Actors who can sing

[mrbuzzardstubble]

 

[LHC]

Wait, what! Dwayne Johnson can sing?!

 

 

[LHC]

Vale Irene Cara. She could do it all, act, sing, dance. R.I.P.

 

 

Edited November 27, 2022 by LHC

[Kristian Kristiansen]

Lol - there's some awful cheese in this thread...

 

Robert Mitchum released two albums of Calypso music when he went on a marijuana bender in the Caribbean after doing time for reefer madness in the States...

he could also pelt out some Irish standards with great class - and he even soundtracked his own (excellent) movie

I'd rate Kristofferson as amost a triple threat - actor, singer, songwriter...
 

 

[keyse1]

On 14/7/2022 at 5:35 PM, mrbuzzardstubble said:

Nicholas Cage.

 

Great movie 

Elvis could have killed that part

Or Nik could get an Elvis impersonator job in Parkes

[keyse1]

3 hours ago, Kristian Kristiansen said:

Lol - there's some awful cheese in this thread...

 

Robert Mitchum released two albums of Calypso music when he went on a marijuana bender in the Caribbean after doing time for reefer madness in the States...

he could also pelt out some Irish standards with great class - and he even soundtracked his own (excellent) movie

I'd rate Kristofferson as amost a triple threat - actor, singer, songwriter...
 

Songwriter and singer yes

Actor No and No and no

Elvis was sounded out for the part in A Star Is Born but the creepy Tom Parker wanted him as top billing 

 

 

[Kristian Kristiansen]

1 minute ago, keyse1 said:

 

hard disagree... he's had some great roles... and of all the Star is Born adaptations, I rate his the best

he's also excellent in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Blade 1 & 2, Convoy, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and others. And he was the only half decent thing about Heaven's Gate 

[keyse1]

He was the most sympathetic character in Heavens Gate which was a great movie all 3 hours of it especially Isabelle Hupert

Alice was a good performance as was Billy The Kid

But a long way from serious acting

I think I’ve seen Alfredo Garcia but can’t remember any detail ( I’m very old)

Blade I wouldn’t watch under any circumstances

And Convoy I was too much of a movie snob at that time to bother with with

Now  I don’t have the time left🌶for such frivolity

And he was dreadful in Born to be a Star

The name of the film escapes me but his best performance was in Lone Star which is a John Sayles film

 

 

 

[keyse1]

41 minutes ago, Kristian Kristiansen said:

hard disagree... he's had some great roles... and of all the Star is Born adaptations, I rate his the best

he's also excellent in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Blade 1 & 2, Convoy, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and others. And he was the only half decent thing about Heaven's Gate 

He should have stuck with this

Its where he excelled

[Kristian Kristiansen]

3 hours ago, keyse1 said:

He should have stuck with this

Its where he excelled

I don't  think he should have stuck with any one thing - he did well at everything he put his mind to -

 

Major General in the US Airforce - gun helicopter pilot - Oxford Rhodes Scholar

 

and he did just fine as an actor - you've virtually admitted as much here lol

 

in fact he was an A-lister until Heaven's Gate -I forgot Nashville too- 

 

Blade is heaps of fun - Convoy is a failed gem - unfortunately Peckinpah was in the grips of chronic alcoholism and cocaine psychosis during the shoot - it shows because the film is a mess 

 

Not a fan of that song but he's written loads of bangers - my fave would be Sunday Morning Coming Down - and also The Silver Tongued Devil & I 

 

Ultimately I'd say he's a singer who can act rather than the other way around though 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 3, 2022 by Kristian Kristiansen

[keyse1]

10 hours ago, Kristian Kristiansen said:

I don't  think he should have stuck with any one thing - he did well at everything he put his mind to -

 

Major General in the US Airforce - gun helicopter pilot - Oxford Rhodes Scholar

 

and he did just fine as an actor - you've virtually admitted as much here lol

 

in fact he was an A-lister until Heaven's Gate -I forgot Nashville too- 

 

Blade is heaps of fun - Convoy is a failed gem - unfortunately Peckinpah was in the grips of chronic alcoholism and cocaine psychosis during the shoot - it shows because the film is a mess 

 

Not a fan of that song but he's written loads of bangers - my fave would be Sunday Morning Coming Down - and also The Silver Tongued Devil & I 

