List of LGBT-related films of 1977
Films
Table:
Title

Director

Country

Genre

Cast

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Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
John Erman
United States
Drama
Leigh McCloskey, Eve Plumb, Juliet Mills, Jean Hagen, Lonny Chapman, Earl Holliman, Alan Feinstein, Asher Brauner, Diana Douglas, Pat Corley, Frances Faye, Alice Hirson, Jonathan Banks, Fred Sadoff and Doria Cook-Nelson

Beyond Good and Evil
Liliana Cavani
France
Italy
West Germany
Drama
Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson, Robert Powell, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy, Elisa Cegani, Umberto Orsini, Michael Degen, Amedeo Amodio, Carmen Scarpitta and Clara Algranti

Bilitis
David Hamilton
France
Italy
Drama, romance
Patti D'Arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau, Gilles Kohler, Mathieu Carrière, Irka Bochenko, Jacqueline Fontaine, Marie-Thérèse Caumont, Germaine Delbat, Madeleine Damien, Camille Larivière and Catherine Leprince

Cambio de sexo
Vicente Aranda
Spain
Drama
Victoria Abril, Lou Castel, Fernando Sancho, Rafaela Aparicio, Daniel Martín, Montserrat Carulla, Bibi Andersen, Mario Gas and Maria Elías
aka Change of Sex

Desperate Living
John Waters
United States
Crime, comedy
Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill, Cookie Mueller, Channing Wilroy, Ed Peranio, Paul Swift, George Figgs, Sharon Niesp, George Stover, Turkey Joe, Al Strapelli, Brook Blake and Karen Gerwig

Die Konsequenz
Wolfgang Petersen
West Germany
Drama
Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald, Walo Lüönd, Edith Volkmann, Erwin Kohlund, Hans Irle, Erwin Parker, Alexander Ziegler, Werner Schwuchow, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Elisabeth Fricker, Hans Putz, Wolf Gaudlitz, Thomas Haerin, Carsten Neumann, Franz Kollasch, Alexis von Hagemeister, Jan Groth, Gerold Nölli and Franz Stiefel

Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Richard Brooks
United States
Drama
Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere, Alan Feinstein, Tom Berenger, Priscilla Pointer, Laurie Prange, Joel Fabiani, Julius Harris, Richard Bright, LeVar Burton, Brian Dennehy, Richard Venture and Elizabeth Cheshire

Me siento extraña
Enrique Martí Maqueda
Spain
Drama
Rocío Dúrcal, Bárbara Rey, Francisco Algora, Ricardo Tundidor, Eva León, Luis Marín, Rafael Navarro, José Antonio Ceinos, Francisco Nieto, Fernando Sánchez Polack, Juan A. De Los Santos (as Juan Antonio de Santos), Fabián López Tapia, Javier Sandoval, Fernando Baeza and Víctor Israel
aka I feel strange

Outrageous!
Richard Benner
Canada
Comedy
Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley, Allan Moyle, David McIlwraith, Gerry Salsberg, Andrée Pelletier, Helen Shaver, Martha Gibson, Helen Hughes, Jonah Royston, Richard Moffatt, David Woito, Rusty Ryan, Trevor Bryan and Michael Ironside

Los placeres ocultos
Eloy de la Iglesia
Spain
Drama
Simón Andreu, Tony Fuentes, Charo López, Beatriz Rossat, Antonio Corencia, Germán Cobos, Ana Farra, Ángel Pardo, Queta Claver, Antonio Iranzo, Antonio Gamero, Josele Román and Carmen Platero
aka Hidden Pleasures

Pourquoi pas!
Coline Serreau
France
Comedy, drama, romance
Sami Frey, Christine Murillo, Mario Gonzales, Nicole Jamet, Michel Aumont, Mathé Souverbie, Alain Salomon, Jacques Rispal, Florence Brière, Louise Chevalier, Bernard Crombey (as Bernard Crombé), Denise Dax, Dorothy Marchini and Geneviève Mnich
aka Why Not!

A Special Day
Ettore Scola
Italy
Drama, romance, war
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio, Maurizio Di Paolantonio, Antonio Garibaldi, Vittorio Guerrieri, Alessandra Mussolini and Nicole Magny

To an Unknown God
Jaime Chávarri
Spain
Drama
Héctor Alterio, Xabier Elorriaga as Miguel Maria Rosa Salgado, Rosa Valenty, Ángela Molina, Margarita Mas, Mercedes Sampietro and José Joaquin Boza
aka A un dios desconocido

El transexual
José Jara
Spain
Drama
Ágata Lys, Paul Naschy, José Nieto, Sandra Alberti, Eva Robin, Vicente Parra, Ernesto Martín, Alfonso Castizo, Ángela Reyno, Antonio Orengo, Pedro Romero, Manuel Pereiro, Yeda Brown, Pedro A. Cabrero and Nicolás Arroyo

Word Is Out
Mariposa Film Group (Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein, Lucy Massie Phenix, Veronica Selver)
United States
Documentary
Writer Elsa Gidlow, professor Sally Gearhart, inventor John Burnside, civil rights leader Harry Hay, and avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky are among the interviewees.

