Songs that mention specific actors by name

"Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?" by the Statler Brothers.

Also mentions numerous other stars of horse operas, some by first nane, and a few by their full names:

"Whatever happened to Johnny Mack Brown
And Alan 'Rocky' Lane
Whatever happened to Lash LaRue
I'd love to see them again
Whatever happened to Smiley Burnett
Tim Holt and Gene Autry
Whatever happened to all of these
Has happened to the best of me."

 

THE YEAR OF THE CAT
ON THE MORNING OF A BOGART MOVIE
YOU STROLL THROUGH THE CROWD LIKE PETER LORRE

 

A more off the beaten track entry from Morrissey in "Home Is A Question Mark"

"Another film on replay
This time, "Hell" with Guillaume Canet"

Also another French actor, Claude Brasseur, referenced in "At Last I Am Born".

 

Greta Garbo... Just Like Greta by Van Morrison

 

"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole mentions John Wayne.

 

The Kinks
"Daylight"

Roger Moore and Steve McQueen


speaking of McQueen, I guess this counts...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlywcuw-1TU

 

More Steve McQueen - "Steve McQueen" by Sheryl Crow

 

Somewhere in the ether, Paul Newman is quietly smiling at the order and emphasis of the billing.

 

Yul Brynner - One night in Bangkok.

 

MOTORPSYCHO NIGHTMARE -BOB DYLAN-
THERE STOOD RITA, LOOKING LIKE TONY PERKINS

 

robert de niro bananarama

 

Cleaners from Venus- Clara Bow
Bauhaus- Bela Lugosis Dead

 

pencil thin moustache-jimmy buffett
andy devine

 

REM - Man on the Moon (Andy Kaufman)
The Cult - Edie (Ciao Baby) (Edie Sedgwick)

 

what happened to smiley burnett?
he ended up on petticoat junction

 

Though he did not get her name right, it was Marie Prevost.

In reggae there are artists named Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, and a bunch of others named after movie and TV stars.

jb

 

Not to mention Alec Baldwin, Faye Dunaway and Ali McGraw:

"I really loved The Getaway back when I was eight
That p...y Alec Baldwin sucked in the remake
And speaking of p...y, I guess Steve got it all
He f....d Faye Dunaway and he f....d Ali McGraw"

 

Ha! How could I forget!

 

The Who - A Man Is A Man

He doesn't have to perform like John Wayne in some B feature flick

 

I think James Dean was mentioned in "Jack and Diane" by John Cougar (as he was known in those days)

 

Another Kinks reference from Good Day

Hey Diana, I've really got to learn to take a tip from you,
Put on my makeup and try to make the world take notice of you.

Diana is Diana Dors, the English Marilyn Monroe

 

Brian Protheroe - Pinball (Marilyn Monroe)

 

Billy Bragg - Sexuality
“I look like Robert Deniro, I drive a Mitsubishi Zero”

 

Obvious really, but Walk on the Wild Side:

'Little' Joe (Dallesandro) actor in various Warhol-Morrisey movies, starting with Warhol's '****', Lonesome Cowboys and many of the Morrisey films
Holly (Woodlawn) actress in Morrisey's films, Trash and Women In Revolt
Candy (Darling) actress in Morrisey's Flesh
Jackie (Curtis) actress in Flesh and Women In Revolt
'Sugar Plum Fairy' refers to Joe Campbell, who starred in Warhol's My Hustler