Vito Russo
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
Vito Russo was an American LGBT activist, film historian, and author. He is best remembered as the author of the book The Celluloid Closet, described in The New York Times as "an essential reference book" on homosexuality in the US film industry.
Known for
Credits
A Very Natural Thing (1974)
Actor
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
as Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
Vito (2011)
as Self (archive)
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger (2015)
as Himself (archive footage)
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends (1993)
as Self
One on One with Vito Russo (2001)
as Self (archive)
Voices from the Front (1992)
as Himself