Songs that mention specific actors by name

Alice Cooper - Ballad Of Dwight Fry
Bananarama - Robert DeNiro's Waiting
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Elton John - Candle In The Wind (Marilyn Monroe)
10cc - Somewhere In Hollywood (Jean Harlow)
Frank Zappa - Andy (Andy Devine)
Iggy Pop - China Girl (Marlon Brando)
Kinks - Celluloid Heroes (several)

There must be a few obvious ones I'm missing ...

 

I believe it was "Pretty Ballerina" on Dirty Diamonds where Alice mentions J-Lo.

Off the top of my head.

He must mention someone in "King of the Silver Screen", but I can't remember offhand.

 

Bertie Higgens - Key Largo (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall)

 

Clash: "The Right Profile" (Montgomery Clift)
Velvet Underground: "New Age" (Robert Mitchum)

 

A classic.
'Star Star' - The Rolling Stones wherein Jagger references how annoyed Ali McGraw was about something done to Steve McQueen.
John Wayne gets a mention too.

 

Mr. Bungle - "Travolta"
King's X - "Charlie Sheen"
Kim Carnes - "Betty Davis"
Beastie Boys - "Lee Majors"

 

The Velvet Underground — “New Age”.

Mentions Robert Mitchum.

 

Vogue - Madonna (various)
Rock On (Jimmy Dean)
Wake Me Up - wham (Doris Day)

 

LA Guns - "Ballad of Jayne" (Mansfield) (unless you need the full name mentioned in the song)

Urban Tale "Doris Day"

 

Featuring one of my favourite Clash lyrics:
" Somebody get me my old movie stills/ somebody get me a roll of little yellow pills/my body's shaking but I ain't got the chills/ Blargh-uhh-grah-blahh"

 

Robert Mitchum by Julian Cope
At Last I am Born by Morrissey mentions Claude Brasseur

 

Civil Twilight by The Weakerthans mentions Jennifer Jason Leigh.

 

Prefab Sprout - Goodbye Lucille #1 (Haylee Mills)
Donald Fagen - New Frontier (Tuesday Weld)
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (Terence Stamp & Julie Christie)

 

Sherilyn Fenn by Screaming Jay Hawkins mentions Sherilyn Fenn.

 

Roxy Music — “Virginia Plain”.

Mentions Baby Jane Holzer.

 

James Dean and Burt Reynolds - Cadillac Ranch by Bruce Springsteen
Clint Eastwoood - Urban Struggle by The Vandals

 

'Bette Davis Eyes'

 

Blue Öyster Cult: "Joan Crawford"
Neil Young: "Pocahontas" (Marlon Brando)
Al Stewart: "Year of the Cat" (Bogart and Peter Lorre)
Le Tigre: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes"

 

Perfect Skin, Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole et al. (Greta Garbo, Eva Marie Saint)
True Men - Jon DeRosa (Robert Mitchum, William Holden)
Lee Remick - The Go-Betweens (Lee Remick)
Message Of Love - The Pretenders (Brigitte Bardot)

Edit: 'Eva' not 'Eve' (I blame Cole's pronunciation)

 

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers-Jammin’ Me (Vanessa Redgrave)

 

Off the top of my head...Tom Petty Jammin Me ...any song that mentions Joe Piscopo is all right by me

 

Clift is also mentioned in R.E.M.’s “Monty Got a Raw Deal” from Automatic for the People

 

"Brownsville Girl" by Bob Dylan --> Gregory Peck

 

After The Fire -- Matt Damon & Dom DeLuise

 

Elton John: "Roy Rogers"
Van Morrison: "Wild Children" (Brando, Rod Steiger)