Filmography
Sting occasionally has ventured into acting. Film and television roles include.
- As actor
- Quadrophenia (1979) - The Ace Face, the King of The Mods, a.k.a. The Bell Boy in the movie adaptation of The Who album
- Radio On (1980) - Just Like Eddie
- Artemis 81 (1981) - The angel Helith (BBC TV film)
- Brimstone and Treacle (1982) - Martin Taylor, a drifter
- Dune (1984) - Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
- Titus Groan - Steerpike (BBC Radio 4 broadcasts based on the Mervyn Peake novels)
- Gormenghast (1984) - Steerpike
- Plenty (1985) - Mick, a black-marketeer
- The Bride (1985) - Baron Frankenstein
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) - A "heroic officer"
- Stormy Monday (1988) - Finney, a nightclub owner
- Julia and Julia (1988) - Daniel, a British gentleman
- Saturday Night Live sketch (1991) - Billy Idol
- Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) - J.D., Eddie's father and owner of a bar
- The Grotesque (1995) - Fledge
- As himself
- The Simpsons episode "Radio Bart" (1992)
- The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer Episode 5 (1995)
- The Larry Sanders Show episode "Where Is the Love?" (1996)
- Ally McBeal season four episode "Cloudy Skies, Chance of Parade" (2001)
- Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (2006)
- Studio 60 on Sunset Strip 2006
- Vicar of Dibley Comic Relief special (2007)
- Bee Movie (2007)
- Little Britain USA (2008) He plays his own song, "Fields of Gold" (mistaken by Tom Baker for Stomp, the lead singer of "The Cops")
- BrĂ¼no (2009)
- Still Bill (2009)
- Do It Again (2010)
- Life's Too Short (2011)
Sting narrated the American premiere of the musical Yanomamo (1983), by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, outlining problems that existed in the Amazon rainforest. This was made into a film and later broadcast as Song of the Forest. He also provided the voice of Zarm on the 1990s television show Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In 1989 he starred as Macheath (Mack the Knife) in John Dexter's Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. Sting also appeared as himself in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour.
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