Alfred Hitchcock Cameos
Submitted by Phreak on Fri, 06/21/2002 - 02:16
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- Always Tell Your Wife
- Aventure malgache
- Birds, The - Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers as Tippi Hedren enters
- Blackmail - Being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book in the subway
- Bon Voyage
- Champagne
- Dial M for Murder - On the left side of the class-reunion photo, thirteen minutes into the film
- Downhill
- Easy Virtue - Walking past a tennis court, carrying a walking stick
- Elastic Affair, An
- Family Plot - In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births and Deaths, 41 minutes into the movie
- Farmer's Wife, The
- Foreign Correspondent - Early in the movie, after Joel McCrea leaves his hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper
- Frenzy - In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat, three minutes into the film; he is the only one not applauding the speaker
- House Across the Bay, The
- I Confess - Crossing the top of a staircase after the opening credits
- Jamaica Inn
- Juno and the Paycock
- Lady Vanishes, The - Very near the end of the movie, in Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette
- Lifeboat - In the "before" and "after" pictures in the newspaper ad for Reduco Obesity Slayer
- Lodger, The - At a desk in a newsroom
- Man Who Knew Too Much, The - Watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace (his back to the camera) just before the murder
- Manxman, The
- Marnie - Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi Hedren passes by, five minutes in
- Mary
- Mountain Eagle, The
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Midway through, passing Robert Montgomery in front of his building
- Murder! - Walking past the house where the murder was committed, about an hour into the movie
- North by Northwest - Missing a bus during the opening credits
- Notorious - At a big party in Claude Rains's mansion, drinking champagne and then quickly departing, an hour after the film begins
- Number 13
- Number Seventeen
- Paradine Case, The - Leaving the train and Cumberland Station, carrying a cello
- Pleasure Garden, The
- Psycho - Four minutes in, through Janet Leigh's window as she returns to her office. He is wearing a cowboy hat
- Rear Window - Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment, a half hour into the movie
- Rebecca - Walking near the phone booth in the final part of the film just after George Sanders makes a call
- Rich and Strange
- Ring, The
- Rope - His trademark can be seen briefly on a neon sign in the view from the apartment window
- Sabotage
- Saboteur - Standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the saboteur's car stops, an hour in
- Secret Agent
- Shadow of a Doubt - On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards
- Skin Game, The
- Spellbound - Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel, carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette, 40 minutes in
- Strangers on a Train - Boarding a train with a double bass fiddle as Farley Granger gets off in his hometown, early in the film
- Stage Fright - Turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as Marlene Dietrich's maid
- Suspicion - Mailing a letter at the village postbox about 45 minutes in
- 39 Steps, The - Tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim run from the theater, seven minutes into the movie
- To Catch a Thief - Ten minutes in, sitting to the left of Cary Grant on a bus
- Topaz - Being pushed in a wheelchair in an airport, half an hour in. Hitchcock gets up from the chair, shakes hands with a man, and walks off to the right
- Torn Curtain - Early in the film, sitting in the Hotel d'Angleterre lobby with a blond baby
- Trouble with Harry, The - Walking past the parked limousine of an old man who is looking at paintings, twenty minutes into the film
- Under Capricorn - In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue coat and brown hat, in the first five minutes. Ten minutes later, he is one of three men on the steps of Government House
- Vertigo - In a gray suit walking in the street, eleven minutes in
- Waltzes from Vienna
- Watchtower Over Tomorrow
- Wrong Man, The - Narrating the film's prologue
- Young and Innocent - Outside the courthouse, holding a camera
Author Comments:
As most of you know, Alfred Hitchcock appears in most (all?) of his films. Sometimes he's quite easy to spot ("North By Northwest") and sometimes he's very elusive ("The Trouble With Harry").
By far, the best site that I pillaged for this list is at:
http://nextdch.mty.itesm.mx/~plopezg/Kaplan/cam/cameos.html
Click on "Cameo Pictures Sampler" to see freeze-frames of the spot AH appears in for some movies.
If you know of any cameos that I do not have listed here, let me know!
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?', I say, 'Your salary.'"--Hitch
hey, this is a great idea for a list. wish I had something to contribute, but it looks like you're well on yr way.
I just wanted to get on before the end of the day to wish Alfred Hitchcock a happy birthday.