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Cronenberg has also appeared as an actor in other directors ' films.

Most of his roles are cameo appearances, as in Into The Night, Jason X, To Die For, Blood_and_Donuts and Alias, but on occasion he has played major roles, as in Nightbreed or Last Night.

He has not played major roles in any of his own films, but he did put in a brief appearance as a gynecologist in The Fly ; he can also be glimpsed among the sex-crazed hordes in Shivers ; he can be heard as an unseen car-pound attendant in Crash ; his hands can be glimpsed in eXistenZ ; and he appeared as a stand-in for James Woods in Videodrome for shots in which Woods ' character wore a helmet that covered his head.