The Velvet Underground (2021) | Full Cast

Todd Haynes

DIRECTOR

The Velvet Underground

Themselves (archiveFootage)

John Cale

Self - Songwriter, Musician & Producer

Lou Reed

Self - Songwriter, Musician & Author (archiveFootage)

Henry Flynt

Self - Composer, Musician, Philosopher & Writer

La Monte Young

Self - Composer, Musician, Writer & Founder of Theatre of Eternal Music & the Dream Syndicate

Marian Zazeela

Self - Artist, Musician & of Theatre of Eternal Music & the Dream Syndicate

Allan Hyman

Self - High School & College Friend

Merrill Reed Weiner

Self - Sister of Lou Reed

Richard Mishkin

Self - College Friend & Bandmate of Lou Reed

Shelly Corwin

Self - Lou Reed's College Girlfriend

Danny Fields

Self - Music Manager & Publicist

Jonas Mekas

Self - Filmmaker, Artist & Founder of Anthology Film Archives

Amy Taubin

Self - Actress & Visitor to the Factory

Terry Phillips

Self - Musician & Executive at Pickwick Records

Sterling Morrison

Self - Musician (archiveFootage)

Martha Morrison

Self - Wife of Sterling Morrison

Maureen Tucker

Self - Songwriter & Musician

Mary Woronov

Self - Warhol Superstar, Actress & Author

Nico

Self - Songwriter & Musician (archiveFootage)

Jackson Browne

Self - Songwriter & Musician

Jonathan Richman

Self - Songwriter, Musician & Founder of the Modern Lovers

David Bowie

Self - Songwriter, Musician, Actor & Producer (archiveSound)

John Waters

Self - Filmmaker, Writer, Actor & Artist

Doug Yule

Self - Musician

Joseph Freeman

Self - Teenage Assistant to Warhol at the Factory

Murray the 'K'

Self - Radio DJ (archiveFootage)

John Cage

Self - Avant Garde Composer & Music Theorist (archiveFootage)

Tony Conrad

Self - Experimental Filmmaker (archiveFootage)

Bo Diddley

Self - Musician (archiveFootage)

Bob Dylan

Self - Songwriter & Musician (archiveFootage)

Anita Ekberg

Self - Actress, La dolce vita (archiveFootage)

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

Themselves (archiveFootage)

Allen Ginsberg

Self - Poet (archiveFootage)

Bill Graham

Self - Concert Promoter (archiveFootage)

Kate Heliczer

Self - Filmmaker (archiveFootage)

Piero Heliczer

Self - Filmmaker (archiveFootage)

Olga Koussevitzky

Self - Widow of Serge Koussevitzky (archiveFootage)

Harry J. Kraut

Self - Director of the Tanglewood Summer Program (archiveFootage)

Angus MacLise

Self - Percussionist & Composer (archiveFootage)

Gerard Malanga

Self - Poet & Artist (archiveFootage)

The Mamas and the Papas

Themselves (archiveFootage)

Garry Moore

Self - Host, I've Got a Secret (archiveFootage)

Paul Morrissey

Self - Filmmaker, Publicist at the Factory (archiveFootage)

Billy Name

Self - Warhol Collaborator, Photographer and Chief Caretaker at the Factory (archiveFootage)

Peter Orlovsky

Self - Poet & Actor (archiveFootage)

Barbara Rubin

Self - Filmmaker (archiveFootage)

Ed Sanders

Self - Musician, The Fugs (archiveFootage)

Delmore Schwartz

Self - Writer, Poet & Professor of Creative Writing at Syracuse University (archiveFootage)

Jack Smith

Self - Filmmaker (archiveFootage)

Susan Sontag

Self - Author & Critic (archiveFootage)

Barbara Walters

Self - Journalist (archiveFootage)

Andy Warhol

Self - Artist (archiveFootage)

Tom Wilson

Self - Record Producer (archiveFootage)

Frank Zappa

Self - Songwriter & Musician (archiveFootage)