Paul Morrissey (born 23 February 1938, New York City) is an American film director, best-known for his association with Andy Warhol.
Morrissey attended Ampleforth College, a private Roman Catholic boarding school and Fordham University, both Roman Catholic schools, and later served in the United States Army. A political conservative and self-described “right-winger”, who has publicly protested against what he perceives as immorality and “anti-Catholicism”, Morrissey’s long-term collaboration with the low-keyed, apparently apolitical Warhol was viewed by many as “a successful mismatch”, although both men did share some traits, i.e. both were practising Catholics from “ethnic” backgrounds (Warhol was of Rusyn descent and Morrissey is of Irish descent).
Morrissey’s bold, avant-garde direction in filmmaking is often attributed to his relationship with Warhol and The Factory, although Morrissey claimed in his memoir, Factory Days, that this is not the case.
Paul Morrissey Biography / Wiki
| Name | Paul Morrissey |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | N/A |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1938-02-23 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 84 |
| Deathday |
Paul Morrissey Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Paul Morrissey: Autumn in Montauk | Self | Legendary filmmaker Paul Morrissey waxes disgruntled about sex, religion, & art…. | |
| Room 666 | Self | 1982-06-01 | During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and a… |
| A Look on the Wild Side | Himself | 2002-01-01 | A Cannes red carpet tribute for three iconic protagonists of Warhol’s Factory glory days…. |
| Andy Warhol | Himself | 1987-01-01 | The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips fr… |
| Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage | Self | 2016-09-05 | … |
| Diane the Zebra Woman | 1962-01-01 | Diane the Zebra Woman follows four women’s misadventures through the streets of New York City in 1962. All played by Flame Schon, the characters con… | |
| Excavating Taylor Mead | Himself | 2005-10-08 | The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment…. |
| Home Movies: NYC to San Diego | 1968-01-01 | “The film flickers through a millennium of culture as it would appear to a tourist. It is an intense film, yet there is an incredible wealth of info… | |
| Beautiful Darling | Self | 2010-04-02 | James Rasin’s documentary “Beautiful Darling†honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-… |
| Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story | 2000-09-08 | Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin…. | |
| Superartist | Himself | 1967-01-01 | Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at the peak of his powers in 1965 and 1966, around his … |
| Danny Says | Self (archive footage) | 2015-03-18 | DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture with seminal acts inc… |
| Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture | Himself | 2001-01-27 | Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase “In the future, everyone will be famous… |
| A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory | Himself | 2007-09-19 | Esther Robinson’s portrait of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol’s onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right, offers a exploration of t… |
| Nico Icon | Himself | 1995-02-18 | A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva… |
| Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film | Self | 2006-09-01 | Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol…. |
| Jonas in the Desert | Himself | 1994-01-01 | 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… |
| Divine Trash | Himself | 1998-01-18 | The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters…. |
| Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis | Himself | 2004-05-05 | Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.†In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak o… |
| Warhol | Himself | 1973-03-27 | David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, broadened his horizons in the early 1970s by making hi… |
| Andy Warhol’s Factory People… Inside the Sixties Silver Factory | 2008-01-01 | 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… | |
| Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me | self (archive footage) | 2019-03-07 | My mother googles the film hero of her youth: Helmut Berger. She is shocked: only an addicted shadow of the former icon seems to be left. She decides … |
| Andy Warhol | Self | 1972-01-02 | With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a … |
| Resident Alien | Self | 1990-09-14 | At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter’s camera follows Crisp a… |
| Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol | Self (archive footage) | 1990-07-18 | Documentary portrait of Andy Warhol…. |
