Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures
of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member
of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning
of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many
of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer
of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich
Man's
House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter
pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)
The
pilot also stars world - renowned Indian actor and producer Anil Kapoor («Slumdog Millionaire,» «24») as Vikram Danesh, the head
of the base on Oasis, Michael Shaw («Limitless») as B.G., Antje Traue («
Man of Steel») as Grainger, Mark Addy («Game
of Thrones») as Halloran, Haley Joel Osment («The Sixth Sense,» «Alpha
House») as Sy, Maureen Sebastian («American Gothic») as Alicia Ruiz, Michael Shaffer («Coach Sinclair») as Phelps, and Zawe Ashton («Nocturnal Animals») as Severin.
EXCLUSIVE: Stuck in the Middle star Jenna Ortega has been cast in a lead role opposite Alyson Hannigan and Leslie Bibb in
Man of the
House, ABC's multi-camera hybrid family comedy
pilot from Gail Berman's The Jackal Group, ABC Studios and Scandal star Kerry Washington's studio - based Simpson Street.