Alfred Hitchcock’s Cameo Appearances
Cameo list courtesy of Col Needham, founder of at The Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/
Family Plot
In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of
Births and Deaths, 41 minutes into the movie.
Frenzy
In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat, three
minutes into the film; he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
Topaz
Being pushed in a wheelchair in an airport, half an hour in.
Hitchcock gets up from the chair, shakes hands with a man, and walks off to the right.
Torn Curtain
Early in the film, sitting in the Hotel d’Angleterre
lobby with a blond baby.
Marnie
Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi
Hedren passes by, five minutes in.
Birds,The
Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers as Tippi
Hedren enters.
Psycho
Four minutes in, through Janet Leigh’s window as she returns
to her office. He is wearing a cowboy hat.
North By Northwest
Missing a bus during the opening credits.
Vertigo
In a gray suit walking in the street, eleven minutes in.
Wrong Man, The
Narrating the film’s prologue.
Man Who Knew Too Much, The
Watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace (his back to the
camera) just before the murder.
Trouble With Harry, The
Walking past the parked limousine of an old man who is looking
at paintings, twenty minutes into the film.
To Catch A Thief
Ten minutes in, sitting to the left of Cary Grant
on a bus.
Rear Window
Winding the clock in the songwriter’s apartment, a half
hour into the movie.
Dial M for Murder
On the left side of the class-reunion photo,
thirteen minutes into the film.
I Confess
Crossing the top of a staircase after the opening credits.
Strangers on A Train
Boarding a train with a double bass fiddle as
Farley Granger gets off in his hometown, early in the film.
Stage Fright
Turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as
Marlene Dietrich’s maid.
Under Capricorn
In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue
coat and brown hat, in the first five minutes. Ten minutes later, he is one of three men on the steps of Government House.
Rope
His trademark can be seen briefly on a neon sign in the view from the apartment window, approximately 55 minutes into the movie.
Paradine Case, The
Leaving the train and Cumberland Station,
carrying a cello.
Notorious
At a big party in Claude Rains’s mansion, drinking
champagne and then quickly departing, an hour after the film begins.
Spellbound
Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel,
carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette, 40 minutes in.
Lifeboat
In the “before” and “after” pictures in the newspaper ad for Reduco Obesity Slayer.
Shadow of A Doubt
On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards.
Saboteur
Standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the
saboteur’s car stops, an hour in.
Suspicion
TWO Cameos: Mailing a letter at the village postbox about 45 minutes in. Hitch is also seen walking a horse across the screen early on at a hunt meet.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Midway through, passing Robert Montgomery in front of his building.
Foreign Correspondent
Early in the movie, after Joel McCrea leaves his hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper.
Rebecca
Walking near the phone booth in the final part of the film
just after George Sanders makes a call.
Lady Vanishes, The
Very near the end of the movie, in Victoria
Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
Young and Innocent
Outside the courthouse, holding a camera.
39 Steps, The
Tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie
Mannheim run from the theater, seven minutes into the movie.
Murder
Walking past the house where the murder was committed, about an hour into the movie.
Blackmail
Being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book in
the subway.
Easy Virtue
Walking past a tennis court, carrying a walking stick.
Lodger, The
At a desk in a newsroom and later in the crowd watching an arrest.
TELEVISION
Dip in the Pool, Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As a cover picture on a magazine a passenger is reading. This is the only cameo Hitch took in a television show. (His opening remarks on Alfred Hitchcock Presents do not count)
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Thanks for the list. It helped us find him in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Comment by Alice Cooksey — June 27, 2009 @ 8:47 pm
We are watching the Hitchcock marathon on tcm this weekend and this list was great. Thanks
Comment by Roger — June 28, 2009 @ 4:12 am
Alfred hitchcock’s movie, “Number Seventeen” (1932), must be the only movie he directed in which he did not make a cameo. Does anyone know of any others?
Comment by Rick Danna — September 16, 2009 @ 8:53 am
On Psycho, I thought Hitchcock was seen crossing the street in front of Janet Leigh’s car as she was leaving the city after she makes off with the money?
Comment by Dave Miller — November 7, 2009 @ 9:18 am