Jack Smith
Biography
Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.
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Known For
Acting History
2017
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith as Himself (archive footage)
2012Love Thing
2007Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis as Self (archive footage)
2006Two Wrenching Departures
2004Star Spangled to Death as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
1997Birth of a Nation as Self
1991Shadows in the City as Spirit of Death
1985Home Movies 1971-81
1981The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1980The Trap Door as Dr. Shrinkelstein
1978The Secret of Rented Island
1972Night of the Dark Full Moon as Inmate
1970The Stone Age
1970Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks as Self
1969Filmmakers as Himself
1969Song for Rent as Rose Courtyard
1968Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
1968The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968Flaming Twenties
1967The Illiac Passion as Orpheus
1967Poem Posters as Self
1967Joan of Arc as Self
1967I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
1966Satisfaction as God
1966Hedy as soothsayer
1965Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
1965Camp
1965Dirt
1965Electrolux Lover
1964Jeremelu
1964The Devil is Dead
1964Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
1964Batman Dracula as Batman / Dracula
1964Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph” as Batman
1964The Soap Opera
1964Screen Test: Jack Smith as Himself
1963Chumlum
1963Little Stabs at Happiness as Himself
1963Blonde Cobra as Madame Nescience
1963Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love" as Self
1961The Death of P'town as Fairy Vampire
1960The Andy Griffith Show as Himself
1956Little Cobra Dance
1956Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice as Cult leader
—The Bubble People