Name
Jack Smith
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1932-11-14
Deathday
1989-09-25 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Biography
Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.
Known For
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Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground...
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Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life...
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A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling t...
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Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted mov...
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A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles ...
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At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall ...
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Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, tak...
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A follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-mo...
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An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views o...
- 1991 Shadows in the City as Spirit of Death
- 1972 Night of the Dark Full Moon as Inmate
- 1985 Home Movies 1971-81
- 1968 Flaming Twenties
- 1963 Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love" as Self
- 1966 Hedy as soothsayer
- 1965 Electrolux Lover
- 1978 The Secret of Rented Island
- Soon The Bubble People
- 1967 The Illiac Passion as Orpheus
- 2012 Love Thing
- 1981 The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
- 1956 Little Cobra Dance
- 1963 Little Stabs at Happiness as Himself
- 1997 Birth of a Nation as Self
- 1956 Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice as Cult leader
- 1961 The Death of P'town as Fairy Vampire
- 2006 Two Wrenching Departures
- 1964 Batman Dracula as Batman / Dracula
- 1963 Blonde Cobra as Madame Nescience
- 1980 The Trap Door as Dr. Shrinkelstein
- 1967 I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
- 1969 Filmmakers as Himself
- 1967 Poem Posters as Self
- 2017 Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith as Himself (archive footage)
- 1965 Camp
- 1969 Song for Rent as Rose Courtyard
- 1965 Dirt
- 2007 Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 Star Spangled to Death as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
- 1970 Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks as Self
- 1967 Joan of Arc as Self
- 1964 The Soap Opera
- 1965 Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
- 1968 The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
- 1964 Screen Test: Jack Smith as Himself
- 1964 The Devil is Dead
- 1968 Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
- 1963 Chumlum
- 1966 Satisfaction as God
- 1970 The Stone Age
- 1964 Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph” as Batman
- 1964 Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
- 1964 Jeremelu
- 2008 Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
- 1964 Lovers of Eternity
- 2014 I Am Divine as Self (archive)
- 2011 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film as Himself (archive footage)
- 1960 The Andy Griffith Show ( 1 episode ) as Himself
