Taylor Mead
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.716 |
| Birthday | 1924-12-31 |
| Place of Birth | Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA |
| Also Known As |
2004
Coffee and Cigarettes
6.925/940
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individua...
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Coffee and Cigarettes
1991
Shadows in the City
0/0
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...
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Shadows in the City
2001
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
6.3/143
A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxie is trapped in the m...
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Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
1972
Passions
0/0
A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics...
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Passions
1964
Babo 73
5/5
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 bea...
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Babo 73
1962
The Flower Thief
7/6
A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco's deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging.
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The Flower Thief
1962
Senseless
0/1
"Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and p...
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Senseless
1981
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
6/6
“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monume...
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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
2017
Toilet Gator
0/0
An alligator terrorizes residents in a New York City apartment building, attacking them in their bathrooms.
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Toilet Gator
1964
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
0/0
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...
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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
1989
No Such Thing as Gravity
3.5/4
Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects. "Troublemaker...
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No Such Thing as Gravity
2023
Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
0/0
Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the sh...
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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
1978
Notes for Jerome
0/0
During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Si...
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Notes for Jerome
1976
Will More seduciendo a Taylor Mead
0/0
Lost Zulueta short
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Will More seduciendo a Taylor Mead
1970
Cleopatra
6/2
Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963...
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Cleopatra
1980
Underground U.S.A.
4/5
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...
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Underground U.S.A.
1997
Trail of Blood
5/1
A SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer, by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff.
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Trail of Blood
1967
Four Stars
2/1
Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute r...
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Four Stars
1979
Tally Brown, New York
5/2
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career...
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Tally Brown, New York
2012
Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson
5.3/3
Marsha P. Johnson was a drag queen, sex worker, and LGBT activist who fought at Stonewall and knew Andy Warhol. She was a New York fixture who made h...
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Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson
1968
Emergency: The Living Theatre
0/0
a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces, “Paradise Now” and “Fra...
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Emergency: The Living Theatre
1967
Grimace
0/0
Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the cam...
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Grimace
1998
Frogs for Snakes
2/1
A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater....
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Frogs for Snakes
1962
Passion in a Seaside Slum
0/0
In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who persistently cruises a butch guy intent only on fishing...
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Passion in a Seaside Slum
1981
Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
0/0
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Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
1967
The Nude Restaurant
6.7/9
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...
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The Nude Restaurant
1970
Brand X
4/2
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...
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Brand X
1978
Feedback
0/0
Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union.
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Feedback
2001
Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd
8/1
THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and rare c...
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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd
1991
Buster's Bedroom
3.5/2
A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.
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Buster's Bedroom
2007
365 Day Project
0/0
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for...
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365 Day Project
1962
Too Young, Too Immoral
8/1
A man recalls the sad, short life of his narcotics-addicted brother.
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Too Young, Too Immoral
2006
Salvador Dalí at Work
5/1
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.
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Salvador Dalí at Work
2017
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
7.126/99
Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the da...
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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
1991
Mesmer
0/0
Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead.
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Mesmer
2010
Beautiful Darling
5.967/15
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brie...
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Beautiful Darling
1969
Midnight Cowboy
7.521/1416
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an aili...
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Midnight Cowboy
1967
Homeo
5.167/6
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 m...
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Homeo
1967
The Illiac Passion
3.5/2
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to...
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The Illiac Passion
1963
Hallelujah the Hills
6.1/14
Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic sketches, flashb...
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Hallelujah the Hills
1968
The Bizarre Ones
4/2
While on a leisurely ride in the country, a kinky dominatrix picks up a young male hitchhiker. At the first opportunity she handcuffs and blindfolds h...
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The Bizarre Ones
1967
Imitation of Christ
8.5/2
Warhol's Factory visits Los Angeles.
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Imitation of Christ
1968
San Diego Surf
0/0
Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their...
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San Diego Surf
1964
Taylor Mead's Ass
3.7/3
Taylor Mead humorously bares his ass for Andy Warhol.
