Collider ranks every cameo appearance made by director Peter Jackson across his six Middle-earth films, from The Lord of the Rings to The Hobbit trilogies. Jackson is known for inserting himself into all his films, and in Middle-earth he also features his children and other collaborators, with some of his appearances becoming beloved by fans.

– Lowest ranked is his indirect cameo in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, where Bilbo's father Bungo Baggins is depicted in a portrait styled on Jackson, alongside a portrait of Bungo's wife styled on Jackson's real-life partner Fran Walsh.
– His only two named-character cameos are father and son, both called Albert Dreary; the elder appears briefly as a shifty figure eating a carrot in the streets of Bree in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, just before Thorin Oakenshield meets Gandalf at the Prancing Pony.
– The article also notes his cameo in the opening flashback sequence of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, though further detail on this and the rest of the ranked list is not included in the excerpt.