- List of directors who appear in their own films
This is a list of directors who have appeared in their own films.
Directors who regularly appear in their own films
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Woody Allen regularly stars in or at least has a major role in most of his films.
*Dev Anand regularly stars in or at least has a major role in most of his films.
*Kenneth Branagh has starred in and directed many films.
*Mel Brooks has had prominent roles in most of his films.
*Jan Bucquoy has appeared in many of his films.
*John Carpenter has had small roles in many of his films, as well as composing the score for several.
*Charlie Chaplin starred in almost every film he directed.
*Ruggero Deodato makes very brief cameos in most of his films.
*Abbas Kiarostami appeared in his film "Taste of Cherry ".
*Gautham Menon has appeared in brief cameos in his own films.
*Michael Moore has starred in his own movies.
*Clint Eastwood , while originally well known just as an actor, since taking up directing, has starred or had a prominent role in nearly all his films.
* Rainer Werner Fassbiner in his films such as "".
*Subhash Ghai has appeared in many of his films.
*Christopher Guest has prominent roles in many of his "mockumentaries".
*Alfred Hitchcock made (often very brief) cameo appearances in nearly all of his films. SeeList of Hitchcock cameo appearances for more details.
*Peter Jackson has made small cameo appearances in most of his films.
*Spike Lee has had small roles in many of his films.
*Roman Polanski has regularly appeared in his films, in both major and smaller roles.
*K. S. Ravikumar has made cameo appearances in all of his films til date.
*Eli Roth has a small role in every film he has directed. In the latest Hostel movie, only his decapitated head is in it.
*John Sayles has appeared in many of his films.
*Martin Scorsese has appeared in a fair number of his films.
*M. Night Shyamalan has so far had a small role in all but one of his films ("Wide Awake "). His role in his most recent film, "The Happening" was his most concealed to date. (He was the voice on the phone that Zooey Deschanel was talking to through out the film.)
*Kevin Smith , as the character "Silent Bob" in all of theView Askewniverse films.
*Quentin Tarantino , in both high-profile roles ("Reservoir Dogs ", "Pulp Fiction" and "Grindhouse") and smaller roles ("Jackie Brown", uncredited voice only). [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino ] ]
*Chris Tashima played the lead in "Visas and Virtue " and played the storyteller character in "Day of Independence ".
* John Waters has had roles of varying prominence in most of his films.
*Orson Welles had roles of varying significance in several of his films.
*Edgar Wright appears briefly in both "Shaun of the Dead " and "Hot Fuzz "Actors who have directed and starred in their own films
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Alan Alda in "The Four Seasons", "Sweet Liberty ", "A New Life" and "Betsy's Wedding"
*Warren Beatty in "Heaven Can Wait", "Reds", "Dick Tracy" and "Bulworth "
*Roberto Benigni in"Life Is Beautiful ", "The Tiger and the Snow "
*Matthew Broderick in "Infinity"
*Nicolas Cage in "Sonny"
*Kevin Costner in "Dances with Wolves ", "Waterworld ", "The Postman " and "Open Range "
*Billy Crystal in "Mr. Saturday Night " and "Forget Paris "
*Johnny Depp in "The Brave "
*Danny DeVito in "Throw Momma from the Train ", "The War of the Roses ", "Hoffa ", "Matilda" and "Death to Smoochy "
*Kirk Douglas in "Scalawag" and "Posse"
*Jodie Foster in "Little Man Tate "
*Jonathan Frakes in ' and '
*Mel Gibson in "The Man Without a Face " and "Braveheart "
*Crispin Glover in "What is It? "
*Kamal Haasan in "Hey Ram ", "Virumaandi " and "Marmayogi "
*Tom Hanks in "That Thing You Do "
*Ed Harris in "Pollock"
*Charlton Heston in "Antony and Cleopatra", "Mother Lode" and "A Man for All Seasons"
*Dennis Hopper in "Easy Rider ", "The Last Movie ", "Out of the Blue"
*Tommy Lee Jones in "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada "
*Diane Keaton in "Hanging Up "
*Walter Matthau in "Gangster Story "
*Bill Murray in "Quick Change "
*Leonard Nimoy in ' and '
*Jack Nicholson in "Goin' South " and "The Two Jakes "
*Robert Redford in "The Horse Whisperer "
*Rob Reiner in "This Is Spinal Tap ", "Misery", "The Story of Us " and "Alex and Emma "
*Gary Sinise in "Of Mice and Men"
*William Shatner in "" and "Groom Lake"
