In the scene where Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is prevented from following Luciana (Olimpia Carlisi) by a policeman directing traffic who gives him a "sorry about that gesture" after stopping him, the officer was played by Buck Henry, who wrote the screenplay and played Lieutenant Colonel Korn. In the director's commentary, Mike Nichols said the actor he had hired for the scene wasn't getting the gesture right, so he asked Henry to put on the policeman's uniform and do it instead, which Nichols said he did "beautifully". After the scene cut to the passing convoy and swung back to the policeman, he's being played by the original actor and not Buck. Nichols called this quick cameo by Henry "something that nobody knows".

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