List people who portrayed themselves in movies

[Generic Brad]

This past weekend I was watching "Hamlet 2" and got quite a chuckle over Elizabeth Schue portrayal of herself. Now I recall Brett Favre playing himself in "Something About Mary" and Bill Murray making a surprise cameo as Bill Murray in "Zombieland". Can you all think of other films where a real person played a fictional version of themselves?

[frogmarch]

1. John Malkovich

played himself in Being John Malkovich.

[HopeHoops]

2. You beat me to it.

[joeybee12]

3. Ann Jillian played Ann Jillian in a TV movie: The Ann Jillian Story...

about her battle with breast cancer.

[Generic Brad]

4. Good one

I had totally spaced that one out.

[trackfan]

5. An early one: Babe Ruth played himself in Speedy,

a Harold Lloyd film.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. Pride of the Yankees, too. nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. wrong place-- oops

[CBGLuthier]

6. Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold and Kumar movies

Merv Griffin in The Man with Two Brains

Too many rock bands to bother listing but Aerosmith and Alice Cooper come to mind.

[Roon]

7. Didn't howard stern play himself in a movie?

I thought he did.

[TommyO]

27. Yes, he did, in, "Private Parts", a movie based on his book about his life

[Tikki]

8. I believe Dr. Timothy Leary did.....n/t

[NoPasaran]

9. Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant

[RZM]

10. 'Audie Murphy is Audie Murphy in . . . Audie Murphy: To Hell and Back'

Ok, I added his name one time extra in the title but you get the point :)

[Bucky]

11. Curley Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fein, Shemp Howard, Curly Joe DaRita

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. William Shatner in "Free Enterprise"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141105/

[Dappleganger]

15. Bill Murray in Zombieland.

It's fucking Bill Murray!!!!

[Mendocino]

16. Oceans Eleven

had Topher Grace, Holly Marie Combs, Josh Jackson and others playing themselves, learning to play poker from Brad Pitt.

[RandomThoughts]

17. You caught that.

The lean forward, and blinking are both poker tells, nice catch there. As is breathing, but that might be a poker comment.

[AngryAmish]

18. Brett Favre

Johnathan Richman for that matter.

[Flaxbee]

19. Mike Tyson in The Hangover

which I just saw this weekend.

[gmoney]

62. He was also himself in "When Will I Be Loved"

Which nobody saw, except to watch Neve Campbell take a shower.

[Eyerish]

20. Kurt Vonnegut in "Back to School"

"Whoever did write this, doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut." :rofl:

[fishwax]

21. Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[mix]

22. Dexter Gordon, 'Round Midnight

i think i misunderstood the OP, but it's still a great film and performance

[El Supremo]

23. dupe

[fishwax]

25. ?

[KamaAina]

24. Rudy Giuliani has quite an impressive filmography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani#Films

Biographical drama Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003), in which he is played by James Woods.

Kevin Keating's Documentary Giuliani Time (2006).

In 2003, Giuliani made a cameo appearance as himself in the film Anger Management, starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson.

Add to that any number of cameos in sitcoms set in NYC over the years. The most dangerous place to be in NYC back then was between Rudy and a camera!

[recoveringdittohed]

26. A plethora of cameos in the movie "Dave"

Including Helen Thomas, Eleanor Clift, Oliver Stone and Larry King playing themselves.

[charlie and algernon]

28. senators and congressmen too

I recall seeing Chris Dodd, can't remember the others that pop up.

[AsahinaKimi]

29. dupe

never mind.

[deutsey]

30. Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall" n/t

[NoPasaran]

32. Possibly the greatest cameo appearance in the history of civilization

[rocktivity]

41. I was going to look that up next!

And the really beautiful part was how Woody pulled him out from behind the billboard placed him in front of the bigmouth as if he were an inanimate object--if McLuhan had just walked into the scene, it wouldn't have been half as funny!

:rofl:
rocktivity

[Mendocino]

31. Wayne Newton in Vegas Vacation

Siegfried and Roy also played themselves.

[Avalux]

33. Tom Cruise.

In every movie he makes. ;-)

[Rambis]

34. 2nd what is the appeal?

:shrug:

[Avalux]

35. I have no idea!

Never got it. :hi:

[jobycom]

42. Only about half of them.

He kept doing Top Gun over and over for too many movies, and that hurt him, but he's done some very good roles that he gets no respect for. Rain Man, The Color of Money, The Vampire Chronicles, Magnolia, Collateral, Born on the Fourth of July... He has the reputation of being an Oscar magnet, meaning his movies often get Oscar nominations or wins for co-stars. Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Jamie Foxx, Jack Nicholson, Ken Watanabe, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Holly Hunter, are some.

