Five performances that show Bowie’s acting is worth a second take

“I find that I am a person who can take on the guises on different people that I meet … I am a collector, and I always seem to collect personalities”, so remarked David Bowie in a 1973 television interview enquiring into the origin of the Ziggy Stardust persona. Perhaps for a musician with a keen fascination for both theatrical performance and cinema it was always inevitable that his talents and stardom would eventually find expression through film.