Talk:List of Hitchcock cameo appearances

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Well of course it should be merged! They're the same thing. Support. --Fbv65edel (discuss | contribs) 20:04, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 43-37=?

"Thirty-seven of director Alfred Hitchcock's forty-three major films contain a cameo appearance by Hitchcock himself." To my "Things To Do List" I have added "Determine the names of the 6 major films in which Hitchcock does not make a cameo". However, it could be decades before I get around to this, as my "To Do" list is awfully long... Hi There 08:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hitchcock made 53 major films, not 43. There's also a very lugubrious lady in "North by Northwest" (see images), which I soooo want to be Hitchcock! If anyone wants to add a link to my list of cameos, then please do. The films without known camoes are these... Davepattern 19:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
  • The Pleasure Garden (1925)
  • The Mountain Eagle (1926) -- it's impossible to know for sure, as this film is lost
  • The Ring (1927)
  • Downhill (1927)
  • Champagne (1928)
  • The Farmer's Wife (1928)
  • The Manxman (1929)
  • Juno and the Paycock (1930)
  • The Skin Game (1931)
  • Rich and Strange (1931)
  • Number Seventeen (1932) -- there's a possible unconfirmed cameo on the bus (see images)
  • Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
  • Secret Agent (1936)
  • Sabotage (1936)
  • Jamaica Inn (1939)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) is on the list. I, too, thought that the same man in Number Seventeen might be Hitchcock, when I saw it on a low-quality tape; but after viewing it on DVD, I no longer believe that. I still think I see him in the panicky crowd near the beginning of Juno and the Paycock, but that impression also is based on a low-quality tape. Despite wishful thinking on my part, I suspect this list is complete, though perhaps not arranged in the best order. Richard K. Carson 06:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I'd not spotted the MWKTM one mentioned before -- I've added a few screen grabs to the site but, even using the best DVD transfer available, it's difficult to say for sure it's him. The face is just visible for a few frames before he turns his back to the camera. Davepattern

[edit] Secret Agent

I've removed that claim that Hitchcock makes a cameo appearance in the film ("Coming down the ship's gangway in front of Ashenden") as it clearly isn't Hitchcock. The following are screen grabs from the best DVD release available. Davepattern 16:39, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

It's possible that the uncredited actor coming down the gangway in front of Ashenden is Francis De Wolff (who memorably played the role of Hardcastle in "The Smallest Show on Earth"). It certainly looks a little like him and he later had a credited role in "Under Capricorn". De Wolff began his film career in 1935, so he was probably playing small bit parts around the time of "Secret Agent". Davepattern 11:51, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Lodger

I've changed the second cameo to "possible" and "unconfirmed" for "The Lodger". I've just finished watching the best available DVD (from the German "Early Years" set from Concorde) frame by frame -- there is one man who looks a little like Hitchcock but, during a brief close-up, it clearly isn't him. Davepattern (talk) 20:51, 13 January 2008 (UTC)