Rufus Collins
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Rufus Collins was a member of the renowned experimental theatre troupe, The Living Theatre, in the late 1960s and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, with a background in dance. In 1972, he was the choreographer for Robert Stigwood's U.K. stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar where he worked briefly with Richard O'Brien. Lasting friendship with various persons lead to his appearance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975 and Shock Treatment in 1981. Collins' next project had him join with Jim Sharman and Brian Thomson as director of their stage version Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He followed that up by directing a revival of Hair. Rocky Horror fans may be amused to know he appeared in "The Hunger" with Susan Sarandon and Clifford DeYoung. Collins also appeared in a number of Andy Warhol films, including "Kiss."
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Adult: No
Birthday: August 11, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 04, 1996
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Naomi and Rufus Kiss
Overview: Naomi Levine and Rufus Collins kiss.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Batman Dracula
Overview: Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol made the movie as a homage. Batman Dracula is considered to be the first film featuring a blatantly campy Batman. The film was thought to have been lost until scenes from it were shown at some length in the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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Screen Test #3
Overview: One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-23
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Soap Opera
Overview: Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Lester Persky, among Factory regulars, intercuts television commercials of its day with silent domestic scenes shot by Warhol.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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Screen Test: Rufus Collins
Overview: Part of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Couch
Overview: The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Overview: Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-14
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Shock Treatment
Overview: Brad and Janet are now married and on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, the couple goes on the game show 'Marriage Maze' with the eccentric Bert Schnick, who suggests Brad be imprisoned in the local mental hospital. Meanwhile, Janet's star potential is skyrocketing but who is her mysterious benefactor, and who exactly are these doctors?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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The Brig
Overview: An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-20
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The Hunger
Overview: Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Summer of Secrets
Overview: A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-24
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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Heads
Overview: Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-19
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Kiss
Overview: An hour-long paean to the art of the kiss featuring fourteen couples, from passionate participants to lethargic lovers, engaging in the intimate act.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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Fu
Overview: "Fu" is one of two rolls Warhol shot for Couch that includes heterosexual sex, albeit with two men and a woman. Features the trio of Rufus Collins, Kate Heliczer, and Gerard Malanga. Unused in Couch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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