Lance Loud
Actor · 1951 – 2001 · La Jolla, San Diego, California, U.S.
Alanson Russell "Lance" Loud (June 26, 1951 – December 22, 2001) was an American television personality, magazine columnist, and new wave rock-n-roll performer. Loud is best known for his 1973 appearance in An American Family, a pioneer reality television series that featured his coming out, leading to his status as an icon in the gay community. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lance Loud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies7
Movie10.0DramaAn adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ novel “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone“. The film follows the story of a woman who, after her husband’s death, becomes entangled in a decadent and sordid affair in Rome.
The Drift
1989 · 1 votes
Movie7.2ThrillerA psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
Subway Riders
1981 · 5 votes
Movie3.6ComedyAn off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992 · 11 votes
Movie4.5DocumentaryEldest son Lance, of the Loud family profiled on PBS in 1973, became the first openly gay man on television and a gay icon for his generation. When Lance entered hospice in 2001 with a terminal HIV and hepatitis C co-infection, he asked original filmmakers Susan and Alan Raymond to film a final episode of the series. Lance reflects upon his days with Andy Warhol, his band The Mumps, a career as a writer and the experience of being the first reality TV star. It is a celebration of life and a cautionary tale.
Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family
2003 · 4 votes
- Movie5.0Drama
Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders Grafstrom. A Swedish art director who relocated to NYC, he created this grandiose No-Wave, Super-8 color-epic at the age of 23, only to die in a Mexican car accident a few months after completing the film.
The Long Island Four
1980 · 1 votes
Movie4.0DocumentaryA ten-year update on the Loud family and their reflections on becoming the first reality TV stars. Their experience of becoming media celebrities and the parents' subsequent divorce changed them in many ways. Each family member explains how they were affected by these dramatic life events.
An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later
1983 · 3 votes
Movie6.4HistoryDramaNares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary scenes.
Rome '78
1978 · 7 votes
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TV6.6DramaComedyAmerican Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
American Playhouse
1982 · 8 votes
TV7.7DramaMysteryMary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from the mid-west, tumbles head first into the colorful world of San Francisco, where carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane.
Tales of the City
1993 · 37 votes
TV5.4DocumentaryOriginally intended as a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds, a Santa Barbara upper-middle-class family, the groundbreaking program documented the breakup of the family via the separation and subsequent divorce of parents Bill and Pat Loud.
An American Family
1973 · 5 votes