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Real-Person Cameo
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In Biopics and dramatizations of true events where the principal figure, though portrayed in the show by some Hollywood star, is still alive in Real Life, it's a traditional Casting Gag to assign this non-actor some bit part (not As Himself). A subtrope of The Cameo. Compare Celebrity Paradox, Autobiographical Role, Real-Person Epilogue. Examples |
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Lampshaded in the adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when Johnny Depp, playing Hunter S. Thompson's Expy Raoul Duke, wanders around a club while in the grips of a Mushroom Samba, as his voiceover begins, "So there I was—" before breaking off in alarm to shout, "Wait, mother of God, there I am!" The camera cuts to the real Thompson seated at a nearby table. | |
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In The Sugarland Express, Officer Kenneth Crone, the patrolman whose kidnapping loosely inspired the film, appears as a deputy. | |
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The Conjuring: The real Lorraine Warren plays the elder woman in the front row of the classroom when Carolyn is listening to the Warrens' presentation. | |
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Spotlight: The real Mike Rezendes and Sacha Pfeiffer are visible in the stands at the Red Sox game about halfway through the movie. The real Ben Bradlee Jr. is seen listening to his fictional counterpart reporting on 9/11. |
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In Funny or Die's spoof trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, the faux Al's goatee'd manager is played by Al himself. Yankovic would later appear in the full film version of the trailer as Tony Scotti, the record producer who gave him his first record deal. | |
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Tony Wilson himself appears as a TV studio technician in 24-Hour Party People. After his cameo, it is immediately pointed out by the actor playing Tony Wilson (the film has No Fourth Wall, at least when dealing with the main character) who then also mentions several other cameos by actual musicians from throughout the film to that point. One notable example features Howard Devoto, the lead singer for the bands the Buzzcocks and Magazine, appearing in a scene featuring the actor playing him, only to turn around and bluntly state that he doesn't remember this happening at all. It's that kind of Biopic. | |
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The Man Who Never Was featured Ewen Montagu, who wrote the book, playing a senior officer who expresses skepticism about Montagu's plan. They had to reshoot the scene several times because actor Clifton Webb, playing Montagu, kept breaking up laughing. | |
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In Holding the Man, Tim Conigrave's real mother Mary Gert Conigrave, Tim's real sister Anna Davison, and one of her daughters appear briefly sitting on a table acting as one of the guests during Anna's wedding reception scene. | |
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The real Frank Abagnale Jr. was an extra in Catch Me If You Can. He played one of the French police officers. He's also briefly seen in the game show that opens the film — he's the first person to talk before DiCaprio (whose face was digitally superimposed on the other person pretending to be Frank). | |
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The Made-for-TV Movie Augusta, Gone is about a teenager's addiction to drugs and alcohol. The end of the film shows her on a bus home to be reunited with her family. On the bus, she's seen chatting to a blonde girl in the seat behind her. The same girl and her mother are shown waving goodbye to Augusta and Martha, before the movie tells us that they are the real people the movie was based on. | |
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Hoosiers: For background, the film was very loosely based on Milan High School's real-life run to the 1954 Indiana state basketball title. With that out of the way... In the film's state final, the arena's PA announcer was Tom Carnegie, who was the TV play-by-play announcer for Milan's actual state final. Similarly, the radio announcer for the film's final was Hilliard Gates, who filled the same role in Milan's actual final. The head coach of South Bend Central, losers to Hickory in the film's final, was played by Ray Crowe, who also had a connection to Milan's real title run. Back in 1954, he was head coach at Crispus Attucks High School, an all-black school from Indianapolis that lost in the semi-state final (Indiana's term for the state quarterfinals) to Milan. Attucks would go on to win the next two state titles. And according to IMDb, Bobby Plump, the even looser real-life basis for Hickory's star Jimmy Chitwood, had a cameo as well. |
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In Big Eyes, the real Margaret Keane appears toward the end as an elderly woman on a park bench. | |
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The Twilight Zone: In "The Once and Future King", Elvis Presley's lifelong best friend Red West plays his boss Mr. Harris of the Crown Electric Company. | |
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Jim Garrison played Earl Warren in JFK (Kevin Costner played Garrison). | |
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Actual WWE Superstars Sheamus, The Miz, and The Big Show all appear as themselves for the scene at WrestleMania XXX. | |
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Author J.G. Ballard cameos as a party guest in Empire of the Sun, adapted from his semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. | |
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In La Bamba, during a family party Ritchie Valens (portrayed by Lou Diamond Phillips) sits next to an elderly woman who is Valens' real mother. | |
