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Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ), a rock musical based on Colin MacInnes's 1959 novel about London life, featured Bowie's music and presented him with a minor acting role.

The same year, Jim Henson's dark fantasy Labyrinth found him with the part of Jareth, the king of the goblins.

Two years later he played Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ.

Bowie portrayed a disgruntled restaurant employee opposite Rosanna Arquette in The Linguini Incident ( 1991 ), and the mysterious FBI agent Phillip Jeffries in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ).

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

He played the ageing gangster Bernie in Andrew Goth's Everybody Loves Sunshine ( 1999 ), and appeared in the TV horror serial of The Hunger.

In Mr. Rice's Secret ( 2000 ), he played the title role as the neighbour of a terminally ill twelve-year-old, and the following year appeared as himself in Zoolander.