Best pop star performance in a film

[Major Tom]

What were Frank Sinatra's best acting roles?

 

[belboid]

Good point. Man With the Golden Arm, The Machurian Candidate. Oscar for from here to Eternity, and I love him in On the Town & The Pride & The Passion. Not to mention Guys & Dolls.

 

[Orang Utan]

Tommy Steele is pretty good in Half A Sixpence.
Tupac is brilliant in Juice.
No vote for Bob Dylan in Hearts Of Fire.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Meat Loaf in Rocky Horror Picture Show

Paul Williams - Phantom of the Paradise

Ringo Starr - Caveman


and the oscar goes to Roger Daltrey in Lisztomania.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

David Bowie in 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence'

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Ice T is a good actor: New Jack City, for example.

 

[Major Tom]

David Bowie in 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence'

 

[DaveCinzano]

Paul Williams - Phantom of the Paradise

damn yes

 

[Major Tom]

Hazel O'Connor in Breaking Glass - may not have been much of a film, but she was OK in it.

Anyone seen McVicar - is Daltrey any good in it?

 

[Orang Utan]

Anyone seen McVicar - is Daltrey any good in it?

He ain't bad actually

 

[Orang Utan]

What about Meatloaf in Fight Club?

 

[AverageJoe]

Henry Rollins in Heat and also in Bad Boys 2

 

[Orang Utan]

Lulu is great in To Sir With Love

 

[Major Tom]

What about Meatloaf in Fight Club?

I'm not sure I can allow Meatloaf - he was an actor first and a singer second.

 

[Orang Utan]

ooh yeah Bjork in Dancer In The Dark and Kid n Play in House Party

 

[Orang Utan]

And how can we forget Tina Turner in Beyond Thunderdome and Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow in The Wiz?

 

[butchersapron]

I'm not sure I can allow Meatloaf - he was an actor first and a singer second.

Though it doesn't show.

 

[bigbry]

The sensational Alice Cooper in Waynes World

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'm not sure I can allow Meatloaf - he was an actor first and a singer second.

No way dude, this came first:

 

[DaveCinzano]

No way dude, this came first:

'bat out of hell' was 77; 'rocky horror' was 75.

 

[past caring]

butchers' Will Oldham was also definitely an actor first...though I can't think of anything he's been in other than Matewan. Could have had hazel Dickens from the same film, of course...

I'd go for Kristoffersson in Heaven's Gate meself....

 

[belboid]

butchers' Will Oldham was also definitely an actor first...though I can't think of anything he's been in other than Matewan. Could have had hazel Dickens from the same film, of course...

I'd go for Kristoffersson in Heaven's Gate meself....

he's in Julian Donkey Boy!

(according to imdb anyway)

 

[butchersapron]

butchers' Will Oldham was also definitely an actor first...though I can't think of anything he's been in other than Matewan. Could have had hazel Dickens from the same film, of course...

I'd go for Kristoffersson in Heaven's Gate meself....

I really should watch that - i've had the video for at least 10 years now and still not got round to it....

 

[miss giggles]

Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in "Lady sings the Blues". Brilliant

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

'bat out of hell' was 77; 'rocky horror' was 75.

Darn. But I'll bet he was in a band before that....

 

[shoddysolutions]

Ice T is a good actor: New Jack City, for example.

He played himself

 

[Wolfie]

What were Frank Sinatra's best acting roles?

he does some serious acting in The Detective ... a really good, gritty, dark film IMO

 

[Termite Man]

Iggy Pop - Atolledero
Joe Strummer , Elvis Costello , The Pogues , Grace Jones - Straight to Hell*
Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr - Cannonball Run




* but it did have fucking Courtney Love in it which almost ruins the damn film

 

[Termite Man]

you're vetoing sting in 'b&s' and then claiming "courtney has made a few good films... sid n nancy" pmsl

I think courtney comes under the actor first , muscian later category !

 

[Dubversion]

Gibby getting his dick sucked in Dead Man