Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.

KNOWN FOR

The Andy Griffith Show
1965
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Night of the Dark Full Moon
1972
Birth of a Nation
1997
Batman Dracula
1964
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
I Am Divine
2014
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Chumlum
1963
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Love Thing
2012

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
49
Directing
17
Writing
2
Producing
1
Camera
1
Editing
1
2017
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
as Himself (archive footage)
2014
I Am Divine
as Self (archive)
2012
Love Thing
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself (archive footage)
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Two Wrenching Departures
2004
Star Spangled to Death
as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1991
Shadows in the City
as Spirit of Death
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
1981
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1980
The Trap Door
as Dr. Shrinkelstein
1978
The Secret of Rented Island
1972
Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Inmate
1970
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
as Self
1970
The Stone Age
1969
Filmmakers
as Himself
1969
Song for Rent
as Rose Courtyard
1968
Flaming Twenties
1968
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1967
The Illiac Passion
as Orpheus
1967
I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
1967
Poem Posters
as Self
1967
Joan of Arc
as Self
1966
Hedy
as soothsayer
1966
Satisfaction
as God
1965
Electrolux Lover
1965
Camp
1965
Dirt
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1965
The Andy Griffith Show
as Himself
1964
Batman Dracula
as Batman / Dracula
1964
The Soap Opera
1964
Screen Test: Jack Smith
as Himself
1964
The Devil is Dead
1964
Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”
as Batman
1964
Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
1964
Jeremelu
1964
Lovers of Eternity
1963
Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"
as Self
1963
Blonde Cobra
as Madame Nescience
1963
Little Stabs at Happiness
as Himself
1963
Chumlum
1961
The Death of P'town
as Fairy Vampire
1956
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
as Cult leader
1956
Little Cobra Dance
The Bubble People