Every Hitchcock Cameo Ever

After much hunting and diligent editing, here is every Hitchcock cameo ever spotted from his beginning in silent cinema to his graphic horror in the 70s. If you can't spot him in the video, I've made a handy guide for each clip you see.
Watching guide:
The Lodger: A Story of London Fog- 2 cameos! Clip 1: The man shouting into the phone in the bottom center, Clip 2: in the middle of the crowd with the fake beard
Easy Virtue- walking with a cane on the right
Blackmail- sitting on the left being harassed by a child (one of his longest cameos)
Murder! - walking across the shot from left to right
The 39 Steps- walking to the right and tossing a piece of paper on the ground
Young and Innocent- to the left fiddling with a camera (another of Hitchcock's longest)
The Lady Vanishes- walking to the left smoking a cigar and shrugging his shoulders
Rebecca- in the background walking to the left wearing a bowler hat
Foreign Correspondent- reading a newspaper on the left
Mr. and Mrs. Smith- walking from left to right as the camera pulls out
Suspicion- 2 cameos! clip 1: leading the horse, clip 2: mailing a letter in the background
Saboteur- top left corner under the light bulb
Shadow of a Doubt- playing cards with the doctor
Lifeboat- in the ad for Reduco "the obesity slayer"
Spellbound- leaving the elevator smoking a cigar and carrying a violin case
Notorious- drinking champagne
The Paradine Case- on the right, smoking a cigar and carrying a cello case
Rope- walking on the sidewalk in a blue suit and holding a newspaper
Under Capricorn- 2 cameos! clip 1 in a blue suit, brown pants and top hat in the middle of the frame, clip 2 same outfit in the middle of a group of 3 people
Stage Fright- on the right turning and looking at the main character
Strangers on a Train- boarding the train with a stand up bass
I Confess- walking across the horizon
Dial M for Murder- sitting at the table in the picture
Rear Window- winding the clock in the piano player's apartment
To Catch a Thief- Sitting on the right in the bus
The Trouble With Harry- walking on the left in a trench coat
The Man Who Knew Too Much- standing the bottom left of the crowd
The Wrong Man- This cameo is different. Because The Wrong Man is based on the experiences of a real person Hitchcock wanted to approach the whole thing differently.
Vertigo- walking from left to right carrying a trumpet case
North By Northwest- failing to catch a bus
Psycho- in the window wearing a cowboy hat
The Birds- walking his real-life dogs out of the pet shop
Marnie- exiting a room on the left and looking directly at the camera
Torn Curtain- holding a small child on his knee
Topaz- sitting in a wheelchair and then standing up to shake hands with someone
Frenzy- 2 cameos! clip1: in the middle of the crowd wearing a bowler hat, clip 2 same hat in the bottom center
Family Plot- silhouette seen in in the window of Registrar of Births & Deaths

[@MatthewSmith-cv7op]

They deliberately get easier and easier with each passing film. This was done because he started to realize his audience was looking for HIM, so he started putting himself in more obvious and early appearances to get it out of the way so his audience could get back to focusing on the film, and not looking for him.

[@thetid8852]

One of the easiest was one of the earliest - Blackmail. But I guess he thought no-one would know him by sight (they probably didn't, back then), so he could get away with it!

[@WWChampion16]

He's the Where's Waldo of movies!

[@astrodogg21]

"Blackmail" is one of my favorites. As soon as tha kid pulls Hitch's hat down over his face - the look on Hitch's face ... priceless!

[@naturalclarkwork]

What a labor of love...painstaking documentation...a real work of art!

[@AriArnold1]

Thank you so much! Funny that he looks the same already in the 20's.

[@brucenator]

Lifeboat is my favorite Hitchcock film and I always thought I liked the way Hitch managed to work himself into that film the best, but now after watching all of his cameos together, I think Topaz is the coolest shot of them all. Thanks! 9 min 0 sec

[@fbihere2]

now that's how you do a cameo, stan lee!

[@keilet8582]

Stan lee appearance is pretty obvious because they give some dialogue.. I can recognized him immediately.. but for Hitchcock's cameo, he just came out in very short time mostly no dialogue, sometimes just passed by or in newspaper's ad..that's funny facy actually

[@naxo9975]

You can't compare those mickey mouse horseshit with the glorious hitchcock

[@saturatedcranium]

@@naxo9975 holy fuck you made me laugh

[@shakshbh]

@@naxo9975 wow

[@redditbrown8053]

The title transitions are longer than most of the cameos.

