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Film Cameo Appearances in His Own Films In Two Parts |
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(in reverse chronological order, Part 2) |
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| Stage Fright (1950) |  Walking
by, and then turning back to give a prolonged side-look and stare
at Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) on the sidewalk. He is unconvinced and puzzled
by her disguise to pose as Doris Tinsdale - the replacement maid of
Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). |
39 minutes |
| Under Capricorn (1949) | Two appearances:  (a)
In Sydney's town square during a parade, in the milling crowd wearing
a grayish coat and brown hat (right side of picture, back to camera?).  (b) One of three men on the steps of Government House. |
3 minutes 13 minutes |
| Rope (1948) | Two appearances: (a)
in the opening credits, one of two pedestrians walking up a NYC sidewalk
and passing
a fire hydrant (he's holding a newspaper, and a woman is on his left). (b) Hitchcock's trademark silhouette/caricatured profile
can be seen briefly but blurrily on a flashing red neon sign seen
in the far distance through the apartment window. His recognizable
profile is above the word "Reduco" - a fictitious
weight-loss product. |
Beginning of film (after opening
credits) 55 minutes |
| The Paradine Case (1947) |  Disembarking
from the train at England's Cumberland Train Station, carrying a cello
case, and just behind Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck). |
38 minutes |
Notorious (1946) |
 As
a guest at a grand party in Alex Sebastian's (Claude Rains) mansion, lifting
a glass of champagne to sip at the champagne table, and then quickly leaving. |
64 minutes |
| Spellbound (1945) |  As
Dr. Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) enters the Empire State Hotel
lobby, Hitchcock (in a double-breasted suit) is coming out of a crowded
elevator, carrying a small violin case and daintily smoking a cigarette. |
43 minutes |
| Lifeboat (1944) |  In
"before" and "after" pictures displayed in a newspaper
ad for Reduco Obesity Slayer, a slimming 'fat reduction' product - a
men's corset, on the back side of a newspaper being read by Gus Smith
(William Bendix) on the lifeboat. |
25 minutes |
| Shadow of A Doubt (1943) |  On
the train to Santa Rosa carrying Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten), playing
a card game (and having a potentially-winning hand - a full house of spades)
with a husband-doctor and wife couple, with his back to the camera on
the left side of the frame. |
17 minutes |
| Saboteur (1942) |  Not
easily identifiable. At a NY news-stand, standing
just behind the saboteur's car (carrying Barry Kane (Robert Cummings))
that pulls up in front of the Cut Rate Drugs store window. |
64 minutes |
| Suspicion (1941) | Two
appearances: (a) Walking a horse across the screen at the hunt meet.
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4 minutes 47 minutes |
| Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) |  Walking
with a cigarette past Mr. David Smith (Robert Montgomery) in front
of his building where he lives with wife Ann Smith (Carole Lombard). |
43 minutes |
| Foreign Correspondent (1940) |  After
Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) leaves his hotel in London, Hitchcock -
almost directly in front of him, is walking down the street wearing
a coat and hat and looking down while reading a newspaper. Jones
hears the hotel concierge call out Van Meer's name and runs back. |
12 minutes |
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Rebecca (1940) |
 Walking
behind Jack Favell (George Sanders) who was speaking to a policeman
after making a phone call in a phone booth. |
126 minutes |
| The Lady Vanishes (1938, UK) |  Walking
on the platform of London's Victoria Station (as Gilbert Redman (Michael
Redgrave) and Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) return to the city),
wearing a black coat and puffing on a cigarette. |
92 minutes |
| Young and Innocent (1937, UK) |  Outside
the public entrance to the courthouse just after Robert Tisdall (Derrick
De Marney) has managed to make an escape from incompetent police, posing
as a photographer (director!) and holding a camera at waist-level. |
16 minutes |
| Secret Agent (1936, UK) |  (Very
Speculative) Coming
down a ship's gangplank (wearing a bowler hat, with a mustache), appearing
just before British novelist and war hero Captain Edgar Brodie/aka
spy Richard Ashenden (John Gielgud). |
8 minutes |
| Sabotage (1936, UK) | Walking on a sidewalk from the center to left of screen, looking up right after the lights are turned back on and before the lady shuts the kiosk window. | 9 minutes |
| The 39 Steps (1935, UK) |  As
a passerby, tossing some litter (a white piece of paper) away in front
of a bus at a bus stop, while Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) and Miss
Smith/Annabella (Lucie Mannheim) escape from the music theater commotion. |
7 minutes |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, UK) | (Speculative) Walking across a road in a dark trench coat as a bus passes. | 33 minutes |
| Murder! (1930, UK) |  Walking
with a female companion past the boarding house - the scene of the murder
crime - in front of a few other people (including Sir John Menier (Herbert
Marshall) who is leaving with Dulcie (Phyllis Konstam) and Ted Markham
(Edward Chapman)). |
60 minutes |
| Blackmail (1929, UK) |  After
girlfriend Alice White (Anny Ondra) and Detective Frank Webber (John
Longden) leave the police station, they board a London Underground
train. Hitchcock is seated to the left of the frame in the subway
carriage behind them, as he is bothered, irritated and angered by
a small boy (who pulls his hat over his face) as he reads a book.
He engages in a stare-down with the lad. (19-second long cameo, one
of his longest) |
11 minutes |
| Easy Virtue (1927, UK) |  Outside
a lawn tennis court in the South of France, he is a chubby passer-by
who walks near a side gate, carrying a walking stick or cane and wearing
spats, near where Larita Filton (Isabel Jeans) is seated. |
21 minutes |
| The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927, UK) | Two
appearances: (a)
At a desk in a newsroom (with back to camera). (b)
As a bystander/spectator in the crowd behind an upper railing, wearing
a flat gray cap, watching an arrest taking place below, as an angry
crowd tries to beat up the unpopular lodger.
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3 minutes 92 minutes |
(b)
Mailing a letter at a village pillar mailbox, in a long-shot, as
Mrs. Newsham (Isabel Jeans) parks her car outside the post office
to meet a friend in town.