*Martin Sheen in "Cadence"
*Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky II ", "Rocky III ", "Rocky IV " and "Rocky Balboa"
*Ben Stiller in "Reality Bites ", "The Cable Guy ", "Zoolander " and "Tropic Thunder "
*Barbra Streisand in "Yentl ", "The Prince of Tides " and "The Mirror Has Two Faces "
*Billy Bob Thornton in "Sling Blade " and "Daddy and them "
*Francois Truffaut in "Day for Night"Directors who have occasionally cameoed in their own films
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Kevin Allen in "Twin Town "
*Emile Ardolino in "Dirty Dancing "
*Michael Bay in "Armageddon", "Bad Boys II " and "Transformers"
*Luc Besson in "L'Avant dernier", "Subway", "The Big Blue " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000108/#actor Luc Besson ] ] and in animated form in "Arthur and the Minimoys "Fact|date=April 2007
*Rob Cohen in "", "Daylight", "The Skulls ", "The Fast and the Furious" and "XXX" [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003418/#actor Rob Cohen (I) ] ]
*Francis Ford Coppola in "Apocalypse Now "
*Richard Donner in "Superman", "Superman II ", "", "The Goonies ", "Conspiracy Theory", "Timeline" and "16 Blocks " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001149/#actor Richard Donner ] ]
*Jon Favreau in "Elf", "Made", and "Iron Man"
*Terry Gilliam in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail ", "Jabberwocky", "The Crimson Permanent Assurance ", "Brazil" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000416/#actor Terry Gilliam ] ]
*Jean-Luc Godard appears as the bystander who betraysJean-Paul Belmondo in "Breathless" (1960).
*Terry Jones in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail ", "Life of Brian " and "The Meaning of Life "
*John Landis in "Schlock", "The Kentucky Fried Movie ", "The Blues Brothers" and "An American Werewolf in London " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000484/#actor John Landis (I) ] ]
*Richard Linklater in "It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books ", "Slacker" and "Waking Life " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000500/#actor Richard Linklater ] ]
*George Lucas in "" [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/#actor George Lucas ] ]
*David Lynch in "The Amputee", "Dune", "" and "Dumb Land " (voice only) [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/#actor David Lynch (I) ] ]
*Sydney Pollack in "The Electric Horseman ", "Tootsie ", "Random Hearts " and "The Interpreter " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001628/#actor Sydney Pollack] ]
* Michael Powell in "Peeping Tom " as the sadistic scientist father (only seen in home-movie footage). Also seen briefly in "Hotel Splendide", "The Fire Raisers", "The Edge of the World ", "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing ", "The Volunteer " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003836/#actor Michael Powell (I) ] ]
*Robert Rafelson in the Monkees' feature film, "Head" [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063049/fullcredits#cast Head (1968) - Full cast and crew ] ]
*Sam Raimi had a cameo inThe Evil Dead as one of the roadside people waving goodbye to Ash and his friends. Also seen briefly in "Evil Dead II " and "Army of Darkness " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000600/#actor Sam Raimi ] ]
*Harold Ramis as the neurologist in "Groundhog Day" [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000601/#actor Harold Ramis (I) ] ]
* Shankar appeared in the song "Balleilakka " from his film, "Sivaji".
*Steven Spielberg in "Jaws", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom " and "" [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/#actor Steven Spielberg (I) ] ]
*Martin Scorsese appeared as a photographer inThe Age of Innocence .
*Oliver Stone in "The Hand", "Platoon", "Wall Street", "Born on the Fourth of July", "The Doors", "Nixon" (voice only) and "Any Given Sunday " [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000231/#actor Oliver Stone (I) ] ]
*Gus Van Sant in "My Own Private Idaho ", "Psycho", "Finding Forrester " and "Last Days"]
*Ron Howard in "Night Shift " kissing a girl outside of Henry Winkler's apartment.]References
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ee also
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List of Hitchcock cameo appearances
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