Real Person Cameo: Difference between revisions

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** 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.

* Jim Garrison played Earl Warren in ''[[JFK (~~Film~~)|JFK]]'' ([[Kevin Costner]] played Garrison).

* Jim Garrison played Earl Warren in ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'' ([[Kevin Costner]] played Garrison).

* In ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'', Woody Harrelson, playing Flynt, has a really nasty judge hearing one of his obscenity trials. The judge is played by Larry Flynt.

* ''[[Apollo 13]]'' features a cameo by astronaut Jim Lovell (who flew on the actual Apollo 13 mission) as the captain of the aircraft carrier that recovers the crew after splashdown. Lovell is, of course, being played by Tom Hanks. The cameo is doubly appropriate, given that Lovell is a retired navy Captain.

** 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 ''[[~~Twenty Four~~ Hour Party People ~~(Film)~~|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|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]].

* 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.

* 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.

* In the film ''In The Mood'', about a boy who has affairs with two much older women back when it wasn't cool to do that sort of thing (at least publicly), Ellsworth Wisecarver, the boy who had the affairs with the women in 1944, plays a man who accuses the boy of being a communist during a TV interview.

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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 ~~(Music)~~|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|Alices 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.

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* In ''Toast'', [[The BBC]]'s dramatisation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's autobiography, Slater plays the chef who gives young Nigel his first job.

* Happens [http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-real-people-that-inspired-characters-on-the-wire.html more than once] on ''[[The Wire]]'', as several characters are loosely based on real cops and criminals who are given cameos on the show. Most notably, the real Jay Landsman ends up playing a recurring character.

* Sue Thomas appears in three episodes of ''[[Sue Thomas FB Eye]]''. In two of them, she plays a character called Deanne Bray!

* Sue Thomas appears in three episodes of ''[[Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye]]''. In two of them, she plays a character called Deanne Bray!

* In ''[[Micro Men]]'' Sophie (née Roger) Wilson, as well as being a major character played by actor Stefan Butler, has a cameo right at the end of the programme as a pub landlady.