Real Person Cameo: Difference between revisions

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In [[Biopic]]s and dramatizations of true events where the principal figure, though portrayed in the show by some Hollywood star, is still alive in [[Real Life]], it's a traditional [[Casting Gag]] to assign this non-actor some bit part (not [[As Himself]]).

A subtrope of [[The Cameo]]. Compare [[Celebrity Paradox]], [[Autobiographical Role]].

A subtrope of [[The Cameo]]. Compare [[Celebrity Paradox]], [[Autobiographical Role]]. Supertrope of [[Reciprocal Real Person Cameo]].

== Comics ==

* Dan Choi, known for his activism in the effort to repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, appears in issue #4 of [[Batwoman]]'s run in ''Detective Comics''. He is attending West Point with Kate Kane and speaks to her just before she is outed and "[[Unusual Euphemism|separated]]" from the military. He was consulted for the story in that issue and receives "special thanks to 1LT Daniel Choi (USMA 2003) for his generous assistance in research for this issue" on the cover page.

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== Films ==

* The 1948 Franco-Norwegian film Kampen om tungtvannet(The battle for heavy water) with Jens-Anton Poulsson,Claus Helberg Urbye,Thorstein Skinnarland and HH Halban as ~~them selfs~~.

* The 1948 Franco-Norwegian film ''Kampen om tungtvannet'' (''The battle for heavy water'') with Jens-Anton Poulsson, Claus Helberg Urbye, Thorstein Skinnarland and HH Halban as themselves.

* Cleverly used in ''[[Erin Brockovich]]''. When Erin is in a restaurant, one of the waitresses is being played by the ''real'' Erin Brockovich. She even has a nametag that reads "Julia", as Brockovich is played by Julia Roberts.

** And at the table behind her is the real Ed Masry, the lawyer who represented Erin.

* The film adaptation of ''[[The Right Stuff]]'' had a couple of [[NASA|NACA]] recruiters visiting Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club outside of Edwards AFB, sizing up the test pilots present. The old man who interrupts them to ask if they want any whiskey is the real Chuck Yeager, whom they were discussing.

* The real Baroness Maria von Trapp along with her daughter and ~~grand daughter~~ appears briefly as ~~an extra~~ in the movie version of ''[[The Sound of Music]]''.

* The real Baroness Maria von Trapp along with her daughter and granddaughter appears briefly as extras in the movie version of ''[[The Sound of Music]]''.

** They are in the background during the song, "I Have Confidence", at the line, "I must stop these doubts, all these worries/If I don't, I just know I'll turn back."

* In ''[[The Pursuit of Happyness]]'', the real Chris Gardner (Will Smith's character) is the very well-dressed black man crossing the street behind Will Smith and his son at the end of the movie.

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** The plan was for him to be an admiral for the part, but he declared 'I retired a captain, and I'll be a captain.'

* The real Frank Abagnale Jr. was an extra in ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]''. He played one of the French police officers.

* Tony Wilson himself appears as a TV studio technician in ''[[24 ~~Hour Party People|Twenty Four~~ Hour Party People]]''. After his cameo, it is immediately pointed out by the [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|actor playing Tony Wilson]] (the film has [[No Fourth Wall]], at least when dealing with the main character) who then also mentions several other cameos by actual musicians from throughout the film to that point. One notable example features Howard Devoto, the lead singer for the bands The Buzzcocks and Magazine, appearing in a scene featuring the actor playing him, only to turn around and bluntly state that he doesn't remember this happening at all. It's ''that'' kind of [[Biopic]].

* Tony Wilson himself appears as a TV studio technician in ''[[24 Hour Party People]]''. After his cameo, it is immediately pointed out by the [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|actor playing Tony Wilson]] (the film has [[No Fourth Wall]], at least when dealing with the main character) who then also mentions several other cameos by actual musicians from throughout the film to that point. One notable example features Howard Devoto, the lead singer for the bands The Buzzcocks and Magazine, appearing in a scene featuring the actor playing him, only to turn around and bluntly state that he doesn't remember this happening at all. It's ''that'' kind of [[Biopic]].

* In ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'', Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke (played by Johnny Depp) has a flashback in a nightclub where he hallucinates that he sees himself sitting at a table. The man at the table is the real Hunter S. Thompson.

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* ''Milk'' has the real Cleve Jones as Don Amador.

* At the end of ''[[Schindler's List]]'', the actors portraying the major characters walk hand-in-hand with the people they portrayed, placing stones on Schindler's grave.

* Alice Brock, the "Alice" in "[[Alice's ~~Restaurant|Alices~~ Restaurant]]" (remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), has a cameo in [[Alice's Restaurant (film)|the movie adaptation of the song]].

* Alice Brock, the "Alice" in "[[Alice's Restaurant]]" (remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), has a cameo in [[Alice's Restaurant (film)|the movie adaptation of the song]].

* Ryan White had a small part in ''The Ryan White Story'' as another boy with AIDS.

* In ''[[wikipedia:Falling from the Sky: Flight 174|Falling from the Sky: Flight 174]]'', when two guys just out of a flight simulator complain to an examiner that it's impossible for both engines to fail because of a pump failure, the examiner tells them that this exact scenario has actually happened. The examiner is played by Robert Pearson, the Captain of [[wikipedia:Gimli Glider|The Gimli Glider]], a Boeing 767 which ran out of fuel in midair.