TABLE SUMMARY OF 52 QUEER FILMS RELEASED IN THE DECADE AFTER THE HAYS CODE WAS REPLACED BY THE MPAA (1967-1976)
| DIRECTORS who directed gay characters in one or more of the 52 Queer Films mentioned. If the director is/was gay, their name is highlighted in red. | ACTORS who directed gay characters in one or more of the 52 Queer Films mentioned. If the actor is/was gay, their name is highlighted in red. | ACTORS (CONTINUED) who directed gay characters in one or more of the 52 Queer Films mentioned. If the actor is/was gay, their name is highlighted in red. | Gay Screen writers and Gay Writers of Source Material in one or more of the 52 Queer Films mentioned. |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2) | Helmut Berger (2) | Robert Joel (1) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (2) |
| Stanley Kubrick (2) * | Rod Steiger (2) * | Robert La Tourneaux (1) | Luchino Visconti (2) |
| Sidney Lumet (2) * | Michael York (2) | Frank Langella (1) | |
| Frank Perry (2) | Laurence Luckinbill (1) | Giorgio Bassani (1) | |
| John Schlesinger (2) * | Harry Andrews (1) | Anthony Malet (1) | Mart Crowley (1) |
| Luchino Visconti (2) | Rene Auberjonois (1) | Peter McEnery (1) * | John Dyer (1) |
| Bob Balaban (1) | Tim McIntire (1) | Christopher Isherwood (1) | |
| Robert Aldrich (1) * | Martin Balsam (1) | Michael Meyers (1) | Larry Kramer (1) |
| Dario Argento (1) | Alan Bates (1) | Christopher Morley (1) | John Van Druton (1) |
| John G. Avildsen (1) | Richard Benjamin (1) | Kenneth Nelson (1) | Hugh Wheeler (1) |
| Max Baer (1) | Joan Bennett (1) | Al Pacino (1) | |
| Bernardo Bertolucci (1) | Robby Benson (1) | Anita Pallenberg (1) | |
| Donald Cammell (1) | Dirk Bogarde (1) * | Estelle Parsons (1) | |
| Gilbert Cates (1) | Karlheinz Böhm (1) | Anthony Perkins (1) * | |
Shirley Clarke (1) | Marcel Bozzuffi (1) | Keith Prentice (1) | |
Jack Clayton (1) | Carol Browne (1) * | Douglas Rain (voice only) (1) | |
| Costa-Gavras (1) | Betty Buckley (1) | John Randolph (1) | |
| Brian De Palma (1) | Richard Burton (1) | Beryl Reid (1) | |
| Vittorio De Sica (1) | Timothy Carlton (uncredited) (1) | Ron Rickards (1 | |
| Stanley Donen (1) | Margit Carstensen (1) | Anton Rodgers (1) | |
Gordon Douglas (1) | Jack Cassidy (1) | Dominique Sanda (1) | |
| Clint Eastwood (1) | Jonathan Cecil (1) | Hanna Schygulla (1) | |
Richard Fleischer (1)* | Peter Chatel (1) | Robert Stephens (1) | |
| John Flynn (1) | Lois Chiles (1) | Leonardo Treviglio (1) | |
Bob Fosse (1) | Pierre Clementi (1) | Jean-Louis Trintignant (1) | |
| Melvin Frank (1) | Eve Collyer (1) | Jon Voight (1) | |
| William Friedkin (1) | Frederick Colms (1) | Sam Waterston (1) | |
| Douglas Hickox (1) | Hume Cronyn (1) * | Peter White (1) | |
| Paul Humfress (1) | Tim Curry (1) | William Windom (1) | |
| Derek Jarman (1) | Sandy Dennis (1) | Susannah York (1) | |
| Christopher Larkin (1) | Divine (1) | ||
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1) * | Gwyda Donhowe (1) | ||
| Albert Maysles (1) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1) | ||
| Davis Maysles (1) | Peter Finch (1) | ||
Paul Newman (1) | James Fox (1) * | ||
| Larry Peerce (1) | Leonard Frey (1) | ||
| Alan J. Pakula (1) | Cliff Gorman (1) | ||
| Harold Prince (1) | Reuben Greene (1) | ||
| Martin Ritt (1) | Helmut Griem (1) | ||
| Nicholas Roeg (1) | Rex Harrison (1) | ||
| Herbert Ross (1) | Hurd Hatfield (1) * | ||
| Richard Rush (1) | Irm Hermann (1) | ||
| Ken Russell (1) | Anne Heywood (1) | ||
| Mark Rydell (1) | Anthony Higgins (1) | ||
| Richard C. Sarafian (1) | Dustin Hoffman (1) | ||
| Jim Sharman (1) | Jason Holliday (1) | ||
| Jack Smight (1) | Bernard Hughes (1) | ||
| John Waters (1) | Mick Jagger (1) | ||
| Billy Wilder (1) * | Harvey Jason (1) | ||
| Fred Zinnemann (1) | Anthony James (1) |
Seventeen Fassbinder Films Rated! He was astonishingly productive over a period of fourteen years.
