Jack Smith
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.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1932-11-14 · Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Died
- 1989-09-25
Known for
- The Andy Griffith Show (1960) — Himself
- Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972) — Inmate
- I Am Divine (2014) — Self (archive)
- Flaming Creatures (1963) — Director of Photography
- Blonde Cobra (1963) — Madame Nescience
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
- Scotch Tape (1963) — Director
- Little Stabs at Happiness (1963) — Himself
- The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968)
- Chumlum (1963)
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Himself (archive footage)
- Star Spangled to Death (2004) — The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
- Normal Love (1965) — Director
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) — Self (archive footage)
- Batman Dracula (1964) — Batman / Dracula
- The Illiac Passion (1967) — Orpheus