What famous musician makes an appearance as a pawnbroker in the Eddie Murphy movie, "Trading Places"?

In the 1983 film, "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy as the star, the famous music icon, Bo Diddley, makes a cameo appearance. He is the pawnbroker. He is in a scene that helps to support the film's entire plot where an upper-class commodities broker (Dan Aykroyd) and a homeless street hustler (Murphy) whose lives cross paths are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet by the brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche, respectively).

It is an honor to see Bo Diddley in this movie because of his overall celebrity. All of the prior fame and public attention accorded Bo by the mass media for his role as a music star made him readily identifiable in "Trading Places."

Again as noted by critics and admirers, it can be said that Bo was one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll, his innovative pounding and hypnotic, Latin-tinged beat, his vast array of electric custom-built guitars, his use of reverb, tremelo and distortion to make his guitars talk, mumble and roar, his use of female musicians, his wild stage shows, and his on-record and on-stage rapping, pre-dated all others in the music industry.