Did You Hear That? 25 Cool Voice Cameos in Movies

Visual easter eggs are always cool to find in movies, but they’re not always seen. Sometimes famous actors will do uncredited voice cameos in movies either as favors for directors or just for kicks. From Bradley Cooper to Samuel L. Jackson to Miley Cyrus, ComingSoon.net has compiled a monster list of 25 Cool Voice Cameos in Movies, which you can check out in our gallery below!

It goes without saying that many of these voice cameos are well-known, while others you may have entirely missed the first time you saw the feature in question. Some of them are even highly-disguised, and weren’t noticed until the actors admitted to it publicly. A few of the voice cameos eventually led to fruitful long-term partnerships between actor and director, which goes to show you that there are truly no small parts.

Which of the voice cameos from movies in our gallery is your favorite? Which was the most surprising? Can you think of a good one that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!

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25 Cool Voice Cameos in Movies

Trevor Noah - Black Panther (2018)

The Daily Show host got back to his South African roots with a small voice role as “Griot” the A.I. system that Shuri-invented which guides Martin Freeman’s Ross in a virtual cockpit during the climactic battle. "Griot” is a West African term meaning "storyteller."
Kenneth Branagh - Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

The former Thor director got to revisit the world of Asgard he helped bring to the screen in 2011 by providing the voice of the Asgardian distress beacon heard at the very beginning of the film.
Simon Pegg - The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Another British thesp who gets the first line of dialogue in a movie is Pegg, who voices a radio announcer reading a report about the Cloverfield space station's Shepard Particle Accelerator. Pegg is no stranger to Bad Robot productions, having done four Mission: Impossible films, three Star Trek films and Star Wars: The Force Awakens with the company.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Levitt had previously starred in director Rian Johnson's Brick and Looper, and had a cameo in The Brothers Bloom, so there was no way he wasn't appearing in the man's Star Wars movie. He voiced the alien Slowen-Lo on the casino planet Canto Bight, who rats out Finn and Rose for parking on the beach.
Michael Caine - Dunkirk (2017)

Michael Caine has appeared in every Christopher Nolan movie since Batman Begins, so it seemed appropriate that the director gave him a small role in Dunkirk as the voice on the radio giving orders to Tom Hardy and his fellow fighter pilots at the beginning of the WWII epic.
Miley Cyrus - Guardians Of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Cyrus had a very brief cameo as the robotic head Mainframe during one of five post-credits scenes in the Marvel sequel. While Mainframe isn't an actual Guardian of the Galaxy in the comics, he is a member of the subgroup The Galactic Guardians.
Bradley Cooper - 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Bradley Cooper first made his name on J.J. Abrams' series Alias, and then years later got to return the favor by lending his voice as Mary Elizabeth Winstead's abandoned fiance in the opening of the Abrams-produced 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Patrick Wilson - Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

During the tense battle between Superman and Doomsday at the film's climax, Zack Snyder's former Watchmen star Patrick Wilson lent his voice to the President of the United States as he issues some grim orders to launch nukes at the hero and monster in space.
Hannibal Buress - The Nice Guys (2016)

Bill Cosby's least-favorite comedian got a fun cameo voicing a giant talking, smoking bee during a dream sequence where Ryan Gosling's detective falls asleep at the wheel.
Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor - The Force Awakens (2015)

Both the younger and elder versions of Obi-Wan Kenobi got to lend their voices to Rey's vision after she touches Luke's lightsaber. McGregor recorded his lines "These are your first steps..." as a favor to the production, while Guinness' voice from the original 1977 movie was altered to say "Rey".
Ed Harris - Gravity (2013)

Ed Harris played astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff and NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13, so it seemed fitting that he voice Mission Control in Gravity.
Bill Hader - Her (2013)

Hader had a very brief vocal cameo in Spike Jonez' futuristic romance as a man pretending to be a woman in a phone-sex chat room.
Steven Spielberg - Paul (2011)

A friend of Simon Pegg from directing him in both The Adventures of Tintin and Ready Player One, director Steven Spielberg had a fun cameo on a speakerphone where he convinces the title alien he can base some of E.T.'s powers on his own.
Samuel L. Jackson and Harvey Keitel - Inglorious Basterds (2009)

Quentin Tarantino regulars Jackson and Keitel both got to drop in for voice roles in the director's WWII movie. Jackson has a fun fourth wall narration explaining to the audience how flammable motion picture film is, while Keitel voiced the OSS Commander during Christoph Waltz's deal making with Brad Pitt towards the end.
Quentin Tarantino, Wes Craven, Guillermo del Toro, Simon Pegg and Stephen King - Diary of the Dead (2007)

A whole host of famous horror folk lent their voices to George A. Romero's penultimate zombie film, all as news readers.
Lou Ferrigno - Hulk (2003), The Incredible Hulk (2008) and The Avengers (2012)

The original TV Hulk got to lend his voice to his most famous role in the first three movie appearances of the character, mostly as growls and the occasional "SMASH".
Chris Rock, Robin Williams and Meryl Streep - A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

A comedian robot very much resembling Chris Rock during the mecha holocaust sequence at the Flesh Fair is, in fact, Chris Rock. Voicing the rapid-talking Einstein hologram Dr. Know is Robin Williams, who had worked with Spielberg on Hook. Finally, embodying The Blue Fairy at the very end of the film is Meryl Streep, who would later work with the director on The Post.
Matt Damon - The Majestic (2001)

Frank Darabont originally offered Matt Damon the lead role of a screenwriter with amnesia mistaken for a soldier. Although Damon passed, he ultimately played the role of the actual soldier in a voiceover reading of a letter.
Queen Latifah - Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

The singer and actress voiced an ambulance dispatcher named Love who is heard on the radio throughout the film, and has previously been on a date with Ving Rhames' driver character.
John Goodman - The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Coen Brothers regular John Goodman didn't appear in this movie, but he did voice a black & white newsreel about Tim Robbins' character in the middle of the movie.
Danny DeVito in Last Action Hero (1993)

An uncredited DeVito did a favor for his old Twins and Junior co-star pal Arnold Schwarzenegger by voicing Whiskers, the cartoon cat police detective.
Holly Hunter - Blood Simple (1984)

Before she appeared in Raising Arizona or O Brother Where Art Thou, Holly Hunter had an uncredited appearance as a voice on an answering-machine recording in their first film. Blood Simple's star Frances McDormand had been Hunter's roommate at the Yale School of Drama.
Albert Brooks - Terms of Endearment (1983)

Albert Brooks had been a pal of this Best Picture winner's director James L. Brooks (no relation) for years, and had cast him in his own movies Real Life and Modern Romance. James L. later returned the favor by giving Albert a voice role in the first scene of Terms as Shirley MacLaine's husband, and later gave Brooks big parts in Broadcast News, I'll Do Anything and in various episodes of The Simpsons.
John Wayne - Star Wars (1977)

This is something of a cheat, but it is interesting: The indecipherable garbles of snitch alien character Garindan at Mos Eisley spaceport is actually John Wayne dialogue distorted by a synthesizer!
John Laraquette - Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

The future Night Court star was a friend of director Tobe Hooper, and recorded the opening narration for the iconic horror film as a favor. In interviews the actor claims he only received "a joint" as payment for his services, and has never actually seen the film.