[@tbradleytucker]

😂

[@sameerhafeez7029]

🤣🤣🤣

[@deborahleone4351]

And some are on here twice.....that’s ok, I enjoyed it anyway! 🕊🙏😘🙋‍♀️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@boffetta66]

In Rope the real cameo is the blinking commercial with Hitch figure

[@barbball6567]

Thanks for sharing this! Very enjoyable to watch!

[@racheledwards2352]

Lifeboat was probably his most creative cameo

[@bailinnumberguy]

Impressive diligence in compiling this. He never says a word and the number of great movies he made was incredible.

[@jegprods]

Fantastic! Thank you for the compilation Will! The only one you missed was "Rope". You show the exterior of the building behind his credit, but his cameo is his signature profile in flashing red lights against the night sky.

[@wericks3]

jegprods I think you're right and it's my biggest regret with this video. When I watched the film years ago I was going based on a list that counted the bald man walking down the street as his title comes up. Over time I've seen the true cameo (on fourth rewatch of Rope!), and I think it's obvious that my first spot was a false positive.

[@KebabMusicLtd]

@@wericks3 He is supposed to have made two cameos in the film, just after the opening credits walking down the street, and later as the part of the red lettering in the background to Joan Chandler and Douglas Dick.

[@HoovyTube]

6:06 i love how meta this moment is. He is the conductor! duh!

[@gatehanger1385]

Wow!! I hadn't realised he'd made so many movies! Thank you... Well deserved like!

[@NondescriptMammal]

Hilarious how he is holding an almost impossibly unlikely hand in Shadow of a Doubt.

[@sonofan403]

Nicely done Will. It's nice to see a fan of his work pay tribute this. Also, not to be this guy, but there is a second pseudo-cameo in Rope. In the skyline of the city you see from the Apartment's window, there is a neon sign for Reduco, the same weight loss product from the Lifeboat ad, and its in the shape of Hitchcok's famous silhouette. It's a subtle one, happens at 55:19 of the film, but its there.

[@MrLesliegreen]

Well Done I have always tired to found him in all of his films now I know where he is. Trouble is I will probably forget to look for him, the next time one of his films are on! Thank You for going to the trouble of posting this.

[@ginaloverofangels]

In some of his movies he's in them for a brief second. In others it's longer and, he's even speaking. I just re-watched Rebecca and I couldn't find him, now I know why. He was in it soooo briefly. Thank you for this video.

[@timmaloney2022]

Very spooky! Eerie!

[@johnsantilli7096]

Thank you. I have been thinking about this for any years. Loved it.

[@The_A_Cast]

The one on the front page of the newspaper was iconic!

[@jpsned]

Thank you for this wonderful video! One small thing I noticed was the absence of dates for Suspicion and The Trouble with Harry; they are 1941 and 1955, respectively. 👍

[@annedwyer797]

Fantastic! Thanks for making this video 😉

[@kingshearer2]

Brilliant thanks for putting this together.

[@DreCallinitquits]

this man is such a badass!

[@EvelynThayer]

When my dad told me that he was in almost all his films, I started playing the game of spotting Hitchcock. The older ones were a lot harder while movies like To Catch a Thief have him in the obvious

[@thatoneperson1208]

Thank you! Needed this for an assignment :)

[@johnnyev1]

Hitchcock was a favorite growing up. Thanks for the clips!

[@Iank14]

Vertigo is my favorite. That overwhelming sense of doom and obsession knocks me out every time.

[@senorkaboom]

This was great, thank you.

[@AcessDBpro]

8:41 I liked how they segued his TV theme song into the musical clip during the cameo :D EDIT: Also in Frenzy, he was also seen in a THIRD clip (actually previous to the other two), during the scene where the original pan from the helicopter slowly zoomed in on the crowd, he was standing at the rail with a white glove.

[@MarulanChristianDior]

Thanks for posting, Will Erickson; a great work.

[@YocoolKids]

Is wasn't until I watched dial M for murder last night I realised he did this. Thanks for putting this together - great work!

[@fromuncle]

Great job! Thanks for doing all the work. We're watching Psycho for the umteenth time and took a chance on looking in You Tube. One of the many of his cameos we missed. Much appreciated.

[@mikekirwan461]

There is also a TV cameo, from Alfred Hitchcock Presents. A Dip in the Pool, one of the episodes he directed (Most he did not) A character is reading a copy of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. His image is on the cover.