| Rich and Famous | Malibu Party Guest | 1981-09-23 | Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich…. |
| Andy Warhol Screen Tests | Self | 1965-11-28 | 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… |
| Midnight Cowboy | The Party | 1969-05-25 | 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… |
Paul Morrissey Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Chelsea Girls | Director | 1966-09-01 | Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol’s mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be sc… |
| Flesh for Frankenstein | Director | 1973-11-30 | Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As th… |
| Flesh | Director | 1968-12-16 | A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters wit… |
| Heat | Director | 1972-10-06 | Former child star Joe Davis, reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he m… |
| Lonesome Cowboys | Director | 1968-11-01 | Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse…. |
| Blood for Dracula | Director | 1974-08-13 | Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin’s blood. They’re welcomed at the crumbling estate of i… |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Director | 1978-07-21 | Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the B… |
| I, a Man | Director | 1967-08-24 | Morrissey and Warhol’s commercial take on the Swedish film I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein … |
| Mixed Blood | Director | 1984-10-01 | On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neigh… |
| Trash | Director | 1970-10-05 | The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe’s … |
| Spike of Bensonhurst | Director | 1988-11-11 | Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is thr… |
| Women in Revolt | Director | 1971-12-01 | Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn’t make them any happier…. |
| Veruschka: A Life for the Camera | Director | 2005-09-30 | Vera von Lehndorff is a Prussian noblewoman and daughter of the Count Lehndorff, a leader of the anti-Nazi resistance, executed during WW II. She was … |
| Forty Deuce | Director | 1982-10-01 | A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies…. |
| Madame Wang’s | Director | 1981-01-01 | Madame Wang’s is a story about a Sadomachistic East German, (played by Patrick Shoene) who comes to L.A. looking for Jane Fonda to help lead the revol… |
| I Miss Sonia Henie | Director | 1971-01-20 | One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task… |
| Beethoven’s Nephew | Director | 1985-09-18 | The plot centers around old Beethoven’s fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a lengthy custody battle against his brother’s forme… |
| The Origin of Captain America | Director | 1964-01-01 | A young man reads a comic depicting what the title says. We see his face and reactions. He finally finishes the book and leaves the scene…. |
| Like Sleep | Director | 1965-06-21 | A young man and a young woman seated on a sofa use the traditional tools to inject drugs into their veins…. |
| All Aboard the Dreamland Choo-Choo | Director | 1964-03-03 | A young man smokes a cigarette and then uses a surgeon scalpel to wound his thigh…. |
| News from Nowhere | Director | 2010-09-02 | Drama – – Demian Gabriel, Nicole LaLiberte, Viva… |
| The Loves of Ondine | Director | 1968-08-01 | Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different women. After trying his luck with three women, Ondine … |
| San Diego Surf | Director | 1968-08-01 | 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… |
| The Armchair Hacker | Director | 1985-06-08 | A computer hacker uses his high-tech skills to get into personal computers, and from their into their homes. His sister is the only chance the world h… |
| L’Amour | Director | 1973-05-10 | Donna and Jane are two American hippies, searching for sex and romance in Paris but, mainly, rich husbands. Eventually, Donna finds a perfume industri… |
| The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound | Director | 1966-02-08 | The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including Nico, and is essentially one long loose improvisation…. |
| Taylor Mead Dances | Director | 1962-01-01 | Tayor travels in his white Rolls Royce to the Second City nightclub, where he dances. With Tayor Mead, Katherine Roberts, and Roberts Blossom…. |
| Changing Fashions | Director | 1993-07-15 | Anthony Kiedis and Sofia Coppola try to escape the fashion influence of Debbie Harry…. |
Paul Morrissey Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Women in Revolt | Executive Producer | 1971-12-01 | Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn’t make them any happier…. |
| L’Amour | Producer | 1973-05-10 | Donna and Jane are two American hippies, searching for sex and romance in Paris but, mainly, rich husbands. Eventually, Donna finds a perfume industri… |
| Blue Movie | Executive Producer | 1969-06-12 | Viva and Louis Waldon spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City…. |
