (Mother of Jamie Lee Curtis, complete with very faint Psycho score in background) in Halloween H20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flmGJucqLck

Also:
Bill Murray in Zombieland
Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek (new one)
Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (remake)
Gregory Peck in Cape Fear (remake)

ryaner012

yeah hey's a quality actor and has two of the best scenes in the big lebowski

He's good in Rounders too

i think that tom cruise's cameo in tropic thunder is funny cause you don't really expect it.

Chuck Norris in Dodgeball or David Bowie in Zoolander

ryaner012

Hayzooz wrote: »

Bruce Springsteen in High Fidelity, without a doubt

after all he is the boss

Shryke

Bill Murray in Zombieland immediately springs to mind.

ricero

Will ferrell in wedding crashers and chuck Norris in dodgeball

PirateShampoo

Kills me to say this but Cruise in Tropic Thunder.

ziedth

Bill Murray is the obvious one but to be a little more Random does anyone remember Charlton Heston in waynes world 2? Quality stuff.

Funglegunk

Ben Affleck in Boiler Room.

Only one scene but steals the whole movie. And he's usually ****e.

d.anthony

Jack Black throwin the dog off the bridge in Anchorman.

Or Matt Damon in Eurotrip (Scotty doesn't know, catchy as feck!)

humanji

ziedth wrote: »

Bill Murray is the obvious one but to be a little more Random does anyone remember Charlton Heston in waynes world 2? Quality stuff.

I love that one "It's only a small part, but surely we can get someone better?"

I quite like all of Stan Lee's appearances in the Marvel movies. In particular in Fantastic Four 2 when he's refused entry into the wedding.

rednik

Kevin Spacey in Seven. Released just after Usual Suspects it was genius not to put his name in the opening credits.

AnonoBoy

donfers wrote: »

I'm going to go with john turturro as jesus quintana in the big lebowski, beat that!

That doesn't really count as a cameo does it? Just a small part.


I'm going for Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett in Hot Fuzz - just because you would never know it's them unless you were told. (At least I wouldn't)

Mickeroo

Bruce Campbell's cameo in spider-man 3, only good thing in the film. His cameo in the second one as "snooty usher" was also good!

Handsome Bob

If Tom Cruise in TT counts as a cameo then I'm putting forward William Hurt in A History of Violence!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Cwx73yi18

bnt

Since Rush are coming to Dublin in 2011, this is a good time to mention their cameo in I Love You Man.

The Rook

Tom Hanks in Zombieland... got to be number 1 !!

Galvasean

Bruce Willis in Loaded Weapon One. I did not see that coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN6feERzbo8

Now thats how you do a cameo!

Magic Eight Ball

Neil Patrick Harris in Harold & Kumar.
Propably wouldn't be considered a 'cameo' by most.

Loughc

Its a tie for me between Bill Murray in Zombieland and Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder.

Kettle316

Jack White was easily the best thing about Walk Hard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxZzZTHB4A

phasers

David Bowie's in Zoolander was particularly epic I thought

1. Because it's DAVID BOWIE
2. Because it completely came out of nowhere

tman

Bruce Campbell in every film he's ever had a cameo in.

AnonoBoy

Strictly speaking a cameo is uncredited.

ziedth

phasers wrote: »

David Bowie's in Zoolander was particularly epic I thought

1. Because it's DAVID BOWIE
2. Because it completely came out of nowhere

Actually Billy Zane had a great Cameo in Zoolander too.

I wouldn't actually consider Tom Cruise in tropic thunder a Caneo (as funny as it was) I'd consider a Cameo only one or two scenes over a few minutes.

krudler

Danny Glover's one in Maverick always makes me smile, when Mel Gibson pulls down his scarf and sees his face, and the them from Lethal Weapon plays in the background as they look at each other, great stuff

krudler

Worst cameos have to be Stan Lee's in EVERY Marvel movie, when he had a blink and you'll miss it appearance in Spider-Man it was funny, now its just gotten old.

Loughc

Michael Douglas in Hot Shots deserves a mention, "Man, I loved you in Wall Street!!" :D

krudler

lockie1983 wrote: »

Michael Douglas in Hot Shots deserves a mention, "Man, I loved you in Wall Street!!" :D

Martin Sheen

JP Liz V1

Was Cruise in Tropic Thunder really a cameo he was in the film quite a bit and was given nominated for an GG I think for supporting actor

Now this is a Cruise cameo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-AZgBXCsLY

dr.bollocko

Val Kilmer as Elvis in True Romance.
Though I think that was credited.

