Surprise Musical Guests
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Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones plays the father of Jack Sparrow, the character he helped inspire.
Singles (1992)
The members of Pearl Jam play Matt Dillon's band, but that doesn't count because those are musical roles. But, when Matt Dillon is demonstrating a sweet new car stereo, a non-musical Chris Cornell (from Soundgarden and Audioslave) enjoys the havoc.
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Among the Nihilists are Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers and singer-songwriter Aimee Mann.
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Donnie Darko (2001)
School bully Seth Devlin is played by Phantom Planet lead singer Alex Greenwald.
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The House Bunny (2008)
The lead singer for The All-American Rejects, Tyson Ritter, plays Colby the frat dude.
Iron Man (2008)
Guitarist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) takes the screen as "guard."
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Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves plays an uncredited part, the window server at Burger Jungle.
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Dogma (1999)
The opposite of a musical role, God is played by a mute Alanis Morissette.
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Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service has a small role as Harry.
Mumford (1999)
Who's that girl? Who's that girl? It's Zooey! Deschanel plays Nessa Watkins in her first film role, and one of the few with not so much as a melodic hum.
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Loudon Wainwright III shows up in the role of the Priest who marries the two main characters.
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Pleasantville (1998)
Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley, Jenny & Johnny) played the role of Christin, a friend of Reese Witherspoon's character.
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Robert Schwartzman, brother of Jason, is the lead singer of Rooney and Paul Baldino in this flick, directed by his cousin Sofia Coppola.
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Fight Club (1999)
A threefer! Meat Loaf plays the man who was Robert Paulson and Jared Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars plays the appropriately-named Angel Face, but both of them see their names on the movie poster. However, there is also Ed Kowalczyk, former lead singer of Live, who played a bruised waiter.
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Jason Schwartzman (formerly of Phantom Planet and currently of Coconut Records) played a super-duper-very-forgettable-mostly-in-the-background role as Gag Halfrunt. It would be easy for someone to miss it.
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A list of movies with rock musicians in non-musical, non-top billed roles.
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