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A particularly modest type of Creator Cameo consisting of An Insert of the creator's hand (or, rarely, some other body part), usually standing in for that of one of the regular actors.
This may be an attractive alternative to an ordinary cameo for three reasons. First, it is unobtrusive and therefore does not risk breaking a tense or dramatic mood. Second, it symbolizes the creator's deep involvement in the project by portraying him or her almost literally as a "guiding hand". Third, it makes a neat trivia question.
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:
When Shelob drags paralyzed Frodo away, Sam's sword-wielding hand that enters the frame gunslinger-style is actually that of Peter Jackson.
More esoterically, he banged the gong which is heard as Aragorn enters Edoras and sees that Éowyn has disappeared.
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Andy Dufresne's hand loading the gun at the beginning of The Shawshank Redemption belonged to director Frank Darabont.
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Series creator Alan Spencer's hands, stealing newspapers out of a vending machine in the pilot episode of Sledge Hammer!
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Series creator Agnes Nixon's hand opening the photo album in the old opening titles to All My Children.
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Spider-Man Trilogy:
Spider-Man: Sam Raimi's hand pushing Spider-Man onstage.
Raimi walking by and slamming Peter Parker's face with a briefcase in Spider-Man 2.
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A somewhat squicky variant: In the first scene of the film adaption of Ichi the Killer, Ichi is shown masturbating, with what is supposed to be sperm being shown dripping down later. Turns out it really was semen, supplied by none other than the film's director himself.
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James Bond:
Director Terence Young's hand as James Bond's writing the title phrase on a photograph in From Russia with Love.
Director Martin Campbell's hand as Alec Trevelyan's in GoldenEye, when Trevelyan reaches into the Canadian Admiral's jacket pocket to steal his identification card while the Admiral goes Out with a Bang at the hands (or thighs, rather) of Xenia Onatopp.
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Spider-Man: Sam Raimi's hand pushing Spider-Man onstage.
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Raimi walking by and slamming Peter Parker's face with a briefcase in Spider-Man 2.
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In the stabbing scene near the end of The Stepford Wives, that's director Bryan Forbes's shaved hand doing the deed instead of Katherine Ross, although it was more because Ross couldn't bring herself to shoot the scene.
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He also fills in for Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi, when he grabs the dice in the dashboard of the Millennium Falcon.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife pulls this off with a Fake Shemp performance capture: Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters (1984) and father of this film's director Jason Reitman, plays the body of Egon's ghost during the climatic Backup from Otherworld, a job otherwise done by Bob Gunton in the rest of the film.
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Director Kurt Wimmer performed John Preston's hand close-ups in Equilibrium. In the DVD commentary, Wimmer said that it was actually faster to do it that way because it meant he got the action he wanted in a single take rather than trying to explain what needed to be done to Christian Bale and go through rehearsals and multiple takes.
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His hands as Rorschach's hands when he's picking up Nite-Owl's blades in Watchmen.
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In Cameron's first scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, we see the character's hand reach down and press a button on his speakerphone. The hand was actually that of writer/director John Hughes; actor Alan Ruck didn't get the movement quite right, so Hughes did it himself after everyone else had left for the day.
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In Paul Blart: Mall Cop, at one point producer Barry Bernardi's hand stands in for Adam Ferrara's. It's quite obvious, given the... significant age difference between them.
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His hand is also seen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice when Bruce Wayne attends an illegal fight club to spy on Anatoly Knyazev.
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Doctor Who:
The hand of the stagehand that appears on Sutekh's throne in "Pyramids of Mars" is an incompetent example.
At the end of "Last of the Time Lords", the hand that picks up the Master's ring belongs to one of the producers.
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Carry On Nurse: An uncredited Bernard Bresslaw's feet were used as stand-ins for Terence Longdon's, when Ted was supposedly standing in a bath.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God: Werner Herzog's hand is one of the ones keeping Aguirre's daughter's carriage from tipping into the Amazon.
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In the first two Doom games, Doomguy's arms are digitized photos of assistant artist Kevin Cloud.
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Series creator Bruce Geller's hand, striking the match during the opening credits of the original Mission: Impossible.
In the 80's revival it was Peter Graves' hand.
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Lewis Milestone's hand as Paul's at the famous ending scene of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
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