Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder
What is your favourite movie cameo of all time? Over the years there have been some truly fantastic ones that have quite often stolen the show.
We take a look at some of the cameo performances that we have really enjoyed. Warning, some of the videos contain strong language.
- Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
Now, I admit that I am not Tom Cruise's biggest fan, and yet he send himself up beautifully in Tropic Thunder.
I was not a Tropic Thunder fan either, but Cruise's performance as movie mogul Les Grossman is the film's saving grace.
Donning prosthetics and a wig, Cruise is on top form as the foul mouthed, bad tempered Grossman - his performance really is laugh out loud funny. Check out a fab scene below:
- Bill Murray - Zombieland
Bill Murray is an actor who you perhaps didn't quite expect to pop up in the middle of Zombieland - it is even more surprising to see him dressed as a zombie.
Murray plays himself in the Ruben Fleischer directed film, and is dressed as a zombie in a bid to fooling the actual zombies into leaving him alone.
The scene is made totally perfect by the fact that he enters while the Ghostbusters tune is playing. He really does steal the show.
- Hugh Jackman - X-Men: First Class
A personal favourite of mine comes courtesy of Hugh Jackman as he made a twenty second appearance in X-Men: First Class.
Jackman briefly reprised the role of Wolverine, and came face to face with young Magneto & Professor Xavier as they were trying to recruit mutants.
Jackman drops the only F-bomb in what is a gloriously funny and memorable film moment. It also ensured that Jackman had played Wolverine in every X-Men movie that had been released.
- Christopher Walken - True Romance
Christopher Walked has a habit of popping up when you least expect him to - he makes another terrific cameo in Pulp Fiction.
True Romance hit the big screen 1993, and saw Walken in a single scene with Dennis Hooper. Walked took on the role of Vincenzo Coccotti, a gangster who is looking for who took his drug.
Walken and Hooper spar together in what is now known as the Sicilian scene. It is a fab moment that sees two terrific actors go head to head.
- Mike Tyson - The Hangover
Mike Tyson was a rather unexpected addition to The Hangover cast list - even more so when he bursts into an out of tune song.
Tyson plays himself in the smash hit comedy, and comes face to face with Bradley Cooper and co when they steal his tiger.
While singing may not exactly be Tyson's forte, director Todd Philips still made sure that the former boxer got a punch in.
- Stan Lee - All Marvel Movies
Stan Lee is the creator of many of the Marvel comic characters, and has appeared in virtually all of the Marvel movies in recent years.
He has been a simple bystander, mailman, saved by DareDevil and killed by the Hulk's DNA.
Watching out for Stan Lee has become a bit of a game for big Marvel fans, and there are not many movies where he hasn't made a little appearance.
- Alec Baldwin - Glengarry Glen Ross
It is not very often that a cameo performance steals the show, but that is exactly what happened in Glengarry Glen Ross.
Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin and Ed Harris were just some of the names on an impressive cast list, but in just seven minutes Baldwin overshadowed them all.
Baldwin took on the role of salesman Blake, who swans into o the offices of Mitch and Murray to deliver one or two truths.
Other great cameo performances include Matthew McConaughey in The Wolf of Wall Street, Alice Cooper in Wayne's World, Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street and Tim Robbins in Anchorman.
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