Talk:Cameo appearance/Archive 1

Real World vs. Wiki World
In the real world a Cameo is a short descriptive literary sketch that neatly encapsulates someone or something or a small character part in a play or movie, done by a distinguished actor or a celebrity. That means, directors or real life figures appearing in movies as part of the dressing of a scene are just extras. On wiki of course, every millisecond of appearance without billing in the opening titles is considered a cameo, so lame articles like this one can get bloated… — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.115.64.20 (talk) 10:26, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * No, cameo (appearance) has been in use for short non-speaking appearances long before Wikipedia even existed. See for example the Hitchcock cameos. Bever (talk) 09:08, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Musicians
There are many cameo appearances by well known musicians, sometimes playing themselves. E.g. The Blues Brothers (film) with James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. Gene Krupa in Ball of Fire. Treme (TV series) has dozens. Actually this could be an entire article. 202.81.242.216 (talk) 03:09, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

List of Hollywood stars having most cameos?
I recently saw 2 movies with cameos of Samuel L. Jackson (Xmen and Tron) and I'm wondering: Which stars have the most cameo appearences? Because stars are often doing cameos in good movies, and it would be great to find good movies by a cameo list of Hollywood stars. So why not to create a list with Hollywood stars having the most cameos? That would be great. 178.197.233.27 (talk) 20:16, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

I suggest to create a table listing the actors name and the number of cameos and the movies where they play the cameos. Even more, those actors with most cameos could get an own section in which is written in details what kind of character they play. But...I don't know how to create tables in Wikipedia, not even a sortable table, please help! 178.197.233.27 (talk) 20:26, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

definition?
Surely this article should start with a definition of what a "cameo appearance" is? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.105.64 (talk) 14:26, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Example of fictional character cameo: Miss Marple in an Hercule Poirot movie
Margaret Rutherford and her adjudant Stringer Davis had a very short cameo in The Alphabet Murders as Miss Marple. Quite nice, because the two famous detectives, both invented by Agatha Christie, meet in front of the police station (the music playes the Marple motive), see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pitSKSw_93o. I am not a native speaker, so I will not edit the article 88.79.134.74 (talk) 21:03, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Someone has mergedd this comment to the arcticle. Thank you! 84.189.56.177 (talk) 20:26, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

A sentence easily misinterpreted.
"In the film Apollo 13 James Lovell (the real commander of that flight) and his wife Marilyn appear next to the actors playing them".

This reads like the four of them are together in the one scene, which is of course not the case, and I'm sure the author of that sentence didn't mean it that way. Perhaps we could have instead:

"In the film Apollo 13, James Lovell (the real commander of that flight) appears next to the actor playing him (Tom Hanks). Similarly, Marilyn Lovell appears next to the actress playing her (Kathleen Quinlan.)" Old_Wombat (talk) 10:57, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

What about Stephen King?
Despite accepting that in something like Wikipedia it is oh-so easy to include too many examples, I remain convinced that SK shoudl be included. He is a very high-profile writer. Old_Wombat (talk) 10:47, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

types of cameo
there are other things that make cameo apperances. the only examples i have are vehicles, but there are probally others. and both examples are the millenium falcon actually. 1.- one of the star trek movies, in the battle against the borg thing, there is about a 2 second shot where you can see the falcon in the back round. 2. in revenge of the sith(episode 3) theres a ship that looks like the falcon thats blue, it's actually the millenium falcon, just 30 somthing years earlier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.204.217 (talk) 20:50, 21 February 2010 (UTC) Good call, and I have some more for you: in "Predator 2", one of the skeleton trophies is of the eponymous "Alien"s. And really pushing the envelope of the definition of "cameo" here, in one of the "Superman" movies, Clark Kent is rushing around looking for somewhere in which to change into his Superman outfit, stops very briefly at a phone both, shakes his head, and moves on. Could you argue that the phone booth is making a cameo appearance? Old_Wombat (talk) 11:03, 20 July 2011 (UTC)