Michel Legrand has a great, great scene in Cleo from 5 to 7 playing one of the main character's songwriters. He shows up in this clip starting at 0:51 and his scene lasts for about ten minutes, so it's actually quite a bit more than a cameo:
Michael Nyman has a very brief cameo in Peter Greenaway's The Falls. You can spot him here at 0:47, but blink and you'll miss him.
Greenaway also uses a still photo of Michael Nyman in Vertical Features Remake to stand in for a fictional composer named Gallibeau. If you look at the cluster of nine stills at the bottom of this page, Nyman is the one on the top right: http://petergreenaway.org.uk/vfr.htm
And.... Stu Phillips in "Good Neighbor Sam" conducting a band while the Hi Los sing a Hertz Commercial. Stu Phillips in an episode of "McCloud" on stage with a rock band dressed in a hat, tee shirt and jeans, while Barbie Benton sings. Stu Phillips in an episode of "Get Christy Love" conducting an imaginary orchestra while dressed in a tuxedo.
SP
You lucky bastard!! Barbi Benton was HOT.... probably still IS!
Paul Giovanni in THE WICKER MAN (1973). Also Peter Brewis is in the film who later compose themes and music for THE YOUNG ONES and CARROTS LIB among others in the 1980's. He also 'scored' MORONS FROM OUTER SPACE' for Smith and Jones
And.... Stu Phillips in "Good Neighbor Sam" conducting a band while the Hi Los sing a Hertz Commercial. Stu Phillips in an episode of "McCloud" on stage with a rock band dressed in a hat, tee shirt and jeans, while Barbie Benton sings. Stu Phillips in an episode of "Get Christy Love" conducting an imaginary orchestra while dressed in a tuxedo.
SP
You lucky bastard!! Barbi Benton was HOT.... probably still IS!
Not only was she "hot," she was a very sweet and warm person. Nothing phony about her. I spent three days with her. I saw her about three years ago. A little older, but still "hot."
I can't remember the name of the episdoes, but Quincy Jones was in an IRONSIDE episode as a jazz musician, and DeVol had a cameo in a BRADY BUNCH episode and I played a mutant for about 3 seconds of screen time in EMPIRE OF THE DARK, but enough said about that!
According to a comment on YouTube, Robby Poitevin appears as piano player in "Little Rita nel west". Check the scene in the bar beginning at 0:20:58.
I'm not so sure about that, because the piano player in "Little Rita nel west" resembles the undertaker in "Odia il prossimo tuo" (Roberto Risso?).
Robby Poitevin (photograph from Hillside CD Productions)
Roberto Risso? (screenshot from "Odia il prossimo tuo")
It's interesting, that Poitevin wrote the scores for both films. Can someone confirm the cameo by Poitevin?
I am a big fan of Robby Poitevin. I have been collecting his work for many years. Fortunately the first decade of the new millennium has seen the release of a dozen of his film scores (two-thirds of his oeuvre). Recently I for the first time caught a cable broadcast of HATE THY NEIGHBOR aka ODIA IL PROSSIMO TUO. Immediately upon spotting the character called "Doc" I knew it was Poitevin! After doing some research I am 99% sure that it is Poitevin in both NEIGHBOR and LITTLE RITA OF THE WEST. 1) The actor in question looks exactly like Poitevin, 2) the actor in question looks nothing like Franco Gula (I have many stills of Gula), and 3) if you closely observe the hands of the piano player in RITA it becomes obvious he is a professional musician. Why would this happen? Italian tax / quota laws, at least during the 1960s, were extremely bizarre, complicated and restrictive - but they could be navigated. There are numerous instances of both composers and actors working under false names and even using the names other actual Italian film insiders. My assumption is that Poitevin was friends with Gula and had the actor's permission to credit his thespian duties to him. Besides confusing the tax collector Gula benefited from an extended resume and Poitevin got to enjoy a few cameos. Weird but true!
I am a big fan of Robby Poitevin. I have been collecting his work for many years. Fortunately the first decade of the new millennium has seen the release of a dozen of his film scores (two-thirds of his oeuvre). Recently I for the first time caught a cable broadcast of HATE THY NEIGHBOR aka ODIA IL PROSSIMO TUO. Immediately upon spotting the character called "Doc" I knew it was Poitevin! After doing some research I am 99% sure that it is Poitevin in both NEIGHBOR and LITTLE RITA OF THE WEST. 1) The actor in question looks exactly like Poitevin, 2) the actor in question looks nothing like Franco Gula (I have many stills of Gula), and 3) if you closely observe the hands of the piano player in RITA it becomes obvious he is a professional musician. Why would this happen? Italian tax / quota laws, at least during the 1960s, were extremely bizarre, complicated and restrictive - but they could be navigated. There are numerous instances of both composers and actors working under false names and even using the names other actual Italian film insiders. My assumption is that Poitevin was friends with Gula and had the actor's permission to credit his thespian duties to him. Besides confusing the tax collector Gula benefited from an extended resume and Poitevin got to enjoy a few cameos. Weird but true!
The character in ODIA IL PROSSIMO TUO who looks like Robby Poitevin is called "Duke" and is credited as "Roberto Risso". There are entries for Roberto Risso in the Italian and German Wikipedia.
I have a couple of very high-quality image comparisons of Poitevin and the character observed in HATE THY NEIGHBOR, and I am here to tell you that the guy in the movie and the composer are the same person - IT IS Robby Poitevin acting in HATE THY NEIGHBOR. I have no idea which wrong name was used in place of Poitevin's actual name in the credits or why. The wrong name given - of a real person or not - is either "Franco Gula" or "Roberto Risso". But it doesn't matter if the credits list him as Clint Eastwood - it is Robby Poitevin. Very clear and distinct photographs do not lie and I have them. I'd post them here, but as I'm always repeating posting images to this board is like turning lead into gold - not easy and I can't figure it out.
I am a big fan of Robby Poitevin. I have been collecting his work for many years. Fortunately the first decade of the new millennium has seen the release of a dozen of his film scores (two-thirds of his oeuvre). Recently I for the first time caught a cable broadcast of HATE THY NEIGHBOR aka ODIA IL PROSSIMO TUO. Immediately upon spotting the character called "Doc" I knew it was Poitevin! After doing some research I am 99% sure that it is Poitevin in both NEIGHBOR and LITTLE RITA OF THE WEST. 1) The actor in question looks exactly like Poitevin, 2) the actor in question looks nothing like Franco Gula (I have many stills of Gula), and 3) if you closely observe the hands of the piano player in RITA it becomes obvious he is a professional musician. Why would this happen? Italian tax / quota laws, at least during the 1960s, were extremely bizarre, complicated and restrictive - but they could be navigated. There are numerous instances of both composers and actors working under false names and even using the names other actual Italian film insiders. My assumption is that Poitevin was friends with Gula and had the actor's permission to credit his thespian duties to him. Besides confusing the tax collector Gula benefited from an extended resume and Poitevin got to enjoy a few cameos. Weird but true!
The character in ODIA IL PROSSIMO TUO who looks like Robby Poitevin is called "Duke" and is credited as "Roberto Risso". There are entries for Roberto Risso in the Italian and German Wikipedia.
Elmer Bernstein appears in FROM NOON TIL THREE at the piano with another composer I believe. One if not both of them say something as well. I think Elmer is actually playing the theme "Hello and Goodbye" and the other guy is singing the lyrics. It goes pretty quick i think. It might be Alan Bergman who wrote the lyrics with Marilyn his wife.
