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Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro III (born December 31, 1948) is an American actor and Warhol superstar. He was a sex symbol of gay subculture in the 1960s and 1970s, and of several American underground films before going mainstream.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Dallesandro starred as a male prostitute in The Factory film Flesh (1968), produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. Rolling Stone magazine declared Dallesandro's subsequent lead in Trash (1970) as the "Best Film of the Year", making him a celebrity of youth culture and the sexual revolution. Dallesandro proceeded to star in Heat (1972), Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1973), and Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974). After appearing in European genre and art films for several years, he crossed into the mainstream as mobster Lucky Luciano in the 1984 film The Cotton Club.

Early lifeEdit

Joe Dallessandro was born on December 31, 1948 in Pensacola, Florida, to Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro II, who was in the U.S. Navy. His mother, Thelma Testman, was 16 years old.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> His parents separated soon after they moved to New Jersey when he was 2 years old.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref> Dallesandro and his younger brother Robert "Bobby" Dallesandro were placed in foster care of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Silano in North Babylon, New York.<ref name=":1" />

By the time Dallessandro was five years old, his mother was serving fifteen years in a U.S. federal penitentiary for interstate auto theft.Template:Citation needed He was later reunited with his mother in 1970.<ref name=":0" />

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.<ref name="watson">Template:Harvnb</ref> He became aggressive and repeatedly ran away from his foster home until his father finally relented and allowed Joe to live with him.<ref name="watson" />

At age 13, Dallesandro and his brother moved to Queens, New York to live with their paternal grandparents and their father.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> "I was very rebellious," he recalled.<ref name=":1" /> "I hated the Queens school. They were so far behind the Long Island school that I just lost interest."<ref name=":1" /> He was expelled from school for punching the school principal.<ref name=":1" /> After this, he began hanging out with gangs and stealing cars. At age 15, Dallesandro drove a stolen car through the Holland Tunnel without paying the toll.<ref name=":1" /> He was stopped by a police roadblock and was shot once in the leg by police who mistakenly thought he was armed. Dallessandro managed to escape being caught by police, but was later arrested when his father took him to the hospital for his gunshot wound. He was sentenced to Camp Cass Rehabilitation Center for Boys in the Catskills in 1964.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> In 1965, aged 16, he ran away from the camp, and went to live with his father in Florida.<ref name=":1" /> Dallessandro made his way to the West Coast with a friend and briefly worked at a pizza shop.<ref name=":1" /> He supported himself by nude modeling for Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

CareerEdit

Underground film careerEdit

File:Flesh (1968) Joe Dallesandro and Louis Waldon (1200 dpi).jpg
Dallesandro and Louis Waldon in Flesh (1968)

By 1967, Dallessandro had returned to New York. He was married at the age of eighteen, and he was hustling around Times Square to pay for his drug habit.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref>

He met pop artist Andy Warhol and film director Paul Morrissey while they were shooting Four Stars (1967) in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, and they cast him in the film on the spot.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Dallesandro began working at the Factory as Warhol's bodyguard, general factotum, and occasional actor.<ref name=":3" />

Dallesandro appeared in Lonesome Cowboys (1968) before starring in the film Flesh (1968), a story of a male hustler—based on Dallesandro's experience—where he had several nude scenes. Flesh became a crossover hit with mainstream audiences, and Dallesandro became the most popular of the Warhol stars. Warhol would later comment "In my movies, everyone's in love with Joe Dallesandro."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The Warhol and Morrissey films did not usually have a script so the actors improvised while the cameras were rolling.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1970, Dallesandro told After Dark: "Sometimes they yell at me and say, 'Joe, you're really messing it up. Stop trying to act,' and then I usually do a good job. But if you watch carefully you'll see that my best performing comes when I have my clothes off. When I'm dressed I really don't give very good performances, but when I am not I really do a great job."<ref name=":2" />