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Alexander : The Other Side of Dawn is a 1977 American made-for-television drama film directed by John Erman , and a sequel to Dawn : Portrait of a Teenage Runaway ( 1976 ) . It premiered on NBC on May 16 , 1977 .
John Erman ( born August 3 , 1935 ) is an American television and film director , actor and producer .
Leigh Joseph McCloskey ( born June 21 , 1955 ) is an American actor , visionary artist , author and philosopher . Throughout his acting career , McCloskey appeared in numerous television series and movies , including the popular American soap opera Dallas and a leading role in the Dario Argento-helmed supernatural horror film Inferno . As a painter and visionary artist , McCloskey has produced a number of works focused on occult , alchemical , and esoteric themes , including his own Tarot deck and the The Hieroglyph of the Human Soul , a mixed-media art installation painted on the walls of his home library . His art work has been featured in popular music , including Flying Lotus 2010 release Cosmogramma and The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang Tour in the 2000s .
Eve Aline Plumb ( born April 29 , 1958 ) is an American actress , singer , and painter . She is known for her portrayal of middle daughter Jan Brady on the sitcom The Brady Bunch . A native of Southern California , Plumb began appearing in commercials at age 7 , and also had guest roles on the televisions series The Big Valley and The Virginian between 1966 and 1967 . She was cast as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch in 1969 , and portrayed the role until the series ' end in 1974 . After , Plumb continued to work in television , portraying a teenage prostitute in the NBC television film Dawn : Portrait of a Teenage Runaway ( 1976 ) , and as Elizabeth March in the 1978 miniseries Little Women . Plumb continued to reprise her role as Jan Brady on numerous reunion series and films , including The Brady Brides ( 1981 ) and A Very Brady Christmas ( 1988 ) . She made her feature film debut with a minor role in I 'm Gon na Git You Sucka ( 1988 ) , and later appeared in Gregg Araki 's black comedy Nowhere ( 1997 ) . In 2010 , Plumb made her New York stage debut in Miss Abigail 's Guide to Dating , Mating and Marriage , followed by stage productions of Nora Ephron 's Love , Loss , and What I Wore , and Same Time , Next Year . She subsequently had a supporting role in the critically acclaimed thriller Blue Ruin ( 2013 ) .
Juliet Maryon Mills ( born 21 November 1941 ) is a British-American actress of film , stage , and television . She is the daughter of actor Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and the eldest of three siblings ; her younger siblings are actress Hayley Mills and director Jonathan Mills . Mills began her career as a child actress and was nominated for a Tony Award for her stage performance in Five Finger Exercise in 1960 . She progressed to film work and then to television , playing the lead role on the sitcom Nanny and the Professor in the early 1970s . She received Golden Globe Award nominations for her work in this series and for her role in the film Avanti ! in 1972 . She won an Emmy Award for her performance in the television miniseries QB VII ( 1974 ) . In 1983 , Mills joined The Mirror Theater Ltd 's Mirror Repertory Company , performing in repertory productions such as Rain , Paradise Lost , Inheritors and The Hasty Heart throughout their seasons . From 1999 until 2008 , she had a role on the daytime drama series Passions , for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award .
Jean Hagen ( born Jean Shirley Verhagen , [ a ] August 3 , 1923 - August 29 , 1977 ) was an American actress best known for her role as Lina Lamont in Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ) , for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Hagen was also nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Margaret Williams ( 1953-56 ) on the television series Make Room for Daddy .
Lon Leonard Lonny Chapman ( October 1 , 1920 - October 12 , 2007 ) was an American actor best known for his numerous guest star appearances on television drama series .
Henry Earl Holliman ( born September 11 , 1928 ) is an American actor , animal rights activist and singer known for his many character roles in films , mostly westerns and dramas , in the 1950s and 1960s . He won a Golden Globe Award for the film The Rainmaker ( 1956 ) and portrayed Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama Police Woman throughout its 1974-1978 run .
Alan Feinstein ( born 8 September 1941 , New York City , New York ) is an American actor . Early in his career , he was credited as Alan Yorke . He is noted for his 1983 award-winning stage performance in A View From the Bridge . From 1978-1979 , he starred in the short lived QM Productions TV series The Runaways as Steve Arrizio , a former juvenile officer turned clinical psychologist who rescued runaway children from danger . His film credits include roles in Bad Girls Go to Hell ( 1965 , credited as Alan Yorke ) , Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) , The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan ( 1979 ) , Merchants of Venus ( 1998 ) , as well as the television series Masada ( 1981 ) and The Paper Chase ( 1984 ) .
Asher Brauner ( born October 15 , 1946 , Chicago , Illinois ) is an American actor . Brauner appeared in the 1975 action film , Switchblade Sisters , directed by Jack Hill , and his other film credits include roles in Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 ) , The Boss ' Son ( 1978 ) , Where the Boys Are '84 ( 1984 ) , Escape from El Diablo ( 1984 ) , Treasure of the Moon Goddess ( 1987 ) , Merchants of War ( 1989 ) and American Eagle ( 1989 ) . He also appeared opposite Wings Hauser in the 1990 films Coldfire and Living to Die . Brauner has numerous television acting credits including General Hospital , Ironside , Kojak and Harry O , and TV movies such as Alexander : The Other Side of Dawn ( 1977 ) and Young Joe , the Forgotten Kennedy ( 1977 ) .
Diana Love Webster ( née Dill ; formerly Douglas and Darrid ; January 22 , 1923 - July 3 , 2015 ) was an American actress born in Bermuda who was known for her marriage to actor Kirk Douglas from 1943 until their divorce in 1951 . Diana Douglas was the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas . In 1942 , Douglas began her career as an actress and appeared in more than 50 films . Some of her well-known roles were as Susan Rogers in The Indian Fighter ( co-starring Kirk Douglas ) and as Peg in Planes , Trains and Automobiles . She was also known for her recurring role as Martha Evans in Days of Our Lives ( 1977-1979 , 1982 ) . In 2003 , she appeared in It Runs in the Family with her ex-husband Kirk , her son Michael and her grandson Cameron . She retired from acting in 2008 .
Pat Corley ( June 1 , 1930 - September 11 , 2006 ) was an American actor . He was known for his role as bar owner Phil on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown from 1988-96 . He also had a recurring role as Chief Coroner Wally Nydorf on the television drama Hill Street Blues ( 1981-1987 ) . Additionally , he had supporting roles in a number of films , including Night Shift ( 1982 ) , Against All Odds ( 1984 ) , and Mr. Destiny ( 1990 ) .
Frances Faye ( November 4 , 1912 - November 8 , 1991 ) was an American cabaret and show tune singer and pianist . Born to a working-class Jewish family in Brooklyn , New York City , she was a second cousin of actor Danny Kaye .
Alice Hirson ( born March 10 , 1929 ) is an American actress best known for her roles on television . She began her career on stage , before roles on the daytime soap operas . She is best known for her roles as Mavis Anderson in the CBS prime time soap opera Dallas and as Lois Morgan , the mother of the title character on the ABC sitcom Ellen .
Jonathan Ray Banks ( born January 31 , 1947 ) is an American actor . His first notable film roles were in the films Airplane ! ( 1980 ) , 48 Hrs . ( 1982 ) , and Beverly Hills Cop ( 1984 ) . He has received critical acclaim for his role as former police officer turned hitman Mike Ehrmantraut in the television series Breaking Bad ( 2009-2012 ) and its spin-off Better Call Saul ( 2015-present ) . Earlier he was well-reviewed as Frank McPike in Wiseguy ( 1987-1990 ) . He has received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series ( 1989 , 2013 , 2015-2017 , 2019 ) for his work on all three series , making him the only actor with nominations as a main cast member for three different shows in this category , two of which feature him as the same character .
Frederick Edward Sadoff ( October 21 , 1926 - May 6 , 1994 ) was an American film , stage and television actor .
Craig Theodore Nelson ( born April 4 , 1944 ) is an American actor . He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the sitcom Coach ( for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series ) , Deputy Ward Wilson in the 1980 film Stir Crazy , Steve Freeling in the 1982 film Poltergeist , the warden in My Name is Earl , and Mr . Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel . He also starred as Zeek Braverman in the television series Parenthood .
