Acting

Michael McClure

Born October 20, 1932 · Marysville, Kansas, USA

Died May 4, 2020 · aged 87

Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was barely fictionalized in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generat…

Known For

The Hired HandThe Hired Hand · 1971
The Hired Hand
★ 6.21971
MovieWestern
Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again. But then Harry has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties and priorities.
Lions LoveLions Love · 1969
Lions Love
★ 5.91969
MovieComedy
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
Beyond the LawBeyond the Law · 1968
Beyond the Law
★ 5.61968
MovieComedyCrime
Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.
MaidstoneMaidstone · 1971
Maidstone
★ 4.21971
MovieDrama
Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies. This gonzo narrative, “an inkblot test of Mailer’s own subconscious” (Time), becomes something like a documentary on its own making when costar Rip Torn breaks the fourth wall in one of cinema’s most alarming on-screen outbursts.
Spectre MystagogicSpectre Mystagogic · 1957
Spectre Mystagogic
★ 6.01957
Movie
"Human qualities migrate through light and shadow... Like flames and waves, the dead and the living course through this world... without weight through space and time."
Two: Creeley/McClureTwo: Creeley/McClure · 1965
Two: Creeley/McClure
★ 5.01965
Movie
Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
The King of QueensThe King of Queens · 1998
The King of Queens
★ 7.21998
SeriesComedy
Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man.

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