Actors playing themselves in biopics?

[GRAEME]

To go back to the original question, I can't think offhand of any other showbiz figures who have starred as themselves in a biopic about their showbiz career (so that excludes Audie Murphy). Are there any others?

I don't know whether you'd count them as "showbiz", but I guess they are... The Harlem Globetrotters appeared in their own biopic, The Harlem Globetrotters (1951).

And Monty Woolley appeared as his own superannuated self in the Cole Porter biopic Night and Day.

[orpheum2]

Eddie Cantor has a brief cameo at the end of the Eddie Cantor Story.Jolson of course plays hinself singing Swanee in Rhapsody In Blue.

[cassidy]

Roy Rogers and other Western B Movie stars often played themselves and Trigger got lots of credits as well.

[steereomono]

Shock jock Howard Stern in Private Parts (1997)

[CaptainWaggett]

Roy Rogers and other Western B Movie stars often played themselves and Trigger got lots of credits as well.

Playing a character with your stage-name isn't necessarily playing yourself though. After all, Tony Hancock didn't actually live in Railway Cuttings (though amusingly, in the Face To Face interview, John Freeman seems to believe his middle name really was Aloysius )

[steereomono]

In a musical vein, pop group Madness chronicled their rise to fame as themselves
in Take It Or Leave It (1981).

[Rowdon]

The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night ...?

[Mr Sloane]

The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night ...?

Which reminds me of the mess that is Renaldo and Clara.

[Rowdon]

Which reminds me of the mess that is Renaldo and Clara.

For a second I read that as Rene and Renata, and wondeed what you were on about.

[wearysloth]

Sophia Loren played herself and her own mother in
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)