20 Things You Somehow Missed In Raiders Of The Lost Ark

20. Frank Marshall's Cameo

Along with his wife, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall is one of the key creative influences behind many a Steven Spielberg film, having joined Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment in 1981 (Kennedy joined in 1982, and Marshall and Kennedy married in 1987).

An infrequent actor, Marshall featured as the hapless pilot of the Nazi flying wing who gets knocked unconscious by Karen Allen's Marion Ravenwood in the famous fight sequence between Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones and a mechanic portrayed by Pat Roach. All's fair in love and war, however, as Frank was trying to shoot Indy at the time!

Seriously, though, dressed in his flying uniform and sat in the mock-up of the flying wing, Marshall had to endure hours of scorching heat purely to film a cameo in which he ends up getting whacked over the head.

He also went on to feature as a tourist at the Shanghai airfield in the film's 1984 sequel (really a prequel), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. No more being knocked unconscious for him!