THE STARR-ANGE FILMS OF RICHARD STARKEY (1969 - 1985)

 

Richard Starkey, or Ringo Starr as we all know him, has had an interesting career besides being one of The Beatles. Ringo has been in quite a few movies, and almost every one of them is a cult movie, because he's Ringo, and all the movies are strange. People might be strange when you're a stranger, but Ringo's not a stranger to anybody, even though he's Starr-anger than most!

 

 

In 1964 and 1965, The Beatles made their movies "A Hard Day's Night," and "Help!" but it wouldn't be until 1968 that Ringo appeared in a non-Beatles film as a guy named Emmanuel, and that movie was "Candy."

 

 

In 1969, Ringo was in the equally odd film, "The Magic Christian" as Youngman Grand.

In 1971, Ringo plays Frank Zappa in Frank's own film "200 Motels." 

Here's a picture of Frank so you can compare the two!

 

Also in the 1971 Spaghetti Western "Blindman," Ringo plays a character named Candy.

 

 In 1973 Ringo had a more serious role in a film that was kind of based on the early years of John Lennon called "That'll Be The Day" that also included fellow musician Billy Fury. Another famous drummer, Keith Moon of The Who, was also in this film.

 

Again in 1973, Ringo was Merlin the magician in the Harry Nilsson musical "Son Of Dracula," that included one of the best rock and roll songs of all time, "Jump Into The Fire!"

 

In 1975, Ringo was in a movie with another member of The Who, lead singer Roger Daltrey, in Ken Russell's "Lisztomania." In this film Ringo plays The Pope.

 

In 1977, Ringo was in the pervo sex romp "Sextette," that not only starred Mae West, but was written by her. This film also had an all-star cast of musicians that included Alice Cooper, and once again, Keith Moon.

 

In 1981, Ringo was in "Caveman" with his lovely wife Barbara Bach.

 

In 1985 Ringo was in the TV mini-series "Alice In Wonderland" as The Mock Turtle.

 

Since then, Ringo has been the narrator for the "Thomas And Friends" videos, and in quite a few TV shows and music videos, including "The Simpsons," and Sabrina The Teenage Witch," but the long run of Starr-ange movies has pretty much come to an end, at least for now, but this is Ringo we're talking about, so who knows what might be next?