Mark Metcalf, the actor who played Niedermeyer in Animal House, plays the angry dad at the beginning of Twisted Sister‘s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” video. To me, that’s one of the best big screen feature film-to-music video crossover roles ever. Metcalf carries the crowd-pleasing asshole qualities of his best-known movie role over to the small screen, adding some mainstream credibility to this then-upstart band’s breakout video. Not all established film actors are able to bring so much to their music video work. Take Johnny Depp, for instance.

Surely you remember Depp’s work in Tom Petty‘s “Into the Great Wide Open” video. You do, right? It’s the video in which an already-acclaimed Depp, still years away from believing he was actually his pirate/Keith Richards character, revisits themes from his underappreciated work on 21 Jump Street while playing out scenes from Petty’s version of Bad Company’s “Shooting Star.”  Blame it on the script, if you must, but I think Johnny was more interested in going along for the ride, playing the rock star he always wanted to be, and test-driving a Wide Bandana Look that his hairline-challenged rocker friend had been considering, than focusing on his acting chops. In the pantheon of big screen actors appearing in rock music videos Depp’s performance is among the least effective.

So what are the most memorable big screen feature film-to-music video crossover roles ever? What are the flops? Pre-stardom appearances, especially pre-small screen stardom appearances, such as Courtney Cox‘s unparalleled career turn as the cute girl plucked from the audience to dance with Bruce Springsteen, do not count.