Roy Cohn/Jack Smith 28 years old

When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease. While Broadway was hosting the second part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America, downtown New Yorkers were fondly recalling another recent production, Ron Vawter’s one-man show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which the actor, who died of AIDS in April 1994, performed two monologues, first as Cohn, the conservative lawyer, and secondly, as Smith, the flamboyant experimental filmmaker—both of whom died of AIDS-related causes in the late 1980s.

Credits

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith Cast

Name Character
Ron Vawter He was 46, 45 years old when he died as Roy Cohn / Jack Smith

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith Crew

Name Department
Ted Hope as Producer. He was 33 (now 62) years old Production
Ellen Kuras as Director of Photography. She was 36 (now 64) years old Camera
Jonathan Demme as Executive Producer. He was 51 (73) years old when He died Production
Reilly Steele as Sound Re-Recording Mixer. Sound
Bill Seery as Supervising Sound Editor. Sound
Jill Godmilow as Director. She was 52 (now 81) years old Directing
Jill Godmilow as Writer. She was 52 (now 81) years old Writing
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith poster
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (28 years)

  • Release day: Friday, August 04, 1995
  • Runtime: 90 minutes