Taylor Mead
Birthday: 1924-12-31
Place of Birth: Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA
Biography: Taylor Mead was an American writer, actor and performer. Mead appeared in several of Andy Warhol's underground films filmed at Warhol's Factory, as well as in works by Robert Downey Sr., Adolfas Mekas, and Ron Rice.
Movies
Coffee and Cigarettes
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who al...
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Shadows in the City
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has vis...
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Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror imag...
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Passions
A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbal...
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Babo 73
The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated Victorian—...
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The Flower Thief
A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco's deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar bra...
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Senseless
"Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstat...
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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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Toilet Gator
An alligator terrorizes residents in a New York City apartment building, attacking them in their bat...
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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - th...
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No Such Thing as Gravity
Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which...
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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyk...
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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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Cleopatra
Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the ...
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Underground U.S.A.
The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casual...
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Trail of Blood
A SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer, by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff....
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Four Stars
Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (...
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Tally Brown, New York
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunhei...
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Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson was a drag queen, sex worker, and LGBT activist who fought at Stonewall and knew A...
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Emergency: The Living Theatre
a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Myst...
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Grimace
Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artist...
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Frogs for Snakes
A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark ...
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Passion in a Seaside Slum
In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who persi...
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The Nude Restaurant
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman,...
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Brand X
In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never pai...
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Feedback
Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union....
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Buster's Bedroom
A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a ...
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365 Day Project
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calenda...
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Too Young, Too Immoral
A man recalls the sad, short life of his narcotics-addicted brother....
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Salvador Dalí at Work
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting stage...
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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghett...
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Beautiful Darling
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known War...
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Midnight Cowboy
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he ...
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Homeo
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality...
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The Illiac Passion
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his i...
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Hallelujah the Hills
Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over th...
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The Bizarre Ones
While on a leisurely ride in the country, a kinky dominatrix picks up a young male hitchhiker. At th...
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San Diego Surf
Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Sm...
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin....
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Le Désir attrapé par la queue
"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonline...
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Wonderland USA
Alice ends up in the derelict houses of Coney Island and Times Square. She sinks into a wonderland o...
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Last Supper
In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in ...
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Excavating Taylor Mead
The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment....
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Couch
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch...
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The Deflowering
A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As ...
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In the Fabulous Underground
A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked as ph...
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The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen
Taylor Mead personified Beatnik in Ron Rice’s classic The Flower Thief in 1960 and has since appeare...
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Full Circle: Before They Were Famous
An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60's of Robert India...
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New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY pol...
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The Piles Project
An experimental film which features Art World superstars Mark Kostabi and Taylor Mead....
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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/A...
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The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez
A distinctly 1960s counterculture film presenting a series of odd sex-themed vignettes....
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The Cockettes
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenom...
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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Facto...
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Ecstasy in Entropy
An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corp...
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Jonas in the Desert
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of t...
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Hit Squad
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy...
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical document...
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were...
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at ...
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Dialogue with Che
In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist, actor, ...
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Il mostro verde
Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite und...
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Lemon Hearts
Taylor Mead plays eleven roles in this entirely improvised film, as he drifts aimlessly through the ...
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To L.A. with Lust
"...wild and dirty, but so easy to understand...that it may be considered a fair introduction to cin...
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Open the Door and See all the People
Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relat...
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One Hour
One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the stree...
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worke...
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Lonesome Cowboys
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez...
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Tarzam
"The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the ar...
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Taylor Mead Dances
Tayor travels in his white Rolls Royce to the Second City nightclub, where he dances. With Tayor Mea...
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Jesus
Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their be...
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Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exc...
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La Dolce Vita Grande
Taylor plays Carlo, a famous Italian film producer, and Cyrinda Fox plays his wife Sophia, a famous ...
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Union City
A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door....
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