Katharine McPhee (who was the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol) has done good acting work on television in "Smash" and now in "Scorpion."
There is no acting in Scorpion. Piece of trash-everyone on that show sucks.
Well, my favorite has to be Richard Hageman. He had a brilliant comic flair and even does a nifty double-take in HI DIDDLE DIDDLE. He is also in SENSATIONS OF 1945.
As for acting singers, who can forget Tony Bennett in THE OSCAR??!!
Madonna was fairly average but she wasnt bad in that erotic thriller with dafoe and ok in League of their own. There has to be hundreds isnt there? At one time it was normal practice for all singers to dabble with acting at some point.
David essex, partridge family, slade, the spice girls, etc etc.
Yes, sometimes to better effect than others. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT came out really well. HELP! was a mixed bag; the Beatles came off okay, the music was great, but the movie overall wasn't up to AHDN. YELLOW SUBMARINE, the last of the *fictional* feature-length films of the group, only had the group making a very stilted appearance for about two minutes at the end. The rest of the film had the voices supplied by professional cartoon voice actors...
It's rare they get real sink-your-teeth-into roles like the ones in opening post. I'm looking at the roster of performers mentioned so far. A number acquitted themselves nicely, for many acting was more of a lark not to be repeated much if at all.
