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Film directors[edit]
Further information: List of directors who appear in their own films

Alfred Hitchcock is known for his frequent cameos in his movies, as early as in his third film The Lodger (1927). In Lifeboat, as the action was restricted to the titular lifeboat, Hitchcock appeared in a newspaper ad.

–Orson Welles also makes a couple of appearances in his own films from 1939-1948. Welles performed in many of his own films while nearly directing six hundred separate scenes. During this time, not many directors were seen performing in their own films. Welles had his under-study take his place at the time, and then repeated the scene with himself. His cameos included directing and acting in First Person Singular, the voice narration of A Mercury Production of Orson Welles, and lead role in Citizen Kane.

–David Cronenberg presented himself in his own films between the years of 1960 and 2010. Cronenberg's cameos are often referred as to as a cult supertext (a collection of moments across multiple films that help compel different ways of the authors views on the world) because he typically plays characters who are disconnected, cold, and serial killer like. Cronenberg's most famous cameo occurred in The Fly when he was a gynecologist. He also was Ed's supervisor in Into the Night, an infected crowd member in Shivers, a man at a lake in To Die For, and Max Renn in Videodrome.

Quentin Tarantino provides cameos or small roles in at least ten of his movies.

Likewise, Peter Jackson has made brief cameos in all of his movies, except for his first feature-length film Bad Taste in which he plays a main character, as well as The Battle of the Five Armies, though a portrait of him appears in the film. For example, he plays a peasant eating a carrot in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Desolation of Smaug; a Rohan warrior in The Two Towers and a Corsair of Umbar boatswain in The Return of the King. All four were non-speaking "blink and you miss him" appearances, although in the Extended Release of The Return of the King, his character was given more screen time and his reprise of the carrot eating peasant in The Desolation of Smaug was featured in the foreground in reference to The Fellowship of the Ring - last seen twelve years earlier. In addition, when he was directing Heavenly Creatures (1994) he appeared as a drunk person bumping into the main characters, and in the Frighteners, Jackson appeared as a man with piercings with his real-life son in a bouncer.

–Director Tim Burton briefly appears in his films. He makes a slight appearance as a street thug who confronts Pee-wee in the back alley in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and a visitor at the fair in Blackpool who gets a skeleton thrown at him in ''Miss. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children''.

Director Martin Scorsese appears in the background of his films as a bystander or an unseen character. In Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), he appears as one of the gangsters; he is a lighting crewman in After Hours (1985) and a passenger in Taxi Driver (1976). He opens up his film The Color of Money (1986) with a monologue on the art of playing pool. In addition, he appears with his wife and daughter as wealthy New Yorkers in Gangs of New York, and he appears as a theatre-goer and is heard as a movie projectionist in The Aviator (2004).[citation needed]

In a same way, Roman Polanski appears as a hired hoodlum in his film Chinatown (1974), slitting Jack Nicholson's nose with the blade of his clasp knife.