Taylor Mead


Biography

Taylor Mead was an actor who made a successful career for himself in film. Mead's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "The Flower Thief" (1962), the Maybelle Nash comedic fantasy "Open the Door and See All the People" (1963) and the Gerard Malanga experimental "Couch" (1964). He also appeared in "Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of" (1964) and "Lonesome C...

Biography

Taylor Mead was an actor who made a successful career for himself in film. Mead's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "The Flower Thief" (1962), the Maybelle Nash comedic fantasy "Open the Door and See All the People" (1963) and the Gerard Malanga experimental "Couch" (1964). He also appeared in "Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of" (1964) and "Lonesome Cowboys" (1969). His film career continued throughout the seventies and the eighties in productions like the Greta Keller documentary "Underground and Emigrants" (1975), "Feedback" (1979) and "Underground U.S.A." (1980). In his more recent career, he tackled roles in the drama "Buster's Bedroom" (1993) with Donald Sutherland, "Memoirs of a Madman" (1994) and "Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity" (1996) with Desiree Nick. Mead most recently appeared on the Alice Neel documentary "The Feature" (2009).

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

European Diaries (1966)
Director

Cast (Feature Film)

The Feature (2009)
Himself
Jack Smith & the Destruction of Atlantis (2006)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)
Himself
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Himself
Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000)
Darling International (1999)
Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity (1996)
The Painter (1995)
Memoirs of a Madman (1994)
Elderly Man
Last Supper (1992)
Shadows in the City (1991)
Father
Buster's Bedroom (1990)
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
Himself
No Such Thing as Gravity (1989)
Wonderland U.S.A. (1989)
Union City (1980)
Underground U.S.A. (1980)
Feedback (1979)
Judge
Tally Brown, N.Y. (1978)
Underground and Emigrants (1975)
Himself
Lost, Lost, Lost (1975)
Brand X (1970)
Viewer/nurse/president/minister
Imitation of Christ (1970)
Hobo
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Dialogo con Ché (1969)
Wide Point (1969)
The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez (1969)
Hernando Cortez
The Illiac Passion (1968)
The Demon or Sprite
Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
The nurse
Grimaces (1968)
Nude Restaurant (1967)
Harmonica player
European Diaries (1966)
Taylor Mead's Ass (1966)
Babo 73 (1964)
The President
Tarzan and Jane Regained Sort Of (1964)
Tarzan
Open the Door and See All the People (1964)
Tramp
Hallelujah the Hills (1963)
2d convict
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963)
Beatnik
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963)
Too Young, Too Immoral! (1962)
Scribbles
The Flower Thief (1962)
Flower thief

Cinematography (Feature Film)

European Diaries (1966)
Director of Photography

Editing (Feature Film)

Tarzan and Jane Regained Sort Of (1964)
Film Editor
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1963)
Editor

Music (Feature Film)

European Diaries (1966)
Piano improvisations

Sound (Feature Film)

Tarzan and Jane Regained Sort Of (1964)
Sound-on-tape

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

The Feature (2009)
Other
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)
Other
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Other
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
Other
Underground and Emigrants (1975)
Other

Life Events

Bibliography