Warhol Superstars

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

Andy Warhol (wiki, 1928–1987) was an iconic American artist, film director and producer who broke grounds in his pop art movement, photography and experimental filmmaking. His New York studio, known as The Factory, promoted a group of personalities, known as the Warhol Superstars. They were a collection of models, drag queens, intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities, playwrights and patrons.

The Superstars appeared in Warhol's work, but also accompanied him in his social life. They complimented the famous dictum, misattributed to Warhol, that "in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes". Warhol would film the subjects then simply declare them "superstars".



Fred Herko (wiki) 1936–1964 (28) artist/musician/actor/dancer; the first Warhol Superstar; committed suicide by jumping
Edie Sedgwick (wiki) 1943–1971 (28) actress/fashion model; died of a barbiturate overdose NY Times obit
Andrea Feldman (wiki) 1948–1972 (24) actress; committed suicide by jumping
Candy Darling (wiki) 1944–1974 (29) transgender actress; died of lymphoma NY Times obit
Eric Emerson (wiki) 1945–1975 (29) musician/dancer/actor; died after being struck by a car
Ed Hood (IMDb) 1936–1982 (46) actor; murdered by suffocation
Paul America (wiki) 1944–1982 (38) film actor; died after being struck by a car
Jackie Curtis (wiki) 1947–1985 (38) actress/singer/writer; died of a heroin overdose NY Times obit
Dorothy Dean (wiki) 1932–1987 (54) film actress/socialite; died of cancer NY Times obit
Pat Close (wiki) 1948–1988 (39) actor; died of alcohol-related liver failure
Valerie Solanas (wiki) 1936–1988 (52) radical feminist; tried to murder Warhol in 1968; died of pneumonia NY Times obit
Nico (wiki) 1938–1988 (49) singer-songwriter/actress/model; died of a brain haemorrhage after a cycling accident NY Times obit
Ondine (wiki) 1937–1989 (52) actor; met Warhol at an orgy in 1961; died of AIDS-related liver disease
Jack Smith (wiki) 1932–1989 (56) actor/filmmaker; died of AIDS-related pneumonia NY Times obit
Pat Ast (wiki) 1941–2001 (59) actress/model NY Times obit
Cyrinda Foxe (wiki) 1952–2002 (50) actress/model; died of brain cancer
Richard Bernstein (wiki) 1939–2002 (62) artist; died of AIDS complications NY Times obit
Naomi Levine (IMDb) 1939–2007 (67) actress; first female Superstar to appear naked in a Warhol film
Chuck Wein (wiki) 1939–2008 (68) promoter/manager; died of heart failure
Ronald Tavel (wiki) 1936–2009 (72) screenwriter/director NY Times obit
Taylor Mead (wiki) 1924–2013 (88) writer/actor Telegraph obit
Mario Montez (wiki) 1935–2013 (78) drag queen/film actor; died of a stroke NY Times obit
Louis Waldon (wiki) 1934–2013 (78) film actor; died of a stroke NY Times obit
Ultra Violet aka Isabelle Collin Dufresne (wiki) 1935–2014 (78) actress/artist/writer; died of cancer Telegraph obit 
Holly Woodlawn (wiki) 1946–2015 (69) transgender actress; died of brain and liver cancer BBC obit
Elektrah Lobel 19??–2016 (?) actress; later married a Messianic rabbi and became a congregation leader; died of cancer
Billy Name (wiki) 1940–2016 (76) photographer/filmmaker Guardian obit
Patrick Fleming 1943–2018 (75) model/screen tester; died of heart failure
John Giorno (wiki) 1936–2019 (82) poet/performance artist; Warhol's on time boyfriend; died of a heart attack Herald obit
Brigid Berlin (wiki) 1939–2020 (80) artist Guardian obit
Mark Lancaster (wiki) 1938–2021 (82) artist/set designer Guardian obit
Allen Midgette (wiki) 1939–2021 (82) actor/painter NY Times obit
Ivy Nicholson (IMDb) 1933–2021 (88) model/actress NY Times obit
Ruby Lynn Reyner (wiki) 1948–2024 (76) actress/singer-songwriter
Ingrid Superstar (IMDb) b. c. 1944 actress; disappeared in December 1986 after going out for cigarettes (presumed dead)
Viva (wiki) b. 1938 actress/writer; mother of actress Gaby Hoffmann
Abigail Rosen (IMDb) b. 1940 actress; daughter of Harlem poet Helene Johnson (1906–1995); now a stage producer and writer
Baby Jane Holzer (wiki) b. 1940 actress/model
Sally Kirkland (wiki) b. 1941 actress
Rolanda Peña (es wiki) b. 1942 artist/actor
Gerard Malanga (wiki) b. 1943 poet/photographer/filmmaker/actor
Benedetta Barzini (wiki) b. 1943 actress/model
Cherry Vanilla (wiki) b. 1943 glam punk singer-songwriter/actress; later became a publicist for Vangelis
Mary Woronov (wiki) b. 1943 actress/painter
Pat Hartley (IMDb) b. 1945 actress; now lives in the UK and runs a film production company
Jayne County (wiki) b. 1947 transgender singer-songwriter/actress
Joe Dallesandro (wiki) b. 1948 actor; became a huge icon of gay subculture
International Velvet aka Susan Bottomly (wiki) b. 1950 model/actress
Patti D'Arbanville (wiki) b. 1951 model/actress
Bibbe Hansen (wiki) b. 1952 performance artist/actress; mother of musician Beck
Jane Forth (wiki) b. 1953 model/actress

