Joe Dallesandro
Joe Dallesandro and John Hurt at the Teddy Award ceremony in 2009
Joe Dallesandro was born on December 31, 1948 and currently lives in Hollywood with his wife Kim.
The first Andy Warhol film that Joe Dallesandro appeared in was Loves of Ondine.
He also appeared in Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, San Diego Surf and Heat (Heat was directed by Paul Morrissey). All three films also featured Warhol star Eric Emerson who later died of a heroin overdose. (See Who Killed Wonderboy?)
In addition to Heat, the films that Joe Dallesandro appeared in that were directed by Warhol's colleague, Paul Morrissey, were Flesh and Trash (starring in Trash with Holly Woodlawn - the "Holly" (the "he" who became a "she") in Lou Reed's song, Walk on the Wild Side.
After parting ways with Andy Warhol, Joe Dallesandro moved to Europe where he appeared in quite a few films including Serge Gainsbourg's Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus with Jane Birkin who became a lifelong friend and Louis Malle's Black Moon.
Joe Dallesandro also appears in The Cotton Club and The Limey.
A documentary about Joe Dallesandro, Little Joe, was released in 2009. (The publicity claim made that his crotch was the one used for the Sticky Fingers album by the Rolling Stones is untrue:
In an article published on February 9, 2003 in the New York Times, journalist David Colman attempted to find out whose crotch it was:
David Colman ("1970's New York, on an Album Cover,"The New York Times, 9 February 2003):
"Of course, I always thought it was Mick Jagger," Mr. [Michael] Kors said. "I had to wait until the grand old age of 15 to find out it was Joe Dallesandro," a reference to the star of Warhol films like "Flesh" and "Trash."
Not so, said Glenn O'Brien, the writer who was working for the Warhol magazine, Interview. "Joe wasn't up to it or something, or they wanted someone skinnier." Mr. O'Brien said it was he who posed for the inner sleeve photo, in his Carter's briefs. As for the cover star, he said it was Jay Johnson, the decorator, then a model.
"It's not me," Mr. Johnson said, pointing the finger at Corey Tippin, a Factory habitué, now a photo stylist living in Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Tippin said that, yes, the jeans and their contents were his, and he thought, but was not positive, that the inner sleeve was him as well. Both he and Mr. O'Brien were photographed, he said, but in his recollection, "Glenn O'Brien seemed like he probably wore boxer shorts."
("It's my body," Mr. O'Brien rejoined. "I'd know it anywhere.")
Andy Warhol is credited with the "Cover Concept" on the album credits. Craig Braun (as "Craigbrauninc") is credited with "Design/Graphics."
However, Braun, according to the Andy Wahol catalogue raisonnè of album covers, "had been indeed contacted by Jagger first, but none of his ideas were accepted. At a party in 1969, Warhol proposed the famous jeans idea to Jagger, whom he had first met six years before. Warhol, artist and filmmaker, had probably already had this idea for the poster of his movie Lonesome Cowboys, shot in Arizona the year before. In an interview with the author of this catalogue on February 8, 2008, Ultra Violet, singer and Factory star, confirmed this possibility." (PMA, No 32)
However, given that Ultra Violet wasn't actually in Lonesome Cowboys, it's unclear how she would know about Warhol's plans for the design of a poster advertising the film. (See Warholstars timeline Spring 1971.)
In February 2009, the documentary was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival where he was also given a special award. (The previous year the festival gave Tilda Swinton a similar award for her work with Derek Jarman.)
In the U.K. the documentary was shown at the National Portrait Gallery in September 2009.
Joe Dallesandro also won a special Teddy Award that year, along with John Hurt.
In January 2014 Joe Dallesandro appeared with his Trash co-star, Holly Woodlawn, at Hollywood Forever, for a Q&A and a screening of the documentary, arranged by his wife Kimberly who he re-married in 2011. (They were first married in June 1988 but divorced about seven years later.)
Joe Dallesandro meets Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol's The Loves of Ondine