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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.

Taylor Mead

Taylor Mead Biography / Wiki

NameTaylor Mead
Also Know
GenderMale
Known ForActing
Place of BirthGrosse Pointe, Michigan, USA
Date of Birth1924-12-31
Age(as in 2022)88
Deathday2013-05-08

Taylor Mead Acting Movies

Movie NameCharacterRelease DateOverview
Babo 73President Sandy Studsbury1964-10-05The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated Victorian— conducts his top-secret affairs on a desert…
The Flower ThiefFlower Thief1962-04-25A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco’s deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging….
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom ManThe Atom Man1981-08-01“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monu…
Passion in a Seaside SlumThe Faggot1962-01-01In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who persistently cruises a butch guy intent only on fis…
Brand XViewer / President / Minster / Nurse1970-05-18In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and …
Tarzan and Jane Regained… Sort ofTarzan1964-02-18Shot during Warhol’s cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus – the same trip during which he filmed the footage for…
Taylor Mead’s AssHimself1965-01-01Taylor Mead humorously bares his ass for Andy Warhol….
Taylor Mead’s Acting Class1960-09-01Taylor Mead teaching his craft….
Taylor and MeHimself1963-01-01An Andy Warhol short film…
Excavating Taylor MeadHimself2005-10-08The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment….
The Party in Taylor Mead’s KitchenHimself2011-01-01Taylor Mead personified Beatnik in Ron Rice’s classic The Flower Thief in 1960 and has since appeared in scores of films. Fifty-one years later, The…
Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol SuperstarSelf2016-04-14Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in t…
Lemon Hearts1963-05-26Taylor Mead plays eleven roles in this entirely improvised film, as he drifts aimlessly through the ruins of a series of soon-to-be-demolished Victori…
C’est vrai1990-01-01A one-hour trip down Manhattan’s Lower east Side….
TarzamTarzam1969-11-20“The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His scene…
Jesus1979-01-01Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screenin…
Taylor Mead Dances1962-01-01Tayor travels in his white Rolls Royce to the Second City nightclub, where he dances. With Tayor Mead, Katherine Roberts, and Roberts Blossom….
Trail of Blood1997-01-28A SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer, by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff….
Pay It No MindHimself2012-10-15Marsha P. Johnson was a drag queen, sex worker, and LGBT activist who fought at Stonewall and knew Andy Warhol. She was a New York fixture who made h…
Mesmer1991-01-01Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead….
Full Circle: Before They Were FamousSelf2010-12-03An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60’s of Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol with their iconic works….
The Secret Life of Hernando CortezHernando Cortez1969-01-01A distinctly 1960s counterculture film presenting a series of odd sex-themed vignettes….
Dialogue with Che1968-01-01In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist, actor, producer and dancer Rolando Peña as Che. War…
Il mostro verde1967-12-31Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it’s his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, c…
To L.A. with Lust1963-05-26“…wild and dirty, but so easy to understand…that it may be considered a fair introduction to cinematic youth on-the-march. It has distinct traces …
Senseless1962-01-01“Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and p…
Cleopatra1970-07-30Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963…
The Nude RestaurantHarmonica Player1967-11-13At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string and a G-bestringed waiter…
Salvador Dalí at WorkHimself2006-11-11Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events….
Wonderland USA1989-01-01Alice ends up in the derelict houses of Coney Island and Times Square. She sinks into a wonderland of decadence and despair, into the no-mans-land of …
In the Fabulous UndergroundSelf2012-07-31A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked as photographer at Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine and…
The Piles ProjectHimself2008-03-16An experimental film which features Art World superstars Mark Kostabi and Taylor Mead….
Salvador Dali, Happenings1964-12-31In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of “Happenings” events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both “production manager” and “…
Passions1972-05-31A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow’s Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics…
Notes for JeromeSelf1978-07-03During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Si…
The Death and Life of Marsha P. JohnsonHimself (archive footage)2017-07-27Describing herself as a ‘street queen,’ Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the …
The Illiac PassionThe Demon or Sprite1967-12-30Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to…
San Diego SurfTaylor1968-08-01Viva 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…
Le Désir attrapé par la queue1967-07-24“Desire Caught by the Tail” – Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, …
Last SupperThe Actor1992-08-02In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local reside…
Feedback1978-01-01Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union….
