American filmmaker and manager Paul Morrissey was BOTD in 1938. Born in New York, he studied at Ampleforth College and Fordham University. After serving in the Army, he worked in insurance and social work before becoming a filmmaker. In 1965, he met Andy Warhol, who asked him to collaborate on experimental short films. The straight, Republican-voting conservative Catholic Morrissey seemed a strange partner for the effete gay Warhol, but they developed a successful working relationship. Morrissey went on to direct all films produced by Warhol’s Factory, including My Hustler, Chelsea Girls, Flesh and Trash, making underground stars of trans actresses Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn, and achieved pseudo-mainstream success with horror films Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. The brains behind The Factory, Morrissey managed film funding and ran all Warhol’s operations except for artwork sales. It was Morrissey’s idea that Warhol promote a rock band, and helped create The Velvet Underground, appointing Nico as the band’s lead singer. Morrissey and Warhol parted company in 1975, and he continued to make, finance and distribute his own films. Still alive and kicking in his 80s, he regularly presents screenings of his films, bitching about Warhol and calling other filmmakers (and his audiences) idiots. He earns Honorary SuperGay status for services to queer representation and his relentless bitchery.