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David Cronenberg presented himself in his own films between the years of 1960 and 2010. Adam Lowenstein described Cronenberg's roles as "murderous embodiment or bureaucratic disembodiment, often to reveal a combination of both" (Mathijs). Cronenberg's cameos are often referred as to as a cult supertext (a collection of moments across multiple films that help compel different ways of the authors views on the world) because he typically plays characters who are disconnected, cold, and serial killer like.

Co/directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg attempted to portray This is the End's comedy as an example of the comedian's real lives. They both agreed that the only way to pick the cast for his movie is if the audience was already expecting specific actors to play specific roles and others who played against that role.

Orson Wells also makes a couple of appearances in his own films from 1939-1948. Welles performed in many of his own films while nearly directing six hundred separate scenes. During this time, not many directors were seen performing in their own films. Welles solution was to have his under-study take his place at the time, and then repeated the scene with himself. His cameos included directing and acting in First Person Singular , the voice narration of A Mercury Production of Orson Welles, and lead role in Citizen Kane.

Director Tim Burton briefly appears in his films. He makes a slight appearance as a street thug who confronts Pee-wee in the back alley in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and a visitor at the fair in Blackpool who gets a skeleton thrown at him in Miss. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. What makes Tim Burtons so inimitable is he reuses the same motifs in different films that clearly show his specific handwriting.