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In The Pursuit of Happyness, the real Chris Gardner (Will Smith's character) is the very well-dressed black man crossing the street behind Will Smith and his son at the end of the movie. | |
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In The People vs. Larry Flynt, Woody Harrelson, playing Flynt, has a really nasty judge hearing one of his obscenity trials. The judge is played by the real Larry Flynt. | |
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Some Came Running is a 1958 film starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, in which a number of poker games are portrayed. In one such game, Frank and Dino are playing against James Jones, who wrote the autobiographical novel upon which the movie is based. (For you ultimate trivia buffs, another person at the same table is Uncle Leo.) | |
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In Secretariat, Penny Chenery, owner of the all-time great racehorse, is played by Diane Lane. The real Chenery, in her mid-80s at the time of filming (more than 35 years after Secretariat's Triple Crown run in 1973), appears in a crowd scene at the Belmont Stakes, not far from Secretariat's cinematic connections. | |
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Aside from being portrayed by an actor as part of the Rolling Stone staff, the actual Jann Wenner has a cameo in Almost Famous, reading a newspaper in the back of a taxi. | |
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In the fourth episode of Band of Brothers, the real Babe Heffron is seen sitting at a table and waving a flag during the scene where Easy Company liberates Eindhoven, Holland from the German army. | |
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In Casino, Frank Cullotta, the inspiration for Frank Vincent's character, appears at the end of the film as a hitman dispatched to eliminate those who have outlived their usefulness. | |
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In An Adventure in Space and Time, a docudrama about the making of Doctor Who's first three seasons, William Russell (Ian Chesterton) plays Harry, The BBC commissionaire, and Carole Ann Ford (Susan) plays Joyce, a grandmother whose grandsons are Doctor Who fans. A few other actors from these early seasons appear at various points, most notably in the crowd at Verity Lambert's leaving do. | |
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The real Baroness Maria von Trapp, her daughter and granddaughter appear briefly as extras in the movie version of The Sound of Music. They are in the background during the song "I Have Confidence", at the line, "I must stop these doubts, all these worries/If I don't, I just know I'll turn back." | |
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The French Connection has appearances by Eddie "Popeye" Egan and Sonny "Cloudy" Grosso, real-life NYC cops and the inspirations for the movie's Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo. | |
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In The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort (the person played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is seen at the end introducing DiCaprio's Belfort to a crowd after he reinvents himself as a motivational speaker. | |
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At the end of Schindler's List, the actors portraying the major characters walk hand-in-hand with the people they portrayed, placing stones on Schindler's grave. | |
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Sue Thomas appears in three episodes of Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. In two of them, she plays a character named Deanne Bray! | |
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The film adaptation of The Right Stuff had a couple of NACA recruiters visiting Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club outside of Edwards AFB, sizing up the test pilots present. The old man who interrupts them to ask if they want any whiskey is the real Chuck Yeager, whom they were discussing. | |
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The real Edward Snowden appears at the end of the political thriller Snowden addressing the audience with some final lines of his own. | |
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Communion is based on author Whitley Strieber's account of being abducted by aliens. Christopher Walken portrays Strieber. The author himself appears as a museum patron in a scene near the end of the film. | |
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While it's not based on real events, in Pixels, Toru Iwatani (the creator of Pac-Man) is played by Denis Akiyama. The real Iwatani appears as a random technician. | |
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Man on the Moon features a number of these - for example, the real Bob Zmuda (played by Paul Giamatti in the film) appears as the producer of ABC's Fridays. | |
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Fighting with My Family: In the third act, Zak stops one of his friends from hanging around with a drug dealer - who he then shakes his head at. The dealer is played by the real Zak. Earlier in the second act, Zak is seen participating in a hardcore match. The wrestler he's up against is played by the real Roy Bevis, the real Zak's older half-brother. Actual WWE Superstars Sheamus, The Miz, and The Big Show all appear as themselves for the scene at WrestleMania XXX. |
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The real Sister Helen appears as an extra in the vigil scene the night of the execution in Dead Man Walking alongside others who are anti-death penalty activists in Real Life. | |
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In a NewsRadio episode where Matthew becomes obsessed with the Dilbert strip, Dilbert creator Scott Adams has a cameo as an impatient onlooker. | |
