Cino Actors in Movies and T.V.

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See DONALD L. BROOKS in cult film Pink Narcissus HERE, fascinating interview with him HERE.

Photos of GEORGE HARRIS II in “Superman” (1978) HERE.

CINO PEOPLE in ANDY MILLIGAN movies HERE.

HOPE STANSBURY in MILLIGAN movies HERE.

KENNY BURGESS, Shirley Knight, MICHAEL WARREN POWELL, and JOHN P. DODD pop pills in director MARSHALL W. MASON’s 1982 CBS Cable version of my “Kennedy’s Children,” produced by GLENN DUBOSE. STEVEN DAVIS also appeared.

Upper left, H.M. KOUTOUKAS and Lynne Thigpen in “Naked in New York;” upper right, HELEN HANFT in “Stardust Memories;” lower left, Richard Burton, Grayson Hall, and MARY BOYLAN in “Night of the Iguana;” lower right, IRVING METZMAN in “WarGames.”

MARY BOYLAN and BOB DAHDAH, who appeared in more Cino plays than anyone else from 1958 on, also appeared as extras in so many movies they were recognized on the streets.

FREDRIC FORREST (Lanford Wilson’s “The Madness of Lady Bright” and “This Is the Rill Speaking”), seen here with MARI-CLAIRE CHARBA on the set of “Futz,” was nominated for many film awards and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for “Apocalypse Now.” Photo: ACTORS ARCHIVE, courtesy Marilyn Roberts.

BERNADETTE PETERS (“Dames at Sea”) won Cable Ace, Golden Globe, and Hasty Pudding Awards, plus nominations for Daytime Emmys, Emmys, and Golden Satellites (besides seven Tony noms and two wins).

PETER RATRAY (“Aria da Capo,” “Tea and Sympathy”) is a veteran of 22 movie and TV assignments. Here he is the conservative gay rights activist in “Stonewall.”

DORIC WILSON breaks up remembering the first Gay Pride Parade of 1969, in the 2011 documentary “American Experience: Stonewall Uprising.”

CYNTHIA HARRIS (Sam Shepard’s “Icarus’ Mother”) notably played the Duchess of Windsor on TV (above with Edward Fox as the Duke), and was nominated for BAFTA and Screen Actors’ Guild Awards.

HAAL BORSKE (“The Brown Crown,” “The Warhol Machine,” “Wonder Woman,” “Henry/Henrietta”) became a famous cult star in ANDY MILLIGAN’s movies (above in “House of the Seven Belles” with HOPE STANSBURY’s back), and toured the world lecturing about them.

MARY WORONOV (“Vinyl,” “Lights, Camera, Action”), gentle and intellectual, somehow became moviedom’s favorite sadistic dyke during 111 movies, TV shows, and series, nomimated for sci-fi and Independent Spirit Awards and winning at the Silver Lake Film Fest. Photos from Andy Warhol’s “The Chelsea Girls,” copyright by: Billy Name, all rights reserved.

Playwright SAM SHEPARD (above left with Patti Smith and right with Jessica Lange) became a movie star, nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe, and winning the Lone Star TV Acting Award.

JACQUE LYNN COLTON (“Moon,” “This Is the Rill Speaking,” “Eyen on Eyen,” “Christmas Carol”), seen here in TOM O’HORGAN’s film of Elsa Gress’ “Boxiganga,” has done over thirty-six movies and TV shows. Photo: ACTORS ARCHIVE, courtesy Marilyn Roberts.

SHIRLEY STOLER and ANN HARRIS in “The Honeymoon Killers.”

DEAN SELMIER, “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” 1971.

JOE DAVIES (Far too many Cino plays and revues to list, especially in the sparsely-documented early days) was a familiar extra in film after film after film, and at last played the title role in “Johnny Appleseed:and the Frontier Within,” – with Lillian Gish, with whom, alas, he had no scenes! Buy it HERE.

AL PACINO shortly before he appeared in “Hello, Out There.” (Whatever happened to him?)When he uttered his first line on stage in front of a paying audience, in a 1963 production of William Saroyan’s Hello Out There Pacino had such a shock he might never have gone on stage again. “The audience laughed at my first line,” Pacino told Lawrence Grobel in Playboy in 1979. “It was a really funny line and they should have laughed, but I had never been in front of an audience doing that play and I didn’t know it was funny. I realized I didn’t know the part well.” At the interval, Pacino went into the ally behind New York’s Caffe Cino and cried. The play’s director, Pacino’s mentor Charlie Laughton, reminded him that he had to do the line again, in a second performance that night, and for every night in the run. “It was a very important moment for me,” Pacino told The New Yorker. “I went back in there and finished the run.”

MICHAEL ALAIMO’s commedia troupe went directly from the Cino to Public Access TV to do their “Commedia Hamlet,” 1964.

FRED WILLARD (“If Men Played Cards As Women Do”) in 1980’s “How To Beat the Hiigh Co$t of Living.””

Hey, even I made it into the movies. That’s Quentin Crisp, painter Patrick Angus, and me in Jonathan Nossiter’s 1989 documentary, “Resident Alien.”

BOB HEIDE and JOHN GHILMAN scour New Jersey for pop memorabilia
in Peter Leiss’ “CAKEWALK,” available HERE.

standing, FRED FORREST, MARI-CLAIRE CHARBA, kneeling, ROB THIRKELD, VICTOR LI PARI. Peter Craig holds John Bakos aloft in the TOM O’HORGAN movie, “Futz.” (MICHAEL WARREN POWELL and JOHN P. DODD also appeared.)

“All of Me” (1984) Steve Martin, possessed by the spirit of Lily Tomlin, cries, “I’m not sharing my body with anyone!” Passing hardhat BOB SHIELDS comments, “Everybody’s gonna be real disappointed.”

ROB THIRKIELD and TANYA BEREZIN as the constantly-embattled archaeologist brother and novelist sister in LANFORD WILSON’s The Mound Builders, co-directed by MARSHALL W. MASON.

LARRY REE, DONALD L. BROOKS, and DON KVARES in the cult fim, “Pink Narcissus,” 1971.

I don’t want to know what Viva is doing to LOUIS WALDON in Warhol’s “Blue Movie” (1969)…

…and you don’t want to know what a young man does to himself with the Washington Monument in JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE’s surreal XXX cult masterpiece (1972).

OFF-OFF TV–NYC–1982:in CLARIS NELSON’s prize-wining “Passing Fancy.” Pat Lindley learns the cost of making more money than her man (Bill Carr), and David Pincus and Off-Off TV’s producers Eda Roth and Linda Niederman act the bee-jeezis out of my “The Comeback.”

1982–Off-Off Television. Lanka Petersen laments a cleaning woman’s life in DON KVARES’ “Mrs. Minter.” Is this the only existing photo of a Don Kvares play?

BOB DAHDAH under the word “Parcel” in “North by Northwest” with Cary Grant.

RON COLBY, author of the Cino and La Mama play, Episode has created a wonderful movie about incredibly-activist environmentalist Paul Watson, Pirate for the Sea. Here is a capture from the DVD, of Paul Watson on a whale!

CINO DOUBLE-THREAT. “Longtime Companion” (1989): a character based on WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN dances to a song from “Dreamgirls” by TOM EYEN!

This movie of TOM EYEN’s play, using much of a La Mama cast of a greatly-expanded version, is said to be a “blue unicorn” of videotape collecting, i.e., much sought-after.