Kevin Smith may be best-known as the writer and director of the iconic film Clerks, including the newly released Clerks III, and the various films set within the shared-setting of the View Askewniverse that that movie spawned. However, Smith is also an actor, and has numerous roles he can claim on his filmography.
While he's had a few sizable parts over the years in various movies, most of his acting roles have come in the form of fun little cameos, brief acting roles that often play up his real-life fame and his true interests. He's popped up in everything from small indie films and the biggest franchises around to even a few animated films. These are just some of his very best cameo appearances.
Fanboys (2009)
Kevin Smith, known for his love of comic books and all things nerdy, something which has shown up time and time again in his filmography, was a perfect fit for a cameo in the film Fanboys, which follows a group of Star Wars fans in 1998 going on a cross-country trip in order steal a copy of The Phantom Menace in order for their terminally-ill friend to have a screening of it.
Smith was such a fan of an early cut of the film that he asked for a cameo in it, something which was promptly granted. He appears alongside Jason Mewes at a gas station the protagonists stop at, pimping an irate Mewes out to other men for sex.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
When it came to the vast array of Sequel Trilogy characters with a small, yet impressive role in the trilogy's first film.
Smith voices a First Order Storm Trooper, and even gets to spout off a warning to his fellow Storm Troopers about incoming Resistance fighters. It's only one line, but that's about how much he talks as Silent Bob, anyway.
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2018)
Smith's cameos aren't contained to the realm of live-action, as he's appeared in animation more than a few times. One of the most fascinating cameos occurs in the DC Animated Movie Universe film Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, which follows the titular team dealing with the betrayal of one of their own.
It's easily one of the darkest DCAMU films, as well one with one of the DCAU's saddest deaths, but that doesn't' stop the movie from having fun at more than a few points. Some of that fun comes in the hilariously-meta form of Kevin Smith interviewing Beast Boy for his podcast, discussing the events of the film and trying to pry out information about the team from the Teen Titan.
Superman: Doomsday (2007)
That wasn't the first time Smith made a cameo in animated DC film, however, as Smith in fact starred in the inaugural DC Universe Animated Original Movie. The film, Superman: Doomsday, followed Superman's fatal battle with the monstrous Doomsday and his eventual return to face a dangerous clone who had replaced him in his absence.
Smith cameos in a scene in which the clone Superman defeats the villain Toyman who was operating a mechanical spider. He comments on how lame it is that Superman needed to fight a mechanical spider, the entire scene being a reference to the fact that such an event was to be included in his unproduced Superman film with producer Jon Peters.
Daredevil (2003)
Smith doesn't just cameo in DC Comics projects, as he starred in the 2003 Marvel adaptation Daredevil in a cameo rich with comic history. Not only did Smith, a prolific comic writer who himself had written a Daredevil series, appear in the Daredevil film, but he did so as a forensic assistant named Jack Kirby.
Jack Kirby, of course, was one of the most storied comic book creators in the world, and brought to life some of the most iconic characters to ever hit the industry, including Daredevil, whom he helped design (specifically his Billy club).
Scream 3 (2000)
the fantastic side characters to inhabit the Scream films, Jay and Silent Bob officially stand as one of them.
The duo get up to their usual idiotic shenanigans on the studio lot the characters are visiting, even meeting Gale Weathers and mistaking her for the real-life reporter, Connie Chung. Luckily, the pair both exit the movie before they could meet Ghostface and annoy them to the point of murder.
Yoga Hosers (2016)
While it may be cheating to count a Kevin Smith cameo within one of his own movies, his appearance in the horror-comedy film Yoga Hosers almost certainly has to be counted for just how utterly bizarre it is.
The film, starring his daughter Harley Quinn Smith and Johnny Depp's daughter Lily-Rose Depp, sees the two girls portraying two young Canadian yoga enthusiasts who become forced to clear their names and save their country from Nazi forces, including an army of tiny Nazi bratwurst men named "Bratzis." Smith portrays the Bratzis in the film, and is the actor behind all of their ridiculous and gorey deaths.