There's a few survivors above who will get QOs. Most, if not all, will get NY Times obits though.

Compiled using the lists here, here, and here. Additions welcome.

[arghton 6,755]

There's a couple of more here that could be added to the list:

 

Dorothy Dean (1932-1987) African American socialite, died from cancer

Pat Close (1948-1988) Former child actor, died of fatty liver disease caused by alcoholism and Reye's syndrome.

Johnny Dodd (1941-1991) With Fred Herko when Herko died.

Mark Lancaster (1938-2021)

Irving Blum (1930-) Introduced Warhol's work to the west coast, also appeared in some of Warhol's movies. Apparently still alive at over 90?

Abigail Rosen (McGrath) (birth date unknown, probably alive?)

Pat Hartley (1945-) Now owns a film company

Patti D'Arbanville (1951-)

 

Appearances in Warhol films

James Waring (1922-1975) Coreographer, died in 1975 from a malignant tumor

Tom Baker (1940-1982) American actor, died from drug overdose causing confusion in the media due there being a more well-known actor named Tom Baker.

DeVeren Bookwalter (1939-1987) Mainly a theater actor, died in 1987 from stomach cancer

Pat Close (1948-1988) Died from a fatty liver

Valerie Solanas (1936-1988) More known for attempting to murder Warhol

Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) Producer of documentary films from the 1960s to the 1980s. Died of a heart attack.

Gino Piserchio (1944-1989) Musician, died of AIDS

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Salvador Dali!

Henry Geldzahler (1935-1994) Curator of contemporary art, died in 1994 from liver cancer

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Beat generation poet, died from liver cancer and hepatitis

Gregory Corso (1930-2001) Beat generation poet, died from prostate cancer

Lester Persky (1925-2001) Producer, died from heart surgery complications

Maxime de la Falaise (1922-2009) 1950s model

Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) American actor, died in 2010 from prostate cancer

Jill Johnston (1929-2010) Appeared with Fred Herko in Jill and Freddy Dancing (1963), more known as a writer. Died in 2010 from a stroke. Wrote a critical autobiography of Jasper Johns once.

Samuel "Sam" Adams Green (1940-2011) Artist, friend of Warhol

Susan Tyrrell (1945-2012) Actress

Ronnie Cutrone (1948-2013) Pop artist

Rene Ricard (1946-2014) Poet, died from cancer

Robert Indiana (1928-2018) Creator of "LOVE", died from respiratory failure

Sylvia Miles (1924-2019) Actress

Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019) Karl Lagerfeld!

Carroll Baker (1931-) Actress

Lucinda Childs (1940-) Choreographer

Perry King (1948-) Actor, known from Riptide

Paloma Picasso (1949-) Fashion designer and businesswoman, daughter of Picasso (1881-1973) and Françoise Gilot (1921-)

Penny Arcade (1950-) Performance artist

Anjelica Huston (1951-) Jack Nicholson's former partner

Excluding members of The Velvet Underground, The Fugs and The Holy Medal Rounders.

