Davie Bowie
Born 08-01-1947 in London .
David Bowie developed an interest in music early, he started a career as a commercial artist, singing and playing with rock bands in his spare time.
Bowie signed a record deal, which included the offbeat Space Odyssey'.
Bowie 's next album, 1970's The Man Who Sold the World, represented a move toward a harder rock sound and, in 1972, he scored his breakthrough with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars.
In 1976, director Nicolas Roeg cast Bowie in his first leading role in The Man Who Fell to Earth.
In 1983, Bowie 's album 'Let's Dance' brought him to new heights of commercial success and his next major film, Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence .
In 1986, Bowie scored one of his rare leading roles in a mainstream film, when he starred in the big-budget fantasy 'Labyrinth'.
He also appeared as Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.