Director Cameo

The severed faces lining the House of Black and White in Braavos mostly belong to crew members and their families — and, tucked among them, showrunners David Benioff and D.B…

Peele hid two vocal cameos in his own debut. The wounded deer's unsettling groans in the roadside scene are Peele's own voice, recorded because no animal sound felt wrong enough…

In the same support group, the man who describes crying through a first date since the Snap — his date crying too, over his own losses — is co-director Joe Russo, credited as…

Peele doesn't appear on camera in Us, but he's in the movie: he provides the spooky recorded narrator voice inside the boardwalk funhouse. It's a blink-and-you-miss-it (or rather…

Before season 3 dropped, Hwang Dong-hyuk announced he'd hidden a cameo in the season and challenged fans to find him. The answer: roughly 32 minutes into the series finale, he's…

Showrunner Tony Gilroy gives himself a hidden vocal cameo in Season 2, Episode 11, voicing a character who tells Cassian and K-2SO to return — a line that deliberately mirrors…

When Helly finally completes her first file at 100%, her monitor plays a bizarre 8-bit animation of Kier Eagan congratulating her from a mountaintop — and the voice coming out of…

Season 2 opens with co-creator Alfred Gough in front of the camera for once: he plays the TSA officer in the cold open's airport sequence, calling for a bag check while Wednesday…

The Conjuring universe's architect gets a farewell of his own: James Wan — who directed the first two Conjuring films, created the franchise, and produced Last Rites — appears on…

The father glimpsed in golden-hour flashbacks and a family photograph is played by series creator Noah Hawley — his first-ever on-screen cameo. The kid on the floor with him is…

Blink during the 1908 carnival sequence and you'll miss the show's co-creator: Andy Muschietti appears in period costume as an organ grinder shortly after the clown's stage act…

Maggie Kang gave herself a secret triple cameo. She voices a demon disguised as a flight attendant who waters a flowerpot with coffee during the opening plane sequence, a demon…

Look closely at the New Republic personnel at Adelphi Base: Lucasfilm president Dave Filoni reprises his recurring pilot cameo as Trapper Wolf, Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah…