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If you watch a Martin Scorsese film, chances are you can spot him on screen. Here he is sitting in the rear of the car just after gunning down Robert DeNiro in MEAN STREETS (1973).
In TAXI DRIVER (1976), director Martin Scorsese has a memorable bit part as a scary obsessed stalker who asks Travis Bickel to park outside his wife’s lover’s apartment. But he also is a bystander to the scene where Betsy (Cybil Shepherd) is introduced.
You can barely make out director Martin Scorsese as the Barbizon stagehand at the end of RAGING BULL (1980).
The first of two of Martin Scorsese’s cameo’s in THE KING OF COMEDY (1983). Here he is the “Man in the Van” just before Jerry Lewis gets yelled at by a woman in the street with the infamous line “You should only get cancer!” This actually happened to Jerry Lewis years before, so Scorsese let Lewis direct this scene to get the timing down right.
Martin Scorsese as the “Jerry Langford” show director, assuring Tony Randall (as himself) that his cue cards are funny in THE KING OF COMEDY (1983). Frederick de Cordova, the producer of THE TONIGHT SHOW plays the producer of the fictional “Jerry Langford” show, is on the left.
Scorsese mother Catharine also makes a cameo as the voice of Rupert Pupkin’s mother.
Martin Scorsese’s cameo in AFTER HOURS (1985) comes during the scene at punk bar Club Berlin, as the guy in charge of the Checkpoint Charlie-style searchlight.
Martin Scorsese dabbled in music video’s, when he directed Micheal Jackson for the song”Bad” in 1987. The “West Side Story” inspired clip featured a quick Scorsese “cameo” on a Wanted poster torn from the subway wall. It’s interesting to note that Scorsese is “Wanted for Sacrilege” as around this time this music video was shot, his film THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST was being protested by religious groups over content.
You can also catch an unknown Wesley Snipes and a Roberta Flack voice-over in the extended version of the video.
Martin Scorsese as a late 19th century photographer from THE AGE OF INNOCENCE taking a picture of the newly married Newland Archer & May Welland, played by Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder. (1993)
An uncredited Martin Scorsese as a wealthy homeowner in his 2002 film GANGS OF NEW YORK.
HUGO (2011) is the first film director Martin Scorsese shot in 3D, which also won five Oscars (out of 11 nominations). Scorsese appears as an uncredited photographer of Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley) studio.