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Film Cameo Appearances In Two Parts |
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(in reverse chronological order, Part 2) |
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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 |
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, 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. |
90 minutes |
| Young and Innocent (1937, UK) |  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, UK) |  (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, UK) |  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, 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 |
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Blackmail (1929, UK) 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, UK) | 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 (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. |
3 minutes 92 minutes |
