In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
as Jackson Pollock
as Lee Krasner
as Dan Miller
as Ruth Kligman
as Howard Putzel
as Tony Smith
as Willem DeKooning
as Charles Pollock
as Sande Pollock
as Helen Frankenthaler
as Arloie Pollock
as Stella Pollock
as Arloie's Baby
as Reuben Kadish
as Peggy Guggenheim
as James Johnson Sweeney
as May Rosenberg
as Harold Rosenberg
as William Baziotes
as Franz Kline
as Clem Greenberg
as Barbara Kadish
as Kadish Child
as Dot Miller
as Alfonso Ossorio
as Ted Dragon
as Herbert Matter
as Mercedes Matter
as Young Redhead
as Dorothy Seiberling
as Martha Holmes
as Delivery Man
as Betty Parsons
as William Wright
as Vita Peterson
as Jay Pollock
as Alma Pollock
as Elizabeth Pollock
as Jeremy Pollock
as Frank Pollock
as Marie Pollock
as Jonathan Pollock
as Karen Pollock
as Jason Pollock
as Jason Pollock
as Hans Namuth
as Edith Metzger
as Veterinarian
as Young Gyp
as Old Gyp
as News Broadcaster (voice)
as Newspaper Boy (uncredited)
as East Hampton Police Officer (uncredited)
