Fifty-Two Post-Hays Code Queer Films Released in the Decade 1967-1976. Table Summary.

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) 
*Directors and actors who also appear in my previous essay, “Sixty-Five Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967).”

Seventeen Fassbinder Films Rated! He was astonishingly productive over a period of fourteen years.

11969Love is Colder than DeathUlli Lommel
Hanna Schygulla
Ingrid Caven
B-Dietrich LohmannIngrid Caven was
married to Fassbinder
from 1970-1972.
Fassbinder’s first of numerous feature collaborations with composer and onetime lover Peer Raben.
21970Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?Kurt Raab
Ingrid Caven
B
Dietrich Lohmann
Co-directed
and co-written
by Michael Fengler
31971Beware a Holy WhoreHanna Schygulla
Eddie Constantine
B-Michael Ballhaus
41972The Merchant of Four SeasonsHans Hirschmuller
Hanna Schygulla
Irm Hermann
Kurt Raab
BDietrich Lohmann
51972The Bitter Tears of Petra von KantMargit Carstensen
Hanna Schygulla
Irm Hermann
Eva Mattes
A+Michael BallhausFassbinder’s masterpiece
61974Ali: Fear Eats the SoulBrigitte Mira
El Hedi ben Salem
Barbara Valentin
Irm Hermann
A-Jurgen Jurges
71974Effi BriestHanna SchygullaB-Dietrich Lohmann
81975Fox and His FriendsMichael Rainer Fassbinder
Karlheinz Bohm
B+Michael Ballhaus
91977The Stationmaster’s WifeElizabeth Trissenaar
Kurt Raab
Udo Keir
A-
(the uncut
TV version)
Michael BallhausMade 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.
101978DespairDirk BogardeCMichael BallhausScreenplay by Tom Stoppard
Based on the
novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Fassbinder’s first
English-language film.
111978In the Year of 13 MoonsVolker Spengler
Ingrid Caven
CRainer Werner FassbinderMade in
response to
the suicide of Fassbinder’s
lover
Armin Meier
121979The Marriage of Maria BraunHanna SchygullaBMichael Ballhaus
131980Berlin AlexanderplatzThe 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 SchwarzenbergerFourteen-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.
141981Lili MarleenHanna Schygulla
Giancarlo Giannini
Udo Kier
B-Xaver Schwarzenberger
&
Michael Ballhaus
The first film in the BRD trilogy.
151981LolaBarbara Sukowa
Armin Mueller-Stahl
C-Xaver SchwarzenbergerThe 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.”
161982Veronika VossRosel ZechAXaver SchwarzenbergerThe second film of the BRD trilogy.
171982QuerelleBrad Davis
Franco Nero
CXaver SchwarzenbergerBased 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 CrewPink Flamingos
(1972)
Female Trouble
(1974)
Desperate Living
(1977)
Polyester
(1981)
Hairspray
(1988)

Cry-Baby
(1990)
Serial Mom
(1994)
DivineYesYesYesYes
David LocharyYesYes
Mary Vivian PearceYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Edith MasseyYesYesYesYes
Mink StoleYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Patty HearstYesYes
Ricki LakeYesYesYes
Traci LordsYesYes

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

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