We all know about Bowie and Waits, but who are some musicians that appeared in films, but their careers didn't really take off?
John Lydon appeared in a film with Harvey Keitel called Cop Killer (or alternatively the Order of Death or Corrupt).
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We all know about Bowie and Waits, but who are some musicians that appeared in films...
Mos Def was trying really hard to be an actor for awhile
Henry Rollins had minor roles in a ton of movies - Johnny Mnemonic and Lost Highway are the only ones that I remember off the top of my head, but he's been in loads others, starred in a couple of shitty low-budget movies, had that role on Sons of Anarchy
Ice Cube's been a side character in dozens of terrible movies
After Black Flag finished Henry's just been a professional "thing do-er." If he gets offered a thing he does it, regardless of what it is.
Basically EVERY rock star starred in movies, with more or less success (eg.Elvis, Beatles, Kiss, Rolling Stones)
Dennis Wilson and James Taylor were in a road film together
Flea had some roles too
Frank Zappa has a very short cameo in the Monkees biopic
The Dennis and James one's supposed to pretty good, from what I've heard. Should track it down at some point.
James' look in this reminded me of Mark Kozelek in Almost Famous
Gene Simmons was the badguy in the Michael Crichton movie Runaway.
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Tons of musicians have been in films, you need to be more specific.
this desu, charitable way to say he's been desperate for work for decades
dude probably answers DC craigslist ads for odd jobs just for kicks
Well, anyone with more than just a cameo appearance, but not as much as a successful movie career alongside their music career. It's meant to be quite open.
Roadside Prophets is a cool flick with Ad-rock and John Doe from X.
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Meatloaf in Fight Club
Tina Turner in Mad Max 3
Madonna in Body of Evidence
Almost forgot about Mick in Freejack
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and Performance, which was a much better er... performance
He was also the villain in that Wanted Dead or Alive movie with Rutger Hauer.
Tom Waits is badass in Rumble Fish
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Bjork was apparently good in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark.
There were a ton of musicians in Coffee and Cigarettes. Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Jack White, the list goes on.
He's been in a bunch of movies and I can't think of any that we're bad.
I don't know if you've ever seen Cold Feet, but that was pretty bad. Other than that though I can' think of anything. He's got a better movie career than most full-time actors.
He was almost in Fitzcarraldo as well
>tfw we could have had Stoneskino
God that's that one where they hide diamonds in a horse or something, right?
I totally forgot about that.
Heat. he was in Heat, the DeNiro/Pacino film. Also he was the cop in The Chase.
AdRock was also the lead in Lost Angels and Doe was the Bartender in Roadhouse.
Tony Iommi was in that one Who movie before Sabbath took off
Pretty much every actor in any Jim Jarmusch movie