12 John Cale Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

John Davies Cale has appeared as an actor in several movies, mainly experimental films.

After an 18-hour marathon concert, Cale was a panelist on TV-show ‘I’ve Got a Secret’ (1963). In 1965, he appeared as himself in short-films ‘Dirt,’ ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Venus in Furs,’ followed by 1966 short ‘Sunday Morning.’

Cale worked in quite a few Andy Warhol-directed avant-garde films such as 1966’s ‘The Velvet Underground Eat Lunch,’ ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound,’ ‘The Bob Dylan Story,’ ‘Four Stars (****).’ The same year, Cale directed a short-film ‘Police Car.’ In 1969, he appeared in a diary-film ‘Walden’ by experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

Cale appeared on an episode of British TV-series ‘The South Bank Show’ (1986). Further, he took acting training under F. Murray Abraham. In short-film ‘The Houseguest’ (1987) he played ‘Hubbley,’ in spy-thriller TV-series ‘The Equalizer’ he appeared as ‘Aryan Leader’ in one episode and also appeared in ‘Wonderland USA’ (1989).

The films Cale featured in include—‘Antarctica’ (1995), ‘Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest’ (1997), ‘N[eon]’ (2002) as narrator, ‘Salamandra’ (2003) as ‘Dirk Winter,’ as ‘Lester’ in ‘Love Twice’ (2016).

Cale was part of several documentaries including ‘Put More Blood into the Music’ (1987), ‘Words for the Dying’ (1989), ‘Songs of Drella’ (1990), ‘Dancing Barefoot’ (1995), ‘Nico Icon’ (1995), ‘Rock & Roll’ (1995), ‘Arena: The Banana’ (1997), ‘John Cale’ (1998), ‘Beautiful Mistake’ (2000), ‘Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture’ (2001), Welsh documentary ‘Dal: Yma/Nawr’ (2002), ‘Punk: Attitude’ (2005), ‘Lennon or McCartney’ (2014) and many more.

Cale also appeared in TV-series such as ‘Synthesia’ (1997), ‘American Masters’ (1998), biographical documentary TV-series ‘Intimate Portrait’ (2001), BBC-series ‘Seven Ages of Rock’ (2007), ‘The Bridge’ (2014), amongst others.

Cale has composed music for several films and documentaries.