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Film Cameo Appearances Part 2 |
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(in reverse chronological order,) Part 1 | Part 2 See all Alfred Hitchcock Title Screens See Hitchcock's MacGuffins See Filmsite's Compilation of Alfred Hitchcock's Greatest Films |
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 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. He is unconvinced and puzzled by her disguise to pose as Doris Tinsdale - the replacement maid of Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). |  39 minutes |
 Under Capricorn (1949) |
Two appearances: (Speculative) (a) In Sydney's town square during a parade, in the milling crowd wearing a grayish coat and tall brown hat (right side of picture, back to camera?). (b) One of three men on the steps of Government House (in the middle of the picture), wearing a coat and hat. |
 (a) 3 minutes  (b) 12 minutes |
 Rope (1948) |
Two appearances: (Speculative) (a) in the opening credits, one of two pedestrians (a couple) walking up a NYC sidewalk and passing a fire hydrant to their right (he's holding a newspaper, and a woman is on his left). (b) Hitchcock's trademark silhouette/caricatured profile can be seen briefly but blurrily on a flashing red neon sign seen in the far distance through the apartment window. His recognizable profile is above the word "Reduco" - a fictitious weight-loss product. |
 (a) Beginning of film (after opening credits)  (b) 55 minutes |
 The Paradine Case (1947) |
Disembarking from the train at England's Cumberland Train Station, smoking (a cigar?) and carrying a cello case, and just to the left of and behind Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck), before turning to his left and exiting the frame. |  38 minutes |
 Notorious (1946) |
As a guest at a grand party in Alex Sebastian's (Claude Rains) mansion, having his glass filled at the champagne table and lifting the glass to entirely down its contents, and then quickly leaving. |  64 minutes |
 Spellbound (1945) |
As Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) enters the Empire State Hotel lobby, Hitchcock (in a double-breasted suit) is coming out of a crowded elevator, carrying a small violin case and daintily smoking a cigarette. He turns to his left and walks out of the frame. |  43 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 ("There's a piece in here about some people that were adrift in a lifeboat for 80 days. Say, maybe we can beat that record"). |  25 minutes |
 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) |
On the train to Santa Rosa, California that was carrying Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten), playing a card game (and fanning out his cards to reveal that he has a potentially-winning hand - a straight flush of all the spades in the deck) with a husband-doctor and wife couple, with his back to the camera on the left side of the frame. The doctor takes a look at Hitchcock and notes: "You don't look very well, either." |  16 minutes |
 Saboteur (1942) |
Speaking to an unidentified woman, and standing in front of the Cut Rate Drugs store window (in NYC), as the saboteur's car (carrying fugitive Barry Kane (Robert Cummings)) pulls up. |
 65 minutes |
 Suspicion (1941) |
Two
appearances: (Speculative) (a) Walking a horse across the screen at the hunt meet. (b) Mailing a letter at a village pillar mailbox, in a long-shot, as Mrs. Newsham (Isabel Jeans) parks her car outside the post office to meet a friend in town. |
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 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) |
Walking with a cigarette (from left to right) by Mr. David Smith (Robert Montgomery) in front of his hotel building where he lives with wife Ann Smith (Carole Lombard). |  43 minutes |
 Foreign Correspondent (1940) |
After US reporter Johnny Jones/Huntley Haverstock (Joel McCrea) for the New York Morning Globe leaves the Carlton Hotel in London, Hitchcock is walking down the sidewalk past Johnny (going in the opposite direction). He is wearing a coat and American hat (not a typical derby-bowler hat) and looking down while reading a newspaper. Behind him, Jones hears the hotel concierge call out Dutch diplomat Van Meer's name, turns, and runs back to join the statesman in a taxi ride. |  12 minutes |
 Rebecca (1940) |
Walking behind Jack Favell (George Sanders) who was speaking to a policeman after making a phone call in a phone booth. |  127 minutes |
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 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. |  93 minutes |
 Young and Innocent (1937, UK) (aka The Girl Was Young) |
Outside the public entrance to the courthouse just after Robert Tisdall (Derrick De Marney) has managed to make an escape from incompetent police, posing as a photographer (he's the director!) and holding a camera at waist-level - and fiddling with it. |  16 minutes |
 Secret Agent (1936, UK) |
(Very 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 |
 Sabotage (1936, UK) |
(Speculative) Walking across a sidewalk from the center to left of screen, looking up right after the lights are turned back on in front of the Bijou, and before the lady shuts the kiosk window. |  9 minutes |
 The 39 Steps (1935, UK) |
As a passerby, tossing some litter (a white piece of paper or white cigarette box) 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. |  7 minutes |
 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, UK) |
(Speculative) Walking across a road in a dark trench coat as a bus passes. |  34 minutes |
 Number Seventeen (1932) |
(Speculative) A passenger on a bus, in the middle of the frame. |  51 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 |
 Blackmail (1929, UK) |
After girlfriend Alice White (Anny Ondra) and Detective Frank Webber (John Longden) leave the police station, they board a London Underground train. Hitchcock is a passenger 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. (19-second long cameo, one of his longest) |  10-11 minutes |
 Easy Virtue (1928, UK) |
(Speculative) Outside a lawn tennis court in the South of France, he is a chubby passer-by who walks near a side gate, carrying a walking stick or cane and wearing spats, near where Larita Filton (Isabel Jeans) is seated. |  21 minutes |
 The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927, UK) |
Two
appearances: (a) At a desk in a newsroom (with back to camera), Hitchcock was on the phone. (Speculative) (b) As a bystander/spectator with a beard (fake?) in the mob 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. |
 (a) 5 minutes   (b) 84 minutes (far and close-up) |