After starring in Trash (1970), Dallesandro's underground fame began to cross over into the popular culture and he was viewed as a sex symbol.<ref name=":2" /> New York Times film critic Vincent Canby wrote of him: "His physique is so magnificently shaped that men as well as women become disconnected at the sight of him."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Newsday film critic Jerry Parker wrote that "Joe Dallesandro, who is a mere 21 is to Andy Warhol what Clark Gable once was to Louis B. Mayer."<ref name=":1" /> Dallesandro appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in April 1971. He was also photographed by some of the top celebrity photographers of the time: Francesco Scavullo, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

According to Dallesandro, Francis Ford Coppola wanted him to screen test for the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972), however, the offer fell through.<ref name=":3" /> Dallesandro believed that Warhol and Morrissey deterred Coppola's entourage by telling them that Dallesandro was a drug addict and couldn't handle the script, but Morrissey stated that isn't true.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">Template:Cite book</ref> Morrissey added that he and Warhol would have been thrilled if Dallesandro landed a role in a major film.<ref name=":4" />

Dallesandro also starred in the films Heat (1972), Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1973), and Andy Warhol's Dracula (1974), directed by Morrissey. The latter two were filmed in Rome. Morrissey recommended that Dallesandro get an agent to find more work in Europe.<ref name=":4" /> After filming was complete, Dallesandro remained in Europe and capitalized on his reputation as a cult figure in a series exploitation films in France and Italy.<ref name=":3" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He appeared in Serge Gainsbourg's Je t'aime moi non plus (1976), which starred Gainsbourg's girlfriend, British actress Jane Birkin.

Dalessandro's career collapsed in the late 1970s as a result of his dependency on alcohol and drugs.<ref name=":5">Template:Cite book</ref> After his return to the U.S. in 1979, he resided in a trailer park close to Seattle with his estranged mother and indulged in excessive drinking.<ref name=":3" /> He 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.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":3" />

Mainstream careerEdit

Dallesandro made several mainstream films during the 1980s and 1990s. One of his first notable roles was that of 1920s gangster Lucky Luciano in Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984). Working with manager/attorney Stann Findelle, his career enjoyed a resurgence.

He had roles in Critical Condition (1987) opposite Richard Pryor, Sunset (1988) with Bruce Willis and James Garner, Cry-Baby (1990) with Johnny Depp, Guncrazy (1992) with Drew Barrymore, and Steven Soderbergh's 1999 film The Limey. He has also worked in television. In 1986, he co-starred in the ABC drama series Fortune Dane. The series lasted only five episodes. Dallesandro was also a regular for the first season (1987-1988) 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.<ref name="imdb">[https://www.imdb.com/{{#if: 0198072 

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A biography, Little Joe: Superstar by Michael Ferguson was released earlier in 2001, and a filmed documentary, Little Joe (2009), was released with Dallesandro serving as writer and producer. His adopted daughter, Vedra Mehagian, also served as a producer of the film.Template:Citation needed

In February 2009, 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.

He appeared in the Dandy Warhols' official video for "You are Killing Me" in 2016.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2018 he starred as himself in Ulli Lommel's Factory Cowboys: Working with Warhol. The film was based on Lommel's own biography and partly on Dallesandro's memories of the period during which he worked with Andy Warhol.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Dallesandro is openly bisexual.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> He has been married three times and has two children.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

At age 18, Dallesandro married his first wife, Leslie, the daughter of his father's girlfriend, in 1967. Their son, Michael, was born on December 19, 1968. The marriage was dissolved in 1969. His second marriage was to Theresa ("Terry") in 1970. Their son, Joseph A. Dallesandro, Jr., was born November 14, 1970. They divorced in 1978.<ref name=":3" /> In 1987, Dallesandro was married a third time, to Kimberly ("Kim").Template:Citation needed Dallesandro has a grandson and a granddaughter by his son Michael, as well as a grandson by his son Joseph.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

