Best Cameo In Movie History

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Okay folks... another thread got me thinking about this.

Who makes your favorite cameo in movie history?

This can be a variety of different things.

Could be like Bruce Willis showing up at the end of Split, which was a wild cameo that recontextualized the entire movie.

Bill Murray cameo’ing... as himself in Zombieland (this one is pretty brilliant).

could be Lawrence Taylor showing up in The Waterboy telling kids not to smoke crack.

Matt Damon showing up to sing Scotty Doesn’t Know in Euro Trip.

or Randolph and Mortimer showing up in Coming To America.

My favorite Sean Connery showing up at the end of Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. Super cheesy movie that I loved as a kid and I can remember Connery showing up at the end as King John and the entire theater going “whoaaaaa.”
 
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There’s a lot out there, but the best most recent cameo for me was Bill Murray in Zombieland.

oh and Judi Dench won a freaking Academy Award for a cameo.
 

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I don't know if this one counts since Hitchcock was in so many of his movies but the first movie I saw him in a cameo appearance was Vertigo.
 

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I'd go with the previously mentioned Bill Murray as a fake zombie or Damon killing it with Scotty Doesn't Know as my favorite although Spies Like us has some great cameos from Bob Hope to Sam Raimi to BB King to Ray Harryhausen to Costa-Gavras to Martin Brest to Michael Apted and I'm sure I've missed a couple.
 

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Zombieland Bill Murray is probably the best one. Here are a few others that are good that I can think of:

Hugh Jackman in X-Men First class.
Micheal Jackson in Men in Black 2.
Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore.
Charlie Sheen in Being John Malkovich.
Elton John in Kingsman2.

And the movie Fanboys had 2 good cameos. One by William Shatner and the other by Ray Park (actor that played Darth Maul).
 

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Probably doesn't qualify, but Angelica Houston in Captain Eo was cool, at least as an honorable mention.
 

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Bob Barker is a good one as mentioned above.

Brent Spiner got a pretty big reaction in Independence Day.

But really, the cameo that changed my life was Daniel Craig in The Force Awakens. o_O
 
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Haha. The "other thread" got me thinking of my answer:

Keanu's turn in Always Be My Maybe (very underrated, funny movie) was very good. Playing a very ******* version of himself.

those 15 minutes of Keanu were prob the best in comedy that year.
 

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Randolph and Mortimer really has to be the funniest and best fitted cameo. Eddie Murphy giveth and Eddie Murphy taketh away.
 

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Randolph and Mortimer really has to be the funniest and best fitted cameo. Eddie Murphy giveth and Eddie Murphy taketh away.

Interesting. I would never have considered those as cameo roles?
 

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I vote for Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore),Connery (RHPoT), and Murray (Zombieland).

Not necessarily cameos, but This Is The End was chock full of exaggerated celebrities playing themselves. Some don't like this type of humor, but I chuckled throughout it (especially Emma Watson's scene.)
 
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