Jack Smith
Born: 1932-11-14 in Columbus, Ohio, USA
Died: 1989-09-25
Known For: Directing
Biography
Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.
Filmography
2017
- Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith as Himself (archive footage)
2012
2007
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Star Spangled to Death as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
1997
- Birth of a Nation as Self
1991
- Shadows in the City as Spirit of Death
1985
1981
1980
- The Trap Door as Dr. Shrinkelstein
- Hot Air Specialists ... (Director)
1972
- Night of the Dark Full Moon as Inmate
1970
- Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks as Self
- The Stone Age
- Wino ... (Director)
1969
- Filmmakers as Himself
- No President ... (Director)
- Song for Rent as Rose Courtyard
1968
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
- The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
- Flaming Twenties
- Normal Love Addendum Reel ... (Director)
1967
- The Illiac Passion as Orpheus
- I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
- Poem Posters as Self
- Joan of Arc as Self
- Jungle Island ... (Director)
1966
- Hedy as soothsayer
- Satisfaction as God
- In the Grip of the Lobster Claw ... (Director)
- Respectable Creatures ... (Director)
1965
- Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
- Normal Love ... (Director)
- Camp
- Dirt
- The Yellow Sequence ... (Director)
- Electrolux Lover
1964
- Batman Dracula as Batman / Dracula
- Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
- Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph” as Batman
- Jeremelu
- The Devil is Dead
- The Soap Opera
- Screen Test: Jack Smith as Himself
- Lovers of Eternity
1963
- Chumlum
- Flaming Creatures ... (Director of Photography)
- Little Stabs at Happiness as Himself
- Blonde Cobra as Madame Nescience
- Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love" as Self
- Overstimulated ... (Director)
1962
- Scotch Tape ... (Director)
1961
- The Death of P'town as Fairy Vampire
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Himself
1956
- Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice as Cult leader
- Little Cobra Dance