Susan Blond (?-) Publicist

 

Slightly off-topic, but mentioning that Paul Warhola (1922-2014) died in 2014 at 91, not mentioned on this forum. He was Warhol's oldest brother and last living sibling.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

Paul Morrissey wasn't a 'superstar' as such, but directed Trash and Flesh. He's 83. 

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

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[Ulitzer95 12,654]

4 hours ago, arghton said:

There's a couple of more here that could be added to the list:

 

Dorothy Dean (1932-1987) African American socialite, died from cancer

Pat Close (1948-1988) Former child actor, died of fatty liver disease caused by alcoholism and Reye's syndrome.

Johnny Dodd (1941-1991) With Fred Herko when Herko died.

Mark Lancaster (1938-2021)

Irving Blum (1930-) Introduced Warhol's work to the west coast, also appeared in some of Warhol's movies. Apparently still alive at over 90?

Abigail Rosen (McGrath) (birth date unknown, probably alive?)

Pat Hartley (1945-) Now owns a film company

Patti D'Arbanville (1951-)

Thanks for this. I've added Dean, Close, Lancaster, Rosen, Hartley and D'Arbanville as I believe they all qualify.

I don't want the list to get exhaustive. The list of actors by itself who appeared in Warhol's films runs into the hundreds. If we covered all of Andy Warhol's associates, it would run into the thousands.

Rosen, btw, was born in September 1940 as per U.S. public records. She's very prominent on the NY theatre scene so expect a NY Times obit. She also writes a regular column online but hasn't contributed to it for a couple of years now.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

I think List Guy should make a post of all 472* of Warhol's surviving Screen Tests subjects. It'd keep him off the streets of whichever Scandinavian town it is he inhabits for an hour or two, at least.

 

(* films, not people)

[YoungWillz 21,058]

Ivy Nicholson gets the Telegraph treatment: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/11/17/ivy-nicholson-star-magazine-cover-model-friend-andy-warhol-whose/

[YoungWillz 21,058]

On 05/11/2021 at 14:23, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

Paul Morrissey wasn't a 'superstar' as such, but directed Trash and Flesh. He's 83. 

Paul Morrissey reportedly dead: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/movies/paul-morrissey-dead.html

[prussianblue 1,038]

As he was the star of Flesh and Trash, was curious to see if there was anything recent from Joe Dallesandro, and there was an interview by Interview published in February.

 

Paul Morrissey and his health gets a mention:

LABRUCE: Is there anyone from those days you’re in touch with, like Paul Morrissey?

DALLESANDRO: No, I don’t talk to Paul. I don’t think he’s so coherent anymore. His niece takes care of him.

 

Joe looks great for a man in his mid-70s who's lived a fairly hard life and still smokes.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

On 05/11/2021 at 13:37, Ulitzer95 said:

Andy Warhol (wiki, 1928–1987) was an iconic American artist, film director and producer who broke grounds in his pop art movement, photography and experimental filmmaking. His New York studio, known as The Factory, promoted a group of personalities, known as the Warhol Superstars. They were a collection of models, drag queens, intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities, playwrights and patrons.

The Superstars appeared in Warhol's work, but also accompanied him in his social life. They complimented the famous dictum, misattributed to Warhol, that "in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes". Warhol would film the subjects then simply declare them "superstars".