| Lonesome Cowboys | Producer | 1968-11-01 | Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Flesh for Frankenstein | Screenplay | 1973-11-30 | Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As th… |
| Flesh | Author | 1968-12-16 | A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters wit… |
| Blood for Dracula | Writer | 1974-08-13 | Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin’s blood. They’re welcomed at the crumbling estate of i… |
| Mixed Blood | Screenplay | 1984-10-01 | On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neigh… |
| Beethoven’s Nephew | Writer | 1985-09-18 | The plot centers around old Beethoven’s fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a lengthy custody battle against his brother’s forme… |
| Spike of Bensonhurst | Screenplay | 1988-11-11 | Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is thr… |
| Spike of Bensonhurst | Story | 1988-11-11 | Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is thr… |
| Trash | Writer | 1970-10-05 | The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe’s … |
| Heat | Story | 1972-10-06 | Former child star Joe Davis, reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he m… |
| Women in Revolt | Writer | 1971-12-01 | Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn’t make them any happier…. |
| L’Amour | Writer | 1973-05-10 | Donna and Jane are two American hippies, searching for sex and romance in Paris but, mainly, rich husbands. Eventually, Donna finds a perfume industri… |
| Madame Wang’s | Writer | 1981-01-01 | Madame Wang’s is a story about a Sadomachistic East German, (played by Patrick Shoene) who comes to L.A. looking for Jane Fonda to help lead the revol… |
| Lonesome Cowboys | Writer | 1968-11-01 | Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse…. |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Writer | 1978-07-21 | Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the B… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Superartist | Sound | 1967-01-01 | Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at the peak of his powers in 1965 and 1966, around his … |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Flesh | Director of Photography | 1968-12-16 | A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters wit… |
| Heat | Director of Photography | 1972-10-06 | Former child star Joe Davis, reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he m… |
| Bike Boy | Director of Photography | 1967-10-05 | Joe Spencer, a member of a motorcycle gang, is taking a shower. After his bout with personal hygiene, Joe encounters Andy Warhol’s “superstars,” who e… |
| Moe Gets Tied Up | Camera Operator | 1966-08-01 | Or “Moe in Bondage” – The “Moe” of the title is the Velvet Underground’s drummer, Maureen Tucker, whose band-mates have tied her to a chair and are no… |
| The Velvet Underground Tarot Cards | Camera Operator | 1966-08-01 | Documents each member of The Velvet Underground having their cards read at a big apartment party. The tarot reader is continually interrupted in her r… |
| Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick | Director of Photography | 1965-01-01 | Andy directs Edie for a screen test…. |
| Screen Test: Helmut | Director of Photography | 1966-01-01 | Screen Test: Helmut, by Andy Warhol, is a five minute silent black and white continuous close-up of a young man’s face. The face remains deathly sti… |
| Screen Test: Lou Reed (Coke) | Director of Photography | 1966-01-01 | Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke…. |
| My Hustler | Camera Operator | 1966-01-12 | Set on Fire Island, My Hustler depicts competition over the affections of a young male hustler among a straight woman, a former male hustler, and the … |
| Screen Test #1 | Cinematography | 1965-06-12 | Ronald Tavel taunts Philip Fagan, who lacks the verbal dexterity to counter the clever spider’s web of words that Ronald Tavel weaves to ensnare him… |
| Screen Test #3 | Cinematography | 1966-10-23 | One of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins…. |
| Screen Test #4 | Cinematography | 1966-10-23 | A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins…. |
| Lonesome Cowboys | Cinematography | 1968-11-01 | Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse…. |
| The Andy Warhol Story | Cinematography | 1966-01-01 | Andy Warhol (Rene Ricard) invites a friend (Edie Sedgwick) over to his apartment one evening to discuss his career. As they talk, the truth about how … |
| Trash | Cinematography | 1970-10-05 | The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe’s … |
| Women in Revolt | Editor | 1971-12-01 | Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn’t make them any happier…. |
| Lonesome Cowboys | Editor | 1968-11-01 | Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse…. |
| Trash | Editor | 1970-10-05 | The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe’s … |
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