ought to make a few reputations in the cult of number one

So I was watching Mystery Train, admiring the way Joe Strummer expertly slouches over jukeboxes and Steve Buscemi and I got to thinking about other musical hearthrobs and their forays into film. It happens more often than you'd think, so this list is highly selective, arbitrary, and largely just counts cameos dear to my fickle heart.Perennial fave Richard Hell turns up a lot, a fact we all ought to be grateful for. Some kind of punk answer to the nouvelle vague, not so much acting as being. That's okay with me.
Chris Isaak arrives with Keifer Sutherland in tow to Twin Peaks in Fire Walk With Me (as does Bowie, but then he's in everything), and gets the John Waters treatment in A Dirty Shame. This guy is a lot cooler than he's been given credit for.
Mos Def knows where his towel is.
Cherie Currie with fellow Foxes (which I'm dying to see) Scott Baio and Jodie Foster

Marianne Faithfull in Made in U.S.A. giving Anna K a run for her money. 

You could probably have an entirely separate list comprised exclusively of Rolling Stones' exes.

and oh, Jarvis! Animated but unmistakable in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox.

Honorable mentions go to Richard Hawley lurking as a rockabilly DJ avoiding zombie teddy boys in Flick, M. Ward being um a musician alongside the luminous Lou Taylor Pucci in The Go-Getter, Tom Waits in everything from big budget horrors (Bram Stoker's Dracula) to small criminal masterpieces in black & white (Down By Law).

As for actual bands in movies, that's a whole other story. Because really, what self-respecting teen movie was without a live band for the big prom scene?