Editing Henry Mancini (section)

===Cameos===
Shortly before his death in 1994, he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of the sitcom series ''[[Frasier]]'', as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane's radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.destinyland.org/Secret-Henry-Mancini-Cameo-on-Frasier.htm |title=Henry Mancini's cameo on Frasier |website=Destiny-land.org |access-date=September 16, 2008}}</ref> Moments after Mancini's cameo ends, Frasier's radio broadcast plays "Moon River".

Mancini also had an uncredited performance as a pianist in the 1967 film ''[[Gunn (film)|Gunn]]'', based on the ''Peter Gunn'' television series.

In the 1966 Pink Panther cartoon ''Pink, Plunk, Plink'', the panther commandeered an orchestra and proceeded to conduct Mancini's theme for the series. At the end, the shot switched to rare live action, and Mancini was seen alone applauding in the audience. Mancini also made a brief appearance in the title sequence of 1993's ''[[Son of the Pink Panther]]'', allowing the panther to conduct [[Bobby McFerrin]] in performing the film's theme tune.

In 1969 at the [[41st Academy Awards]] ceremony, Mancini played the [[harpsichord]] in a special number. [[Marni Nixon]] sang the rules for nomination in the category of Best Score of a Musical Motion Picture (Original or Adaptation), and together they sang the names of the films and musicians nominated. Mancini was the music director of the 41st Academy Awards broadcast.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jefferson |first=Ed |date=February 7, 2019 |title=The Oscars last went hostless in 1989. It ruined a man's career |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2019/02/oscars-last-went-hostless-1989-it-ruined-man-s-career |journal=[[The New Statesman]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230514153526/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2019/02/oscars-last-went-hostless-1989-it-ruined-man-s-career |archive-date=May 14, 2023 |access-date=June 25, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Oliver! Wins Adapted Film Score |url=https://www.oscars.org/videos-photos/41st-oscars-highlights?fid=14391 |access-date=June 25, 2024 |website=[[Oscars.org]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=41st Annual Academy Awards Program, April 14, 1969 |url=https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll9/id/3669/rec/4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240702003357/https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll9/id/3669/rec/4 |archive-date=July 2, 2024 |access-date=July 1, 2024 |website=[[Margaret Herrick Library]] Digital Collections |publisher=[[Oscars.org]]}}</ref>