
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1932-11-14
Deathday
1989-09-25
Place of Birth
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Jack Smith
Biography
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
as Himself

Night of the Dark Full Moon
as Inmate

Blonde Cobra
as Madame Nescience

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self

Little Stabs at Happiness
as Himself

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

Chumlum

Star Spangled to Death
as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living

Batman Dracula
as Batman / Dracula

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
as Self (archive footage)