Loughc

krudler wrote: »

Martin Sheen

Apologies you are correct, I just automatically think Michael Douglas when I think of Wall Street!!

krudler

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Val Kilmer as Elvis in True Romance.
Though I think that was credited.

I like you Clarence, always have.

krudler

lockie1983 wrote: »

Apologies you are correct, I just automatically think Michael Douglas when I think of Wall Street!!

Great cameo too , love the way Charlie is doing his inner monologue then it crosses over with Martins from Apocalypse Now, those movies were genius, back when spoofs were good and not full of 5 minute old pop culture references like the Epic/Scary/Superhero Movies.

halvey

any christopher walken cameo. pulp fiction true romance, waynes world 2. heck even blast from the past! the more random, the funnier thay are!
bob barker in happy gilmore too

Auvers

Steve Buscemi in Pulp Fiction only recognized him years later on a repeat viewing

or William S. Burroughs in Drugstore Cowboy

Manchegan

Hunter S. in Fear & Loathing

"There I was... Mother of God, there I am! Holy ****..."

humanji

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Strictly speaking a cameo is uncredited.

And don't they play themselves as well?

I don't think it really matters anymore. It's all good.

Morlar

Manchegan wrote: »

Hunter S. in Fear & Loathing

"There I was... Mother of God, there I am! Holy ****..."

I like hst but did he add anything to appearing in the movie ?

My money is on Tom cruise as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0100777/quotes

Comedy gold :

Tropic Thunder (2008)
Les Grossman: Now I want you to take a step back... and literally **** your own face!

Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Wow. 8 Oscars, 400 million dollars at the box office, and you saved Tugg Speedman's career.
Les Grossman: I couldn't have done it without you.
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Really?
Les Grossman: No, dickhead. Of course I could. A nutless monkey could do your job. Now, go get drunk and take credit at all the parties.
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: I wouldn't do that.
Les Grossman: Ah... joking.
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Ah, there he is! Funny. You're a funny guy.
Les Grossman: Yeah. But seriously, a nutless monkey could do your job.

Les Grossman: Speedman is a dying star. A white dwarf headed for a black hole. That's physics. It's inevitable.
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: We've been handed an incredible opportunity here, Peck.
Les Grossman: The universe... is talking to us right now. You just gotta listen.
[turns on Flo Rider's "Low" and begins to dance to the beat]
Les Grossman: See, this is the good part, Pecker. This is when the job gets fun! Ask... and you shall receive!
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: [dancing along] Right...
Les Grossman: You play ball... we play ball. I knoowwww... you want the goodies!
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Welcome to the goodie room!
Les Grossman: You paying attention? I'm talking... G5, Pecker! That's how you can roll. No more frequent flyer bitch miles for my boy! Oh yeah! Playa... playa! Big dick playa!
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Swinging past ya knees!
Les Grossman: Big dick, baby!
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Yep.
Les Grossman: [turns off the music] Or... you can grow a conscience in the next five minutes and see where that takes you.
Rick Peck: Let me get this straight. You want me to let my client of 15 years, one of my best friends, die in the jungle alone, for some money and a G5?
Les Grossman: Yes.
Rick Peck: [pause] A G5 airplane?
Les Grossman: [whispering] Yes... and lots of money... playaaaa!
[turns on the music and dances again]

Byong: We no get money yet. Price now 100 million. You pay now, or tomorrow Simple Jack Die!
Les Grossman: Great. Let me get this down. 100 million... Oh, wait! I got a better idea. Instead of a hundred million, how about I send you a hobo's dick cheese? Then, you kill him. Do your thing, skin the ****ing bastard. Go to town, man. Go to town! In the mean time and as usual, go **** yourself.

Les Grossman: What you gotta do is pull down their pants and spank their ass, you spank it.
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: You spank that ass Les!

Les Grossman: [communicating with the production team in a video conference] Which one of you ****faces is Damien Cockburn?
Damien Cockburn: Uh, that's me, sir. It's an honor to finally meet you. Get some face time.
Les Grossman: And who here is the key grip?
[the key grip raises his hand]
Les Grossman: You? You! Hit that director in the face, really ****ing hard!
Key Grip: [reluctantly walks over to Damien] Sorry, man.
[punches him in the face]
Les Grossman: This is all your fault, you limey ****!

Les Grossman: I will ****ing massacre you!

Les Grossman: Cockburn, from now on my fist is going to be so far up your ****hole that every time you have a thought, it's gonna have to tiptoe past my wedding ring...

Les Grossman: Look, ****stick, I'm incredibly busy. So why don't you get the hell out of here before I snap your dick off and jam it into your ass...