He was originally supposed to play Edward Scissorshands, but turned the role down, so it was offered to... wait for it... Tom Hanks! Who also turned it down. Johnny Depp, the original love-em-and-dump-em bad boy got the role on the rebound. Funny thing is, Depp wanted all the roles that Cruise was getting but couldn't get them because people thought of him as a TV actor without enough range, so he kept taking the lower-budget quirky roles no one else wanted. Over time he wound up with a greater diversity of roles, so he got more respect, whereas Cruise's big roles all started to look alike, so he got less respect. Tom Hanks managed to do a little of both--he got big budget roles that were still diverse and quirky, and he went to be rich and respected. It's kind of funny to me how unplanned career moves can shape a person even in a career like superstart acting. :)

I don't get the Tom Cruise hatred, unless it's just an extension of the "he's popular so I hate him" reaction, or the fact that he usually plays blue collar characters instead of the educated elite roles. He's no worse than most other actors at playing himself, he's just more successful at it. Or was, 'ere he met Oprah's sofa.

Yeah, I'm bored at work, so I'm rambling about actors. Sorry. :)

[Avalux]

44. I don't hate Tom Cruise.

For some reason I find him boring as hell. His facial expressions are always the same regardless of what role he plays (and I do agree he's had a few stretches). I did like him in Vanilla Sky but overall, I think he exudes a shallowness that comes across in his movies.

I find it interesting you say that Johnny Depp wanted all the roles Cruise got - which ones? I can't quite see him in Top Gun. ;-)

[jobycom]

51. Aside from Meryl Streep and Geoffrey Rush, and sometimes Emma Thompson...

Who can you not say that about? There are few actors who can turn in a decent performance with any emotional conviction and actually change their basic emotional reactions. Even great actors like DeNiro have the same stock reactions.

Oh yeah, you can add Gary Oldman. I think. He's so good at changing his face I can't even tell if it's the same reaction each time. And Pacino, who I think is probably Oldman's spiritual father.

[Avalux]

53. Agree with Oldman. Ralph Fiennes comes to mind....

with really good actors, there's a complexity that comes across the screen in subtle ways. It's that ability to make the character genuine to the audience.

[JonLP24]

47. That reminds me

Jerry Maguire has a handful or more of people that played themselves.

[jobycom]

49. That's always true of sports movies. I watched Tin Cup last night.

Yeah, Cruise, Kostner... Oh well.

Lots of cameos in that, too.

[JonLP24]

56. Heh I remember that movie

Somehow the only cameo I remember is the guy w/ handle bar mustache that covers PGA events on CBS(I think).

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. Crap - I was gonna answer this one. I'm glad someone got it in, though!

:rofl:

Fuck Tom Cruise.

If I were president, I'd make him illegal.

[kentauros]

36. Peter Falk in "Wings of Desire"

Great movie! :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. I can't believe nobody said Bill Clinton yet.

In "Contact".

[Godhumor]

52. He wasn't actually in the movie

Some new fangled computer effects used to insert footage of the pres with the actors.

[fishwax]

38. bob barker in happy gilmore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4RfUujCgmA

[LynneSin]

39. Orren Hatch, Arlen Specter and Joe Biden in "PCU"

they did a dream sequence where Gutter was being reviewed for a Supreme Court nomination. I think Ted Kennedy made it in there too.

[rocktivity]

40. Dean Martin played himself in Kiss Me, Stupid

with Kim Novak and Ray Walston (Jack Lemmon was supposed to get his part).

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTc4ODE3NTg2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODQ3ODUyMQ@@._V1._SY314_CR2,0,214,314_.jpg

Walter Winchell did a "report" in A Face In The A Crowd.

P.S. Would Alfred Hitchcock's cameos count?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[LeftinOH]

43. Teresa Saldana in 'Victims for Victims'. Portraying herself, and re-enacting

the near-fatal stabbing attempt against her. That must have been uncomfortable.

[JonLP24]

46. Neil Diamond

Saving Silverman.

[bikebloke]

48. Julia Roberts in Notting Hill

Or was she playing someone just like Julia Roberts?

[gmoney]

60. someone much like Julia Roberts...

but not Julia Roberts per se.

[gmoney]

61. Hugh Hefner has played himself a time or two

There was a bad teen movie, I think called "Miss March" or something, where he played himself a couple years ago. Probably a time or two before that.

[bikebloke]

64. oh...neverrrrrr mind...

[Richardo]

50. Frank Wills in "All the President's Men"

The security guard who discovered the break-in at the Watergate re-enacts the security guard discovering the break-in at the Watergate. :patriot:

[Godhumor]

54. Julia Roberts in Ocean's 12 playing a character pretending to be Julia Roberts

So meta.

[Richardo]

55. Julia Roberts in EVERY movie, now that I think about it.

:think:

[TorchTheWitch]

57. Meryl Streep and Cher in Stuck On You n/t

[Tom_Foolery]

58. Jackie Robinson...

in the Jackie Robinson Story (1950)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042609/

[rurallib]

65. Just saw that again the other day

first time since I was @15 (1964). Never realized then that the movie was made at the height of the race problems in this country.
Robinson had guts with a capital G. How that movie could have been made and distributed back then is amazing.(1950)

[FloridaJudy]

59. Korla Pandit

In "Ed Wood". Fascinating character: he deserves a movie biography himself.

http://www.korlapandit.com/

[lovemydog]

63. Evel Knieval

In some tv movie about him