Holly Woodlawn
Holly Woodlawn was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in his movies Trash and Women in Revolt. She was probably best known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit pop song "Walk on the Wild Side".
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1729 |
| Birthday | 1946-10-26 |
| Place of Birth | Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico |
| Also Known As | Ms. Holly Woodlawn, |
1990
Resident Alien
5/9
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp a...
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Resident Alien
1993
Night Owl
3.7/12
A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks their blood. Meanwhile, a young Puerto Rican guy be...
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Night Owl
1977
This Is America
4.5/10
Inspired by shock-documentaries like Mondo Cane, this film looks at the wilder side of life in America. Starting off with the bloodier side of the Ame...
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This Is America
1998
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
5.7/43
Billy Collier is a photographer working on a series of pictures featuring recreations of movie kisses, with drag queens playing the female roles. For...
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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
2015
Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
5.8/6
Seed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes helped shaped and create gay identity in the years...
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Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story
2005
Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia
0/0
A documentary about queer realities and cultural amnesia.
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Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia
1995
Scathed
5.7/3
A truly odd little mood piece, it features Matthew Bell (the narrator of Gregory's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth) as a guy named Joe who...
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Scathed
1970
Trash
5.7/38
The movie follows Joe, a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers on Joe's prob...
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Trash
1972
The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival
5/1
A stimulating, hilarious, provocative collection of the best American films dealing with you-know-what. Prize-winning films chosen by judges Gore Vida...
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The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival
1996
Beverly Hills Hustlers
0/0
BIG Video does it again with a release that will give you everything you want in a hardcore ass-banging video! We have assembled brand new, never befo...
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Beverly Hills Hustlers
1971
Women in Revolt
5.3/11
Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in co...
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Women in Revolt
1978
Take Off
7/6
A Don Juan-like playboy doesn't get old, but a stag film of his does in this hardcore riff on The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Take Off
1971
Is There Sex After Death?
3/4
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the w...
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Is There Sex After Death?
2014
I Am Divine
7.3/91
Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image...
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I Am Divine
2023
Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
0/0
Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the sh...
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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
1972
Andy Warhol
7/1
With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a br...
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Andy Warhol
1971
Bad Marien's Last Year
0/0
Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn teams up with jazz superstar Asha Puthli for a weekend romp in the Hamptons, in which they play two angels rescui...
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Bad Marien's Last Year
1972
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
7/6
An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.
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Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
2009
Heaven Wants Out
0/0
Once a hot spot, the Bowery Follies Cabaret is now just another broken down New York City nightclub populated with the last vestiges of vaudeville ent...
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Heaven Wants Out
1986
The Sound Of Muzak
0/0
Holly Woodlawn stars along with underground personalities of downtown New York in this adaptation of “the sound of music” by the renowned composer Sco...
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The Sound Of Muzak
1996
Phantom Pain
1/2
Kristy Nichols is a prostitute with a difference — she is transgender. She decides to make a life change just as a college film professor offers her a...
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Phantom Pain
1976
Underground and Emigrants
0/0
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts moveme...
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Underground and Emigrants
1979
Tally Brown, New York
6.667/3
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career...
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Tally Brown, New York
1989
Nelson Sullivan
0/0
Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and n...
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Nelson Sullivan
2012
She Gone Rogue
0/0
While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by Holly...
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She Gone Rogue
2010
Beautiful Darling
5.7/17
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brie...
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Beautiful Darling
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
6.6/9
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's perform...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
1973
Broken Goddess
5/3
Holly Woodlawn is an aimless, lovelorn beauty in this seventies silent short.
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Broken Goddess
2002
A Look on the Wild Side
0/0
A Cannes red carpet tribute for three iconic protagonists of Warhol's Factory glory days.
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A Look on the Wild Side
2012
Dust
0/0
DUST is the story of an eccentric family in crisis. Unable to move forward or functionally communicate, three change-averse siblings collide with thei...
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Dust
2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2.6/5
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her...
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
1996
Bubblegum
0/0
A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.
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Bubblegum
2019
Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
0/0
Anjelica Huston narrates this exploration of the spectacularly dreamlike world of Salvador Dali’s protégé, Steven Arnold, and his strikingly creative...
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Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies
2001
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
0/0
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous...
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Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2013
Continental
2/3
A stylish and thoughtful examination of the infamous Continental Baths NYC circa 1968-1976. Told by the people who were there.
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Continental
2002
The Cockettes
6.5/17
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
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The Cockettes
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
7.3/3
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. Th...
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2.9/4
Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, makin...
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
1999
Twin Falls Idaho
6.9/47
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Franci...
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Twin Falls Idaho
1995
The Matinee Idol
10/1
A Hollywood movie star (played by Ken Ryker) desperately tries to hide the truth about his homosexuality, whilst at the same time having several promi...
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The Matinee Idol
1973
Holly Woodlawn
0/0
Holly Woodlawn interview, 1973.
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Holly Woodlawn
2003
Milwaukee, Minnesota
4.6/8
Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly k...
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Milwaukee, Minnesota
2025
Candy Darling
0/0
Ron Link, Samuel Adams Green, Holly Woodlawn, and Jeremiah Newton delve into Candy Darling’s life, legacy, and the indelible impact she left on the wo...
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Candy Darling
2013
Lou Reed - Remembered
6.5/2
Film tribute to Lou Reed, who died in October, which looks at the extraordinarily transgressive life and career of one of rock 'n' roll's true origina...
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Lou Reed - Remembered
2026
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
0/0
The protests against William Friedkin’s 1980 film Cruising became a flash point in the emerging gay rights movement, but the real-life events surround...
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