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.

Directed

1. Flaming Creatures (1963) — Director
2. Scotch Tape (1962) — Director
3. Normal Love (1965) — Director
4. No President (1969) — Director
5. The Yellow Sequence (1965) — Director
6. Normal Love Addendum Reel (1968) — Director
7. Wino (1970) — Director
8. The Secret of Rented Island (1978) — Director
9. In the Grip of the Lobster Claw (1966) — Director
10. Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon (1981) — Director
11. Zombie of Uncle Pawnshop — Director
12. Overstimulated (1963) — Director
13. Song for Rent (1969) — Director
14. Jungle Island (1967) — Director
15. Hot Air Specialists (1980) — Director
16. Respectable Creatures (1966) — Director
17. I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord..... (1967) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Andy Griffith Show (1960) — Himself
2. Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972) — Inmate
3. I Am Divine (2014) — Self (archive)
4. Blonde Cobra (1963) — Madame Nescience
5. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
6. Little Stabs at Happiness (1963) — Himself
7. The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968)
8. Chumlum (1963)
9. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Himself (archive footage)
10. Star Spangled to Death (2004) — The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
11. Batman Dracula (1964) — Batman / Dracula
12. Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) — Self (archive footage)
13. The Illiac Passion (1967) — Orpheus
14. The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1981)
15. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
16. Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory (2008)
17. Love Thing (2012)
18. Dirt (1965)
19. Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965) — Self
20. Two Wrenching Departures (2006)
21. The Trap Door (1980) — Dr. Shrinkelstein
22. Camp (1965)
23. Shadows in the City (1991) — Spirit of Death
24. Hedy (1966) — soothsayer
25. The Bubble People
26. The Death of P'town (1961) — Fairy Vampire
27. The Soap Opera (1964)
28. Lovers of Eternity (1964)
29. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
30. Flaming Twenties (1968)
31. Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love" (1963) — Self
32. Electrolux Lover (1965)
33. The Secret of Rented Island (1978)
34. Little Cobra Dance (1956)
35. Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956) — Cult leader
36. I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord..... (1967)
37. Filmmakers (1969) — Himself
38. Poem Posters (1967) — Self
39. Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith (2017) — Himself (archive footage)
40. Song for Rent (1969) — Rose Courtyard