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Alfred Hitchcock's
Famed Cameo Film Appearances (Part 2) |
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Alfred Hitchcock's
Famed Cameo Film Appearances (Part 2) |
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 are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the 100
Greatest Films.
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Hitchcock's Cameo Appearances
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Film Title |
Description of Cameo |
Minutes Into Film (approx.) |
| 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, unconvinced and puzzled by her disguise
to pose as Doris Tinsdale - the replacement maid of Charlotte Inwood (Marlene
Dietrich). |
38 minutes |
| Under Capricorn (1949) | Two appearances: (a) In Sydney's town square during a parade, wearing a blue coat and brown hat. (b) One of three men on the steps of Government House. |
3 minutes 14 minutes |
| Rope (1948) | Two appearances: (a) in the opening credits, as a man crossing the street (b) Hitchcock's trademark silhouette/caricatured profile can be seen briefly but blurrily on a flashing neon sign seen through the apartment window. |
Beginning of film 52 minutes |
| The Paradine Case (1947) |  Disembarking
from the train at England's Cumberland Station, carrying a cello case.
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36 minutes |
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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 is coming out of a crowded elevator, carrying a small
violin case and daintily smoking a cigarette. |
36 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) | At a 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 in New York. Not easily identifiable. | 60 minutes |
| Suspicion (1941) |  Mailing
a letter at a village mailbox, in a long-shot, as Lina McLaidlaw (Joan
Fontaine) meets a friend in town. |
45 minutes |
| Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) |  Walking
past Mr. David Smith (Robert Montgomery) in front of his building where
he lives with wife Ann Smith (Carole Lombard). |
41 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. |
11 minutes |
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Rebecca (1940) |
 Walking
past a phone booth occupied by Jack Favell (George Sanders) who made a
call to Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson). |
123 minutes |
| The Lady Vanishes (1938) |  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. |
90 minutes |
| Young and Innocent (1937) |  Outside
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. |
15 minutes |
| Secret Agent (1936) |  (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 |
| The 39 Steps (1935) |  As
a passerby, tossing some litter 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. |
6 minutes |
| Murder! (1930) |  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 |
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Blackmail (1929) The UK's first talking picture |
 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. |
11 minutes |
| Easy Virtue (1927) | During a tennis court sequence, he leaves through a side gate where Larita Filton (Isabel Jeans) is seated, carrying a walking stick or cane. | 15 minutes |
| The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) |  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. |
3 minutes 92 minutes |
Alfred Hitchcock
made a total of 37 self-referential cameos in his films over a 50 year
period (from 1926-1976), if one counts his narration at the start of
The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock's first appearance was in his
third film, The Lodger (1926), and then in just six more of his
British films. Two war-time shorts after 1940, Bon Voyage (1944)
and Aventure Malgache (1944), did not contain cameos either.
The most ingenious cameo appearances were in films with limited sets,
as in Lifeboat (1944), Rope (1948), and Dial M for
Murder (1954). One recurring theme was that Hitchcock carried a
stringed instrument in some of the cameos. Note: Only once did he appear
in an installment of his Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1966)
TV show - besides his personal introductions - in the 1958 episode of the third season titled
A Dip in the Pool, he showed up on the cover of a magazine.