Warhol Superstars and Factory Icons
by cjmccracken | created - 25 Aug 2015 | updated - 25 Aug 2015 | PublicThe brightest and best stars of Andy Warhol's Factory
1. Joe Dallesandro
Actor | The Limey
Joe Dallesandro's still hangin' . . . after battles with drug addiction and alcohol, brushes with the law, three broken marriages and numerous love affairs, plus the suicide of his only sibling Bob. One of the most beautifully photographed wild guys to come out of the Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey...
2. Lou Reed
Soundtrack | V for Vendetta
He formed the group The Velvet Underground with Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, second guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Maureen Tucker in New York in 1965. The group soon became a part of Andy Warhol's Factory scene, which housed a great number of the most freaked and experimental ...
3. Paul Morrissey
Director | Mixed Blood
Born in New York City in 1938, Paul Morrissey studied literature at Fordham University. In the early 1960s, following a stint in the Army and jobs in insurance and as a social worker, he began directing short independent films.
In 1965, he was introduced to Andy Warhol, who asked him to contribute ...
4. Holly Woodlawn
Actress | Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
Woodlawn was born Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. Her mother, Aminta Rodriguez, married the baby's father, a German-American sailor in the U.S. Navy stationed in Puerto Rico, but they divorced when his military service ended. When Woodlawn was nine, her ...
5. Jane Holzer
Producer | Spring Breakers
Jane Holzer was born on October 23, 1940 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Spring Breakers (2012), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Coronet Blue (1967). She was previously married to Leonard Holzer.
6. Edie Sedgwick
Actress | Ciao Manhattan
Edie Sedgwick was a bright social butterfly whose candle of fame burned brightly at both ends. Born into a wealthy White Anglo-Saxon Protestant family of impressive lineage, Edie became a "celebutante" for her beauty, style, wealth and her associations with figures of the 1960s counterculture.
Edie ...
7. Viva
Actress | Lions Love
Viva was born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann in Syracuse, New York, to Mary Alice (McNicholas) and Wilfred Ernest Hoffmann, a well-to-do lawyer. She is the first child of a devout Catholic family, and is of German, Irish, English, and one eighth Italian, ancestry. Her parents had eight more children. ...
8. Nico
Soundtrack | Allegiant
Model and singer Nico was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. She was a part of the Andy Warhol "scene" in the 1960s. A member of The Velvet Underground experimental rock band (with John Cale), circa 1967, she made several solo albums during the 1970s. A heroin addict for the latter part of her life,...
9. Ultra Violet
Actress | Midnight Cowboy
The noted outré underground celebrity Ultra Violet was born Isabelle Collin Dufresne on September 6, 1935, and a convent-raised French bourgeois heiress. A coiffured society deb in those days, she moved to New York in 1953 where she spent a decade surrounding herself with modernist artists like ...
10. International Velvet
Actress | Midnight Cowboy
International Velvet was the Andy Warhol "superstar" who was the immediate replacement for Edie Sedgwick in the Warhol retinue. Born Susan Bottomly into a venerable New England family (her father served as a district attorney in Boston), she attended boarding school, but was expelled four times. In...
11. Brigid Berlin
Actress | Serial Mom
Brigid Berlin was born on September 6, 1939 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Serial Mom (1994), Ciao Manhattan (1972) and Bad (1977). She was married to John Parker. She died on July 17, 2020 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
12. Ulli Lommel
Actor | Strangers in Paradise
Widely known for his frequent collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a creative partnership which lasted 10 years and produced over 20 films, Ulli Lommel is one of the most consistently creative filmmakers to come from the New German Cinema movement.
The son of German comic performer Ludwig ...
13. David Bowie
Soundtrack | Labyrinth
David Bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music, but he was much more than that; he was also an accomplished actor, a mime and an intellectual, as well as an art lover whose appreciation and knowledge of it had led to him amassing one of the biggest ...
14. Billy Name
Moved to Manhattan, NY in 1960 to do lighting design for the New York Poets Theater, the Living Theater, and the Judson Memorial Church. He met Andy Warhol in 1963, and served as Warhol's in-house photographer, lighting & set designer, and book designer & editor from 1964 to 1970. Billy Name ...
15. Candy Darling
Actress | Women in Revolt
Candy Darling was born on November 24, 1944 in Long Island, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Women in Revolt (1971), The Death of Maria Malibran (1972) and Flesh (1968). She died on March 21, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA.
16. Taylor Mead
Actor | Coffee and Cigarettes
Taylor Mead was born on December 31, 1924 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and editor, known for Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964). He died on May 8, 2013 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
17. Eric Emerson
Actor | San Diego Surf
Eric Emerson was born on June 23, 1944 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for San Diego Surf (1968), Heat (1972) and **** (1967). He died on May 28, 1975.
18. Mary Woronov
Actress | Eating Raoul
Mary Woronov was born on December 8, 1943, at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. A surgeon's stepdaughter, she was raised in Brooklyn Heights and attended Cornell University as a sculpting major. After a class trip to Andy Warhol 's Silver Factory, she joined Warhol's entourage and starred ...
19. Louis Waldon
Actor | Mask
Louis Waldon was born on December 16, 1934 in Modesto, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Mask (1985), Mission Kill (1985) and Cleopatra (1970). He died on December 6, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
21. Bibbe Hansen
Actress | Olivia
Bibbe Hansen was born on January 31, 1952 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Olivia (1983), Prison (1965) and Adam Green's Aladdin (2016). She is married to Sean Carrillo. She was previously married to David Campbell.
22. Chuck Wein
Writer | Ciao Manhattan
Wein attended Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, PA, graduating in 1957. At Harvard in the early 1960s, he met a young Radcliffe heiress named Edie Sedgwick, reportedly in their psychiatrist's office. When Chuck decided to move to New York, Edie went with him. With fair skin, natural ...
23. Andrea Feldman
Actress | Heat
Andrea Feldman was a performer in several of Andy Warhol's films, most prominently in the film "Heat" as Sylvia Miles's daughter. She was notable for her screechy voice and hysterical performance style, and she often played out-of-control characters unable to cope with their circumstances.
She ...
24. Benedetta Barzini
Actress | On Life
Benedetta Barzini was born on September 22, 1943 in Monte Argentario, Tuscany, Italy. She is an actress, known for On Life, Every Blessed Day (2012) and The Disappearance of My Mother (2019).
25. Sylvia Miles
Actress | Midnight Cowboy
Sylvia Miles was an American actress, born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York City. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, without ever winning the Award.
Miles was born under the name "Sylvia Scheinwald". Her parents were furniture maker Reuben Scheinwald ...
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