Julian Beck

Julian Beck

Birthday: 1925-05-31

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter. He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

Movies

Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Poltergeist II: The Other Side

The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of C...

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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and t...

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Candy
Candy

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while se...

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Love and Anger
Love and Anger

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts slee...

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Après la Passion selon Sade
Après la Passion selon Sade

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Notes for Jerome
Notes for Jerome

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas v...

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If the Unconscious Revolts
If the Unconscious Revolts

In this film, as in all my previous ones, there is a direct connection between inner urges and cinem...

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The Lost Paths
The Lost Paths

Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garre...

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Amore, amore
Amore, amore

The title Amore amore ( Love Love) defines the primary emotive motor of the film and constitutes the...

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Narcissus
Narcissus

A film poem, a re-telling of the Greek myth in modern terms. In the traditional pool the water has b...

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J. & J. & Co.
J. & J. & Co.

Images of the life of the Living, the material that composes it was originally shot for the film: "T...

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Emergency: The Living Theatre
Emergency: The Living Theatre

a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Myst...

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Signals Through the Flames
Signals Through the Flames

Signals Through the Flames is at once a history and a celebration of the Living Theatre. Founded in ...

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All Star Video
All Star Video

A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sa...

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Visa de censure n° X
Visa de censure n° X

Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the ...

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Rite of Guerrilla Theater
Rite of Guerrilla Theater

Commissioned work by Julian Beck and members of The Living Theatre (featuring Beck and Judith Malina...

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Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika
Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika

A harrowing, gorgeous, in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white film by Marty Topp, produced ...

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Paradise Now
Paradise Now

At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American undergroun...

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The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans ...

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Nine 1/2 Weeks
Nine 1/2 Weeks

An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal a...

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Living & Glorious
Living & Glorious

Leonardi's film about the Living Theatre is less concerned with a straight documentary presentation ...

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