Pat Ast

Pat Ast

Born: October 21, 1941
Died: October 3, 2001
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Pat Ast was an American actress and model. She was best known for starring in Andy Warhol films and being a Halston model and muse in the 1970s. Ast enjoyed partying in her twenties on Fire Island, and her boisterous personality allowed her to meet and befriend influential people. She had aspirations to become an actress, singer and model despite her day job as a receptionist at a box factory. She made her screen debut after meeting director John Schlesinger on Fire Island, who cast her as a party guest in his film Midnight Cowboy (1969). Around that time, she caught the attention of fashion designer Halston, who gave her a job at his boutique and made her one of his models, despite her weighing 210 pounds, in a time when most models were extremely thin. In the early 1970s, with Pat Cleveland, Connie Cook, Alva Chinn, Anjelica Huston, Karen Bjornson, among others, Ast became one of Halston's favored troupe of models, nicknamed the Halstonettes. She also appeared in runway shows for Halston and Yves St. Laurent, closing the 1972 Coty Awards runway show for Halston by popping out of a giant cake. She later became associated with Andy Warhol, who gave her the role of landlady Lydia in his film Heat (1972) alongside Joe Dallesandro.

In 1975, Ast moved to Hollywood to pursue her acting career. She has appeared in films such as The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), Foul Play (1978), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), and Reform School Girls (1986).

She became resentful of Los Angeles as her film career stalled. She went to New York to do Nine, a Broadway musical based on Federico Fellini’s movie 8 1/2, but was dismissed after three months.

Movies for Pat Ast...

Beauville
Title: Beauville
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Tragicomedy about a man who hears he has got one more week to live and who brings his two water turtles to the sea to set them free.
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Ted & Venus
Title: Ted & Venus
Character: Women's Group #2
Released: August 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes when a bikini-clad beauty named Linda strolls by him. Instantly, Ted believes he's found his "Venus" and becomes obsessed with Linda. He tries to woo her with poetry, obscene phone calls and romantic overtures, all to disastrous effect.
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Homer and Eddie
Title: Homer and Eddie
Character: Maggie Sinclair
Released: August 17, 1989
Type: Movie
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Dolores
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Reform School Girls
Title: Reform School Girls
Character: Edna Dawson
Released: August 22, 1986
Type: Movie
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
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Club Life
Title: Club Life
Character: Butch
Released: February 20, 1986
Type: Movie
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. He gets hired as a bouncer at a disco club, but soon finds himself caught up in drugs, gangsters and eventually has to flee when his boss and another bouncer are murdered by drug dealers, who are soon after him.
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The Princess and the Pea
Title: The Princess and the Pea
Character: Princess #1
Released: April 16, 1984
Type: Movie
A bored prince realizes he would like a wife. His mother searches through all the kingdoms far and wide for a "suitable" princess. In the meantime, a charming and witty young lady, who claims to be a princess, shows up at the castle doorstep with a sprained ankle and is shown hospitality by the prince and his best friend the Fool.
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Title: Faerie Tale Theatre
Character: 2nd Slipper Contestant
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: TV
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Title: Faerie Tale Theatre
Character: Princess #1
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: TV
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Pandemonium
Title: Pandemonium
Character: Bus Driver
Released: April 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
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The Donna Summer Special
Title: The Donna Summer Special
Character: Bad Girl
Released: January 27, 1980
Type: Movie
A variety special that showcased the musical talents of singer and actress Donna Summer.
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Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill
Title: Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill
Character: Vera Elvira
Released: January 8, 1979
Type: Movie
A variety of people are drawn together through their participation in an amateur talent contest in a country roadhouse.
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The Users
Title: The Users
Character: The Dressmaker
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.
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Foul Play
Title: Foul Play
Character: Mrs. Venus
Released: July 14, 1978
Type: Movie
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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The World's Greatest Lover
Title: The World's Greatest Lover
Character: Italian Wardrobe Lady / Bakery Lady
Released: December 18, 1977
Type: Movie
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.
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Six Characters in Search of An Author
Title: Six Characters in Search of An Author
Character: Madam Pace
Released: October 14, 1976
Type: Movie
A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for an author to tell their tragic story. An adaptation of the classic Luigi Pirandello play, updated to take place in a 1970s television studio.
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The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
Title: The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
Character: Music Hall Singer
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
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Warhol
Title: Warhol
Character: Herself
Released: March 27, 1973
Type: Movie
David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, broadened his horizons in the early 1970s by making high-profile documentaries for ATV. With his standing among the artistic community, Bailey was given unprecedented access to Pop Art legend Andy Warhol and his followers, in an attempt to penetrate behind the expressionless exterior of a man who was one of the most controversial figures of his generation.
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The Possession of Joel Delaney
Title: The Possession of Joel Delaney
Character: Mental Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1972
Type: Movie
Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
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Midnight Cowboy
Title: Midnight Cowboy
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.