Paul Morrissey

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Feb 23, 1938 (87 years old)
Death date
Oct 28, 2024

Paul Morrissey

Known For

Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me
1h 22m
Movie 2019

Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me

My mother googles the film hero of her youth: Helmut Berger. She is shocked: only an addicted shadow of the former icon seems to be left. She decides to halt the obvious catastrophic decline of the once “most handsome man in the world”. As a consequence, this one-time god of the screen is suddenly sitting on my mother’s sofa in Nordsehl in Lower Saxony. And he stays put - for several months. While he trustingly rolls out his whole life before us, the dividing lines between film team, world star and family intermingle. This is a film about ageing, rising and falling - and about the fact that it is sometimes possible to regain an element of dignity in life.

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Movie 2016

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

Danny Says
1h 44m
Movie 2015

Danny Says

DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture with seminal acts including: the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, MC5, Nico, the Ramones and beyond.

Beautiful Darling
1h 26m
Movie 2010

Beautiful Darling

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
1h 30m
Movie 2008

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

Takes 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, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
1h 15m
Movie 2007

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right, offers a exploration of the Factory era, an homage to Williams's talent, a journey of family discovery and a compelling inquiry into Williams's mysterious disappearance at age 27.

Excavating Taylor Mead
1h 29m
Movie 2005

Excavating Taylor Mead

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
1h 35m
Movie 2004

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
1h 15m
Movie 2000

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin.

Divine Trash
1h 37m
Movie 2000

Divine Trash

The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.

Biography

Paul Morrissey (February 23, 1938 - October 28, 2024) was an American film director, best-known for his association with Andy Warhol. Morrissey attended Ampleforth College, a private Roman Catholic boarding school and Fordham University, both Roman Catholic schools, and later served in the United States Army. A political conservative and self-described "right-winger", who has publicly protested against what he perceives as immorality and "anti-Catholicism", Morrissey's long-term collaboration with the low-keyed, apparently apolitical Warhol was viewed by many as "a successful mismatch", although both men did share some traits, i.e. both were practising Catholics from "ethnic" backgrounds (Warhol was of Rusyn descent and Morrissey is of Irish descent). Morrissey's bold, avant-garde direction in filmmaking is often attributed to his relationship with Warhol and The Factory, although Morrissey claimed in his memoir, Factory Days, that this is not the case.

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