When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease. While Broadway was hosting the second part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America, downtown New Yorkers were fondly recalling another recent production, Ron Vawter’s one-man show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which the actor, who died of AIDS in April 1994, performed two monologues, first as Cohn, the conservative lawyer, and secondly, as Smith, the flamboyant experimental filmmaker—both of whom died of AIDS-related causes in the late 1980s.
Credits
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Ron Vawter
He was 46, 45 years old when he died
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as Roy Cohn / Jack Smith |
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith Crew
| Name |
Department |
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Ted Hope as Producer. He was 33 (now 62) years old
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Production |
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Ellen Kuras as Director of Photography. She was 36 (now 65) years old
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Camera |
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Jonathan Demme as Executive Producer. He was 51 (73) years old when He died
|
Production |
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Reilly Steele as Sound Re-Recording Mixer. |
Sound |
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Bill Seery as Supervising Sound Editor. |
Sound |
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Jill Godmilow as Director. She was 52 (now 81) years old
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Directing |
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Jill Godmilow as Writer. She was 52 (now 81) years old
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Writing |
