Taylor Mead

Born: 1924-12-31

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.


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Midnight Cowboy

as The Party
Released: 1969-05-25

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women;...

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Coffee and Cigarettes

as Taylor (segment "Champagne")
Released: 2004-03-12

Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film...

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Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

as Award Presenter
Released: 2001-11-01

A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror...

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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-07-27

Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay...

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Hit Squad

as Ubriachella (uncredited)
Released: 1976-10-29

A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the...

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Babo 73

as President Sandy Studsbury
Released: 1964-10-05

The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated...

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Union City

as Walter
Released: 1980-09-26

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

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Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

as Self
Released: 2000-09-08

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

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Frogs for Snakes

as Doc Wax
Released: 1998-08-14

A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan...

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Beautiful Darling

as Self
Released: 2010-04-02

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known...

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Open the Door and See all the People

as Tramp
Released: 1964-03-25

Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the...

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Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson

as Himself
Released: 2012-10-15

Marsha P. Johnson was a drag queen, sex worker, and LGBT activist who fought at Stonewall and...

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Tally Brown, New York

as uncredited
Released: 1979-05-04

Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von...

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The Cockettes

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2002-01-16

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture...

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Underground U.S.A.

as The Uncle
Released: 1980-11-06

The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game...

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Jonas in the Desert

as Self
Released: 1994-01-01

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world...

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Birth of a Nation

as Self
Released: 1997-08-06

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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Imitation of Christ

as Hobo
Released: 1967-11-01

Warhol's Factory visits Los Angeles.

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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

as Self
Released: 1990-07-18

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks...

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365 Day Project

as uncredited
Released: 2007-12-31

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in...

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In the Fabulous Underground

as Self
Released: 2012-07-31

A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked...

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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

as Self
Released: 2004-05-05

Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical...

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Buster's Bedroom

as James
Released: 1991-05-09

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

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Four Stars

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-15

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25...

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Andy Warhol Screen Tests

as Self
Released: 1965-11-28

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects...

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Hallelujah the Hills

as Convict II
Released: 1963-12-16

Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man –...

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Cleopatra

as uncredited
Released: 1970-07-30

Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of...

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Lonesome Cowboys

as Nurse
Released: 1968-11-01

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

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Last Supper

as The Actor
Released: 1992-08-02

In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given...

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

as Self
Released: 2007-04-11

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker...

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Emergency: The Living Theatre

as Self
Released: 1968-09-09

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

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Couch

as Himself
Released: 1964-07-01

The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In...

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The Flower Thief

as Flower Thief
Released: 1962-04-25

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

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No Such Thing as Gravity

as The Judge
Released: 1989-01-01

Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation,...

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The Bizarre Ones

as uncredited
Released: 1968-10-01

While on a leisurely ride in the country, a kinky dominatrix picks up a young male hitchhiker....

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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

as Self
Released: 2016-04-14

Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead...

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Salvador Dali, Happenings

as uncredited
Released: 2006-11-01

In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter...

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The Nude Restaurant

as Harmonica Player
Released: 1967-11-13

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one...

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Electra Elf: The Beginning

as uncredited
Released: 2005-11-15

The birth of Electra Elf & Fluffer!

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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

as uncredited
Released: 2001-01-23

THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of...

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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

as The Atom Man
Released: 1981-08-01

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

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The Illiac Passion

as The Demon or Sprite
Released: 1967-12-30

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of...

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Brand X

as Viewer / President / Minster / Nurse
Released: 1970-05-18

In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never...

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Le Désir attrapé par la queue

as uncredited
Released: 1967-07-24

"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is...

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Excavating Taylor Mead

as Self
Released: 2005-10-08

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

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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia

as uncredited
Released: 2023-09-28

Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular...

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Il mostro verde

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-31

Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite...

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The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez

as Hernando Cortez
Released: 1969-01-01

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

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Jesus

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-01

Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss...

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Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

as Self
Released: 2010-12-03

An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60's of Robert...

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It’s Real

as uncredited
Released: 1990-01-01

A one-hour trip down Manhattan's Lower east Side.

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Salvador Dalí at Work

as Self
Released: 2006-11-11

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting...

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Ecstasy in Entropy

as uncredited
Released: 1999-01-01

An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow...

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New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture

as Himself
Released: 2008-01-01

The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY...

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Taylor Mead's Ass

as Himself
Released: 1964-01-01

Taylor Mead humorously bares his ass for Andy Warhol.

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The Piles Project

as Himself
Released: 2008-03-16

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

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Senseless

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-01

"Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays...

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San Diego Surf

as Taylor
Released: 1968-08-01

Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers...

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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

as Tarzan
Released: 1964-02-18

Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus...

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Grimace

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-01

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred...

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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

as uncredited
Released: 2008-01-01

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and...

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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

as Self
Released: 1989-01-01

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The...

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Mesmer

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-01

Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead.

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Notes for Jerome

as Self
Released: 1978-07-03

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

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Lemon Hearts

as uncredited
Released: 1963-05-26

Taylor Mead plays eleven roles in this entirely improvised film, as he drifts aimlessly through...

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Dialogue with Che

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-01

In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist,...

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Wonderland USA

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-01

Alice ends up in the derelict houses of Coney Island and Times Square. She sinks into a...

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The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen

as Himself
Released: 2011-01-01

Taylor Mead personified Beatnik in Ron Rice’s classic The Flower Thief in 1960 and has since...

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Passion in a Seaside Slum

as The Faggot
Released: 1962-01-01

In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who...

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