"Rated P" movies
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Topic: "Rated P" movies
Posted By: catfood03
Subject: "Rated P" movies
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 19:34
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I'm curious to know how many prog (or prog-related) musicians have also had careers of any length (or success) in television and movies? Here are two examples... - Phil Collins who was in And The Band Played On and starred in his own Buster - David Bowie who starred in The Man Who Fell To Earth and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence The criteria for my search is that: a) they must be a musician listed on this site (prog or prog-related) b) they are in a film that featured acting roles (concert films and such performances do not count) I've already thought of two other artists from this site (one of which should be really obvious!), but I'd like to see what others have found... |
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Posted By: Mushroom Sword
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 19:46
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There was this one prog related band in this one movie this one time once... I forget what it was... like, oh yeah! The Song Remains The Same, Jimmy Page is a dirty cop, when one day he finds out his wife is cheating on him. It only goes downhill from there! With Ben Stiller as Jimmy Page, and Barbra Streisand as Robert Plant. This teen-romantic-comedy is rated G released in all theaters near you! ------------- 
"I gazed into the eyes of the madman and I saw, and I saw,and I saw myself. |
Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 19:48
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Bjork
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 19:50
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Fish appeared in the UK crime soap 'The Bill' (the only time he warranted the description 'a crim') David Kaffinetti, the keyboard player in Rare Bird played the role of Spinal Tap's ivory tickler Viv Savage. ------------- 
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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 19:57
Yup, that's one of the other two I was thinking of Dancer In the Dark of course |
Slaughternalia wrote:Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 19:58
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Zappa made some movies.
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Posted By: Slaughternalia
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:03
I watched 200 motels the other day. It was kind of sh*tty in a slightly interesting way ------------- I'm so mad that you enjoy a certain combination of noises that I don't |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:07
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Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic Orchestra & David Sylvian) was also in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.
Fish (Derek Dick) has had a number of roles in TV and filum.
Rick Wakeman *acted* in Listomania
From Proto Prog:
The Beatles sort of acted in Help! - less so in Hard Days Night & Magical Mystery Tour
Roger Daltrey (The Who) acted in Listomania
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:10
| i read that one time Atomic Rooster drummer Ric Parnell was the drummer in Spinal Tap |
Posted By: captain2man
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:12
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I'm guessing one of the obvious ones would be Roger Daltrey? He's done quite a bit of acting. Of course - you also have John Lennon ("How I Won The War") & David Byrne ("True Stories"). None of these guys were in true-blue prog bands - but all are featured on the website. ------------- I am the ocean Lit by the flame I am the mountain Peace is my name I am the river Touched by the wind I am the story I never end. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:15
<---- Toyah - she's acted (Jublilee & The Tempest) and she's sang with Fripp (Sunday All Over The World).  ------------- What? |
Posted By: captain2man
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:18
She's done a bit more than just SING with Fripp. ------------- I am the ocean Lit by the flame I am the mountain Peace is my name I am the river Touched by the wind I am the story I never end. |
Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:20
Roger Daltrey wasn't the other one I was thinking of, but good example! The other one was The Beatles (which Dean got two posts above) |
Posted By: TheOppenheimer
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:22
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Sigur Ros' "Heima" is critically acclaimed at imdb.com ... ------------- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// A veces es cuestión de esperar, y tomarte en silencio. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:24
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Related: Xavier Phideaux is a TV directory (General Hospital, Days Of Our Lives) ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:26
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The Moody Blues appeared on the Simpsons... does that count? ------------- What? |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:29
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The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I will quote some Netflix reviewer who has it dead on. "I would rather eat sand than watch this movie again." ------------- 
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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:36
Well, I never said that the actor's performance (or the movie itself) had to be stellar to be included. I don't find Bowie to be a particularly great actor, just a cracked one!  |
Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:37
Yes, let's include voice-acting work in this list too, and animated portrayals! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 20:47
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Hi,
David Bowie has done a lot of movies that are actually very good.
-- "The Man Who Fell To Earth" is an excellent film by Nicholas Roeg (Excellent)
-- "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" is also very good by Nagisa Oshima (Very very good)
-- "The Hunger" based on the Whitley Strieber novel (Good and moody)
-- "Labyrinth" (Ok, but not well directed)
-- "The Last Temptation of Christ" (ok, but not well directed on what otherwise was a very good film off Kazantzakis' novel)
-- "Basquiat" (All right. He plays Andy Warhol and ... hmmm ... the film was good, but the Andy Warhol stuff is when the film starts going down and I'm not sure it was David's fault)
Mick Jaegger probably doesn't deserve it, but I seriously doubt that "Performance" would be any good without him, who makes the film amazing, and extraordinary, and Nicholas Roeg and Donald Camel had the perfect role for him ... it is, by very far, one of the best films ever made, but it is very difficult to figure out and appreciate as it moves fast and it hits hard when it needs to, and has one of the best endings of any film out there that really turns the whole thing on its head and heels and leaves you going ... wow ...
