iPhone TV Teaser Ad Aired During Oscars: Who Was In It?
iPhone Articles, Design, iPhone video, Apple Advertisements February 27th, 2007If you were like me and watched the oscars, you might have seen a sexy little compilation of some very famous people all picking up a phone and saying “hello.” This was Apple’s first television ad for their upcoming iPhone.
The video for this amazing ad is on the official Apple iPhone site.
A Macrumors forum user put together a list of the actors seen in the short clips, and I use this as reference for my list of actors together with still frames from the ad and of course from the original movies and shows they were taken from.

Lucille Ball

Jackie Gleason

Humphrey Bogart

Marlon Brando

Jerry Lewis

Marilyn Monroe

Clark Gable

Peter Sellers

Steve McQueen

Richard Dreyfuss

Burt Reynolds

Betty Rubble

Robert Redford

Michael J. Fox

Harrison Ford

John Cusack

Audrey Tautou

Kevin Spacey

William H. Macy

Dustin Hoffman

Will Ferrell

Sarah Jessica Parker

Jeff Bridges

Billy Crystal

Cameron Diaz

Samuel L. Jackson

John Travolta

Robert DeNiro

Ben Stiller

Michael Douglas

Mr. Incredible

Hello
This was quite an amazing ad and I’m really looking forward to the forthcoming ad campaign as we get closer to the launch of the Apple iPhone!
February 27th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
“Ben Stiller” LOL Not quite. Try Robert De Niro.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Whoops, you caught my error Shawn, thanks. I also had a picture of Ben Stiller, but I guess I misplaced it…
February 27th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Ah, there it is, all fixed now. Yeah, I can tell the difference between Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro too.
:)
February 28th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
LOL Good. You had me worried.