1. - Sandy Helberg, Mortal Kombat, 1994. Knowing Spielberg was a major fan of the video-game (hardly a secret), director Paul WS Anderson offered him a cameo in the $20m debut of the new franchise as... a film director! Spielberg was keen - but not his agenda. Not looking unlike Spielberg, the role was played by a Frankfurt-born, Ohio-raised, New York-trained actor.