Ronald Tavel (May 17, 1936 – March 23, 2009) was an American screenwriter, director, novelist, poet and actor, best known for his work with Andy Warhol and The Factory.
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Ronald Tavel Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ronald Tavel |
| Also Know | Ronnie Tavel |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Writing |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1936-05-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 2009-03-23 |
Ronald Tavel Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Kitchen | 1966-03-03 | Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a “completely white†setting, scenarist Ronald Tavel created one of Warhol’s most i… | |
| Screen Test #2 | 1965-06-12 | Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliati… | |
| Screen Test #1 | Voice | 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… |
| Harlot | (voice) | 1965-01-11 | Jean Harlow-lookalike Harlot (Mario Montez), Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-s… |
| Hedy | walk-on | 1966-03-03 | Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the “14-year-old girl” she believes herself to be. She is then caug… |
| The Life of Juanita Castro | Stage Director | 1965-03-22 | A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family…. |
| Warhol’s Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties | Himself | 1989-01-01 | 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 coll… |
| Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | Himself | 2007-04-11 | In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith’s perform… |
| 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… |
Ronald Tavel Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Screen Test #2 | Director | 1965-06-12 | Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliati… |
| Screen Test #1 | Director | 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 #4 | Director | 1966-10-23 | A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins…. |
| Kitchen | Director | 1966-03-03 | Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a “completely white†setting, scenarist Ronald Tavel created one of Warhol’s most i… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Horse | Screenplay | 1965-08-28 | Warhol plunked a horse named Mighty Byrd in the middle of the Factory for this dark, homoerotic take on the classic oater that later anticipates his l… |
| Space | Writer | 1965-09-17 | A melange of casual talking, food fights, and folk singing. The film includes Eric Andersen with his guitar, singing his lines, and leading Edie Sedgw… |
| Screen Test #1 | Writer | 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 | Writer | 1966-10-23 | One of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins…. |
| Screen Test #4 | Writer | 1966-10-23 | A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins…. |
| Kitchen | Writer | 1966-03-03 | Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a “completely white†setting, scenarist Ronald Tavel created one of Warhol’s most i… |
| Vinyl | Writer | 1965-06-04 | Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess’s “A Clockwork Orange . |
| Hedy | Writer | 1966-03-03 | Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the “14-year-old girl” she believes herself to be. She is then caug… |
| Lupe | Writer | 1966-02-08 | Andy Warhol’s film Lupe (1966) restages the mythic account of one celebrity’s suicide as a strategic ploy to envision another’s. Lupe is known t… |
| The Life of Juanita Castro | Writer | 1965-03-22 | A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family…. |
| Poor Little Rich Girl | Writer | 1965-06-19 | A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe… |
| My Hustler | Writer | 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 … |
| More Milk, Yvette | Writer | 1966-02-08 | Warhol offers his own version of the notorious 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder case…. |
| Chelsea Girls | Writer | 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… |
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