Cameos

A cameo is a small and well-defined part, typically when a famous person makes a guest appearance in a movie.
Hitchcock was famous for his short appearances in front of the camera in his own movies, a little gimmick that became an integrated part of his movies. I will shortly go through these cameos below. If you would rather go back to the menu, press the picture above.

At a desk in a news agency and later on in a crowd watching an arrest. It was in this, his third movie, he made his début in a cameo, which was a coincidence since they were short of an extra - this was noticed by the audience and the press which made him use it again in succeeding movies.

Walking by a tennis court carrying a stick.

A little sketch in which he is being bothered by a little boy while reading a book on a tram (streetcar in the US).

Walking by the house where the murder is being committed, approximately an hour in the movie.

A pedestrian tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim is running away from the theatre, seven minutes in the movie.

Outside the court room holding a camera.

At Victoria Station at the end of the movie, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.

Walking by the phone booth in the last part of the movie, right after George Sanders makes the call.

Early in the movie after Joel McCrea is leaving his hotel, wearing a hat and reading a newspaper.

Half-way through the movie, passing by Robert Montgomery in front of his building.

Posting a letter in the village, approximately 45 minutes in the movie.

Standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York when the saboteur's car stops, an hour in the movie.

On the train in Santa Rosa playing cards.

On the "Before" and "After" pictures in a newspaper advertisement for a diet pill.

Leaving an elevator at Empire Hotel carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette, 40 minutes in the movie.

At a big party in Claude Raine's mansion, drinking champagne and leaving the party in a hurry, an hour in the movie.

Leaving the train and Cumberland Station carrying a cello.

His trade mark is seen shortly on a neon sign outside the apartment window, approximately 55 minutes in the movie.

At the market during a parade wearing a blue coat and a brown hat, within the first five minutes. Ten minutes later he is one of three men at the stairs at Government House.

Turning to watch Jane Wyman in her disguise as the lady's maid of Marlene Dietrich.

Enters the train carrying a double-bass when Farley Granger gets off in his native town, early in the movie.

Crosses the top of a staircase after the opening credits.

In the left side of the reunion picture, thirteen minutes in the movie.

Setting the watch in the songwriter's apartment, thirty minutes in the movie.

Sitting to the left of Cary Grant on a bus, ten minutes in the movie.

An old man looking at paintings, walking by the parked limousine, twelve minutes in the movie.

Watching acrobats at the Moroccan market place with his back to the camera, right before the murder is being committed.

Narrator of the movie's prologue.

Walking on the street wearing a grey suit, eleven minutes in the movie.

Arriving too late at the bus stop during the opening credits.

Can be seen wearing a cowboy hat through Janet Leigh's window when she returns to the office, four minutes in the movie.

Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers when Tippi Hedren enters.

Enters the hotel corridor after Tippi Hedren passes by, four minutes in the movie.

Sitting with a blond baby in the lobby of Hotel d'Angleterre, early in the movie.

Thirty minutes in the movie. He is being pushed in a wheelchair at the airport, stands up saying hello to a man and walkes out to the right.

Three minutes in the movie. Stands in the middle of a crowd wearing a bowler hat, he is the only one not applauding the speaker.

41 minutes in the movie. Can be seen as a silhouette through the frosted window in the door to a registrar of births and deaths - an appropriate cameo in his last movie.