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Although not a cameo, a relative relation nonethless. In THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948), Walter Huston stars as Howard, one of the three gold prospectors. The film was written and directed by his son John Huston, and both would win Oscars: John for Best Director & Screenplay and Walter for Best Supporting Actor.
In 1982, the Hustons were the first three generation family of winners when Anjelica Huston won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in PRIZZI’S HONOR, a film also directed by her father John.
Stanley Kubrick’s second movie KILLER’S KISS (1955) has a flashback scene while the female character gives a recap of her formative years to her new friend. The scene consists of a single ballet dancer performing a stage routine. The dancer is Kubrick’s then-girlfriend-soon-after
A KING IN NEW YORK is a 1957 British comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin in his last leading role, which presents a satirical view of certain aspects of United States politics and society. The film was produced in Europe after Chaplin’s exile from the US in 1952, but did not open in the United States until 1967.
Invited to speak at a progressive school, he meets Rupert Macabee (played by his son Michael Chaplin), editor of the school paper, a ten-year-old historian who gives him a stern anarchist lecture.
In 1958, while Kubrick was filming PATHS OF GLORY (1958) in Germany, he fell in love with Christiane Harlan and gave her a small role as the frightened singer at the end of the film. She was billed as ‘Susanne Christian’, possibly to obscure the fact that she was related to Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of the vile JUD SUSS. They married soon after completing the film and remained together until his death in 1999.
The blond school girl who’s a bit shocked to be accosted by a crazed John Lennon is the future Mrs. George Harrison, Patti Boyd. It was on the set of The Beatles 1st film A HARD DAYS NIGHT (1964) that George met Patti and within a year they would be married.
Patti appeared in several scenes, including The Beatles performance of “I’ve Should of Known Better” in the luggage car (check out George keeping his eye on Patti).
In this scene, everyone is looking for Paul’s “very clean” grandfather. As John and Paul burst in on the girls, John pretends to have escaped the custody of their manager and pleads to Patti:
John: “We’ve broken out!
The blessed freedom of it all.
Have you got a nail file?
These handcuffs are killing me.
I was framed. I’m innocent.”
Paul: Sorry for disturbing you girls.
John: I bet you can’t guess what I was in for.
“Excuse me, White Cliffs of Dover?”
George Harrison’s new wife, Patti Boyd in her second Beatles film, HELP! (1965). George and Patti met on the set of A HARD DAY’S NIGHT and Harrison later wrote “Something” for her. Later, when George’s good friend Eric Clapton was pursuing Patti, he wrote “Layla” for her. The song “Wonderful Tonight” was also written for Patti.
The ice swimmer is Beatles roadie Mal Evans who later produced songs for Badfinger
A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG (1967) was the last film directed by Charlie Chaplin. His daughter Geraldine dances briefly with Marlon Brando
From the father of spaghetti westerns, director Sergio Leone’s 7 year old daughter Raffaella Leone has some brief screen time at the Flagstone train station in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968).
Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivian as “Squirt”, Heywood Floyd’s daughter in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968). One of a few uncredited parts in her father’s films, Vivian Kubrick is now a composer/filmmaker.