English film director
Alfred Hitchcock made
cameo appearances in 39 of his 52 surviving major films (his second film,
The Mountain Eagle, is
lost). For the films in which he appeared, he would be seen for a brief moment boarding a bus, crossing in front of a building, standing in an apartment across the courtyard, or even appearing in a newspaper photograph (as seen in the film
Lifeboat, which otherwise provided no other opportunity for him to appear).