Paul Morrissey, the avant garde filmmaker who collaborated with Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground and was behind cult films like Flesh , Trash , and Women in Revolt , has died. He was 86.
His archivist Michael Chaiken confirmed to The New York Times that Morrissey died of pneumonia in a New York hospital.
Born in 1938 in Manhattan, Morrissey graduated from Fordham University before joining the US military. He moved to the East Village in New York City in 1960, and opened an underground cinema where he screened his own films as well as early works by Brian De Palma …