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Joe Dallesandro

'''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.

Dallesandro starred in the Andy Warhol-produced film ''Flesh'' (1968) as a male prostitute. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine declared Dallesandro's second starring film ''Trash'' (1970) as the "Best Film of the Year", making him a star of the youth culture, sexual revolution, and subcultural New York City art collective in the early 1970s. Dallesandro also starred in the Factory films ''Heat'' (1972), ''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'' (1974), and ''Andy Warhol's Dracula'' (1974), which were directed by Paul Morrissey. Dallesandro later lived in Europe for several years where he starred in both genre and art films. Having returned to the United States, he also crossed over into mainstream roles such as mobster Lucky Luciano in the film ''The Cotton Club'' (1984). Provided by Wikipedia