List of Directors Who Appear in Their Own Films - Directors Who Have Occasionally Cameoed in Their Own Films

Directors Who Have Occasionally Cameoed in Their Own Films

• Kevin Allen in Twin Town

• Emile Ardolino in Dirty Dancing

• Michael Bay in Armageddon, Bad Boys II and Transformers

• Luc Besson in L'Avant dernier, Subway, The Big Blue and in animated form in Arthur and the Minimoys

• Madhur Bhandarkar appears in his movie fashion, apparently researching on the same movie.

• Rob Cohen in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Daylight, The Skulls, The Fast and the Furious and xXx

• Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now, as the director of a camera crew filming the action in a village.

• Wes Craven in all four Scream films and New Nightmare

• Alfonso Cuarón in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

• Richard Curtis in Love Actually as a trombonist at a wedding.

• Richard Donner in Superman, Superman II, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, The Goonies, Conspiracy Theory, Timeline and 16 Blocks

• Jon Favreau in Elf, Made, Iron Man and Iron Man 2

• Terry Gilliam in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jabberwocky, The Crimson Permanent Assurance, Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

• Jean-Luc Godard appears as the bystander who betrays Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless (1960).

• Renny Harlin in Deep Blue Sea

• Ron Howard in Night Shift kissing a girl outside of Henry Winkler's apartment.

• Shekhar Kapur in Bandit Queen as a lorry driver.

• John Landis in Schlock, The Kentucky Fried Movie, The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London

• Richard Linklater in It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, Slacker and Waking Life

• George Lucas in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

• David Lynch in The Amputee, Dune, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and Dumb Land (voice only)

• Gautham Menon in Minnale, Kaaka Kaaka, Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, Pachaikili Muthucharam and Vaaranam Aayiram

• Mike Newell in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

• Todd Phillips in Road Trip, Old School, and The Hangover

• Sydney Pollack in The Electric Horseman, Tootsie, Random Hearts and The Interpreter

• Michael Powell in Peeping Tom as the sadistic scientist father (only seen in home-movie footage). Also seen briefly in Hotel Splendide, The Fire Raisers, The Edge of the World, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, The Volunteer

• Robert Rafelson in the Monkees' feature film, Head

• Sam Raimi had a cameo in The Evil Dead as one of the roadside people waving goodbye to Ash and his friends. Also seen briefly in Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness

• Harold Ramis as the neurologist in Groundhog Day

• Raúl Ruiz in Colloque de chiens, Las soledades, Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody, La Recta Provincia and Ballet aquatique

• Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, After Hours, The Age of Innocence and Hugo. (Some of these are offscreen voice roles, but he had a significant speaking part in Taxi Driver.)

• Daryush Shokof as the thief in Venussian tabutasco, as the nose in all women film Breathfuland was the chief detective in A2Z

• Steven Spielberg in Jaws, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Lost World: Jurassic Park

• Oliver Stone in The Hand, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, Nixon (voice only), Any Given Sunday and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

• Gus Van Sant in My Own Private Idaho, Psycho, Finding Forrester and Last Days

• David Yates in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• David Zucker and Jerry Zucker in Airplane!

• Chris Columbus in his film adaptation of musical Rent.