Beyond Good and Evil ( Italian : Al di là del bene e del male , UK title : Beyond Evil ) is a 1977 drama film directed by Liliana Cavani . It stars Dominique Sanda , Erland Josephson and Robert Powell . The film follows the intense relationship formed in the 1880s between Friedrich Nietzsche , Lou Salomé and Paul Rée . This is the second part of The German Trilogy directed by Liliana Cavani . In The Night Porter she portrayed the connection between perversion and fascism . This time she depicts the life of Friedrich Nietzsche , a German philosopher who wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil . Virna Lisi won the Nastro d'Argento Best supporting Actress award ( Silver Ribbon ) from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists .
Liliana Cavani ( born 12 January 1933 , Carpi , Italy ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter . She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s , including Bernardo Bertolucci , Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marco Bellocchio . Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature film Il portiere di notte ( The Night Porter ) . Her films are intellectual and have historical concerns . In addition to feature films and documentaries , she has also directed opera .
Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne ( born 11 March 1948 ) , professionally known as Dominique Sanda , is a French actress and former fashion model .
Erland Josephson ( Swedish pronunciation : [ ˈæ̌ːɭand ˈjûːsɛfˌsɔn ] ; 15 June 1923 - 25 February 2012 ) was a Swedish actor and author . He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman , Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos .
Robert Powell ( /ˈpaʊəl/ ; born June 1 , 1944 ) is an English actor and voice actor , best known for the title roles in Mahler ( 1974 ) and Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ) , and for his portrayal of secret agent in Richard Hannay in The Thirty Nine Steps and its subsequent spinoff television series . Other major screen roles have included Mark Williams in the BBC One medical drama Holby City , ( 2005-11 ) David Briggs in the sitcom The Detectives alongside Jasper Carrott , and Tobias 'Toby ' Wren in the science-fiction programme Doomwatch . His distinctive voice has become well known in advertisements and documentaries , especially in World War II documentaries including World War II in HD Colour , Hitler 's Bodyguard , The Story of the Third Reich and Secrets of World War II . Powell has been nominated for a BAFTA Award and won a Best Actor Award from the Venice Film Festival .
Virna Pieralisi ( Italian : [ ˈvirna pjeraˈliːzi ] ; 8 November 1936 - 18 December 2014 ) , better known as Virna Lisi [ ˈvirna ˈliːzi ] , was an Italian actress . Her film appearances included How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 ) , Not with My Wife , You Do n't ! ( 1966 ) , Beyond Good and Evil ( 1977 ) , and Follow Your Heart ( 1996 ) . For the 1994 film La Reine Margot , she won Best Actress at Cannes and the César Award for Best Supporting Actress .
Philippe Leroy , full name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu ( born 15 October 1930 ) is a French film actor . He has appeared in over 150 films since 1960 . Leroy has been living mostly in Italy since the 1960s and has worked extensively in Italian cinema , as well as in his native country . He is sometimes credited under his full name .
Elisa Cegani ( 11 June 1911 - 23 February 1996 ) was an Italian actress . She appeared in 60 films between 1935 and 1983 .
Umberto Orsini ( born 2 April 1934 ) is an Italian stage , television and film actor . Born in Novara , Orsini gave up his career as notary to attend the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico . In the late 1950s , he emerged as a talented stage actor , and in 1960 , for the theatrical representation of L'Arialda , he worked for the first time with Luchino Visconti . After a few secondary roles ( that include Federico Fellini 's La Dolce Vita ) , Orsini debuted in a leading role in 1962 with the film Il mare , directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi . In 1969 , he was awarded with the Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Visconti 's The Damned . In 2008 , he was nominated to David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca .
Michael Degen ( born 31 January 1932 ) is a German-Israeli actor . He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1963 .
Amedeo Amodio ( born 1940 ) is an Italian choreographer and former ballet dancer .
Carmen Scarpitta ( 26 May 1933 - 26 April 2008 ) was an Italian stage and film actress . She appeared in 30 films between 1960 and 2001 . Scarpitta was born in Hollywood , California . She debuted on stage in 1960 in Alessandro Manzoni 's Adelchis and in Ennio Flaiano 's A Martian in Rome , both directed by Vittorio Gassman . During her 40-year career . she worked on stage with Carmelo Bene , Luca Ronconi and Luigi Squarzina , and starred in films directed by Federico Fellini , Bernardo Bertolucci , Mauro Bolognini , Luigi Magni . She died from a gas leak in her house in Cabo San Lucas , Mexico .
Bilitis is a 1977 French romantic and erotic drama film , which was directed by photographer David Hamilton ( 1933-2016 ) with a music score by Francis Lai . It starred Patti D'Arbanville and Mona Kristensen as the title character Bilitis and Melissa , respectively . The film was loosely based on a poem cycle by Pierre Louÿs entitled The Songs of Bilitis set in ancient Greece , although the film is set in modern Europe . The poems were meant to be autobiographical poems by the title character .
David Hamilton ( 15 April 1933 - 25 November 2016 ) was a British photographer and film director best known for his photography of young women and girls , mostly in the nude . His signature soft focus style was called the Hamilton Blur , which was erroneously thought to be achieved by smearing Vaseline on the lens of his camera . It was not created that way . Hamilton 's images became part of an art or pornography debate . In October 2016 , French presenter Flavie Flament accused him of raping her in 1987 , when she was 13 years old . In November 2016 , French magazine L'Obs published anonymous accounts from three other former models claiming to have been raped by Hamilton . Hamilton issued a statement threatening legal action against his accusers and affirmed that he did not do anything wrong . On 25 November 2016 , he was found dead in his Paris apartment by apparent suicide .
Patricia D'Arbanville ( born May 25 , 1951 ) is an American actress and former model known for her appearance in Andy Warhol projects .
Bernard René Giraudeau ( 18 June 1947 - 17 July 2010 ) was a French actor , film director , scriptwriter , producer and writer .
Gilles Kohler is a French actor , born November 18 , 1948 Former Model , Gilles Kohler started out in 1974 as the blonde angel Jean in Marcel Carné 's La Merveilleuse visite . Two years later he plays Jean-Pierre , a lover between two women ( Claude Jade in a dual role ) , in The Choice ( 1976 ) . In the same year he is leading man alongside to Paola Tedesco in Amore grande , amore libero . David Hamilton commits the beautiful and handsome actor for the part of Pierre in Bilitis ( 1977 ) and he plays in other erotic films like in Just Jaeckin 's Le Dernier Amant romantique . He is Jean-Paul Belmondos driver in Animal and Bernard Toublanc-Michel hired him for The Mutant . Since the 1980s , Gilles Kohler plays in American soap operas ( General Hospital , Hart to Hart , Dallas , All My Children ) and small parts in some American movies ( Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson ) .
Mathieu Carrière ( born 2 August 1950 in Hanover , Germany ) is a German actor .
Change of Sex or Sex Change ( Spanish : Cambio de Sexo ) is a 1976 Spanish film , written and directed by Vicente Aranda . It stars Victoria Abril as José Maria . The film dramatizes the story of a young feminine boy , who moves to the city to explore his desire to become a woman .
Vicente Aranda Ezquerra ( Spanish : [ biˈθente aɾanˈða eθˈkera ] ; 9 November 1926 - 26 May 2015 ) was a Spanish film director , screenwriter and producer . Due to his refined and personal style , he was one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers . He started as a founding member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the big screen . Aranda was also noted for exploring difficult social issues and variations on the theme of desire while using the codes of melodrama . Love as uncontrollable passion , eroticism and cruelty are constant themes in his filmography . The frank examination of sexuality is one of the trademarks of his work , as seen in his most internationally successful film : Amantes ( 1990 ) ( Lovers ) .
Victoria Mérida Rojas ( born 4 July 1959 ) , better known as Victoria Abril , is a Spanish film actress and singer . She is possibly best known to international audiences for her performance in the movie ¡Átame ! ( Tie Me Up ! Tie Me Down ! ) by director Pedro Almodóvar .
Lou Castel ( born Ulv Quarzell ; 28 May 1943 ) is a Swedish actor who became known through his work in Italian films .
Fernando Sancho Les ( 7 January 1916 - 31 July 1990 ) was a Spanish actor .
Rafaela Díaz Valiente MML ( 9 April 1906 - 9 June 1996 ) better known as Rafaela Aparicio was a famous Spanish film and theatre actress . She made more than 100 films . The most remembered are Carlos Saura 's Anna and the Wolves , Mama Turns 100 and Fernando Fernán Gómez 's El extraño viaje . She died of a stroke in Madrid in a retirement home .
