Favorite Cameo

Sirs, Madames,

Just noticed this watching The King of Comedy, a misbegotten marriage of Deniro and Jerry Lewis ... three street punks on the screen for a flash, none other than The Clash, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon. Which got me thinking about other cameos.

My favorite, a trivia winner, is the bartender in scene when Eddie gets his hands broken in The Hustler. (Jake LaMotta).

And the gigantic Hispanic janitor who doesn't laugh at Scott Carpenter's Bill Dana impression in The Right Stuff. (Anthony Munoz) Not to mention the janitor out at the base. (Chuck Yeager)

The latter follows in a time-honored tradition. (Melvin Dummar in Melvin and Howard)

Anyway, I throw it open. There are ones that are easily spotted (the Clash) but most people wouldn't know Melvin Dummar if he picked them up in the desert.

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Sirs, Madames,

Oh yeah, another trivia-buster. The first person you see in All the President's Men is playing himself in a wordless role ... Frank Wills, the janitor who discovered the break-in at the Watergate. (What's with the janitors?)

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Reggie Jackson - "The Naked Gun"

 

Re: Favorite Cameos

In Hoosiers, didn't they have the guy who did the actual play-by-play of the Milan win do the play-by-play for the movie final game?

 

Xavier McDaniel - "Singles"

 

Larry Blackmon

 

Board favorite Liza Minelli also makes a cameo in The King of Comedy, I believe. Very underrated film. Carry on.

 

Chilly Billy Cardille in the Night of the Living Dead.

 

No, it was Cawood Ledford.

 

My bad. I knew he was significant.

 

I'll take Bob Hope in "Spies Like Us," which is full of cameos.

"Good thing I'm not sick."