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What are the Hitchcock cameos in his movies?
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THE LODGER (1926): At a desk in a newsroom and later in the crowd watching
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an arrest.
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EASY VIRTUE (1927): Walking past a tennis court, carrying a walking stick.
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MURDER (1930): Walking past the house where the murder was committed, about
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an hour into the movie.
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BLACKMAIL (1929): Being bothered as he reads a book in the subway.
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THE 39 STEPS (1935): Tossing litter while Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim
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run from the theater, seven minutes into the movie.
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YOUNG AND INNOCENT (1938): Outside the courthouse, holding a camera.
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THE LADY VANISHES (1938): Near the end of the movie, in Victoria Station,
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wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
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REBECCA (1940): Standing close to a phone booth in the final part of the film.
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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940): Early in the movie, after Joel McCrea leaves
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his hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper.
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MR. AND MRS. SMITH (1941): Midway through, passing Robert Montgomery in front
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of his building.
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SABOTEUR (1942): Standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the
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saboteurs' car stops, an hour in.
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SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943): On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards.
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LIFEBOAT (1944): In the "before" and "after" pictures in the newspaper ad for
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Reduco Obesity Slayer.
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SPELLBOUND (1945): Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel, carrying
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a violin case and smoking a cigarette, halfway through.
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NOTORIOUS (1946): At a party in Claude Rains's mansion, drinking champagne
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and then quickly departing, an hour after the film begins.
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THE PARADINE CASE (1947): Leaving the train in Cumberland Station, carrying
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a cello.
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ROPE (1948): His trademark can be seen briefly on a neon sign in the view
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from the apartment window.
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UNDER CAPRICORN (1949): In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue
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coat and brown hat, in the first five minutes. Ten minutes later, he is one
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of three men on the steps of Government House.
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STAGE FRIGHT (1950): Turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as
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Marlene Dietrich's maid.
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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951): Boarding a train with a double bass fiddle as
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Farley Granger gets off in his hometown, early in the film.
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I CONFESS (1953): Crossing the top of a staircase after the opening credits.
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DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954): On the left side of the class-reunion photo,
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thirteen minutes into the film.
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REAR WINDOW (1954): Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment, a half
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hour into the movie.
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TO CATCH A THIEF (1955): Ten minutes in, sitting to the left of Cary Grant
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on a bus.
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THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955): Walking past the parked limousine of an old
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man who is looking at paintings, twenty minutes into the film.
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THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956): Watching acrobats in the Moroccan
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marketplace (his back to the camera) just before the murder.
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THE WRONG MAN (1956): Narrating the film's prologue.
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VERTIGO (1958): In a gray suit walking in the street, 11 minutes in.
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): Missing a bus during the opening credits.
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PSYCHO (1960): Four minutes in, through Janet Leigh's window as she returns
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to her office. He is wearing a cowboy hat.
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THE BIRDS (1963): Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers as Tippi
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Hedren enters.
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MARNIE (1964): Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi
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Hedren passes by, five minutes in.
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TORN CURTAIN (1966): Early in the film, sitting in the Hotel d'Angleterre
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lobby with a blond baby.
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TOPAZ (1969): Being pushed in a wheelchair in an airport, half an hour in.
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Hitchcock gets up from the chair, shakes hands with a man, and walks off to
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the right.
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FRENZY (1972): In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat, only minutes
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into the film; he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
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FAMILY PLOT (1976): In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births
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and Deaths, 40 minutes into the movie.
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I've seen it stated in several sources that he only appeared in all of his
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movies from THE LODGER (1926) onwards, so he definitely doesn't appear in:
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THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1925)
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THE MOUNTAIN EAGLE (1926)
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However, the following movies (mostly early British ones) are missing from
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the above list:
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Champagne
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Downhill
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Farmer's Wife, The
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Jamaica Inn (1939)
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Juno and Paycock
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Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
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Manxman, The
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Number Seventeen
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Rich and Strange
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Ring, The (1927)
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Sabotage
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Secret Agent
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Skin Game, The (1931)
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Suspicion (1941)
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Waltzes from Vienna
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