Montserrat Carulla i Ventura ( born 1930 ) is a Catalan actress . Coming from the amateur theatre , she completed her training with courses at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona ( Barcelona Theatre Institute ) at the end of the 1940s . However , it was not until 1960 that she began to work in the professional theatre with Soparem a casa ( We 'll Dine at Home ) , by Josep Maria de Sagarra . After two seasons in Madrid , she returned to Barcelona in 1964 .
Bibiana Manuela Fernández Chica ( born 13 February 1954 ) , better known as Bibiana Fernández and also known as Bibi Andersen , is a Spanish actress , singer , TV presenter and model .
Mario Gas Cabré is a Spanish actor and director . and winner of a Goya Award . Born in Montevideo , Uruguay , on February 5 , 1947 , while his actor parents were on tour he has Uruguayan citizenship . He is one of the most important figures of the performing arts of Spain and began his acting career in University and took it up seriously after he Failed to complete the law course he was enrolled in .
Desperate Living is a 1977 American comedy film directed , produced , and written by John Waters . The film stars Liz Renay , Mink Stole , Edith Massey , Susan Lowe , Mary Vivian Pearce and Jean Hill .
John Samuel Waters Jr. ( born April 22 , 1946 ) is an American filmmaker , director , writer , actor and artist . Born and raised in Baltimore , Waters rose to prominence in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films , including Multiple Maniacs ( 1970 ) , Pink Flamingos ( 1972 ) and Female Trouble ( 1974 ) . He wrote and directed the 1988 film Hairspray which became an international success and turned into a hit Broadway musical which has remained in almost continuous production . Waters has written and directed other successful films including Polyester ( 1981 ) , Cry-Baby ( 1990 ) , Serial Mom ( 1994 ) , Pecker ( 1998 ) and Cecil B. Demented ( 2000 ) . In 2015 , the British Film Institute celebrated Waters films with a retrospective in honor of his 50 year-filmmaking career . Later that year , he was nominated for a Grammy Award for the spoken word version of his book Carsick . As an actor , Waters has appeared in films such as Sweet and Lowdown ( 1999 ) , Seed of Chucky ( 2004 ) , Excision ( 2012 ) and Suburban Gothic ( 2014 ) . More recently , he performs in his touring one-man show , This Filthy World . In addition to filmmaking and acting , Waters also works as a visual artist and across different mediums such as installations , photography , and sculpture . He has published multiple collections of his journalistic exploits , screenplays , ruminations and artwork . Waters artwork exhibits regularly in galleries and museums around the world .
Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins ( April 14 , 1926 - January 22 , 2007 ) , known as Liz Renay , was an American author and actress who appeared in John Waters ' film Desperate Living ( 1977 ) .
Nancy Paine Stoll ( born August 25 , 1947 ) , known professionally as Mink Stole , is an American actress from Baltimore , Maryland . She began her career working for director John Waters , and has appeared in all of his feature films to date ( a distinction shared only with Mary Vivian Pearce ) . Due to her extensive work with Waters , she is considered one of the Dreamlanders , Waters ' ensemble of regular cast and crew members .
Edith Edie Massey ( May 28 , 1918 - October 24 , 1984 ) was an American actress and singer . Massey was best known for her appearances in a series of movies by director John Waters . She was one of the Dreamlanders , Waters 's stable of regular cast and crew members .
Susan Lowe ( born Laura Susan Lowe on January 19 , 1948 in Reidsville , North Carolina ) is an American actress , educator and painter . She has appeared exclusively in the works of John Waters for most of her career , starring in ten of his films .
Mary Vivian Pearce ( born November 9 , 1947 ) is an American actress . She has worked primarily in the films of John Waters .
Jean Elizabeth Hill ( November 15 , 1946 - August 21 , 2013 ) was an American model and actress most notable for the role of Grizelda Brown in the 1977 film Desperate Living . Hill is considered a Dreamlander ( John Waters ' regular ensemble of cast members ) .
Dorothy Karen Cookie Mueller ( March 2 , 1949 - November 10 , 1989 ) was an American actress , writer , and Dreamlander who starred in many of filmmaker John Waters ' early films , including Multiple Maniacs , Pink Flamingos , Female Trouble , and Desperate Living .
Channing Wilroy ( born November 8 , 1940 ) is an American film actor who has appeared in seven films by John Waters . His first film role was the character Channing , the manservant in the film Pink Flamingos . Because of his work with Waters , Wilroy is considered one of the Dreamlanders , Waters ' ensemble of regular cast and crew members . Prior to appearing in the films of John Waters , he was a regular on The Buddy Deane Show for three years . He lives in Provincetown , Massachusetts and runs an inn .
Dreamlanders are the cast and crew of regulars whom John Waters has used in his films . The term comes from the name of Waters ' production company , Dreamland Productions . Many of the original Dreamlanders were friends of Waters from his native Baltimore , Maryland . They included the bad suburban kids he knew from Towson and Lutherville : Bob Skidmore , Mark Isherwood , and Mary Vivian Pearce . This crowd was drawn to downtown Baltimore by the gay scene , where Divine introduced Waters to David Lochary .
Paul Swift ( August 18 , 1934 - October 7 , 1994 ) [ citation needed ] was an American film actor .
George Figgs ( born 1947 , Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American actor and projectionist . He began his career portraying characters in the early films of John Waters . Because of his work with Waters , he is considered one of the Dreamlanders , Waters ' ensemble of regular cast and crew members . Figgs is a film historian interested in film noir and independent films . From 1991 to 1999 Figgs was the owner/operator of the Orpheum Cinema in the Fell 's Point section of Baltimore .
Die Konsequenz ( The Consequence ) is a West German film from 1977 . It is an adaptation of the 1975 autobiographical novel with the same name by Swiss author Alexander Ziegler and directed by Wolfgang Petersen .
Wolfgang Petersen ( born 14 March 1941 ) is a German film director , film producer and screenwriter . He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot ( 1981 ) . His other films include The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ) , Enemy Mine ( 1985 ) , In the Line of Fire ( 1993 ) , Outbreak ( 1995 ) , Air Force One ( 1997 ) , The Perfect Storm ( 2000 ) , Troy ( 2004 ) , and Poseidon ( 2006 ) .
Jürgen Prochnow ( German pronunciation : [ ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈpʁɔxnoː ] listen ( help·info ) ; born 10 June 1941 ) is a German-born actor and voice actor . His best-known roles internationally have been as the good-hearted and sympathetic U-Boat captain in Das Boot ( 1981 ) , Duke Leto Atreides in Dune ( 1984 ) , the minor but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One ( 1997 ) , and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II ( 1987 ) .
Ernst Hannawald ( born 20 October 1959 in Heidholzen , Germany ) is a German television actor .
Walo Lüönd ( born 13 April 1927 in Zug , died 17 June 2012 in Locarno ) was a Swiss movie actor , best known for his role in the movie The Swissmakers ( Die Schweizermacher ) along with comedian Emil Steinberger . He has had roles in 102 films and television shows . He had been married with Eva-Maria Bendig since 1957 ; they have two children , Daniel ( 1957-1987 ) and Oliver ( b . 1958 ) . He died on 17 June 2012 , at the age of 85 in a hospital in Locarno , Ticino , due to pneumonia after suffering a hip fracture in his residence in Losone . His funeral took place on Tuesday , 26 June , in Untersiggenthal in the canton of Aargau .
Edith Volkmann ( 1920-1997 ) was a German film and television actress .
Erwin Kohlund ( 1915-1992 ) was a German actor .
Alexander Ziegler ( 8 March 1944 - in Zürich ; 11 August 1987 in Zürich ) was a Swiss author and actor . Ziegler studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Wien ( 1960/1961 ) . He was an actor in Spring Awakening , a play by Frank Wedekind , in 1964 . He was also an actor in the American television series Boys and Girls , created by Fred Mallow . In 1966 , he was imprisoned for two years because of his gay friendship with a 16-year-old named Stephan . While in prison , he wrote his first work , Labyrinth ( 1966 ) . After he was released from prison , he worked as a journalist and author from 1971 to 1979 for the German gay magazine DU & ICH . He wrote many other articles and books . In November 1977 , his work Die Konsequenz was filmed and shown on German television . Actors in the film Die Konsequenz were Jürgen Prochnow as Martin Kurath and Ernst Hannawald as Thomas Manzoni .
Hans-Michael Rehberg ( 2 April 1938 - 7 November 2017 ) was a German actor . He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1945 . [ citation needed ]
Hans Putz ( November 17 , 1920 in Vienna - January 31 , 1990 in Hamburg ) was an Austrian actor . He had a stage career , including working at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Volkstheater in Vienna ; he also appeared in a number of films .
Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1977 American crime drama film , based on Judith Rossner 's best-selling novel of the same name , which was inspired by the 1973 murder of New York City schoolteacher Roseann Quinn , who led something of a double life . The film was written and directed by Richard Brooks , and stars Diane Keaton , Tuesday Weld , William Atherton , Richard Kiley , and Richard Gere . The film was a commercial success , earning $ 22.5 million , [ note 1 ] and garnered two Academy Award nominations , Best Supporting Actress for Tuesday Weld and Best Cinematography for William Fraker .
Richard Brooks ( May 18 , 1912 - March 11 , 1992 ) was an American screenwriter , film director , novelist and film producer . Nominated for eight Oscars in his career , he was best known for Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ) , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1958 ) , Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ; for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ) , In Cold Blood ( 1967 ) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) .
Diane Keaton ( née Hall ; born January 5 , 1946 ) is an American actress , director , producer , photographer , real estate developer , author , and singer . One of the most popular actresses of the 1970s and 1980s , she has received various accolades , including an Academy Award , a BAFTA Award , two Golden Globe Awards , and the AFI Life Achievement Award . Keaton began her career on stage and made her screen debut in 1970 . Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather ( 1972 ) , a role she reprised in The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ) and The Godfather Part III ( 1990 ) . But the films that helped shape her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen , beginning with Play It Again , Sam in 1972 . Her next two films with Allen , Sleeper ( 1973 ) and Love and Death ( 1975 ) , established her as a comic actor . Her fourth , the romantic comedy Annie Hall ( 1977 ) , won her the Academy Award for Best Actress . To avoid being typecast as her Annie Hall persona , Keaton became an accomplished dramatic performer , starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) and Interiors ( 1978 ) , and received three more Academy Award nominations for playing feminist activist Louise Bryant in Reds ( 1981 ) , a woman with leukemia in Marvin 's Room ( 1996 ) , and a dramatist in Something 's Got ta Give ( 2003 ) . Keaton 's other popular films include Manhattan ( 1979 ) , Shoot the Moon ( 1982 ) , Mrs. Soffel ( 1984 ) , Baby Boom ( 1987 ) , Father of the Bride ( 1991 ) , Manhattan Murder Mystery ( 1993 ) , Father of the Bride Part II ( 1995 ) , The First Wives Club ( 1996 ) , The Other Sister ( 1999 ) , The Family Stone ( 2005 ) , Morning Glory ( 2010 ) , Finding Dory ( 2016 ) , Book Club ( 2018 ) , and Poms ( 2019 ) .
Tuesday Weld ( born Susan Ker Weld ; August 27 , 1943 ) is a retired American actress . She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s . She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960 . Over the following decade , she established a career playing dramatic roles in films . Her work , often as a featured performer in supporting roles , was acknowledged with nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Play It as It Lays ( 1972 ) , a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) , an Emmy Award for The Winter of Our Discontent ( 1983 ) , and a BAFTA for Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 ) . Since the late 1980s , her acting appearances have been infrequent .
William Atherton Knight ( born July 30 , 1947 ) is an American actor , best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghostbusters .
Richard Paul Kiley ( March 31 , 1922 - March 5 , 1999 ) was an American stage , television , and film actor . He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical . Kiley created the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record The Impossible Dream , the hit song from the show . In the 1953 hit musical Kismet , he played the Caliph and was one of the quartet introducing the song And This Is My Beloved . Additionally , he won three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards during his 50-year career and his sonorous baritone was also featured in the narration of a number of documentaries and other films . At the time of his death , Kiley was described as one of theater 's most distinguished and versatile actors and as an indispensable actor , the kind of performer who could be called on to play kings and commoners and a diversity of characters in between .
Richard Tiffany Gere ( IPA : /ɡɪər/ GEER ; born August 31 , 1949 ) [ citation needed ] is an American actor and producer . He began in films in the 1970s , playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) and a starring role in Days of Heaven ( 1978 ) . He came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo ( 1980 ) , which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol . He went on to star in many well-received films , including An Officer and a Gentleman ( 1982 ) , The Cotton Club ( 1984 ) , Pretty Woman ( 1990 ) , Sommersby ( 1993 ) , Primal Fear ( 1996 ) , Runaway Bride ( 1999 ) , I 'm Not There ( 2007 ) , Arbitrage ( 2012 ) and Norman : The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer ( 2016 ) . For portraying Billy Flynn in the Academy Award-winning musical Chicago ( 2002 ) , he won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast .
Tom Berenger ( born Thomas Michael Moore ; May 31 , 1949 ) is an American television and motion picture actor . He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes in Platoon ( 1986 ) . He is also known for playing Jake Taylor in the Major League films and Thomas Beckett in the Sniper films . Other films he appeared in include Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) , The Dogs of War ( 1980 ) , The Big Chill ( 1983 ) , Eddie and the Cruisers ( 1983 ) , Betrayed ( 1988 ) , The Field ( 1990 ) , Gettysburg ( 1993 ) , The Substitute ( 1996 ) , One Man 's Hero ( 1999 ) , Training Day ( 2001 ) , and Inception ( 2010 ) . Berenger won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his performance as Jim Vance in the 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys .
Priscilla Marie Pointer ( born May 18 , 1924 ) is an American stage , film and television character actress . She began her career in the theater , including productions on Broadway . Later , Pointer moved to Hollywood to act in films and on television . She is the mother of Amy Irving , therefore making her the former mother-in-law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto and the mother-in-law of documentary filmmaker Kenneth Bowser , Jr .
Joel Fabiani ( born September 28 , 1936 in Watsonville , California ) is an American film , television and theater actor . Generally most famous for the British TV series Department S , he has also guest starred in The FBI , Barnaby Jones , The Streets of San Francisco , Banacek , Cannon , The Rockford Files and Starsky and Hutch . His film appearances include Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) , Reuben , Reuben ( 1983 ) and Tune In Tomorrow ( 1990 ) , and he has also had recurring roles in soap operas such as Dallas , Dynasty , As the World Turns , and All My Children .
Julius Harris ( August 17 , 1923 - October 17 , 2004 ) was an American actor who appeared in more than 70 movies and numerous television series in a career that spanned four decades .
Richard James Bright ( June 28 , 1937 - February 18 , 2006 ) was an American actor well known for his role as Al Neri in the Godfather films .
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. ( born February 16 , 1957 ) is an American actor , presenter , director , and author . His first major part was the role of a young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 ABC television miniseries Roots , a role he reprised in the 1988 television film Roots : The Gift . In 1983 he became the host of the long-running PBS children 's series Reading Rainbow , and again performed a lead role as Lt . Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek : The Next Generation . He has also directed a number of television episodes for various iterations of Star Trek , among other programs .
Brian Manion Dennehy ( born July 9 , 1938 ) is an American actor of film , stage , and television . A winner of one Golden Globe , two Tony Awards and a recipient of six Primetime Emmy Award nominations , he gained initial recognition for his role as Sheriff Will Teasle in First Blood ( 1982 ) . He has had roles in numerous films including Gorky Park ( 1983 ) , Silverado ( 1985 ) , Cocoon ( 1985 ) , F/X ( 1986 ) , Presumed Innocent ( 1990 ) , Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 ) , and Knight of Cups ( 2015 ) . Dennehy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Willy Loman in the television film Death of a Salesman ( 2000 ) .
