The director of films including Trash, Flesh and Women in Revolt has died in New York after a bout of pneumonia
Film director Paul Morrissey, photographed in New York City in 1970. A collaborator of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, has died aged 86.Film director Paul Morrissey, photographed in New York City in 1970. A collaborator of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground, has died aged 86.
and the Velvet Underground and the director of cult films such as Flesh, Trash and Women in Revolt, has died at 86.Morrissey was an intriguing figure, a lifelong conservative who became a key player in Warhol’s Factory studio, making low-budget films about drug addicts and hustlers, with the coterie of models, socialites, artists, drag queens and transgender actors that came to be known as Warhol’s “superstars”.
Warhol and Morrissey parted ways in 1974. Morrissey later spoke disparagingly of his former collaborator, saying he resented him for taking too much credit for their work together. He toldin 2012 that Warhol “never did a thing in his entire life. He sort of walked through it as a zombie and that paid off in the long run.”City, and attended Catholic schools and university, before joining the US Army.
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