Too Young, Too ImmoralScribbles1962-08-10A man recalls the sad, short life of his narcotics-addicted brother….
Imitation of ChristHobo1967-11-01Warhol’s Factory visits Los Angeles….
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story2000-09-08Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin….
The DefloweringJ. Jerry Franky1994-01-01A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As a result, allergies are out of control and flowers…
Warhol’s Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the SixtiesHimself1989-01-01Documentary 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…
Electra Elf: The Beginning2005-11-15The birth of Electra Elf & Fluffer!…
Lonesome CowboysNurse1968-11-01Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse….
Shadows in the CityFather1990-01-01Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him…
The Bizarre Ones1968-10-01While on a leisurely ride in the country, a kinky dominatrix picks up a young male hitchhiker. At the first opportunity she handcuffs and blindfolds h…
Buster’s BedroomJames1991-05-09A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient….
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s CountercultureHimself2008-01-01The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the street…
No Such Thing as GravityThe Judge1989-01-01Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects. “Troublemaker…
Underground U.S.A.The Uncle1980-11-06The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York’s upper depths, with Patti Astor …
A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking1981-04-09Critic Gary Indiana wrote this satire and plays Dom, a rich, naive and young homosexual who moves into his sister’s apartment. He immediately becomes …
Jonas in the DesertHimself1994-01-01Not 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…
Tally Brown, New York1979-05-04Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career…
Hallelujah the HillsConvict II1963-12-16Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera- who appears a little differently to each man- over the course of a series of energetic sketches, flashbac…
Union CityWalter1980-09-26A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief’s corpse next door….
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie CurtisHimself2004-05-05Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak o…
Ecstasy in Entropy1999-01-01An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal globali…
Andy Warhol’s Factory People… Inside the Sixties Silver Factory2008-01-01Takes 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…
****1967-12-15Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute r…
CouchHimself1964-01-01The couch at Andy Warhol’s Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to “perform…
Beautiful DarlingSelf2010-04-02James Rasin’s documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-…
Frogs for SnakesDoc Wax1998-08-14A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater….
Jack Smith and the Destruction of AtlantisHimself2007-04-11In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith’s perform…
Homeo1967-11-15Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All m…
Coffee and CigarettesTaylor2003-09-05Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individua…
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IVAward Presenter2001-11-01When the notorious Diaper Mafia take hostage the Tromaville School for the Very Special, only the Toxic Avenger and his morbidly obese sidekick Lardas…
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy WarholSelf1990-07-18Documentary portrait of Andy Warhol….
Open the Door and See all the PeopleTramp1964-03-25Based on Jerome Hill’s unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters….
Andy Warhol Screen TestsSelf1965-11-28The 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…
The CockettesSelf (archive footage)2002-01-16Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s….
Birth of a NationHimself1997-01-01Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades….
Midnight CowboyThe Party1969-05-25Joe 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…
Squadra antifurtoUbriachella (uncredited)1976-10-29A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die…..

Taylor Mead Directing Movies

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
European DiariesDirector1966-09-04“After seeing Taylor Mead’s diaries I can’t look around myself anymore. There is so much to see! So now I sit with my back to nature, like Gertr…
Home Movies: NYC to San DiegoDirector1968-01-01“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…
My Home MoviesDirector1964-06-10“My home movies which weigh 2 pounds so far began in Mexico City where I got bored and bought a 50-ft. Keystone at National Pawn Shop-I was immediatel…
Home Movies – Rome/Florence/Venice/GreeceDirector1965-07-07“N.B. Sound On Cassette. Sync beginning of sound with image before man in a red sweater. Generally, start cassette while film leader is seen” – Filmma…

Writing

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
TarzamWriter1969-11-20“The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His scene…

Sound

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom ManMusic1981-08-01“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monu…
European DiariesMusic1966-09-04“After seeing Taylor Mead’s diaries I can’t look around myself anymore. There is so much to see! So now I sit with my back to nature, like Gertr…

Other Info

Movie NameJobRelease DateOverview
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom ManEditor1981-08-01“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monu…

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