Lifeboat (1944) was Hitchcock's cameo appearance.
Lifeboat (1944)
In the movie Lifeboat, Hitchcock appears in a newspaper ad.
Hitchcock did not appear in his early British movies. It wasn't until his third movie, The Lodger, that he began making cameo appearances. Out of the movies in which he did have cameos, he technically did not appear in Lifeboat, Rope, Dial M for Murder and Family Plot. In Lifeboat, his cameo appearance was in a newspaper advertisement. In Rope, a neon sign of Hitchcock appeared outside the window. In Dial M for Murder, he appeared in a photograph. And in Family Plot, he appeared as a silhouette standing on the other side of a glass door.
I believe it was 4 times
Hitchcock appears about an hour into the film, at the party in Alexander Sebastian's mansion. Hitchcock gets a glass of champagne from the bartender and quickly turns to the left and walks off screen.
Lifeboat
Alfred Hitchcock did not appear in the movie Rope. True, he was known for his cameos in his films, but in Rope, his profile appears on a neon sign that is visible through the apartment window.
After The Lodger, Hitchcock has a cameo in almost all his films, including this one.
Hitchcock appeared briefly in many of his own films, usually playing upon his portly figure in an incongruous manner, for example, seen struggling to get a double bass onto a train
No, Hitchcock did not make a cameo appearance in, nor did he direct, Witness for the Prosecution. The movie was directed by Billy Wilder. You may be thinking of The Paradine Case, a different courtroom drama that was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Ron Howard never starred in an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
He is on the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards with his back to the camera.