[@SteveFlanigan]

Well done! This same idea, (making a video like this,) came to mind this morning while I was watching "Torn Curtain", but since you did the leg work I'll have to give you credit. It also reminded me of how many of his films I have enjoyed and how many of his earlier works I still need to watch.

[@karenmacintosh4309]

Thank you. Love these

[@decadantdog4444]

I think he did the cameos so he could pay himself as an extra.

[@zeldasmith6154]

And a movie immortalizes you.

[@sbarr10]

Much fun to watch, thanks!

[@nicomedy2010]

Happy Birthday, Hitch !! ;-)

[@psvs3960]

Great Stuff! Really nice job.

[@BHAKTIBROPHY]

Brilliant! Thank you! :) (I always thought the TO CATCH A THIEF cameo was the strangest....made me laugh out loud the first time I watched the movie!)

[@LerafoLuap]

Great work - thanks for this!

[@RastaSaiyaman]

The master of suspense had a good sense of humor too.

[@astrodogg21]

... & of course "To Catch A Thief" (the look Cary Grant gives him).

[@LauRa-re9un]

hahahahaha!! very good!! congratulations!! Great job you did!! Thank you very much. And how many films he made! I will try to watch them all. The funniest: 3:35 hahahaa

[@anika2001]

I read that at that time he was proud of his weight loss, that's the ad about.

[@Nathanieltan100]

thanks for the video! :D

[@pkminpkmon]

I'm here because of Stan Lee's cameo as a playable character in The Amazing Spiderman, where he says "Another amazing appearance for the King of Cameos! Take that, Hitchcock!"

[@Deb545]

Great job! Thanks for sharing!

[@MaximusM25]

Love it!

[@gpomeroy]

from 47 to 51 he's carrying his Chelo and it got bigger, great job thank you.

[@FrenchyRomantic]

Lol it's like playing where is Waldo but with Hitchcock lol thanks for uploading so cool :)

[@Toflosmo]

Wonderful work!! I just miss the second time Hitchcock used Reduco since Lifeboat, this time in The Rope: a red neon sign with Hitch's trademark caricature advertising Reduco, seen through a window over the cityscape. But, well, it's almost invisible and not a proper cameo.

[@thetid8852]

It's clear and obvious when you see it! Well, it was to me..

[@TheEternalOuroboros]

Hitchcock must have appeared twice in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) because he is in the opening bus scene.

[@keithwilson6060]

He had quite a brisk walk for such a big man.

[@LemonCurry.]

the lifeboat cameo is the best ever! :)

[@1960dave1960]

Don’t blink, you’ll miss him....

[@knibscratch]

Fascinating stuff ... Thankyou.

[@debbiewilson9712]

My personal favorite is 'Dial M for Murder' classic!!!

[@AntiqueRadios]

Hitch appeared in a newspaper ad in "Lifeboat."

[@nathanpeoples8410]

Man his character made it around the world!! haha

[@rubeshfull]

Fantabulous

[@carltornell]

Quite an achievement. Thanks.

[@monicamiller4595]

I hate to say it but you missed one of the Hitchcock cameos-- in the first 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much-- actor Leslie Banks hands Hitch a drink in the scene with detectives-- blink and you'll miss it-- but it's him.

[@starlessartemis]

Wow great job!!!

[@sylviaross5486]

You went too fast and didn't give me a chance to see.

[@ChrisSche]

Sylvia Ross they showed his full scenes. They were really quick always. Makes it more of an easter egg

[@Chechula1000]

Amazing. wonderful

[@LaWendeltreppe]

You have been busy, haven't you? thx for the upload, that was real fun!

[@Monty_BeGoodToEachOther]

1:22 Sabotage - Crossing right to left and briefly looks up.

[@Agentt4777]

An eerie passenger

[@athroughz0t9]

What a clever man.

[@gilbertoantoniomartins1323]

39 steps.....I love Peggy Ashcroft

[@orchardist6529]

Alfred must have had an affinity with the double bass as he appears to have carried it on several occasions and not to put too fine a point on it they are of a similar shape. Long live the legacy of the master of suspense.SADLY MISSED.

[@ausendundeinenacht]

Hitchcock really WAS the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best the Best

[@poetcomic1]

There is only ONE Hitchcock cameo in which he participates in the story. That is in the film Notorious in which he is seen slugging down a glass of champagne and thus personally adding to the suspense of the champagne running out!

