Watch Director Michael Bay Act In Five Movies And Two TV Shows
You probably knowMichael Bayfor his work behind the camera as a blockbuster action director of films such as theTransformersandBad Boysmovies,The Rock, andArmageddon.Did you know that he’s actually appeared on screen more than a handful of times?
Notably, Michael Bay appears on screen in a brief speaking role inKinka Usher’s 1999 superhero comedy filmMystery Men, which starredBen Stiller, Hank AzariaandWilliam H. Macy. This obviously isn’t new, but its one of those things that has recentlybubbled upon the social sharing websites. I thought it might be interesting to show you Michael Bay’s acting history. See Michael Bay acting in five different movies and two TV shows, including one episode ofMiami Vice, after the jump.
InMystery Men, Michael Bay has a small cameo appearance as the leader of an evil frat-boy gang at a party. Apparently Bay was asked to appear on screen by his friend and director Kinka Usher.
“(Costar) Geoffrey Rush started improvising, and I said my line at the wrong point and then I go, Cut! I f—ed that up,"' Michael Bay previously toldEntertainment Weekly. “And then (Usher) was shooting me with this wide thing in front of my nostrils. I was like, ‘You cannot put me on film with that piece-of-s–t lens.”
But theMystery Menrole is not the first time Michael Bay appeared on camera — he has had small blink-and-you-miss-it cameos in other movies:
Michael Bay as a photographer in the 2000 filmCoyote Ugly:
Michael Bay as a NASA Scientist (uncredited) inArmageddon:
Michael Bay appears in his originalTransformersmovie as a “Guy Flicked by Megatron”. Here is a crappy quality video of that:
Michael Bay as a “Crappy Car Driver” inBad Boys II:
And of course Michael Bay had a cameo as himself in the 2013 TV comedyThe Neighbors:
And of course Michael Bay played himself in a Verizon commercial a few years back:
And probably most interesting of all: Michael Bay also appears as Goon #3 (alongsideLuis GuzmanandMarta Velasco) in a 1986 episode of the television seriesMiami Vicetitled “Free Verse.”
Bay also appeared as a Sled Agent in the 1986 television movieVengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo, and as an extra in the 2001 filmZigs, but I couldn’t find and photo or video evidence of either.
