Ron Vawter

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Dec 09, 1948 (76 years old)

Ron Vawter

Known For

Rumstick Road
1h 12m
Movie 2014

Rumstick Road

A video reconstruction of the 1977 Wooster Group production Rumstick Road, an experimental theater performance created by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte after the suicide of Gray's mother. Archival recordings are combined with photographs, slides, and other materials to recreate the original production.

Mastergate
1h 26m
Movie 1992

Mastergate

A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.

Swoon
1h 33m
Movie 1992

Swoon

Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.

Buying a Landslide
Movie 1992

Buying a Landslide

Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky in rehearsals is Michael Tyne, ex Democrat turned Republican. But Tyne is alarmed by an unexpected twist in the Partin campaign and reacts in devastating fashion.

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
Movie 1992

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)

Recorded during the initial run of the Obie Award-winning ROY COHN/JACK SMITH, this video documents the seminal performance piece as it was first seen by New York audiences. In its first half, Ron Vawter, following a script by Gary Indiana, conjures an after-dinner speech as it might have been delivered by notorious right wing political figure and closeted gay man Roy Cohn, as he addresses “The American Association for the Protection of the Family”. In its second half, Vawter re-emerges on stage in flamboyant costume as fiercely queer performance art pioneer, Jack Smith. Together, the two portraits present a complex, incisive, and discomforting view of queer identities as they collide with American culture. – Anthology Film Archives

Johnny Suede
1h 37m
Movie 1991

Johnny Suede

A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.

Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1h 21m
Movie 1991

Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

Three short stories about women & men relationship.

The Silence of the Lambs
1h 59m
Movie 1991

The Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

Made in Hollywood
0h 57m
Movie 1990

Made in Hollywood

A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches.

Postcards
0h 25m
Movie 1990

Postcards

A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the mail. Misunderstandings arise; passion subsides; romance fades... Yet the postcards keep on coming.

Biography

Ron Vawter (December 9, 1948 – April 16, 1994) was an American actor and a founding member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. Vawter performed in most of the group's works until his death from a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 45.

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