[@debbieking5171]

The cameo he does in ROPE, walking down the street has never been confirmed as to whether or not it is him.

[@tonyally8505]

Rebecca was a real hard one to find him lol

[@jacobgarrity9055]

Stan Lee cameos in the Marvel universe and Alfred Hitchcock’s universes

[@GuitarHeroPhenomSux]

I was thinking of doing this but figured it had already been done.

[@thetid8852]

You got Rope wrong! He's not walking down the street - it's his profile on a neon sign; when you see it, it's unmistakeable.

[@thetid8852]

Hitchcock himself said, in 1948: "It's traditional, with me at least, that I appear fleetingly in every one of my pictures. But Rope, with a cast of only nine people who never leave the apartment, looked like the end of the Hitchcock tradition. There was just no way that I could get into the act. Then someone came up with a solution. The result? The Hitchcock countenance will appear in a neon "Reduco" sign on the side of a miniature building!"

[@westep4273]

Man I love rear window

[@LordHeath1972]

I really do think Sabotage is up for dispute!

[@g.b569]

In Torn Curtain, is Hitchcock holding one of his grand kids on his knee?

[@ryanoldinho10]

Spot the Hitchcock!

[@5stringofFernandoSor]

Great stuff. I really love Hitchcock's films because they're so well put together. I am finishing up watching his classics and will soon move on to his lesser known films and earlier work. Any suggestions?

[@nellgwenn]

Check out Topaz. It's one that either you love it or hate it. I think it'a a very interesting film. Take it on it's own terms and you might enjoy it. But as a preface to seeing it you might want to watch 13 Days before hand if you don't know much about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@MarmaladeStex]

I'm sure that John Schlesinger did one in Pacific Heights!, (The Lift/Elevator I think!).

[@ameliafroehlich2577]

I have no idea which one he is in the first one. I even slowed it way down.

[@SuperEvilC]

The Original Notorious B.I.G. ...HITCH baby!!

[@Prellium]

You missed one. There are 2 in 'Rear Window'. He also walks passed the bottom of some stairs at one point.

[@tonyally8505]

Topaz was brilliant went he jumped out the wheelchair and shook hands

[@Thespeedrap]

I've seen Hitchcock in every movie but Spellbound I had a hard time seeing him.

[@baldwinwilliams6572]

Bravo Bravooooooo

[@WILLSTERROCKSTER]

The trailer for the film hitchcock on this video, lol

[@MaximumMadnessStixon]

Camera operators and the DP (Director of Photography or "Cinematographer) tend to operate the camera. Directors rarely operate the cameras themselves while films are being made.

[@666katwoman]

What about the neon light in Rope?

[@Jemmer1000]

My dear, have you not forgot to wind up the clock?

[@jeprice08]

I heard that in the movie "North By Northwest," Alfred Hitchcock made two cameo appearances:the one where he misses the bus after his credit, "Directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK," rolls away from the screen and the one around the 44-minute mark where he appears in drag, at least that's what Wikipedia claims. Well, as far as the other one and I may be wrong, I think I may have found it. It's on the train before Cary Grant comes out from behind the door that says and I'm not making this up, "TOILET." The conductor and some other people are seen interviewing just one person before moving on and I think that that "woman" they were interviewing was Alfred Hitchcock in drag. The face looks about the same despite the makeup, the clothing, and the earrings. The "woman" stays in the scene until Cary passes "her." Also, that "woman" was the only person in that scene who ever looked up to notice him after he passes.

[@johnhollingsworth2132]

That woman is well-known character actress Jesslyn Fax, not Alfred Hitchcock.

[@jeprice08]

Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure?

[@johnhollingsworth2132]

I am. Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S® 5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message --------

[@jeprice08]

Okay, if you say so.

[@johnhollingsworth2132]

Well, it's not me saying it, it's just - and I'm really not trying to make a big thing of this, just accuracy - but, it's just that that's who it is. I know this legend (about the cameo) is out there, from what I can see it started with an article in the U.K. Telegraph - and they received a lot of correspondence correcting the assumption.But if you check her IMDB page you can see her credits include NXNW. -------- Original message --------

[@44excalibur]

Hitchcock's cameos in Marnie and North by Northwest weren't exactly subtle.

[@jazzmanchgo]

Some of those, I still didn't spot him.