Director Hal Ashby appears in an uncredited cameo, watching a model train at an amusement park in his 1971 film HAROLD AND MAUDE. © Paramount Pictures

Legendary director Don Siegel is crouched behind Harry Callallan's green 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 in the infamous bank robbery scene in DIRTY HARRY (1971). © Warner Bros.

In the breakout film for Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, BADLANDS (1973) director Terrence Malick is the Man at the Door at the rich man's house. © Warner Bros.

Director Hal Ashby is the bearded dude on the left with a beer in his 1973 film THE LAST DETAIL. © Columbia Pictures

Years before he got down and dirty in Jack Nicholson's jacuzzi, Roman Polanski played a knife-wielding thug in CHINATOWN (1974), slashing Nicholson's nose because he could. © Paramount Pictures

HARRY AND TONTO is a 1974 road movie starring Art Carney as Harry and his pet cat as Tonto. Director Paul Mazursky briefly pops up at a Los Angeles bus depot as a male prostitute. © 20th Century FOx

It is well known that Mel Brooks appeared in BLAZING SADDLES (1974) as Governor Lepetomane. But if you blink, you will miss him in the line of evil henchmen toward the end of the film playing a despicable film director. The guy in the white hat on the left is none other than Lee Van Cleef, the Bad from THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY © Warner Bros.

Director Richard Attenborough (w/ beard) can very briefly be spotted as one of the escaped lunatics in his 1977 film A BRIDGE TOO FAR. © United Artists

Director George Romero and his wife Christine Forrest cameo as the programming director and the director's assistant working at a local Pennsylvania TV station in the original 1978 version of DAWN OF THE DEAD. © United Film Distribution Company

Francis Ford Coppola in a rare on-camera appearance in one of his films, APOCALYPSE NOW (1979). Here he is a news crew producer "directing" the soldiers not to look into the camera and move along. A slightly dazed Martin Sheen is kneeling down on the right © United Artists

The bearded guy in the background is director Hal Ashby in Peter Sellars final film, BEING THERE (1979) as "Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post." © United Artists

Carl Reiner, playing himself, leads a class action suit against Navin Johnson, claiming that the invention caused his crossed eyes and the death of a stunt driver in THE JERK (1979). © Universal Pictures

Two thirds of the directing team of Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker, brothers David & Jerry Zucker looking for a baggage carrier and accidentally directing a 747 to taxi through a terminal window in AIRPLANE! (1980). © Paramount Pictures

"Help Jerry's Kids? How about Scientology?" One-third of the directing team of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, Jim Abrahams as "Religious Zealot #6" in AIRPLANE! (1980). © Paramount Pictures

"They broke my watch!" Director John Landis as the mustachioed State Trooper at the end of the shopping mall car chase in THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980). The other State Trooper is Ivan Reitman, director of such comedy classics MEATBALLS, STRIPES and GHOSTBUSTERS. © Universal Pictures

After completing 75% of SUPERMAN II (1981), Director Richard Donner was removed from the project after her argued with the producers over their attempts to make the film "more campy", in his opinion. He was replaced by Richard Lester. Following that, Gene Hackman declined to return for any reshoots by Lester, which cut down the number of his scenes in the final cut. Richard Donner briefly appears in a "walking cameo" in the film. In the sequence where the de-powered Clark Kent and Lois Lane are seen approaching the truck-stop diner by car, Donner appears walking "camera left" past the driver's side. In his commentary for SUPERMAN II, producer Ilya Salkind states that the inclusion of his cameo in that scene is proof that the Salkinds held no animosity towards Donner, because if there were, then surely they would have cut it out. Conversely, Donner has used his inclusion in the scene to debunk praise heaped on Lester around the release of the film where Lester took credit for the intense nature of the "bully" scene in the diner, pointing out that he (Donner) filmed the scene and not Lester. © Warner Bros.

Here is Director John Landis' cameo in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981), as a pedestrian who gets hit by a car and smashed through a bank window. © Universal Pictures

Director John Carpenter steps in and plays a Secret Service Agent (in the foreground w/ mustache) in his 1981 film ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. © AVCO Embassy Pictures

TEMPEST (1982) was a comedy-drama directed by Paul Mazursky, very loosly adaptated from the William Shakespeare play, "The Tempest." The picture stars John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon and Molly Ringwald in her debut feature film. Here is Cassavetes with director Mazursky, who played Broadway producer Terry Bloomfield. The woman in the middle is Mazursky's wife. And for fans of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, the guy in the green shirt is Mark Soper, who played Michael Milton in the Robin Williams film the same year © Columbia Pictures

Director Sylvester Stallone knocking into John Travolta in the forgotten SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER sequel, STAYING ALIVE (1983). © Paramount Pictures

Major Marquand, also known as STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) director Richard Marquand is on the right driving an AT-ST during the Battle of Endor. © Lucasfilm

REPO MAN (1984) writer/director Alex Cox cameos as the car wash attendant sitting at the table on the right. © Universal Pictures

Director John Hughes picks up Anthony Michael Hall at the end of THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985). © Universal Pictures

There's no closeup of him, but director Tim Burton is one of the four thugs that attack Pee Wee in PEE WEES BIG ADVENTURE (1985). © Warner Bros.

In BRAZIL (1985), Terry Gilliam is the uncredited smoking man in Shrangi-La towers Jonathan Pryce runs into on the stairs. © Universal Pictures

Director John Landis after getting gunned down in LAX in his 1985 film INTO THE NIGHT, © Universal Pictures

David Cronenberg as the Gynecologist delivering Geena Davis's baby fly in his remake of THE FLY (1986). © 20th Century Fox

Seconds before his bunker gets hit in PLATOON (1986), Oliver Stone checks the time. © Orion Pictures

Part of the montage in WALL STREET (1987), Oliver Stone calls in a buy order. © 20th Century Fox

THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MANCHAUSEN (1988) is a British comedy co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam from Monty Python. Gilliam briefly appears as the irritating singer inside a big fish. © Columbia Pictures

Director John Waters makes a cameo in the original version of HAIRSPRAY (1988) as the shrink with a hypno-wheel hired by the Pingletons. © New Line Cinema

During the title sequence in THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD (1988), director David Zucker almost gets run over by a out of control police car in a house. © Paramount Pictures

Director Barry Levinson takes times out and steps in front of the camera and plays the Doctor who interviews Raymond in RAIN MAN (1988) © United Artists

Director Oliver Stone as a news reporter broadcasting into the Kovic living room television set from Vietnam in his 1989 film BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. © Universal Pictures

Director Rob Reiner look more like Meathead without his beard, as the helicopter pilot searching for Paul Sheldon (James Caan) in MISERY (1990) with Buster (Richard Farnsworth). © Columbia Pictures

Lawrence Kasdan as River Phoenix's lawyer in I LOVE YOU TO DEATH (1990). Kasdan is best remembered as the director of such 1980's classics THE BIG CHILL and SILVERARDO and writing the screenplays to THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. © TriStar Pictures