Ondine (actor)

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American actor

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::summary American actor ::

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FieldValue
nameOndine
imageRobert Olivo.jpg
birth_nameRobert Olivo
birth_dateJune 16, 1937
birth_placeNew York City, US
death_date
death_placeNew York City, US
other_namesPope Ondine
occupationActor
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| name = Ondine | image = Robert Olivo.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Robert Olivo | birth_date = June 16, 1937 | birth_place = New York City, US | death_date = | death_place = New York City, US | other_names = Pope Ondine | occupation = Actor Robert Olivo (June 16, 1937 – August 28, 1989), better known by his stage name Ondine, was an American actor. He is best known for appearing in a series of films in the mid-1960s by Andy Warhol, whom he claimed to have met in 1961 at an orgy:

Ondine was the focus of Warhol's book, a, A Novel, based on transcripts of Ondine and others. He appeared in films made by his lover, Roger Jacoby, Dream Sphinx Opera, L'Amico Fried's Glamorous Friends, and Kunst Life.{{Citation | last = Halter | first = Ed | title = Crossroads: Avant-Garde Film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s | newspaper = Village Voice | date = April 5, 2005 | url = http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-04-05/film/film/ | access-date = October 15, 2009 | archive-date = January 13, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150113145834/http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-04-05/film/film/ | url-status = dead | last = Hubbard | first = Jim | title = Introduction: A Short, Personal History of Lesbian and Gay Experimental Cinema | journal = Millennium Film Journal | issue = 41 | date =Fall 2003 | url = http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ41/hubbardpage.html}}

In later years, he supported himself by showing Warhol films and delivering a lecture on his days as a Warhol superstar on the college circuit. He died of AIDS-related liver disease in Queens, New York in 1989, aged 52. He was portrayed in the film I Shot Andy Warhol by Michael Imperioli.

Filmography

Quotes about Ondine

  • "You can't enjoy what he's doing to your psychology if you're so weak that you become paranoid, and there are people who tend to do that. Otherwise, if you had any intellectual integrity at all, you would just feel his love, and you would enjoy it like it was better than a theater performance because it was really live." — Billy Name

References

References

  1. "The Warholstars Chronology". Warholstars.org.
  2. (1986). "Andy Warhol's Art and Films".
  3. [https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0648557/?ref_=tt_cl_t_6 IMDB profile]. Accessed July 23, 2022.
  4. (October 25, 2024). "Wood Street Galleries exhibit highlights overlooked gay Pittsburgh filmmaker".
  5. Niehoff, Sidney. (September 3, 1964). "Raw Weekend".
  6. Watson, Steve (2003). ''Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties''. Pantheon Books. {{ISBN. 0-679-42372-9.

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