Richard Venture ( born Richard Charles Venturella ; November 11 , 1923 - December 19 , 2017 ) was an American actor . He performed in more than eighty films from 1964 to 2001 . His television guest-credits include The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd , Fame and Murder , She Wrote . Venture died just 31 days prior to ex-wife actress Olivia Cole , in December 2017 at the age of 94 . Venture was born in New York City . He debuted on Broadway in Dinosaur Wharf ( 1951 ) . His other Broadway credits included The National Health ( 1974 ) , Chemin de Fer ( 1973 ) , The Visit ( 1973 ) , Murderous Angels ( 1971 ) , Solitaire / Double Solitaire ( 1971 ) Double Solitaire ( 1971 ) , and The Merchant of Venice ( 1951 ) . Venture wed actress Grayce Grant in 1950 , and they divorced in 1971 . They had four children . He was married to actress Olivia Cole from 1971 until their divorce in 1984 . He and Lorraine Venture married in 1984 and divorced in 1995 . Venture served in the United States Navy during World War II .
Elizabeth Cheshire is an American actress known for appearing in the films as Airport '77 ( 1977 ) , Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) , Sunshine Christmas ( 1977 ) , Melvin and Howard ( 1980 ) and Strange Behavior ( 1980 ) , and television series such as The Family Holvak and Sunshine .
María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz ( 4 October 1944 - 25 March 2006 ) , better known professionally as Rocío Dúrcal ( Spanish pronunciation : [ roˈθi.o ˈðuɾkal ] ) , was a Spanish singer and actress . In 2005 Dúrcal received a Latin Grammy Award for musical excellence , a prize that is awarded by the Governing Board of the Recording Latin Academy to artists who have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance during their careers .
Bárbara Rey ( Totana , Murcia , Spain , 2 February 1950 ) is a Spanish film and television actress . She is the daughter of Andrés García Valenzuela and Salvadora García Molina . Rey represented Spain at the 21st annual Miss World pageant under her original name María García . Her real fame came in 1975 with the TV program Palmarés which made her a sex-symbol . After that she appeared in many revues in theatres . In the 1970s she became an icon of the destape films ( films where Spaniards could see naked women in film for the first time now that Francoist censorship have ended ) . In 1980 she married lion tamer Ángel Cristo whom she had two children Ángel ( 1981 ) and Sofía Cristo ( 1983 ) . She collaborated with him in his circus . They divorced in 1988 . In the 1980s she appeared in many revues and TV shows such as Primera función ( 1989 ) or Pero ¿esto qué es ? ( 1989 ) Since the 2000s she became a regular guest of gossip TV shows and she also appeared as contestant in some reality shows such as Esta cocina es un infierno , in Telecinco , or Acorralados .
Francisco Javier Jiménez Algora ( 7 December 1948 - 30 March 2016 ) was a Spanish actor . He has appeared in 105 films and television shows between 1972 and 2012 . He starred in the 1973 film Habla , mudita , which was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival . He died on 30 March 2016 from a lung cancer at the age of 67 .
Fernando Sánchez Polack ( 11 August 1920 - 24 January 1982 ) was a Spanish actor . He appeared in 113 films and television shows between 1959 and 1982 , mostly of them as a supporting character in Spaghetti Western films . He starred in the 1966 film La caza , which won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival . On 1 December 1981 he was hospitalized from a paraplegia at Residencia Sanitaria Provincial and he died on 24 January 1982 aged 61 from a cardiac arrest .
Víctor Israel born José María Soler Vilanova ( 13 June 1929 - 19 September 2009 ) was a Spanish ( Catalan ) film actor . He appeared in more than 140 films , beginning in 1961 . He died on 19 September 2009 aged 80 in Barcelona .
Outrageous ! is a 1977 Canadian comedy film . Directed and written by Richard Benner , the film stars Craig Russell as Robin Turner , a female impersonator , and Hollis McLaren as Liza Conners , Turner 's schizophrenic roommate . The film initially takes place in Toronto , Canada . The film is based on Making It , a short story by writer Margaret Gibson from her 1976 collection The Butterfly Ward ; Russell and Gibson were roommates in real life . Outrageous ! was one of the first gay-themed films ever to receive widespread theatrical release in North America . The film inspired the sequel Too Outrageous ! released in 1987 . A stage musical adaptation of the film was produced by Canadian Stage in 2000 .
Richard Benner ( 1943 - December 2 , 1990 ) was an American film director and screenwriter who worked predominantly in Canada . His 1977 film Outrageous ! was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival , where Craig Russell won the Silver Bear for Best Actor . Benner , who grew up in Kentucky and studied drama in California and England , landed in Toronto in the early 1970s . Writing for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , he pitched an idea for a film about a gay hairdresser with dreams of New York City success to the Canadian Film Development Corporation ( now Telefilm Canada ) . Approved , he was able to secure financing with the help of Toronto producers , and Outrageous ! , the first film to feature Craig Russell , an openly gay cabaret performer , went on to critical success at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival . Funny and sympathetic , Outrageous ! is considered a landmark film in Canadian Queer cinema . Ten years later Benner talked Russell into doing a sequel ( 1987 ) , which fared not nearly as well . Benner died from complications due to AIDS in 1990 . In addition to his films , he directed several episodes of the Canadian television series 9B , Monsters , Street Legal and Road to Avonlea .
Russell Craig Eadie ( January 10 , 1948 - October 30 , 1990 ) , better known by his stage name Craig Russell , was a Canadian female impersonator and actor .
Hollis McLaren is a Canadian film and television actress . She is best known for her role in the 1977 cult film Outrageous ! and its sequel Too Outrageous ! , in which she played a character closely based on writer Margaret Gibson . She also had roles in the films Partners , Atlantic City , Jigsaw ( L'Homme en colère ) and Marion Bridge , as well as the television series Pit Pony and the television film Mom at Sixteen . She was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Actress in 1977 for Outrageous ! .
Allan Moyle ( born 1947 in Shawinigan , Quebec ) is a Canadian film director . He is best known for directing the films Pump Up the Volume ( 1990 ) and Empire Records ( 1995 ) .
David McIlwraith is a Canadian actor who has appeared in numerous television series and in several films since the 1970s . He co-starred in the 1993 television series White Fang and also had a prominent role as Dr. Reginald Murdoch in the 2001 television series Vampire High . He portrayed politician Peter Lougheed in the 2002 mini-series Trudeau . He had a supporting role in the 2005 television film Living With the Enemy . In 2006 , he appeared in the feature film Hollow Man II .
Andrée Pelletier ( born August 24 , 1951 ) is a Canadian actress , screenwriter and film director . As an actress , she is a five-time Canadian Film Award and Genie Award nominee , receiving nominations for Best Actress at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for her performance as Marie-Anne Gaboury in the film Marie-Anne , at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981 for The Handyman ( L'Homme à tout faire ) , at the 4th Genie Awards in 1983 for Latitude 55° and at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for Walls , and a Best Supporting Actress nominee at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Bach and Broccoli ( Bach et Bottine ) . She later turned to screenwriting , including the films The Peanut Butter Solution , Nénette and Karmina , and directed the films Anchor Zone and Voodoo Dolls . Born in Montreal , Quebec , she is the daughter of Gérard Pelletier , a former journalist and diplomat .
Helen Shaver ( born February 24 , 1951 ) is a Canadian actress and film and television director . She has received Emmy and Saturn Award nominations , among other honours .
Martha Gibson ( born January 14 , 1939 ) is a Canadian actress . She is probably best known for appearing alongside her husband Louis Del Grande in the television series Seeing Things , for which she earned a Gemini Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Role in a Comedy Series in 1986 . She was nominated in the same category for the same show in 1987 , but lost to Dinah Christie . Gibson also appeared in other notable roles in Black Christmas ( 1974 ) , Outrageous ! ( 1977 ) and Murder by Phone ( 1982 ) , and television series such as King of Kensington ( to which she also contributed as a writer ) , Katts and Dog and Sweating Bullets .
Rusty Ryan was the stage name of Robert Brian Timbrell ( December 28 , 1947 - July 28 , 2003 ) , a Canadian actor and drag queen . He was a founding member of The Great Impostors , a long-running drag troupe in Toronto , Ontario whose members included Ryan , Tammy Autumn , Michelle DuBarry , Danny Love , Jackie Loren , Terri Stevens , Christian Jefferies and Dale Barnett at different times . Timbrell was born in Kingston , Ontario on December 28 , 1947 , the younger brother of politician Dennis Timbrell . He was working as a stockbroker when he first began performing in the 1970s , and was given his drag name by friend and fellow performer Craig Russell . With the Great Impostors , Ryan toured extensively across Canada , giving many smaller communities their first exposure to drag and LGBT culture ; in the 1980s , he accompanied Frankie Goes to Hollywood on their North American tour . In 1992 , he wrote and performed a one-man play , Driving to Tatamagouche , at the Toronto Fringe Festival . He also had numerous minor roles in television and film . Best known to film audiences for his supporting role as Jimmy the bartender in Outrageous ! and its sequel Too Outrageous , he also appeared in the television films The Sins of Dorian Gray and The Wharf Rat , the theatrical film 54 , an episode of Queer as Folk and a music video by Platinum Blonde . He died of a heart attack on July 28 , 2003 in Liverpool , Nova Scotia , following a performance that was part of his first tour performing comedy out of drag . Following his death , writer Jeffrey Round prepared and released a documentary film , Driving with Rusty .
