1. Joe Dallesandro starred in the Factory films Heat, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, and Andy Warhol's Dracula, which were directed by Paul Morrissey.
34 Facts About Joe Dallesandro
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Joe Dallesandro later lived in Europe for several years where he starred in both genre and art films.
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Joe Dallesandro Dallessandro was born on December 31,1948 in Pensacola, Florida, to Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro II, who was in the US Navy.
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Joe Dallesandro's parents separated soon after they moved to New Jersey when he was 2 years old.
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Joe Dallesandro was later reunited with his mother in 1970.
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Joe Dallesandro was initially content living with his foster parents, but as he became a teenager he reportedly began to resent them, thinking that they were preventing him from living with his father.
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Joe Dallesandro became aggressive and repeatedly ran away from his foster home until his father finally relented and allowed Joe to live with him.
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At age 15, Joe Dallesandro drove a stolen car through the Holland Tunnel without paying the toll.
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Joe Dallesandro was stopped by a police roadblock and was shot once in the leg by police who mistakenly thought he was armed.
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Joe Dallesandro was sentenced to Camp Cass Rehabilitation Center for Boys in the Catskills in 1964.
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Joe Dallesandro supported himself by nude modeling for Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild.
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Joe Dallesandro was married at the age of eighteen, and he was hustling around Times Square to pay for his drug habit.
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Joe Dallesandro met pop artist Andy Warhol and film director Paul Morrissey while they were shooting Four Stars in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, and they cast him in the film on the spot.
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Joe Dallesandro began working at the Factory as Warhol's bodyguard, general factotum, and occasional actor.
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Flesh became a crossover hit with mainstream audiences, and Joe Dallesandro became the most popular of the Warhol stars.
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Joe Dallesandro was photographed by some of the top celebrity photographers of the time: Francesco Scavullo, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon.
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Joe Dallesandro believed that Warhol and Morrissey deterred Coppola's entourage by telling them that Joe Dallesandro was a drug addict and couldn't handle the script, but Morrissey stated that isn't true.
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Morrissey added that he and Warhol would have been thrilled if Joe Dallesandro landed a role in a major film.
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Joe Dallesandro starred in the films Heat, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, and Andy Warhol's Dracula, directed by Morrissey.
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Morrissey recommended that Joe Dallesandro get an agent to find more work in Europe.
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Joe Dallesandro appeared in Serge Gainsbourg's Je t'aime moi non plus, which starred Gainsbourg's girlfriend, British actress Jane Birkin.
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Joe Dallesandro relocated to Los Angeles in 1981, checked himself into a detox center, joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and worked as a limousine and taxi driver before returning to acting.
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Joe Dallesandro made several mainstream films during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Joe Dallesandro had roles in Critical Condition opposite Richard Pryor, Sunset with Bruce Willis and James Garner, Cry-Baby with Johnny Depp, Guncrazy with Drew Barrymore, and Steven Soderbergh's 1999 film The Limey.
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Joe Dallesandro was a regular for the first season of the CBS crime drama series Wiseguy, appeared in three episodes of NBC's Miami Vice, and a two-hour episode of ABC's Matlock in 1990.
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Joe Dallesandro's adopted daughter, Vedra Mehagian, served as a producer of the film.
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In February 2009, Joe Dallesandro received the Teddy Award, an honor recognizing those filmmakers and artists who have contributed to the further acceptance of LGBT people, culture and artistic vision.
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Joe Dallesandro appeared in the Dandy Warhols' official video for "You are Killing Me" in 2016.
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Joe Dallesandro has been married three times and has two children.
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At age 18, Joe Dallesandro married his first wife, Leslie, the daughter of his father's girlfriend, in 1967.
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In 1987, Joe Dallesandro was married a third time, to Kimberly.
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Joe Dallesandro has a grandson and a granddaughter by his son Michael, as well as a grandson by his son Joseph.
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Joe Dallesandro had worked for Warhol as a chauffeur, appeared in the films Flesh and Trash.
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Semi-retired from acting as of 2009, Joe Dallesandro managed a residential hotel building in Los Angeles.