Name
Mario Montez
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1935-07-20
Deathday
2013-09-26 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Biography
René Rivera, (July 20, 1935 – September 26, 2013), known professionally as Mario Montez, was one of the Warhol superstars, appearing in thirteen of Andy Warhol's underground films from 1964 to 1966. He took his name as a male homage to the actress Maria Montez, an important gay icon in the fifties and sixties. Before appearing in Warhol's films, he appeared in Jack Smith's important underground films Flaming Creatures and Normal Love. Montez also stars in the Ron Rice film, Chumlum, made in 1964. Mario Montez, was "a staple in the New York underground scene of the 1960s and ’70s."
Known For
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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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Follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City....
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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 follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-mo...
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Black-and-white version of Mario Banana I, in which Mario enjoys another banana....
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Mario Montez in drag eats a banana....
- 1969 The Gypsy's Ball as wicked gypsy
- 1968 Flaming Twenties
- 1965 Harlot as Harlot
- 1987 Reel Six: Charles Ludlam’s Grand Tarot
- 1967 Lupe as Lupe Velez
- 1964 Mario Banana I as Mario
- 1964 Mario Banana II as Mario
- 1966 Hedy as Hedy Lamarr
- 1970 Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
- 1965 Screen Test #2
- 1966 More Milk, Yvette as Lana Turner
- 1965 Normal Love as Mermaid
- 1963 Flaming Creatures as The Spanish Girl
- 1967 Jungle Island
- 1969 No President
- 2007 Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis as Self
- 1969 Face as Himself
- 1965 Camp
- 1965 Dirt
- 1964 Batman Dracula
- 1968 The Queen as Self - Singer
- 1965 Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
- 2017 Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith as Himself (archive footage)
- 1966 Chelsea Girls as Transvestite
- 1963 Chumlum
- 1968 Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
- 1966 Satisfaction
- 1966 Ari and Mario as self
- 1972 Agrippina é Roma - Manhattan as Herself
- 2012 America Is Not Ready for This as Self
- 1966 The John
- 2016 Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
- 1993 The John Larroquette Show ( 1 episode ) as Elsa
