About Pat Hartley
Born 1945. Pat Hartley is a film director.
Pat Hartley is a Hungarian-American actress, film director and producer. She was featured in the Andy Warhol films Screen Test, My Hustler and Prison at Warhol's The Factory in the 1960s.
She was married to filmmaker Dick Fontaine and together in New York they founded Grapevine Pictures, a film production company, in the 1980s and produced such films as the documentaries I Heard it Through the Grapevine featuring writer James Baldwin about his time in the American South during the civil rights era and Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger.
Hartley and Fontaine are the parents of music critic Smokey Fontaine.
Hartley has also co-directed, choreographed and written music videos for such musical artists as Johnny Rotten and Afrika Bambaataa as well as Keith LeBlanc.
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Who is Pat Hartley?
director, actress, producer
When was Pat Hartley born?
Pat Hartley was born on 19 November 1945.
What is Pat Hartley's occupation?
Pat Hartley is a film director.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Pat Hartley. https://biography.guide/pat-hartley/
MLA: "Pat Hartley." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/pat-hartley/.
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