I know Hitchcock did it alot and we've mentioned Shyalaman in The Village thread but does anyone know any other cameos?
I'll start off. Scorsese does it in afew of his: At the end of Raging Bull he tells De Niro its time to go on stage when he's practising the "I coulda been a winner" speach.
And his mother and father are Pesci's parents in Goodfella's.
He's also in Taxi Driver as the psycho passenger who asks De Niro to pull up outside his wifes appartment because shes having an affair or something.

Quentin Tarantino.

Michel Blanc in Summer Things. He plays the paranoid husband who is convinced his wife has a string of lovers.

I know Leonard "Mr Spock" Nimoy sat in the Director's chair for a couple of the old Star Trek films as well as his role of portraying the Vulcan science officer.

M Night Shyalaman also appears in Signs.

he plays a part in all his films...he was the doctor in sixth sense, and he did something in unbreakable, but I cant remember what.

Originally posted by Dug
Quentin Tarantino.

Tarantino played Mr. Brown in Reservoir Dogs and Jimmy in Pulp Fiction.

Leonard Nimoy directed and starred as Mr Spock in some of the original Star Trek movies.

Kev smith cameos in all his movies too (I believe)

Originally posted by Rich
Leonard Nimoy directed and starred as Mr Spock in some of the original Star Trek movies.

When he wasn't dancing and singing in front of the camera...Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (http://www.tolkiencollector.com/bilbo5.mov)

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Kev smith cameos in all his movies too (I believe)

He does...he plays silent bob.

Originally posted by Rich
Leonard Nimoy directed and starred as Mr Spock in some of the original Star Trek movies.
As did Jonathan Frakes in First Contact and Insurrection.

I believe Clint Eastwood did quite a few. I think may be Firefox was one of them.

Stephen King was in most of the film adaptations of his books,,, just small parts though..
And i don't think he was directing but i just thought i'd mention it.

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Are we just talking about director cameos?

if not, lets not forget the most influential director in his own film (IMHO anyway):

Orson Welles

Wilf

Originally posted by slh73
he plays a part in all his films...he was the doctor in sixth sense, and he did something in unbreakable, but I cant remember what.

Yes, that's right. In unbreakable he plays a guy that is in the queue for the game.

Peter Jackson plays an extra in the town of Bree in L.O.T.R. The fellowship of the ring.

In Minority Report Cameron Crowe (who directed Vanilla Sky) has a cameo as the guy reading the newspaper on the train and spots Tom Cruise. This was in return for the cameo he gave to Steven Spielberg in Vanilla Sky. Steven appears at a party where he's greets Tom Cruise as a son of a b****.

Kevin Costner does alot of directing and starring in the same films.

Irvine Walsh was in Trainspotting, although he was the writer, not sure if he was director.

Peter Jackson's very briefly in the pub at Bree in Fellowship of the Ring.

Originally posted by alchresearch
Irvine Walsh was in Trainspotting, although he was the writer, not sure if he was director.

Colin Dexter, who wrote the Morse novels, has a cameo appearance in quite a few episodes of Morse.

John Landis in The Blues Brothers
Mel Brooks - Countless times
Barry Levinson - Rainman
Steven Spielberg - Temple of Doom (have to look really close - also George Lucas is in the same scene)

Where are spielberg and lucas in the temple of doom? Tell me! I'm intrigued!
Lucas and spielberg love stuff like that though don't they? In the phantom menace there's loads of stuff- theres a statue of lucas in queen amidalla's palace, theres a delegate of aliens who look like ET in the senate.
In close encounters on the side of the mother ship you can just see R2D2 on the side sticking out.

Originally posted by nez75
Where are spielberg and lucas in the temple of doom? Tell me! I'm intrigued!
Lucas and spielberg love stuff like that though don't they? In the phantom menace there's loads of stuff- theres a statue of lucas in queen amidalla's palace, theres a delegate of aliens who look like ET in the senate.
In close encounters on the side of the mother ship you can just see R2D2 on the side sticking out.

They are in the background at the airport in Shanghai.

Speaking of Harry Ford - Blade Runner
In the sequence where Deckard and Gaff approach police headquarters in a spinner, a model of the Millennium Falcon, disguised as a building, can be seen in the lower left corner of the frame. The model was a personal project of one of the film's model builders, and was used as a building at the last minute.

Last Crusade
When Indy is at Walter Donovan's, his wife enters the room begging Donovan to join the party, in the background the Star Wars theme commonly dubbed Storm Trooper march can be heard in the background being played on a piano.

Temple of Doom
The sound effect we hear in the opening sequence on the plane is the same failing-engine sound effect used when Han Solo's Millennium Falcon fails to crank up in The Empire Strikes Back

Raiders
The hieroglyphics in the Well of Souls include engravings of R2-D2 and C-3PO (from Star Wars (1977), etc). They can be seen on a post to the right of Indy and Sallah as they remove the Ark.

Ed Wood- Glen or glenda
Peter Jackson- Brain Dead
Johnny depp- The Brave