Trevor Bryan ( born August 23 , 1989 ) is an American professional boxer in the Heavyweight division . Bryan is the current Interim WBA World Heavyweight champion .
Frederick Reginald Ironside ( born February 12 , 1950 ) , known as Michael Ironside , is a Canadian actor . He has worked as a voice actor , producer , film director , and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions . He is best known for playing villains and tough guy heroes , though he has also portrayed sympathetic characters .
Hidden Pleasures ( Spanish : Los placeres ocultos ) is a 1977 drama film , directed by Eloy de la Iglesia . The script was written by de la Iglesia , Rafael Sánchez Campoy and Gonzalo Goicoechea with the working title La acera de enfrente ( literally : The other side of the street , which was used as a pejorative expression for homosexual ) , considered too daring for its time , the title was changed upon release . The film stars Simón Andreu , Charo López and Tony Fuentes . The plot follows a middle-aged , closeted homosexual banker from a wealthy family , who falls in love with a much younger heterosexual man . Los placeres ocultos is notable for being the first extended representation of gay men in Spanish cinema .
Eloy de la Iglesia ( January 1 , 1944 - March 23 , 2006 ) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director . De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country . He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s . Part of his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as quinqui films , to which he contributed with several works . His film are an example of commitment to the immediate reality . They were made with honesty and great risk , against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time . Beyond their debatable aesthetic merits , his film served a document of the Spanish marginality of the late seventies and early eighties , and they have the stamp of his strong personality . Many of this films also deal with the theme of homosexuality .
Simón Andreu Trobat ( born 1 January 1941 ) is a Spanish actor . He has appeared in more than 180 films and television shows since 1961 . In 2013 he was awarded with the Nosferatu Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya for his long career .
María del Rosario López Piñuelas ( 28 October 1943 ) better known as Charo López , is a Spanish actress .
Queta Claver ( June 24 , 1929 - May 3 , 2003 ) was a Spanish actress , singer , and dancer , known for her vedette roles in stage revues .
Coline Serreau ( born 29 October 1947 ) is a French actress , film director and writer .
Sami Frey ( born Samuel Frei ; 13 October 1937 ) is a French actor of Polish Jewish descent . Among the films he starred in are En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud ( 1993 ) , in which he portrays French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud , and Bande à part ( 1964 ) by Jean-Luc Godard .
Michel Henri Aumont ( 15 October 1936 - 28 August 2019 ) was a French theatre , film , and television actor . Throughout his career , he gained four Molière Awards and nominations for three César Awards . In 2015 , he was made Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit .
Jacques Rispal ( 1 August 1923 - 9 February 1986 ) was a French film actor . He appeared in 100 films between 1952 and 1986 .
Geneviève Mnich ( born 19 February 1942 ) , is a French actress . She has appeared in 80 films since 1972 . She was born in Cuffies , Aisne , France .
A Special Day ( Italian : Una giornata particolare ) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola and starring Sophia Loren , Marcello Mastroianni and John Vernon . Set in Rome in 1938 , its narrative follows a woman and her neighbor who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini . It is an Italian-Canadian co-production . Themes addressed in the film include gender roles , fascism , and the persecution of homosexuals under the Mussolini regime . It received several nominations and awards , including a César Award for Best Foreign Film , a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film , and two Academy Award nominations in 1978 . It is featured on the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved .
Ettore Scola ( Italian pronunciation : [ ˈɛttore ˈskɔːla ] ; 10 May 1931 - 19 January 2016 ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director . He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film .
Sofia Villani Scicolone Dame Grand Cross OMRI ( Italian : [ soˈfiːa vilˈlaːni ʃikoˈloːne ] ; born 20 September 1934 ) , known professionally as Sophia Loren ( Italian : [ ˈlɔːren ] , English : /ləˈrɛn/ ) , is an Italian film actress . She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood . Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant , Loren began her film career at age 16 in 1950 . She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade , until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career . Notable film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion , Houseboat , and It Started in Naples . Her talents as an actress were not recognized until her performance as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica 's Two Women ( 1961 ) ; Loren 's performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress , making her the first actor or actress to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance . She holds the record for having earned six David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress : Two Women ; Yesterday , Today and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) ; Marriage Italian Style ( 1964 ) ( for which she was nominated for a second Oscar ) ; Sunflower ( 1970 ) ; The Voyage ( 1974 ) ; and A Special Day ( 1977 ) . After starting a family in the early 1970s , Loren chose to make only occasional film appearances . Most recently , she has appeared in American films such as Grumpier Old Men ( 1995 ) and Nine ( 2009 ) . Aside from the Academy Award , she has won a Grammy Award , five special Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award ) , a BAFTA Award , a Laurel Award , the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival , the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Honorary Academy Award in 1991 . In 1995 , she received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements , one of many such awards . In 1999 , Loren was named by the American Film Institute the 21st greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema .
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni ( Italian pronunciation : [ marˈtʃɛllo mastroˈjanni ] ; 28 September 1924 - 19 December 1996 ) was an Italian film actor . His prominent films include : La Dolce Vita ; 8½ ; La Notte ; Divorce Italian Style ; Yesterday , Today and Tomorrow ; Marriage Italian Style ; The 10th Victim ; A Special Day ; City of Women ; Henry IV ; Dark Eyes ; and Everybody 's Fine . His honours included British Film Academy Awards , Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards .
John Keith Vernon ( born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz ; February 24 , 1932 - February 1 , 2005 ) was a Canadian actor . He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada . He was best known for playing Dean Wormer in Animal House , his role as the Mayor in Dirty Harry and as Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales .
Françoise Berd ( born Françoise Bernadette Loranger ; March 2 , 1923 - August 10 , 2001 ) was a Quebec actress and founder of the theatre company L'Égrégore Berd played the role of the caretaker in the film A Special Day ( Una Giornata particulare ) by Ettore Scola ( 1977 ) , alongside Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni .
Alessandra Mussolini ( born 30 December 1962 ) is an Italian politician , the granddaughter of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini , and a former actress and model who served as a Member of the European Parliament for Forza Italia . She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013 and the Italian Senate from 2013 to 2014 , she was elected under The People of Freedom which is now part of Forza Italia . She was elected to the European Parliament in 2014 . She was the founder and leader of the national conservative political party Social Action ; from 2004 until 2008 , Mussolini also served as a Member of the European Parliament , and she has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Italian Parliament , for The People of Freedom .
