Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
92
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-01-09
Day of Death
1987-06-03 (42 years old)
Place of Birth
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
Curtis A. McDowell
Curt McDowell
Biography
Curt McDowell worked in San Francisco from the late 1960s until his death in 1987 – a period that witnessed the Summer of Love, gay liberation, and the onset of HIV/AIDS, to which he succumbed at the age of forty-two. The author of numerous films that recast the American dream of plenty in pansexual terms, McDowell, like so many artists of his generation, indulged in the era’s carnal abundance, and his appetites and experiences are reflected in his work, which alternates between the revealing and the puerile.