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Apollo 13 features a cameo by astronaut Jim Lovell (who flew on the actual Apollo 13 mission) as the captain of the aircraft carrier that recovers the crew after splashdown. Lovell is, of course, being played by Tom Hanks. The cameo is doubly appropriate, given that Lovell is a retired Navy captain. (The plan was for him to be an admiral for the part, but he declared, "I retired a captain, and I'll be a captain.") His wife Marilyn, who was played by Kathleen Quinlan in the film, also appears as a spectator at the Apollo 13 launch. | |
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Arguably, Danny Wallace's cameo in a bar in Yes-Man, although the film is only loosely based on his memoir, and the main character isn't even called Danny. | |
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A sort of cross between this and Real-Life Relative: in the final episode of The Enfield Haunting, Janet Grosse's siblings, Richard and Marilyn, are played by Richard Grosse's children, Nick and Antonia Grosse. | |
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Society of the Snow: Fernando “Nandoâ€� Parrado appears early in the film, opening the airport’s front door to the actors portraying him and his family. José Luis “Cocheâ€� Inciarte appears in the bar scene, behind Numa and his friends, reading a newspaper. Both Ramón “Monchoâ€� Sabella and Antonio “TintÃnâ€� VizintÃn appear at the airport as background characters. Daniel Fernández appears in the church, more specifically, in the left front row. Carlitos Páez portrays his own father, Carlos Páez Vilaró, who reads the list of survivors over the radio and then greets the movie's Carlitos as he disembarks from the rescue helicopter. Roberto Canessa appears as a doctor, escorting the movie’s Canessa into the hospital amidst the crowd of reporters. Gustavo Zerbino appears as a rugby coach, but his scenes were cut. Numa Turcatti's nephew, JoaquÃn de Freitas Turcattu, appears as the neighbor who he greets while entering his house. |
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Milk has the real Cleve Jones as Don Amador. (Jones is played by Emile Hirsch in the film.) | |
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At the beginning of Wild, Cheryl Strayed, played by Reese Witherspoon, is dropped off by a truck driver played by the real Cheryl Strayed. | |
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Alice Brock, the "Alice" in "Alice's Restaurant" (remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), has a cameo in the movie adaptation of the song. | |
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The Disaster Artist ends with the real Tommy Wiseau meeting the film version played by James Franco. | |
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Another basketball film, The Mighty Macs, based somewhat more closely on the story of the pioneering Immaculata College*now "University" women's team of the 1970s, has a lot of this as well. Immaculata coach Cathy Rush, played by Carla Gugino, receives money from a bank teller in one scene. The teller is the real Cathy Rush. The customer who pays money for the lotion but walks away without taking the bottle is the real Ed Rush, Cathy's husband. The nuns who pass the note down the pew from Cathy to one of her star players, Trish Sharkey, are the actual players of the Immaculata championship team. |
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In Micro Men Sophie (née Roger) Wilson, as well as being a major character played by actor Stefan Butler, has a cameo right at the end of the programme as a pub landlady. | |
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In tick, tick... BOOM!, Stephen Sondheim appears in the film as played by Bradley Whitford. In the film's final act, Jon gets a voicemail from Stephen Sondheim giving praise to Jon over the latter's "Superbia" workshop. Whitford did record a voicemail in character...but when director Lin-Manuel Miranda gave the real Sondheim an advanced screening of the film, Sondheim remarked that the message didn't seem like something he would actually say and offered, if there was time, to rerecord something that he wrote himself. Miranda, a massive Fanboy, immediately agreed (later joking that when Stephen Sondheim says "if there's time," you make time for him). | |
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And according to IMDb, Bobby Plump, the even looser real-life basis for Hickory's star Jimmy Chitwood, had a cameo as well. | |
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The Doors: The recording engineer at the sessions that eventually became An American Prayer is played by John Densmore, the drummer for the actual band. The man in the club who tells the band they're gonna make a million dollars is The Doors' record producer Paul Rothchild. The promoter in New Haven is Bill Graham, who promoted many of The Doors' concerts in the band's heyday. The neopagan priestess who marries Jim Morrison and Patricia Kennealy is the real Kennealy. |
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In-Universe example happens during the climax of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, where his traveling all over the country to find his bike is made into an over-the-top action film. Peewee appears as a hotel check-in clerk. | |
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Several bar scenes in American Underdog, which tells the rags-to-riches story of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, feature a couple seated at a table in the background... who are the real Kurt Warner and his wife Brenda (who's also a prominent character in the film). | |
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints: At one point the audio of a conversation on the phone between Dito and Antonio is played. It's the voice of the real Antonio. In The Stinger, both the real Dito and Monti are having a conversation. |
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Lady Dynamite: Maria Bamford's actual parents appear in the congregation for Chad's funeral. | |
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