Taylor Mead

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1924-12-31

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.

Crew Roles

European Diaries

Director

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

Music

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

Editor

Home Movies: NYC to San Diego

Director

European Diaries

Music

Home Movies - Rome/Florence/Venice/Greece

Director

My Home Movies

Director

Tarzam

Writer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {87}

Taylor (segment "Champagne")

2004-03-12 6.899

Coffee and Cigarettes

An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Father

1991-08-23 0

Shadows in the City

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 while having encounters with various people while ...

Genre :Drama, Horror

Award Presenter

2001-11-01 6.1

Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxie is trapped in the mirror dimension, Tromaville comes under the contro ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

1972-05-31 0

Passions

A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics and misfits as he travels, before reaching some s ...

Genre :Documentary, Drama

President Sandy Studsbury

1964-10-05 5

Babo 73

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 beach. ...

Genre :Comedy

Flower Thief

1960-01-01 6.143

The Flower Thief

A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco's deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging. ...

Genre :Comedy

1962-01-01 0

Senseless

"Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to Mexico... highly effective c ...

Genre :

The Atom Man

1981-08-01 6

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 and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monumentally Grand are joined in masterly pas de don’t [ ...

Genre :Comedy

Bar Act

2017-01-01 0

Toilet Gator

An alligator terrorizes residents in a New York City apartment building, attacking them in their bathrooms. ...

Genre :

Tarzan

1964-02-18 0

Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

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 Elvis at Ferus. Locations included Hollywood, Mal ...

Genre :Comedy

The Judge

1989-01-01 3.5

No Such Thing as Gravity

Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects. "Troublemakers" and malcontents are exiled to an artificial pla ...

Genre :Science Fiction

2023-09-28 0

Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia

Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the shores of the Lower East Side of New York as a teena ...

Genre :

Self

1978-07-03 0

Notes for Jerome

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 Sitney. The footage of this film comes from those tw ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1976-01-01 0

Will More seduciendo a Taylor Mead

Lost Zulueta short ...

Genre :Documentary

1970-07-30 4.4

Cleopatra

Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard ...

Genre :Documentary

The Uncle

1980-11-06 4

Underground U.S.A.

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 statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Des ...

Genre :Drama

1997-01-28 5

Trail of Blood

A SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer, by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff. ...

Genre :

1967-12-15 2

Four Stars

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque ...

Genre :

1979-05-04 5

Tally Brown, New York

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 of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and b ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself

2012-10-15 4.25

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 Andy Warhol. She was a New York fixture who made her motto her middle name: "Pay it no mind". This d ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1968-09-09 0

Emergency: The Living Theatre

a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces, “Paradise Now” and “Frankenstein.” “The fusion of Brown’s freewheeling di ...

Genre :Drama, Documentary

1967-01-01 0

Grimace

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the camera. ...

Genre :

Doc Wax

1998-08-14 2.4

Frogs for Snakes

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. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a ...

Genre :Thriller, Comedy, Crime

The Faggot

1962-01-01 0

Passion in a Seaside Slum

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 in one of the canals. Mead uses the magic wand of ...

Genre :Drama

Rippley

1981-04-09 0

Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

Genre :Comedy

Harmonica Player

1967-11-13 6.1

The Nude Restaurant

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. ...

Genre :Comedy

Viewer / President / Minster / Nurse

1970-05-18 3.333

Brand X

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 Wynn said he would make a film especially for Tayl ...

Genre :Comedy

1978-01-01 0

Feedback

Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union. ...

Genre :Mystery

James

1991-05-09 3

Buster's Bedroom

A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient. ...

Genre :Comedy

Self

2007-12-31 10

365 Day Project

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 an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large ...

Genre :Documentary

Scribbles

1962-08-10 8

Too Young, Too Immoral

A man recalls the sad, short life of his narcotics-addicted brother. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

2006-11-11 5

Salvador Dalí at Work

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2017-07-27 7.102

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 ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon ...

Genre :Documentary

1991-01-01 0

Mesmer

Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead. ...

Genre :

Self

2010-04-02 5.656

Beautiful Darling

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current a ...

Genre :Documentary

The Party

1969-05-25 7.5

Midnight Cowboy

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 ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy ...

Genre :Drama

Self

1967-11-15 4.714

Homeo

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 my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thi ...

Genre :Documentary

The Demon or Sprite

1967-12-30 3.7

The Illiac Passion

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he comm ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Convict II

1963-12-16 6.1

Hallelujah the Hills

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, flashbacks and homages. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Taylor

1968-08-01 0

San Diego Surf

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 daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on th ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Hobo

1967-11-01 8.5

Imitation of Christ

Warhol's Factory visits Los Angeles. ...

Genre :

1968-10-01 2.8

The Bizarre Ones

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 him, then takes him to a farmhouse where she ties u ...