| 1 | 1969 | Love is Colder than Death | Ulli Lommel Hanna Schygulla Ingrid Caven | B- | Dietrich Lohmann | Ingrid Caven was married to Fassbinder from 1970-1972. Fassbinder’s first of numerous feature collaborations with composer and onetime lover Peer Raben. |
| 2 | 1970 | Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? | Kurt Raab Ingrid Caven | B | Dietrich Lohmann | Co-directed and co-written by Michael Fengler |
| 3 | 1971 | Beware a Holy Whore | Hanna Schygulla Eddie Constantine | B- | Michael Ballhaus | |
| 4 | 1972 | The Merchant of Four Seasons | Hans Hirschmuller Hanna Schygulla Irm Hermann Kurt Raab | B | Dietrich Lohmann | |
| 5 | 1972 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Margit Carstensen Hanna Schygulla Irm Hermann Eva Mattes | A+ | Michael Ballhaus | Fassbinder’s masterpiece |
| 6 | 1974 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Brigitte Mira El Hedi ben Salem Barbara Valentin Irm Hermann | A- | Jurgen Jurges | |
| 7 | 1974 | Effi Briest | Hanna Schygulla | B- | Dietrich Lohmann | |
| 8 | 1975 | Fox and His Friends | Michael Rainer Fassbinder Karlheinz Bohm | B+ | Michael Ballhaus | |
| 9 | 1977 | The Stationmaster’s Wife | Elizabeth Trissenaar Kurt Raab Udo Keir | A- (the uncut TV version) | Michael Ballhaus | Made for German TV Later, an inferior cut version was released in cinemas. Alternative title “Bolweiser.” The first Fassbinder movie to be edited by his partner for the last five years of his life, Juliane Lorenz. |
| 10 | 1978 | Despair | Dirk Bogarde | C | Michael Ballhaus | Screenplay by Tom Stoppard Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov Fassbinder’s first English-language film. |
| 11 | 1978 | In the Year of 13 Moons | Volker Spengler Ingrid Caven | C | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Made in response to the suicide of Fassbinder’s lover Armin Meier |
| 12 | 1979 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Hanna Schygulla | B | Michael Ballhaus | |
| 13 | 1980 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | The third film in the BRD trilogy. This is a loose adaptation of Heinrich Mann’s “Professor Unrat,” which Josef von Sternberg previously adapted as “The Blue Angel.” | A- (the uncut TV version | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Fourteen-episode West German TV series. Released theatrically in the United States. Also broadcast on PBS, Bravo and Channel 4. Based on the novel by Alfred Doblin. |
| 14 | 1981 | Lili Marleen | Hanna Schygulla Giancarlo Giannini Udo Kier | B- | Xaver Schwarzenberger & Michael Ballhaus | The first film in the BRD trilogy. |
| 15 | 1981 | Lola | Barbara Sukowa Armin Mueller-Stahl | C- | Xaver Schwarzenberger | The third film in the BRD trilogy. This is a loose adaptation of Heinrich Mann’s “Professor Unrat,” which Josef von Sternberg previously adapted as “The Blue Angel.” |
| 16 | 1982 | Veronika Voss | Rosel Zech | A | Xaver Schwarzenberger | The second film of the BRD trilogy. |
| 17 | 1982 | Querelle | Brad Davis Franco Nero | C | Xaver Schwarzenberger | Based on “Querelle of Brest” by Jean Genet |
The Dreamlanders
This is just a partial list of John Waters’s group of stock players known as “The Dreamlanders.” Most of the original bunch live /lived in the Baltimore area. Divine, David Lochary, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce and Rikki Lake were essential to Water’s transition from cult favorite to mainstream success with “Pink Flamingos,” “Polyester,” and particularly “Hairspray.”
| Actor and/or Crew | Pink Flamingos (1972) | Female Trouble (1974) | Desperate Living (1977) | Polyester (1981) | Hairspray (1988) | Cry-Baby (1990) | Serial Mom (1994) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divine | Yes | Yes | | Yes | Yes | | |
| David Lochary | Yes | Yes | | | | | |
| Mary Vivian Pearce | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edith Massey | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | | |
| Mink Stole | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Patty Hearst | | | | | | Yes | Yes |
| Ricki Lake | | | | | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Traci Lords | | | | | | Yes | Yes |
Fifty-Two Post-Hays Code Queer Films Released in the Decade 1967-1976. – TheBrownees
Sixty-Six Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967). – TheBrownees
Sixty-Six Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967). Table Summary. – TheBrownees
