| Film | Year | Cameo |
| The Lodger | 1927 | At a desk in the newsroom. |
| Easy Virtue | 1928 | Walking past a tennis court carrying a walking stick. |
| Blackmail | 1929 | Being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book in the subway. |
| Murder! | 1930 | Walking past the house where the murder was committed. |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1934 | Possible cameo walking across the road in a dark trench coat as a bus passes by (unconfirmed). |
| The 39 Steps | 1935 | Tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim run from the theater. |
| Secret Agent | 1936 | Coming Down gangplank before hero {Speculative}. |
| Young and Innocent | 1937 | Outside the courthouse, holding a camera. |
| The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | In Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette. |
| Foreign Correspondent | 1940 | After Joel McCrea leaves his hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper. |
| Rebecca | 1940 | Walking near the phone booth just after George Sanders makes a call. |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 1941 | Passing Robert Montgomery in front of his building. |
| Suspicion | 1941 | Mailing a letter at the village postbox (long shot). |
| Suspicion | 1941 | Walking a horse across the screen at the hunt meet. |
| Saboteur | 1942 | Standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs as the saboteur's car stops. |
| Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards. |
| Lifeboat | 1944 | In the "before" and "after" pictures in the newspaper ad for "Reduco Obesity Slayer". |
| Spellbound | 1945 | Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel, carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette. |
| Notorious | 1946 | At the big party in Claude Rains's mansion, drinking champagne and then quickly departing. |
| The Paradine Case | 1947 | Leaving the train at Cumberland Station, carrying a cello. |
| Rope | 1948 | A man walking along street (holding a newspaper) after the opening credits. |
| Rope | 1948 | His trademark silhouette can be seen on a red neon sign advertising "Reduco" in the view from the apartment window. |
| Under Capricorn | 1949 | In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue coat and brown hat. |
| Under Capricorn | 1949 | One of three men on the steps of Government House. |
| Stage Fright | 1950 | Turning to look back at Jane Wyman in her disguise as Marlene Dietrich's maid. |
| Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Boarding a train with a double bass as Farley Granger gets off in his hometown. |
| I Confess | 1953 | Crossing the top of a staircase. |
| Dial M for Murder | 1954 | On the left side in the class-reunion photo. |
| Rear Window | 1954 | Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment. |
| To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Sitting to the left of Cary Grant on the bus. |
| The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | Walking past the parked limousine of an old man who is looking at paintings. |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace (back to the camera). |
| The Wrong Man | 1956 | Seen in silhouette narrating the film's prologue. According to Donald Spoto's biography, Hitchcock chose to make an explicit appearance in this film (rather than a cameo) to emphasize that, unlike his other movies, The Wrong Man was a true story about an actual person. |
| Vertigo | 1958 | In a grey suit walking in the street. |
| North by Northwest | 1959 | Missing a bus, just after his name passes off screen |
| Psycho | 1960 | Through Janet Leigh's window as she returns to her office, wearing a cowboy hat. |
| The Birds | 1963 | Leaving the pet shop with two white Sealyham terriers as Tippi Hedren enters. |
| Marnie | 1964 | Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi Hedren passes by. |
| Torn Curtain | 1966 | Sitting in the Hotel d'Angleterre lobby with a baby on his knee. He shifts the child from one knee to the other. |
| Topaz | 1969 | Being pushed in a wheelchair in the airport. Hitchcock gets up from the chair, shakes hands with a man, and walks off to the right. |
| Frenzy | 1972 | In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat; he is the only one not applauding the speaker. |
| Family Plot | 1976 | In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births and Deaths. |