Fred Herko (wiki) 1936–1964 (28) artist/musician/actor/dancer; the first Warhol Superstar; committed suicide by jumping
Edie Sedgwick (wiki) 1943–1971 (28) actress/fashion model; died of a barbiturate overdose NY Times obit
Andrea Feldman (wiki) 1948–1972 (24) actress; committed suicide by jumping
Candy Darling (wiki) 1944–1974 (29) transgender actress; died of lymphoma NY Times obit
Eric Emerson (wiki) 1945–1975 (29) musician/dancer/actor; died after being struck by a car
Ed Hood (IMDb) 1936–1982 (46) actor; murdered by suffocation
Paul America (wiki) 1944–1982 (38) film actor; died after being struck by a car
Jackie Curtis (wiki) 1947–1985 (38) actress/singer/writer; died of a heroin overdose NY Times obit
Dorothy Dean (wiki) 1932–1987 (54) film actress/socialite; died of cancer NY Times obit
Pat Close (wiki) 1948–1988 (39) actor; died of alcohol-related liver failure
Valerie Solanas (wiki) 1936–1988 (52) radical feminist; tried to murder Warhol in 1968; died of pneumonia NY Times obit
Nico (wiki) 1938–1988 (49) singer-songwriter/actress/model; died of a brain haemorrhage after a cycling accident NY Times obit
Ondine (wiki) 1937–1989 (52) actor; met Warhol at an orgy in 1961; died of AIDS-related liver disease
Jack Smith (wiki) 1932–1989 (56) actor/filmmaker; died of AIDS-related pneumonia NY Times obit
Pat Ast (wiki) 1941–2001 (59) actress/model NY Times obit
Cyrinda Foxe (wiki) 1952–2002 (50) actress/model; died of brain cancer
Richard Bernstein (wiki) 1939–2002 (62) artist; died of AIDS complications NY Times obit
Naomi Levine (IMDb) 1939–2007 (67) actress; first female Superstar to appear naked in a Warhol film
Chuck Wein (wiki) 1939–2008 (68) promoter/manager; died of heart failure
Ronald Tavel (wiki) 1936–2009 (72) screenwriter/director NY Times obit
Taylor Mead (wiki) 1924–2013 (88) writer/actor Telegraph obit
Mario Montez (wiki) 1935–2013 (78) drag queen/film actor; died of a stroke NY Times obit
Louis Waldon (wiki) 1934–2013 (78) film actor; died of a stroke NY Times obit
Ultra Violet aka Isabelle Collin Dufresne (wiki) 1935–2014 (78) actress/artist/writer; died of cancer Telegraph obit 
Holly Woodlawn (wiki) 1946–2015 (69) transgender actress; died of brain and liver cancer BBC obit
Elektrah Lobel 19??–2016 (?) actress; later married a Messianic rabbi and became a congregation leader; died of cancer
Billy Name (wiki) 1940–2016 (76) photographer/filmmaker Guardian obit
Patrick Fleming 1943–2018 (75) model/screen tester; died of heart failure
John Giorno (wiki) 1936–2019 (82) poet/performance artist; Warhol's on time boyfriend; died of a heart attack Herald obit
Brigid Berlin (wiki) 1939–2020 (80) artist Guardian obit
Mark Lancaster (wiki) 1938–2021 (82) artist/set designer Guardian obit
Allen Midgette (wiki) 1939–2021 (82) actor/painter NY Times obit
Ivy Nicholson (IMDb) 1933–2021 (88) model/actress NY Times obit
Ingrid Superstar (IMDb) b. c. 1944 actress; disappeared in December 1986 after going out for cigarettes (presumed dead)
Viva (wiki) b. 1938 actress/writer; mother of actress Gaby Hoffmann
Abigail Rosen (IMDb) b. 1940 actress; daughter of Harlem poet Helene Johnson (1906–1995); now a stage producer and writer
Baby Jane Holzer (wiki) b. 1940 actress/model
Sally Kirkland (wiki) b. 1941 actress
Rolanda Peña (es wiki) b. 1942 artist/actor
Gerard Malanga (wiki) b. 1943 poet/photographer/filmmaker/actor
Benedetta Barzini (wiki) b. 1943 actress/model
Cherry Vanilla (wiki) b. 1943 glam punk singer-songwriter/actress; later became a publicist for Vangelis
Mary Woronov (wiki) b. 1943 actress/painter
Pat Hartley (IMDb) b. 1945 actress; now lives in the UK and runs a film production company
Jayne County (wiki) b. 1947 transgender singer-songwriter/actress
Ruby Lynn Reyner (wiki) b. 1948 actress/singer-songwriter
Joe Dallesandro (wiki) b. 1948 actor; became a huge icon of gay subculture
International Velvet aka Susan Bottomly (wiki) b. 1950 model/actress
Patti D'Arbanville (wiki) b. 1951 model/actress
Bibbe Hansen (wiki) b. 1952 performance artist/actress; mother of musician Beck
Jane Forth (wiki) b. 1953 model/actress

There's a few survivors above who will get QOs. Most, if not all, will get NY Times obits though.

Compiled using the lists here, here, and here. Additions welcome.

From my list, looks like Ruby Lynn Reyner (wiki) died back on March 10, aged 76.

No mainstream obits but got lots of mentions online, including here and here.

[prussianblue 1,038]

Holy moly! 

 

Given that Sylvia Miles was 48 here and lived to 94, I'm thinking this pair absorbed all of the longevity and anti-ageing potential from the many prematurely deceased Warhol and Morrissey collaborators.