Genre :Drama, Horror

Himself

1964-01-01 3.25

Taylor Mead's Ass

Taylor Mead humorously bares his ass for Andy Warhol. ...

Genre :

Self

2007-04-11 6.6

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1997-08-06 6.3

Birth of a Nation

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2000-09-08 6

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin. ...

Genre :Documentary

1967-07-24 0

Le Désir attrapé par la queue

"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, the work has been praised despite, and sometimes f ...

Genre :Drama

1989-01-01 6

Wonderland USA

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 lost souls, charlatans, broken dreams and cheap pe ...

Genre :Drama

1960-09-01 0

Taylor Mead's Acting Class

Taylor Mead teaching his craft. ...

Genre :

Himself

1963-01-01 0

Taylor and Me

A film that's often credited to Andy Warhol, but was shot by Ron Rice. ...

Genre :

The Actor

1992-08-02 0

Last Supper

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 residents, dealing with the practicality of life, look o ...

Genre :Drama

Self

2005-10-08 0

Excavating Taylor Mead

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1964-07-01 6

Couch

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" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many a ...

Genre :

J. Jerry Franky

1994-01-01 0

The Deflowering

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 are considered poisonous. Amidst this chaos, one ...

Genre :

Self

2010-12-03 0

Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

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. ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself

2008-01-01 0

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 political activists, artists and people on the street. The mosaic of voices heard in the documentary cr ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

2012-07-31 6.7

In the Fabulous Underground

A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked as photographer at Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine and has been active member of the Factory since early ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself

2011-01-01 0

The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen

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 Party in Taylor Mead’s Kitchen finds Taylor still l ...

Genre :

Self

2016-04-14 0

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/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s. ...

Genre :

Himself

2008-03-16 0

The Piles Project

An experimental film which features Art World superstars Mark Kostabi and Taylor Mead. ...

Genre :

Self

1989-01-01 0

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 Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in collaboration with Simon Field. ...

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2002-01-16 6.5

The Cockettes

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s. ...

Genre :Documentary

Hernando Cortez

1969-01-01 0

The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez

A distinctly 1960s counterculture film presenting a series of odd sex-themed vignettes. ...

Genre :

Self

1994-01-01 5.5

Jonas in the Desert

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 independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the ...

Genre :Documentary

2005-11-15 0

Electra Elf: The Beginning

The birth of Electra Elf & Fluffer! ...

Genre :Comedy, Adventure

1999-01-01 3.7

Ecstasy in Entropy

An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal globalisation through amateur wrestling, gun juggling and ...

Genre :Drama

Self

2004-05-05 2.6

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 documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curt ...

Genre :Documentary

Ubriachella (uncredited)

1976-10-29 6.5

Hit Squad

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. ...

Genre :Comedy, Action

Self

1965-11-28 8

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

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, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex ...

Genre :Documentary

Self

1990-07-18 7.3

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

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. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing ...

Genre :Documentary

1968-01-01 5

Dialogue with Che

In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist, actor, producer and dancer Rolando Peña as Che. Warhol superstar Taylor Mead is also featured, in the role ...

Genre :

1967-05-21 0

Il mostro verde

Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, cheeky hommage to B-movies. ...

Genre :

1963-05-26 0

Lemon Hearts

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 Victorian houses, sometimes appearing in drag, sometimes ...

Genre :

1963-05-26 0

To L.A. with Lust

"...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 of humor...and offers several moments of pleasure. ...

Genre :

Tramp

1964-03-25 5

Open the Door and See all the People

Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters. ...

Genre :Comedy

1990-01-01 5.8

One Hour

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 unique record of a particular time and place—July 26, ...

Genre :Documentary

2008-01-01 2.875

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 "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and ...

Genre :

Nurse

1968-11-01 4.7

Lonesome Cowboys

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse. ...

Genre :Western, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Tarzam

1969-11-20 0

Tarzam

"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 deepens from innocence to corruption and to final ...

Genre :

1962-01-01 0

Taylor Mead Dances

Tayor travels in his white Rolls Royce to the Second City nightclub, where he dances. With Tayor Mead, Katherine Roberts, and Roberts Blossom. ...

Genre :

1979-01-01 0

Jesus

Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screening at The Kitchen in 1980 – mixes documentary elements su ...

Genre :Documentary

2005-01-23 7

Man Under Wire

An interaction between two downtown legends and a pigeon. ...

Genre :Comedy

2005-11-25 0

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 exceptional participation of Ultraviolet, never-before-seen images of the "private" Warhol and archival ...

Genre :Documentary

1973-08-11 0

La Dolce Vita Grande

Taylor plays Carlo, a famous Italian film producer, and Cyrinda Fox plays his wife Sophia, a famous Italian movie star. Sophia, who has fired his driver Ninno, has to re-hire the driver in order to ke ...

Genre :TV Movie

Walter

1980-09-26 4.9

Union City

A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Self - Poet

1975-10-11 7

Saturday Night Live

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying ...