Taylor Mead — Actor (25)
Union City (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Union City
director: Marcus Reichert actor: Debbie Harry / Dennis Lipscomb
other title: Nachts in Union City
A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
Four Stars (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Four Stars
director: Andy Warhol actor: Brigid Berlin / Tally Brown
other title: ★★★★
Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wearying and beautiful, but ultimately hard to decipher, for, in contrast to his earlier, and more famous film Chelsea Girls, made in 1966, Warhol insisted that two reels be screened simultaneously on top of each other on a single screen, rather than side-by-side. The film's title is a pun on the rating system used by critics to rank films, with "four stars" being the highest rating. From Wikipedia.
Cleopatra (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Cleopatra
director: Michel Auder actor: Viva / Gerard Malanga
Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton which Auder's cast watched and used as the starting point for scene by scene improvisation Auder drew his cast from Warhol's ensemble – including not only Viva and Louis Waldon, but also Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Melanga and others.
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
director: Andy Warhol actor: Taylor Mead / Naomi Levine
other title: Tarzan e Jane Recuperaram... Mais ou Menos / Tarzan And Jane Regained … Sort Of
Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip during which he filmed the footage for Elvis at Ferus. Locations included Hollywood, Malibu, Venice, Pasadena, Topanga Canyon, the Santa Monica pier and the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Brand X (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Brand X
director: Win Chamberlain actor: Taylor Mead / Sally Kirkland
In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.
Last Supper (1992) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Last Supper
director: Robert Frank actor: Zohra Lampert / William Youmans
other title: Letztes Abendmahl
In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local residents, dealing with the practicality of life, look on as the guests obsess about identity, status, and success.
Homeo (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Homeo
director: Étienne O'Leary actor: Michèle Giraud / Yves Beneyton
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.
Feedback (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Feedback
director: Bill Doukas actor: Bill Doukas / Jack Adalist
Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union.
Underground U.S.A. (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Underground U.S.A.
director: Eric Mitchell actor: Patti Astor / Rene Ricard
The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
director: Mary Jordan actor: Jack Smith / Nayland Blake
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
Shadows in the City (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Shadows in the City
director: Ari M. Roussimoff actor: Craig Smith / Bruce Byron
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon. Shadows in the City was the last major work of New York’s 1980s No Wave film scene. Shot over seven years in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, painter-performer Ari Roussimoff’s only fiction feature captures the urban desolation of the city in the decade before gentrification.
The Nude Restaurant (1967) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Nude Restaurant
director: Andy Warhol actor: Brigid Berlin / Julian Burrough
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string and a G-bestringed waiter.
Couch (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Couch
director: Andy Warhol actor: Bingingham Birdie / Rufus Collins
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
Babo 73 (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Babo 73
director: Robert Downey Sr. actor: Taylor Mead / Jim Antonio
The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated Victorian— conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
Lonesome Cowboys (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Lonesome Cowboys
director: Andy Warhol / Paul Morrissey actor: Viva / Tom Hompertz
other title: Lonesome cowboys / Cowboy solitari
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
The Illiac Passion (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Illiac Passion
director: Gregory J. Markopoulos actor: Richard Beauvais / David Beauvais
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.