Cameo Appearances in Hitchcock Films
This is a list of Hitchcock's cameo appearances in films that he directed.
| Title | Year | H:M | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Birds | 1963 | 0:02 | Leaving the pet shop with two of his own Sealyham terriers, Geoffrey and Stanley, as Tippi Hedren enters. |
| Blackmail | 1929 | 0:10:25 | Being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book on the London Underground. This cameo is 19 seconds long. |
| Dial M for Murder | 1954 | 0:13:13 | On the left side in the class-reunion photo. |
| Easy Virtue | 1928 | 0:21:15 | Walking past a tennis court carrying a walking stick. |
| Family Plot | 1976 | 0:40 | In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births and Deaths. |
| Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | 0:12:44 | After Joel McCrea leaves his hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper. |
| Frenzy | 1972 | 0:03 | In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat; he is the only one not applauding the speaker; and a minute later, right after the victim washes ashore, standing next to a gray-haired man with a gray beard. |
| I Confess | 1953 | 0:01:33 | Crossing the top of a staircase. |
| The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | 1:32:31 | In Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette. |
| Lifeboat | 1944 | 0:25 | In the "before" and "after" pictures in the newspaper ad for "Reduco Obesity Slayer". |
| The Lodger | 1927 | 0:03 | At a desk in the newsroom. |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1934 | 0:33 | Possible cameo walking across the road in a dark trench coat as a bus passes by (unconfirmed). |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | 0:25 | Watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace (back to the camera). |
| Marnie | 1964 | 0:05 | Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi Hedren passes by. |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 1941 | 0:42:57 | Passing Robert Montgomery in front of his building. |
| Murder! | 1930 | 1:00 | Walking past the house where the murder was committed. |
| North by Northwest | 1959 | 0:02:09 | Missing a bus, just after his credit passes off screen during the title sequence. |
| Notorious | 1946 | 1:04:44 | At the big party in Claude Rains's mansion, drinking champagne and then quickly departing. |
| The Paradine Case | 1947 | 0:38 | Leaving the train at Cumberland Station, carrying a cello case. |
| Psycho | 1960 | 0:06:35 | Through Janet Leigh's window as she returns to her office, wearing a cowboy hat. |
| Rear Window | 1954 | 0:26:10 | Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment (Some argue that Hitchcock breaks the fourth wall in this cameo, possibly turning to look at the audience in a "What are you looking at?" sort of manner, but is actually turning to speak (lips move) to Ross Bagdasarian, who clearly turns his head in response). |
| Rebecca | 1940 | 2:06 | Walking near the phone booth just after George Sanders makes a call. |
| Rope | 1948 | 0:55 | His trademark silhouette can be seen on a red neon sign advertising "Reduco" in the view from the apartment window. |
| Sabotage | 1936 | 0:09:00 | Hitchcock walks on the sidewalk from the center to the (viewer's) left, looking up right after the lights go back on and before the lady shuts the kiosk window. |
| Saboteur | 1942 | 1:04 | Standing in front of "Cut Rate Drugs" as the saboteur's car stops. |
| Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | 0:17 | On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards, back to the camera. |
| Spellbound | 1945 | 0:43:15 | Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel, carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette. |
| Stage Fright | 1950 | 0:39:49 | Turning to look back at Jane Wyman in her disguise as Marlene Dietrich's maid. |
| Strangers on a Train | 1951 | 0:10:34 | Boarding a train with a double bass as Farley Granger gets off in his hometown. |
| Suspicion | 1941 | 0:46:54 | Mailing a letter at the village postbox (long shot). |
| 0:04 | Walking a horse across the screen at the hunt meet. | ||
| The 39 Steps | 1935 | 0:06:56 | The man tossing a white cigarette box while the bus pulls up for Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim to leave the theatre. |
| To Catch a Thief | 1955 | 0:10 | Sitting to the left of Cary Grant on the bus. |
| Topaz | 1969 | 00:32:27 | Being pushed in a wheelchair in the airport. Hitchcock gets up from the chair, shakes hands with a man, and walks off to the right. |
| Torn Curtain | 1966 | 0:08 | Sitting in the Hotel d'Angleterre lobby with a baby on his knee. He shifts the child from one knee to the other. |
| The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | 0:22:14 | Looking outside of the window - the man walking past the parked limousine of an old man who is looking at paintings. |
| Under Capricorn | 1949 | 0:03 | In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue coat and brown hat. |
| 0:13 | One of three men on the steps of Government House. | ||
| Vertigo | 1958 | 0:11:40 | In a grey suit walking in the street with a trumpet case. |
| The Wrong Man | 1956 | 0:00:18 | Seen in silhouette narrating the film's prologue. Donald Spoto's biography says that Hitchcock chose to make an explicit appearance in this film (rather than a cameo) to emphasize that, unlike his other movies, The Wrong Man was a true story about an actual person. |
| Young and Innocent | 1937 | 0:16 | Outside the courthouse, holding a camera. |
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