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- Cracked Actor (1975) The stars aligned in the summer of 1974 when Alan Yentob flew out to the US with a BBC film crew to shoot a documentary profile of Bowie around his Diamond Dogs tour.
- The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) Bowie’s first major screen role, as an extra-terrestrial tourist lost in the alien weirdness of America is rich in autobiographical echoes.
- Just A Gigolo (1978) Cementing his late 1970s love affair with Berlin, Bowie followed his triumphant starring debut in The Man Who Fell To Earth with this ill-fated period piece set in the German capital during Hitler’s rise to power.
- Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1979) Bowie and his team summoned feted American documentary maker DA Pennebaker – director of the classic Bob Dylan tour chronicle Don’t Look Back – to shoot Ziggy’s rock’n’roll suicide farewell show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in July 1973.
Jan 6, 2022 · Pale and emaciated, with streaks of red hair falling into mismatched eyes, Bowie requires little make-up to convince as an alien in disguise. A series of retro costumes – wide fedoras, loose ...
Jan 11, 2016 · Sound & Vision: the story of David Bowie on screen – and the roles he turned down. David Bowie as an actor was a rare and unusual thing – and, for many, an acquired taste or an object of ridicule.
- Ryan Gilbey
But it was as the suave alien Thomas Jerome Newton in Nic Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) that Bowie’s strange and seductive fictional screen persona – not to mention his exceptional cheekbones – was first and best used to enduring effect.
Films in which he appeared in a supporting role or cameo include The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Zoolander (2001). Bowie also appeared on several television series including Extras, Dream On, and the horror anthology series The Hunger.
Jan 11, 2016 · David Bowie in Movies: The Definition of Screen Presence. He was as brilliant about pop-culture identity as Andy Warhol—which made it weird but perfect when he played him. From Rex...
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Jul 17, 2015 · David Bowie's many identities aren't restricted to music - he's also lent his talents to a broad array of characters on screen.