To an Unknown God ( Spanish : A un dios desconocido ) is a 1977 Spanish film directed by Jaime Chávarri . The film is about an aging man coming to terms with his homosexuality and mortality . It was a pioneer in its frank and mature examination of homosexuality .
Jaime Chávarri de la Mora ( born 20 March 1943 ) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter . Best known for his films Las bicicletas son para el verano and musical film Las cosas del querer .
Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato ( born 21 September 1929 ) is an Argentine theatre , film and television actor , well known both in Argentina and Spain .
Xabier González Elorriaga ( born April 1 , 1944 in Maracaibo ) is a Spanish film and TV actor , writer and director .
Ángela Molina Tejedor ( born 5 October 1955 ) is a Spanish actress , and a daughter of Antonio Molina , Spanish singer and actor .
Mercedes Sampietro Marro ( born 24 January 1947 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish actress . Her debut on stage was in 1979 , and in cinema , seven years later , with Jaime Chávarri 's A un dios desconocido . She has worked five times with Pilar Miró . In 1981 she won the award for Best Actress at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in Gary Cooper , Who Art in Heaven . She won one Goya Award for Best Actress thanks to her role in Argentinian-Spanish film Lugares comunes She has dubbed into Spanish actresses including Meryl Streep , Diane Keaton , Kim Basinger , and Catherine Deneuve . She was the president of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España from 9 October 2003 to 18 December 2006 .
Paul Naschy ( born Jacinto Molina Álvarez , September 6 , 1934 - November 30 , 2009 ) was a Spanish movie actor , screenwriter , and director working primarily in horror films . His portrayals of numerous classic horror figures - the The Wolfman , Frankenstein 's monster , Count Dracula , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Fu Manchu and a mummy - earned him recognition as the Spanish Lon Chaney . He had one of the most recognizable faces in Spanish horror film . Naschy also starred in dozens of action films , historical dramas , crime movies , TV shows and documentaries . He also wrote the screenplays for most of his films and directed a number of them as well . King Juan Carlos I presented Naschy with Spain 's Gold Medal Award for Fine Arts in 2001 in honor of his work , the Spanish equivalent of being knighted .
José García López ( 3 May 1902 - 10 August 1982 ) , better known as José Nieto , was a Spanish actor . He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1925 to 1983 .
Eva Robin 's is a transgender Italian actress , model , and activist from Bologna , Italy . Eva was assigned male at birth and developed naturally feminine features . From the age of about thirteen she says she felt she was female . When she was sixteen , she met a neighbor who was transgender and who introduced her to feminizing hormones . By the age of twenty-one she was living as a woman . Eva says she does n't want sex reassignment surgery , saying she feels comfortable with her body and has no desire to change . Contrary to conflicting mentions , Eva currently does spell her last name with an apostrophe in it . She took her nom de plume from a character in Italy 's Diabolik comics , Eva Kant , and writer Harold Robbins . While on holiday in Sardinia she saw the name Robbins spelled as Robin 's and decided to take on that particular spelling .
Vicente Parra Collado ( 5 February 1931 - 2 March 1997 ) was a Spanish actor .
Word Is Out : Stories of Some of Our Lives is a 1977 documentary film featuring interviews with 26 gay men and women . It was directed by six people collectively known as the Mariposa Film Group . Peter Adair conceived and produced the film , and was one of the directors . The film premiered in November 1977 at the Castro Theater in San Francisco , and went into limited national release in 1978 . It also aired on many PBS stations in 1978 . The interviews from the film were transcribed into a book of the same title , which was published in October 1978 .
Peter Adair ( November 25 , 1943 - June 27 , 1996 ) was a filmmaker and artist , best known for his pioneering gay and lesbian documentary Word Is Out : Stories of Some of Our Lives ( 1977 ) .
Word Is Out : Stories of Some of Our Lives is a 1977 documentary film featuring interviews with 26 gay men and women . It was directed by six people collectively known as the Mariposa Film Group . Peter Adair conceived and produced the film , and was one of the directors . The film premiered in November 1977 at the Castro Theater in San Francisco , and went into limited national release in 1978 . It also aired on many PBS stations in 1978 . The interviews from the film were transcribed into a book of the same title , which was published in October 1978 .
Rob Epstein , also credited as Robert P. Epstein , is an American director , producer , writer , and editor . He has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature , for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads : Stories from the Quilt . In 1987 , Epstein and his filmmaking partner , Jeffrey Friedman , founded Telling Pictures , a production company and team known for groundbreaking feature documentaries . Epstein has transitioned from nonfiction documentaries into scripted narratives , producing such biopics as HOWL , his award-winning film about Allen Ginsberg 's controversial poem by the same name ( starring James Franco ) , and Lovelace , the story about the life and trials of pornographic superstar Linda Lovelace ( starring Amanda Seyfried ) . He is openly gay . Epstein is the currently the co-chair of the Film Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland , California .
Elsa Gidlow ( 29 December 1898 - 8 June 1986 ) was a British-born , Canadian-American poet , freelance journalist , philosopher and humanitarian . She is best known for writing On A Grey Thread ( 1923 ) , the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America . In the 1950s , Gidlow helped found Druid Heights , a bohemian community in Marin County , California . She was the author of thirteen books and appeared as herself in the documentary film , Word Is Out : Stories of Some of Our Lives ( 1977 ) . Completed just before her death , her autobiography , Elsa , I Come with My Songs ( 1986 ) , recounts her life story . It is the first lesbian autobiography published where the author does not employ a pseudonym .
Sally Miller Gearhart ( born April 15 , 1931 ) is an American teacher , feminist , science-fiction writer , and political activist . In 1973 , she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University , where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country . She later became a nationally known gay rights activist .
John Lyon Burnside III ( November 2 , 1916 - September 14 , 2008 ) was the inventor of the teleidoscope , the darkfield kaleidoscope , and the Symmetricon . Because he rediscovered the math behind kaleidoscope optics , makers of optically correct kaleidoscopes sold in the United States paid him royalties for decades . Burnside was the life partner of Harry Hay from 1962 until Hay 's death in 2002 . Burnside was living in San Francisco , at the time of his death on September 14 , 2008 from complications of brain cancer .
Henry Harry Hay Jr. ( April 7 , 1912 - October 24 , 2002 ) was a prominent American gay rights activist , communist , and labor advocate . He was a founder of the Mattachine Society , the first sustained gay rights group in the United States , as well as the Radical Faeries , a loosely affiliated gay spiritual movement . Born to an upper middle class family in England , Hay was raised in Chile and California . From an early age he acknowledged his same-sex sexual attraction , and came under the influence of Marxism . Briefly studying at Stanford University , he subsequently became a professional actor in Los Angeles , where he joined the Communist Party USA , becoming a committed activist in left-wing labor and anti-racist campaigns . As a result of societal pressure , he attempted to become heterosexual by marrying a female Party activist in 1938 , with whom he adopted two children . Recognizing that he remained homosexual , his marriage ended and in 1950 he founded the Mattachine Society . Although involved in campaigns for gay rights , he resigned from the Society in 1953 . Hay 's developing belief in the cultural minority status of homosexuals led him to take a stand against the assimilationism advocated by the majority of gay rights campaigners . He subsequently became a co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front in 1969 , although in 1970 he moved to New Mexico with his longtime partner John Burnside . Hay 's ongoing interest in American Indian religion led the couple to co-found the Radical Faeries in 1979 with Don Kilhefner and Mitchell L. Walker . Returning to Los Angeles , Hay remained involved in an array of activist causes throughout his life , and became a well-known , albeit controversial , elder statesman within the country 's gay community .
Nathaniel Dorsky , born in New York City in 1943 , is an experimental filmmaker and film editor who has been making films since 1963 . He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs , Ohio where he developed his interest in filmmaking . He won an Emmy Award for the film Gauguin in Tahiti : Search for Paradise which was directed by Martin Carr in 1967 .