Holly WoodlawnFilmography

Born:: Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Born Harold Ajzenberg. Comic female impersonator, onscreen from the early '70s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Jack Smith & The Destruction of Atlantis

Actors: Ari Roussimoff, Andrew Sarris, Ela Troyano, Billy Name, Agosto Machado

Synopsis: The underground art of renegade performance artist, photographer, and filmmaker Jack Smith is explored through the images he created and the words of those who knew him best in filmmaker Mary Jordan's tribute to the man believed to have inspired some of Andy Warhol's most iconic works. A virulent Read More

4/11/07
Beautiful Darling

Actors: Candy Darling

Synopsis: Born in a Long Island suburb in 1944, James Slattery immediately felt drawn to the feminine side of life - to such a degree that he established himself as one of the most iconic of all female impersonators, Candy Darling. As given life by Slattery, this young, sexy and alluring blonde actress Read More

2007
Milwaukee, Minnesota

Actors: Troy Garity, Alison Folland, Randy Quaid, Bruce Dern, Hank Harris

Synopsis: Allan Mindel's Milwaukee, Minnesota is about con men hoping to take advantage of a fishing champion. Albert (Troy Garity) is the best ice-fisherman in Wisconsin. He is not the sharpest tack in the box, making him susceptible to the less than ethical advances of nefarious Jerry (Randy Quaid), Stan (Hank Harris Read More

6/3/05
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Jackie Curtis, Harvey Fierstein, John Vaccaro, Holly Woodlawn, Ellen Stewart

Synopsis: Directed by Craig B. Highberger and narrated by Lily Tomlin, Superstar in a Housedress offers a unique retrospective of the late avant-garde actor and female impersonator Jackie Curtis, who was discovered in the 1960s by experimental filmmaker Andy Warhol. In addition to rare clips of Curtis in Read More

5/5/04
Twin Falls Idaho

Actors: Michael Polish, Mark Polish, Michele Hicks, Jon Gries, Patrick Bauchau, Garrett Morris, William Katt, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Identical twin brothers Mark Polish and Michael Polish have written, directed, and starred in an emotional romance about a prostitute who falls in love with Siamese twins. The Polish Brothers play the conjoined twins Blake and Francis Falls, who are joined at the chest and thus share many vital Read More

7/30/99
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

Actors: Sean Hayes, Brad Rowe, Richard Ganoung, Meredith Scott Lynn, Matthew Ashford

Synopsis: Tommy O'Haver wrote and directed this gay lifestyle comedy about aspiring photographer Billy (Sean P. Hayes) who encounters rocky romantic roads intersecting among an assortment of Los Angelenos -- handsome Fernando (Armando Valdes-Kennedy), who has a steady boyfriend; blond waiter Gabriel (Brad Rowe Read More

7/24/98
Night Owl

Actors: James Raftery, John Leguizamo, David Roya

Synopsis: This odd, independently produced horror film features performances by Warhol-era legend Holly Woodlawn and the versatile performer John Leguizamo. In the story, the handsome young man (James Raftery) who picks up women at a disreputable neighborhood bar is a real lady-killer; in fact, he's a Read More

1993
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Synopsis: Fascinating documentary of artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol, combining rare footage with interviews with his friends and colleagues, including Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, Taylor Mead, and Sylvia Miles. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp in America

Actors: Quentin Crisp, John Hurt, Sting, Holly Woodlawn, Fran Lebowitz

Synopsis: A charming portrait of Quentin Crisp, who has (very deliberately) become the closest thing this century has to an Oscar Wilde. Crisp moved to New York City at the age of 73 and has many devoted friends and admirers who sing his praises. Indeed, pop star Sting literally "sings" of Quentin in his Read More

1990
Tally Brown, N.Y.

Actors: Tally Brown, Taylor Mead, Holly Woodlawn, Divine

Synopsis: Tally Brown was a star of New York underground films and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s -- about as far away as one could imagine as the destination for this classically trained opera and blues singer. In this documentary, Rosa von Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Read More

1979
Underground and Emigrants

Actors: William S. Burroughs, Charles Ludlam

Synopsis: In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who Read More

1976
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

Actors: Sonny Boy Hayes, Yafa Lerner

Synopsis: This free-wheeling sex spoof features the Warhol "factory" personality, transvestite Holly Woodlawn. At the time this film was made, Warhol was not so interested in making films and was turning his attentions to producing the magazine, Interview. His film celebrities and the sensibility they Read More

1972
Andy Warhol's Women

Actors: Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis

Synopsis: In Warhol/Morrissey collaborations, such as this spoof of porn films, it is often more useful to describe the personalities shown on the screen, than to try to describe the story. All the women in this film are desperately tired of men. All of them are transvestites. Some of them are very Read More

1972
Is There Sex After Death?

Actors: Alan Abel, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Alan Abel, best known as a purveyor of hoaxes, codirected this porno movie spoof with his wife Jeanne. Alan also stars as an itinerant sex specialist who travels around asking just-folks opinions about the possibility of post-mortem cohabitation. Among the guest stars are satirist Buck Henry and Read More

1971
Women in Revolt

Actors: Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis

Synopsis: Andy Warhol produced this mordant satire of the women's movement, directed by Paul Morrissey and staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy (Candy Darling) is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie (Jackie Curtis) is a virginal intellectual who believes that Read More

1971
Trash

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Jane Forth, Michael Sklar, Geri Miller

Synopsis: This Andy Warhol production finds Joe Dallesandro as Joe, a lice-ridden impotent junkie who lives with Holly (Holly Woodlawn) in a Lower East Side slum in New York. Holly is a transvestite who spends time collecting trash, going to the Fillmore East, and cruising for sex. Joe is only interested in Read More

1970