Roger Daltrey was in quite a few episodes of "The Highlander" on TV and he was pretty darn good. He was also in two of Ken Russell's lesser extravaganzas, which were rather forgettable ... you and I might have to get quite drunk or ripped to be able to sit through them today.
Florian Fricke - appeared in quite a few of Werner Herzog films, many times uncredited.
Not sure we can make a list of the musicians that have appeared in Wim Wenders films ... you'll get a headache!
Prince -- Purple Rain. One of the best pure rock films ever made. And the music was quite progressive copmpared to what Genesis was doing! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 21:02
...and don't forget his supporting role more recently in "The Prestige" with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 21:13
He made quite a bunch. Most are related to his music. He also made cameos in a few 70s and 80s movies, as well as being on an episode of Miami Vice as a villain, and was The Pope on Ren & Stimpy. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: July 29 2011 at 21:41
Neil Peart as himself in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 00:21
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Didn't Sparks have a brief appearance in Black Sunday? Sting appeared in a couple of films. Brimstone and Treacle was good. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 01:51
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Rush is in I Love You Man
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 02:16
| The weirdest cameo by a musician I ever saw in a film was 'big guy' Leslie West playing a transvestite interior decorator in The Money Pit ( Shelly Long and Tom Hanks). Mountain are'nt on PA (why not??!) so strictly off topic but thought it worth a mention anyway. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 04:53
Why would you list those two movies instead of Frauds and Labyrinth (or The Prestige)? This is not prog, but it blew my mind when I learned recently that Creed Bratton on The Office recorded famous songs with The Grass Roots. You shouldn't allowed to be famous for 2 things! ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 06:11
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Tom Watis - Rumble Fish, The Imaginarium of dr Parnassus, and a dusin other moviees Kieth Richards is Jack Sparows father in Pireats of the Carribean -------------  
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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 07:03
I dunno... first ones that came to mind, is that bad? |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 07:07
That was a splendid role IMO. Does Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck appearing in Blow-Up count? |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 07:22
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Phil Collins is actualy a actor by profession (actualy) he was studying drama before he became a musician, professionaly
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 08:14
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Rita Lee, singer of original Mutantes line-up also acted in an old Brazilian drama, back in the 1960s. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 09:30
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 30 2011 at 10:15
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Doesn't really count but Bob Dylan was in the star-studded cult film Masked and Anonymous. Great movie for people who aren't even Dylan fans like myself.
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 08:00
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 08:28
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We are getting away from prog methinks. But since Tom Waits was mentioned. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 08:29
Catherine Ribeiro has acted in a handful of movies including
Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 flick http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056905/" rel="nofollow - Les Carabiniers  |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 09:36
He was the first Artful Dodger in London's West End when the musical 'Oliver' was produced in the 1960s - this is the only photo I could find: 
The child actor at the front is Jack Wilde, who went on to play the Artful Dodger in the film version. Phil Collins was also briefly a child model - somewhere there is a picture of him on the front of a knitting pattern (this I know - it's in an old Genesis biography at home somewhere  ) ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 09:39
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Meat Loaf was great in "Fight Club".
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 09:48
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I loved Rush in "I LOve You Man" which has been mentioned but htey are funny on the films in their DVDs too, esp "Snakes and Arrows Live". On the prog side I wonder if ELP have been in movies or Lemmy or even Kate Bush??? ------------- 
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 10:05
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There was an album made for the Canadian TV sketch with Bob and Doug McKenzie that included Geddy Lee singing the song "Take Off". I don't know that he ever actually appeared in the show though. Alex Lifeson had a cameo in a Trailer Park Boys movie, as well as a movie titled Suck.
http://www.rushisaband.com/display.php?id=1946" rel="nofollow - http://www.rushisaband.com/display.php?id=1946 ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 12:04
Kate also wrote, starred and directed a short film called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_the_Cross_%26_the_Curve" rel="nofollow - The Line, The Cross & The Curve .
Lemmy (billed as Ian Killminster) starred in a Comic Strip Presents spin-off film directed by Peter Richardson called Eat The Rich - he also contributed six Motorhead songs to the soundtrack, including the title track Eat The Rich.
As far as I know ELP have never been asked to do a Comic Strip Presents film. ------------- What? |