Holly Woodlawn
Know for: Acting
Born: 1946-10-26
Place of birth: Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico
Also know as:
Resident Alien (1990)
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp...
Night Owl (1993)
A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks their blood. Meanwhile, a young Puerto Rican guy...
This Is America (1977)
Inspired by shock-documentaries like Mondo Cane, this film looks at the wilder side of life in America. Starting off with the bloodier side of the...
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisses, with drag queens playing the female roles. For...
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story (2015)
Seed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes helped shaped and create gay identity in the...
Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia (2005)
A documentary about queer realities and cultural amnesia.
Scathed (1995)
A truly odd little mood piece, it features Matthew Bell (the narrator of Gregory's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth) as a guy named Joe...
Trash (1970)
The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers on Joe's...
The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival (1972)
A stimulating, hilarious, provocative collection of the best American films dealing with you-know-what. Prize-winning films chosen by judges Gore...
Beverly Hills Hustlers (1996)
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Women in Revolt (1971)
Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in...
Take Off (1978)
A Don Juan-like playboy doesn't get old, but a stag film of his does in this hardcore riff on The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Is There Sex After Death? (1971)
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the...
I Am Divine (2013)
Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body...
Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia (2023)
Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the...
Andy Warhol (1972)
With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to...
Bad Marien's Last Year (1971)
Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn teams up with jazz superstar Asha Puthli for a weekend romp in the Hamptons, in which they play two angels...
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972)
An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.
Heaven Wants Out (2009)
Once a hot spot, the Bowery Follies Cabaret is now just another broken down New York City nightclub populated with the last vestiges of vaudeville...
The Sound Of Muzak (1986)
Holly Woodlawn stars along with underground personalities of downtown New York in this adaptation of “the sound of music” by the renowned...
Phantom Pain (1996)
Kristy Nichols is a prostitute with a difference — she is transgender. She decides to make a life change just as a college film professor...
Underground and Emigrants (1976)
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts...
Tally Brown, New York (1979)
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting...
Nelson Sullivan (1989)
Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and...
She Gone Rogue (2012)
While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by...
Beautiful Darling (2010)
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her...
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
Broken Goddess (1973)
Holly Woodlawn is an aimless, lovelorn beauty in this seventies silent short.
A Look on the Wild Side (2002)
A Cannes red carpet tribute for three iconic protagonists of Warhol's Factory glory days.
Dust (2012)
DUST is the story of an eccentric family in crisis. Unable to move forward or functionally communicate, three change-averse siblings collide with...
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and...
Bubblegum (1996)
A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies (2019)
Anjelica Huston narrates this exploration of the spectacularly dreamlike world of Salvador Dali’s protégé, Steven Arnold, and his...
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture (2001)
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be...
Continental (2013)
A stylish and thoughtful examination of the infamous Continental Baths NYC circa 1968-1976. Told by the people who were there.
The Cockettes (2002)
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture....
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory (2008)
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,...
Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and...
The Matinee Idol (1995)
A Hollywood movie star (played by Ken Ryker) desperately tries to hide the truth about his homosexuality, whilst at the same time having several...
Holly Woodlawn (1970)
Holly Woodlawn interview, 1973.