 

Ultimately I'd say he's a singer who can act rather than the other way around though 

 

 

 

 

I don’t think he was in Nashville if you mean the Robert Altman movie

Probably why it was a great movie(just kidding)

Kristofferson is more of a presence like John Wayne or Steve McQueen than actor

 

Also think the movies took the edge of his writing 

Which is where we started 

Great songwriter mediocre actor

 

[Kristian Kristiansen]

39 minutes ago, keyse1 said:

I don’t think he was in Nashville if you mean the Robert Altman movie

Probably why it was a great movie(just kidding)

Kristofferson is more of a presence like John Wayne or Steve McQueen than actor

 

Also think the movies took the edge of his writing 

Which is where we started 

Great songwriter mediocre actor

 

I was thinking of trouble in mind not Nashville - my bad - though i think from memory (i'm old too lol) the Keith Carradine character is based on KK 

[keyse1]

What about this just to turn the subject around

The remake of A Star Is Born

A singer that can’t sing but can act

Lady GaGa

And an actor that can’t act or sing

But is handsome

[muon*]

Jeri Ryan

 

 

 

[ThirdDrawerDown]

Julie Andrews

[Synodontis]

Lee Marvin had a great voice

 

 

Edited January 26, 2023 by Synodontis
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[Willco]

 

Harris must have been well tanked up to croon the immortal words-- "Someone left the cake out in the rain!"

Edited January 26, 2023 by Willco

[mrbuzzardstubble]

4 hours ago, Willco said:

 

Harris must have been well tanked up to croon the immortal words-- "Someone left the cake out in the rain!"

The Duck of Death.

[LHC]

Michelle Williams deserves credit for singing the song 'Tightrope' in The Greatest Showman

 

 

[TheBlackDisc]

 

[LHC]

Cybill Shepherd has a nice singing voice. 

 

 

[Ian McP]

Actors who can sing and arrange, RIP David McCallum

 

Ilya Kuryakin from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCallum

 

< In the 1960s, McCallum recorded four albums for Capitol Records with music producer David Axelrod: Music...A Part of Me (Capitol ST 2432, 1966),[4] Music...A Bit More of Me (Capitol ST 2498, 1966),[4] Music...It's Happening Now! (Capitol ST 2651, 1967), and McCallum (Capitol ST 2748, 1968). The best known of his pieces today is "The Edge", which was sampled by Dr. Dre as the intro and riff to the track "The Next Episode". McCallum's version of "The Edge" appears on the soundtracks to the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV and the 2017 film Baby Driver.

McCallum did not sing on these records, as many television stars of the 1960s did when offered recording contracts. As a classically trained musician, he conceived a blend of oboe, cor anglais, and strings with guitar and drums, and presented instrumental interpretations of hits of the day. The official arranger on the albums was H. B. Barnum. However, McCallum conducted, and contributed several original compositions of his own, over the course of four LPs. The first two, Music...A Part of Me and Music...A Bit More of Me, have been issued together on CD on the Zonophone label. On Open Channel D, McCallum did sing on the first four tracks, "Communication", "House on Breckenridge Lane", "In the Garden, Under the Tree" (the theme song from the film Three Bites of the Apple), and "My Carousel". The music tracks are the same as the Zonophone CD. This CD was released on the Rev-Ola label. The single release of "Communication" reached No. 32 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1966.[25]

In The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Discotheque Affair", McCallum plays the double bass as part of a band in a night club. He also played guitar and sang his own composition, "Trouble", with Nancy Sinatra on "The Take Me to Your Leader Affair", and played several instruments in "The Off-Broadway Affair". >

 

 

 

[cheekyboy]

Woody Harrelson I watched Champions on Netflix recently and he was singing at the end of that too.

 

 

[cheekyboy]

A few more that come to mind.......

 

Billy Bob Thornton

Russell Crowe

Kevin Bacon

 

And from Yellowstone.........

 

Kevin Costner

Luke Grimes

Ryan Bingham 

Edited October 11, 2023 by cheekyboy

[Ars Paart]

3 hours ago, cheekyboy said:

...

Russell Crowe

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If Rusty can claim to sing, anyone can. Excellent actor, truly mediocre singer.