Dallesandro's younger brother Robert Dallesandro died in 1977.<ref name=":3" /> He had worked for Warhol as a chauffeur, also appeared in the films Flesh and Trash.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Semi-retired from acting as of 2009, Dallesandro managed a residential hotel building in Los Angeles.<ref name=obrien>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In popular cultureEdit

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> He explained to biographer Michael Ferguson, "It was just out of a collection of junk photos that Andy pulled from. He didn't pull it out for the design or anything, it was just the first one he got that he felt was the right shape to fit what he wanted to use for the fly;" the first editions of that album cover physically incorporated a functional metal zipper fly into the photo.<ref name=":7">Template:Cite book</ref> However, Craig Braun, who designed the album, is sure it was not Dallesandro on the cover.<ref name=":7" /> Makeup artist Corey Tippin claimed that he is the model on the cover, but it is generally believed to have been Warhol's lover Jed Johnson.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":8">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":42">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Selected filmographyEdit

Year Title Role Notes
1967 Four Stars College Wrestler Alternative title: The 24 Hour Movie
1968 San Diego Surf Joe
1968 The Loves of Ondine College Wrestler
1968 Flesh Joe, The Hustler Alternative title: Andy Warhol's Flesh
1968 Lonesome Cowboys Joe "Little Joe" Alternative title: Ramona and Julian
1970 Trash Joe Smith Alternative title: Andy Warhol's Trash
1972 Heat Joey Davis
1973 Andy Warhol's Frankenstein Nicholas, The Stableboy Alternative title: Flesh for Frankenstein
1974 Blood for Dracula Mario Balato, The Servant Alternative title: Andy Warhol's Dracula
1974 The Gardener Carl, The Gardener Alternative titles: Garden of Death, Seeds of Evil
1975 The Climber Aldo, The Climber Alternative title: L'ambizioso
1975 Black Moon Brother Lily
1975 Savage Three Ovidio Mainardi Alternative title: Fango bollente
1975 Season for Assassins Pierro Giaranaldi Alternative title: Il tempo degli assassini
1976 Je t'aime moi non plus Krassky Alternative title: I Love You, I Don't or I Love You ... Neither Do I
1976 The Margin Sigismond Alternative title: The Streetwalker
1976 Born Winner Pericle Alternative title: L'ultima volta
1978 Safari Rally Joe Massi Alternative title: 6000 km di paura
1978 Killer Nun Dr. Patrick Roland Alternative titles: Suor Omicidi
Deadly Habits
1980 Madness Joe Brezzi Alternative title: Vacanze per un massacro
1981 Merry-Go-Round Ben
1982 Queen Lear Joseph Kunz, The Father
1984 The Cotton Club Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
1984 Miami Vice Vinnie DeMarco Episode: "One Eyed Jack"
1986 Fortune Dane Tommy "Perfect Tommy" Nicautri 5 episodes
1987 Critical Condition Stucky
1987 Miami Vice Alfredo Giulinni Episode: "Down for the Count: Part 2"
1987 Wiseguy Paul "Pat The Cat" Patrice 5 episodes
1988 Sunset "Dutch" Kieffer
1988 The Hitchhiker Gerard Episode: "Fashion Exchange"
1988 Double Revenge Joe Halsey
1989 The Hollywood Detective Eddie Northcott Television movie
1990 Matlock Bobby Boyd 2 episodes
1990 Almost an Angel Bank Hood Leader
1990 Cry-Baby Mr. Hackett
1991 Inside Out Richard Segment: "The Diaries"
1991 Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue Jules
1992 Guncrazy Rooney
1992 Love Is Like That The Boss
1994 Sugar Hill Tony Adamo
1995 Theodore Rex Rogan Direct-to-video release
1998 L.A. Without a Map Michael
1999 The Limey John "Uncle John", The Hitman Credited as Joe Dallessandro
2000 Beefcake Cameos, old footage
2002 Pacino Is Missing Sal Colletti
2008 3 Stories About Evil Jean Maries Short film
2022 Babylon Charlie the Photographer

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