HITCHCOCK CAMEO's

A sign of an auteur, as has been said by people such as Francoise Truffaut is to sign their work like a painter would by cameos, something Hitchcock has done numerous times.

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• The Lodger (1927)
  sitting at the newsroom desk, with his back to the camera (5 minutes)
  (unconfirmed) in the crowd chasing Ivor Novello (92 minutes)
  

• Easy Virtue (1928)
  leaving the tennis court through a side gate (21 minutes)
  

• Blackmail (1929)
  trying to read a book on the Underground (11 minutes)
  

• Murder! (1930)
  walking past the scene of the crime (60 minutes)
  

• Number Seventeen (1932)
  (unconfirmed) cameo on the bus
  

• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
  (unconfirmed) cameo walking across the road as bus passes by (31 minutes) - more details
  

• The 39 Steps (1935)
  walking past Hannay and Miss Smith, tossing litter away (7 minutes)
  

• Young and Innocent (1937)
  taking a photograph outside the courtroom (16 minutes)
  

• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
  at Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigar (89 minutes)
  

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• Rebecca (1940)
  waiting behind George Sanders to use the phone (123 minutes)
  

• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
  walking past the hotel, reading a newspaper (12 minutes)
  

• Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)
  walking past the hotel (43 minutes)
  

• Suspicion (1941)
  posting a letter at the village post office (47 minutes)
  

• Saboteur (1942)
  standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs (65 minutes)
  

• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  playing cards on the train to Santa Rosa (16 minutes)
  

• Lifeboat (1944)
  starring in the newspaper advert for "Reduco" (25 minutes)
  

• Spellbound (1945)
  walking out of the lift at the Empire Hotel (43 minutes)
  

• Notorious (1946)
  drinking champagne at the party (65 minutes)
  

• The Paradine Case (1947)
  struggling with a cello at Cumberlan Station (36 minutes)
  

• Rope (1948)
  (unconfirmed) Walking down the street after the opening credits finish (2 minutes).
  Hitchcock's silhouette as a flashing red neon sign in the background (56 minutes)
  

• Under Capricorn (1949)
  in the town square, wearing a hat and coat (15 minutes)
  

• Stage Fright (1950)
  walking past Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) and giving her a funny look (38 minutes)
  

• Strangers on a Train (1951)
  struggling to get his cello case on board the train (11 minutes)
  

• I Confess (1953)
  walking past in a long shot as part of the opening (2 minutes)
  

• Rear Window (1954)
  winding a clock in the musician's apartment (?? minutes)
  

• Dial M for Murder (1954)
  staring out from the class re-union photograph (13 minutes)
  

• The Trouble with Harry (1955)
  walking past the artist's stall (22 minutes)
  

• To Catch a Thief (1955)
  sitting next to Cary Grant on the bus (10 minutes)
  

• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  watching the acrobats (26 minutes)
  

• The Wrong Man (1956)
  introducing the film (1 minute)
  

• Vertigo (1958)
  walking past the shipyard entrance, carrying a bugle case (11 minutes)
  

• North by Northwest (1959)
  running for the bus, but the bus door closes in his face (2 minutes)
  (unconfirmed) dressed in drag as an woman on the train (45 minutes) - see Hitchcock's Secret Cameo
  

• Psycho (1960)
  walking past Marion's office, wearing a cowboy hat (6 minutes)
  

• The Birds (1963)
  walking his two pet dogs past the pet shop (2 minutes)
  

• Marnie (1964)
  leaving a hotel room (5 minutes)
  

• Torn Curtain (1966)
  sat in the hotel lobby nursing a baby (8 minutes)
  

• Topaz (1969)
  at the airport, sat in a wheelchair (34 minutes)
  

• Frenzy (1972)
  in the crowd and not applauding the speaker at the start of the film (3 minutes)
  

• Family Plot (1976)
  in silhouette behind the door at the registrar of births and deaths (41 minutes)
   

Some images of Hitchcock cames from the same source

 

Rear Window (1954)

 

 Blackmail (1929)

 

I, Confess (1953)

 

Family Plot (1976)

 

Frenzy (1972)