Les Grossman: First, take a big step back... and literally, **** YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of pan-pacific bull**** power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia Jack is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again! Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down in a Godly ****ing firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the ****ing United Nations and get a ****ing binding resolution to keep me from ****ing destroying you. I'm talking about a scorched earth, mother****er! I will massacre you! I WILL **** YOU UP!

Four Leaf Tayback: Spanking a child turns him into a snot. Fear, that's what makes him a man. I know a place where a man's worth is measured by the ears hanging off his dog tags. The real hardcore ****! You wanna make this movie right? That's where you take your pansy ass actors.
Les Grossman: [beat] Who is this guy?
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Les, that's Four Leaf.
Four Leaf Tayback: Sergeant Four Leaf Tayback. I wrote the book.
Les Grossman: Wow. You're a great American. This nation owes you a huge debt. Now shut the **** up and let me do my job!

Rick Peck: [about Speedman] They're going to kill him!
Les Grossman: And we'll weep for him... in the press, set up a scholarship in his name, eventually - and I'm talkin' way, way down the road - we file an insurance claim.
Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Preferably before the end of the fiscal year. Actually, the claim alone would net us more than the movie would lose.

Les Grossman: We don't negotiate with terrorists.

Les Grossman: **** the jungle!

Rick Peck: You can't be serious?
Les Grossman: You kick in the door to my house all ants in your pants, sucking my left nut to get a TiVo scrap for the 3rd runner-up "sexiest man alive" 1998... And you're asking if I'm SERIOUS?

[Peck bursts into Grossman's office unannounced]
Les Grossman: What do you need, Peck?
Rick Peck: What do YOU need, Les? Glasses?
Les Grossman: ...What?

Les Grossman: Let's face it, the kids aren't exactly dressing up as The Scorcher for Purim anymore.

Les Grossman: [talking to Peck] Look ****-stick, I'm incredibly busy, so why don't you get the hell out of here before I snap your dick off and jam it into your ass.
Les Grossman: [Peck looks dumbfounded] No, not you Helen, but I will rip your tits off if you don't get me those theatres.

fryup

what exactly is a cameo role, playing youself?

if thats the case i'd go for Alice Cooper in Waynes World

dr.bollocko

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Val Kilmer as Elvis in True Romance.
Though I think that was credited.

Oh. Thought of another.
Pulp Fiction, the buddy holly waiter was Steve Buscemi.

donfers

for the purposes of this thread my definition of cameo role is not so strict as to mean an actor went uncredited, what I had in mind was maybe someone who appears in only 1 or 2 scenes and only for a few minutes on screen....and may I suggest alec baldwin in glengarry glenross?

Mickeroo

Tom Cruise had a reasonably large role in Tropic Thunder, not really a cameo methinks.

Kettle316

donfers wrote: »

for the purposes of this thread my definition of cameo role is not so strict as to mean an actor went uncredited, what I had in mind was maybe someone who appears in only 1 or 2 scenes and only for a few minutes on screen....and may I suggest alec baldwin in glengarry glenross?

Was going to say that but thought it was a bit long!! That cameo was awesome!!

Kess73

Has to be Hitchcock. He managed some of the most imaginative cameos in his own films.

My own favourite is his cameo in Lifeboat. Very clever way to get his brief cameo in, when the entire film takes place aboard a small lifeboat and he is not one of the cast.



Quite liked his cameo in Topaz as well. He plays an extra being pushed through the airport in a wheelchair. The wheelchair stops and he just gets up and walks off camera.

Mickeroo

Oh Stan Lee's cameo in Mallrats was gas!

tony1kenobi

Michael K Williams in Incredible Hulk. There for no other reason than he really really loves the hulk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo_h8l6J7Rw

Mickeroo

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Michael K Williams in Incredible Hulk. There for no other reason than he really really loves the hulk.

I'd forgot about that, total blink and you miss it! Omar would kick hulks ass :P

El Horseboxo

Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein. Didn't know it was him till my second time seeing it a few years after the first. Think he done it for free or next to nothing as well. Possibly the funniest scene in the film as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2IIU0a9qw

Sanjuro

Hands down, Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. Absolutely staggering performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OQc0_ah0zU

0verblood

Hayzooz wrote: »

Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek (new one)

That's not a cameo he had a fairly big part. Also he played the exact same character as in the old Star Trek, that's like saying Sly Stallone has a cameo in Rambo 4.

Anyways, other nice cameos, not the best though:

Arnie in Expendables
Arnie in Welcome to the Jungle
Jay n Silent bob in Scream 3