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Bowie was also an actor. His starring role in Nic Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth ( 1976, pictured) earned rave reviews, while he played a vampire cellist in The Hunger ( 1983) and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige ( 2006). But it was Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth ( 1986) that became his most famous screen appearance, complete with fright wig and giant codpiece.