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Taylor Mead's Ass
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
6.6/7
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's perform...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
1997
Birth of a Nation
6.3/3
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Birth of a Nation
2000
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
6.4/9
Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin.
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Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
1967
Le Désir attrapé par la queue
0/0
"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher,...
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Le Désir attrapé par la queue
1989
Wonderland USA
6/1
Alice ends up in the derelict houses of Coney Island and Times Square. She sinks into a wonderland of decadence and despair, into the no-mans-land of...
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Wonderland USA
1960
Taylor Mead's Acting Class
0/0
Taylor Mead teaching his craft.
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Taylor Mead's Acting Class
1980
Union City
5.1/12
A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
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Union City
1963
Taylor and Me
0/0
A film that's often credited to Andy Warhol, but was shot by Ron Rice.
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Taylor and Me
1992
Last Supper
0/0
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 reside...
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Last Supper
2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
0/0
The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.
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Excavating Taylor Mead
1964
Couch
6.2/5
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...
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Couch
1994
The Deflowering
0/0
A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As a result, allergies are out of control and flowers...
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The Deflowering
2008
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
0/0
The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the street...
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New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2011
The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen
0/0
Taylor Mead personified Beatnik in Ron Rice’s classic The Flower Thief in 1960 and has since appeared in scores of films. Fifty-one years later, The P...
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The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen
2010
Full Circle: Before They Were Famous
0/0
An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60's of Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol with their iconic works.
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Full Circle: Before They Were Famous
2008
The Piles Project
0/0
An experimental film which features Art World superstars Mark Kostabi and Taylor Mead.
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The Piles Project
2016
Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
0/0
Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in t...
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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
2012
In the Fabulous Underground
6.7/6
A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked as photographer at Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine and...
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In the Fabulous Underground
2002
The Cockettes
6.7/16
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
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The Cockettes
1969
The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez
0/0
A distinctly 1960s counterculture film presenting a series of odd sex-themed vignettes.
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The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez
1989
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
0/0
Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in coll...
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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
2005
Electra Elf: The Beginning
0/0
The birth of Electra Elf & Fluffer!
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Electra Elf: The Beginning
1999
Ecstasy in Entropy
3.7/3
An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal globali...
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Ecstasy in Entropy
1994
Jonas in the Desert
5.5/4
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of in...
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Jonas in the Desert
2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
3/4
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her...
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
1976
Hit Squad
6.5/39
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
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Hit Squad
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
8/3
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, a...
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
7.3/3
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. Th...
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1968
Dialogue with Che
5/2
In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist, actor, producer and dancer Rolando Peña as Che. Warhol su...
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Dialogue with Che
1967
Il mostro verde
0/0
Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, c...
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Il mostro verde
1963
Lemon Hearts
0/0
Taylor Mead plays eleven roles in this entirely improvised film, as he drifts aimlessly through the ruins of a series of soon-to-be-demolished Victori...
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Lemon Hearts
1963
To L.A. with Lust
0/0
"...wild and dirty, but so easy to understand...that it may be considered a fair introduction to cinematic youth on-the-march. It has distinct traces...
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To L.A. with Lust
1964
Open the Door and See all the People
5/1
Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.
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Open the Door and See all the People
1990
It’s Real
5.8/4
One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is it a uni...
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It’s Real
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
3.5/3
Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, makin...
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
1968
Lonesome Cowboys
4.8/10
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
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Lonesome Cowboys
1969
Tarzam
0/0
"The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His scene...
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Tarzam
1962
Taylor Mead Dances
0/0
Tayor travels in his white Rolls Royce to the Second City nightclub, where he dances. With Tayor Mead, Katherine Roberts, and Roberts Blossom.
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Taylor Mead Dances
1979
Jesus
0/0
Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screening at T...
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Jesus
2006
Salvador Dali, Happenings
5/1
In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and "...
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