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Paul Morrissey (born February 23, 1938) is an American film director, best known for his association with Andy Warhol. He was also director of Trash (1970), the first film in which a transgender actress, Holly Woodlawn , starred as a girlfriend of a main character (played in this film by Joe Dallesandro ).
- February 23, 1938 (age 85), New York City, U.S.
- Filmmaker
Paul Morrissey is an American filmmaker who worked with Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground in the 1960s and 1970s. He directed cult classics such as Flesh, Trash, Blood for Dracula and Heat, and wrote and shot many of them.
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Feb 22, 2020 · An interview with Paul Morrissey. Paul Morrissey turns 81 on February 23, 2020, so to honor this zany auteur who embodies the contradictions of our age – a straight right-wing Catholic Republican who made raw, sardonic improvised movies with Andy Warhol’s radical coterie of queens, drag queens, hustlers, and muscle studs and in 2013 told ...
Feb 13, 2009 · Paul Morrissey is the director of Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula, and a filmmaker who has influenced many others with his style and vision. He shares his personal list of his top 10 films, from classics like The Third Man and The Scarlet Empress to modern works like The Leopard and The White Sheik.
Learn about Paul Morrissey, a film director who worked with Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground in the 1960s and 1970s. Find out his birth date, education, filmography, trivia and quotes on IMDb.
- February 23, 1938
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Apr 1, 2024 · Now showing at the Roxy Cinema, in collaboration with Interview, is a selection of Paul Morrissey’s films. The Gospel According to Paul Morrissey features one of the visionary’s films every Wednesday night for the next few weeks, including Flesh, San Diego Surf, Chelsea Girls, The Loves of Ondine, and My Hustler, from 1965, the first of many movies that Morrissey made in collaboration with ...
Feb 22, 2024 · He was one the first directors to actually cast trans women in movies, not to mention the outrageous displays of sex and full-frontal nudity he put onscreen. Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro and Udo Kier filming Blood For Dracula in 1973. In my youth, I used to say that within the holy trilogy of the Morrissey-directed flicks Flesh, Trash, and ...
