Lance Loud
Birthday: Born in 1951-06-26 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, U.S.
Deathday: 2001-12-22
Alanson Russell "Lance" Loud (June 26, 1951 – December 22, 2001) was an American television personality, magazine columnist, and new wave rock-n-roll performer. Loud is best known for his 1973 appearance in An American Family, a pioneer reality television series that featured his coming out, leading to his status as an icon in the gay community. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lance Loud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
An American Family
Character: Self
Originally intended as a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds — an upper-middle-class family in Santa Barbara, California — the groundbreaking program documented the break-up of the family via the separation and subsequent divorce of parents Bill and Pat Loud....
Tales of the City
Character: William Deveraux Hill III
Mary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from the mid-west, tumbles head first into the colorful world of San Francisco, where carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane....
Movie Credits
An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later
Character: Self
A ten-year update on the Loud family and their reflections on becoming the first reality TV stars. Their experience of becoming media celebrities and the parents' subsequent divorce changed them in many ways. Each family member explains how they were affected by these dramatic life events....
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Character: Psychiatrist
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay....
Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family
Character: Self
Eldest son Lance, of the Loud family profiled on PBS in 1973, became the first openly gay man on television and a gay icon for his generation. When Lance entered hospice in 2001 with a terminal HIV and hepatitis C co-infection, he asked original filmmakers Susan and Alan Raymond to film a final episode of the series. Lance reflects upon his days with Andy Warhol, his band The Mumps, a career as a writer and the experience of being the first reality TV star. It is a celebration of life and a caut...
Rome '78
Character:
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary...
Subway Riders
Character: 1st Client
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down....