List of Directors Who Appear in Their Own Films - Directors Who Regularly Appear in Their Own Films

Directors Who Regularly Appear in Their Own Films

• Woody Allen regularly stars in or at least has a major role in most of his films.

• Dev Anand regularly starred in or at least had a major role in most of his films.

• Kenneth Branagh has starred in and directed many films.

• Tinto Brass appears in almost all his films.

• Mel Brooks has had prominent roles in most of his films.

• Jan Bucquoy has appeared in many of his films.

• John Carpenter has had small roles in many of his films, as well as composing the score for several.

• Charlie Chaplin starred in almost every film he directed.

• Ruggero Deodato makes very brief cameos in most of his films.

• Abbas Kiarostami appeared in his film Taste of Cherry.

• Takeshi Kitano appears in almost all his films.

• Gautham Menon has appeared in brief cameos in his own films.

• Michael Moore has starred in his own movies.

• Clint Eastwood, while originally well known just as an actor, since taking up directing, has starred or had a prominent role in nearly all his films.

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder in his films such as Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.

• Subhash Ghai has appeared in many of his films.

• Christopher Guest has prominent roles in many of his "mockumentaries".

• Alfred Hitchcock made (often very brief) cameo appearances in nearly all of his films. See List of Hitchcock cameo appearances for more details.

• Peter Jackson has made small cameo appearances in most of his films.

• Terry Jones directed and appeared in all Monty Python films, as well as The Wind In The Willows, where he played Mr. Toad.

• Fritz Lang made appearances in most of his films

• Spike Lee has had small roles in many of his films.

• Perarasu has made cameo appearances in all of his films to date.

• Tyler Perry has so far regularly starred in or at least had a major role in all of his films except Daddy's Little Girls and For Colored Girls.

• Roman Polanski has regularly appeared in his films, in both major and smaller roles.

• S.S. Rajamouli, the most successful Telugu movie director regularly appears in his movies.

• K. S. Ravikumar makes a special appearance or sometimes appears in a supporting role in all his films.

• Robert Rodriguez makes small cameo appearances in most of his films. His most concealed role would be in the opening scene of The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, voicing a shark; most noticeable was in Sin City, where he played a member of the SWAT.

• Eli Roth has a small role in every film he has directed. In the latest Hostel movie, only his decapitated head is in it.

• Eldar Ryazanov has had small roles in many of his films.

• John Sayles has appeared in many of his films.

• Martin Scorsese has appeared in a fair number of his films.

• Daryush Shokof has appeared in at least 4 of his films.

• M. Night Shyamalan has so far had a small role in all but two of his films (Wide Awake and The Last Airbender). His role in 2008's The Happening was his most concealed to date. (He was the voice on the phone that Zooey Deschanel was talking to throughout the film.)

• Kevin Smith, as the character Silent Bob in all of the View Askewniverse films.

• Quentin Tarantino, in both high-profile roles (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Grindhouse) and smaller roles (Jackie Brown, uncredited voice only).

• Chris Tashima played the lead in Visas and Virtue and played the storyteller character in Day of Independence.

• John Waters has had roles of varying prominence in most of his films.

• Orson Welles had roles of varying significance in every film he directed.

• Edgar Wright appears briefly in both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz