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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 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''. Provided by Wikipedia