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Paul Morrissey, Filmmaker and Andy Warhol Collaborator, Dead at 86

Paul Morrissey, the filmmaker and close Andy Warhol collaborator and business partner, has died at the age of 86.

At the time, Warhol’s film work centered around lengthy, often static projects, where a camera was pointed at a person or location and allowed to roll, capturing whatever happened in front of the lens. Speaking with The Times in 1972, Morrissey said he and Warhol preferred not to direct, explaining instead, “We both feel the stars should be the center of the film.” He added: “A lot of half‐baked intellectuals have the idea that film is a vehicle for the director. He went on to make numerous independent films and even one studio project, 1978’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, a comic take on the Sherlock Holmes story that proved to be a commercial and critical flop.

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