Jack Smith

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

45

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-11-14

Deathday

1989-09-25 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Columbus, Ohio, USA

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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Acting

The Bubble People
2017
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith as Himself (archive footage)
2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
2012
Love Thing
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis as Self (archive footage)
2006
Two Wrenching Departures
2004
Star Spangled to Death as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
1997
Birth of a Nation as Self
1991
Shadows in the City as Spirit of Death
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
1981
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1980
The Trap Door as Dr. Shrinkelstein
1978
The Secret of Rented Island
1972
Night of the Dark Full Moon as Inmate
1970
The Stone Age
1969
Filmmakers as Himself
1969
Song for Rent as Rose Courtyard
1968
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968
Flaming Twenties
1967
The Illiac Passion as Orpheus
1967
Poem Posters as Self
1967
Joan of Arc as Self
1967
I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
1966
Satisfaction as God
1966
Hedy as soothsayer
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
1965
Camp
1965
Dirt
1965
Electrolux Lover
1964
Jeremelu
1964
The Devil is Dead
1964
Batman Dracula as Batman / Dracula
1964
Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph” as Batman
1964
Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
1964
The Soap Opera
1964
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks as Self
1964
Screen Test: Jack Smith as Himself
1963
Chumlum
1963
Little Stabs at Happiness as Himself
1963
Blonde Cobra as Madame Nescience
1963
Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love" as Self
1963
The Death of P'town as Fairy Vampire
1960
The Andy Griffith Show as Himself
1956
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice as Cult leader
1956
Little Cobra Dance

Camera

1963
Flaming Creatures as Director of Photography

Directing

Zombie of Uncle Pawnshop as Director
1981
Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon as Director
1980
Hot Air Specialists as Director
1978
The Secret of Rented Island as Director
1970
Wino as Director
1969
No President as Director
1969
Song for Rent as Director
1968
Normal Love Addendum Reel as Director
1967
Jungle Island as Director
1967
I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord..... as Director
1966
In the Grip of the Lobster Claw as Director
1966
Respectable Creatures as Director
1965
The Yellow Sequence as Director
1963
Overstimulated as Director
1963
Flaming Creatures as Director
1963
Normal Love as Director
1962
Scotch Tape as Director

Editing

1963
Flaming Creatures as Editor

Production

1963
Flaming Creatures as Producer

Writing

1969
No President as Writer
1963
Flaming Creatures as Writer
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