"A true portrait of life and art."
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.
Jackson Pollock

Lee Krasner

Dan Miller

Ruth Kligman

Howard Putzel

Tony Smith

Willem DeKooning

Charles Pollock

Sande Pollock

Helen Frankenthaler

Arloie Pollock
Stella Pollock

Arloie's Baby

Reuben Kadish

Peggy Guggenheim

James Johnson Sweeney

May Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg

William Baziotes
Franz Kline
Clem Greenberg

Barbara Kadish
Kadish Child
Dot Miller

Alfonso Ossorio
Ted Dragon
Herbert Matter
Mercedes Matter
Young Redhead

Dorothy Seiberling

Martha Holmes

Delivery Man
Betty Parsons

William Wright

Vita Peterson

Jay Pollock

Alma Pollock
Elizabeth Pollock

Jeremy Pollock

Frank Pollock

Marie Pollock
Jonathan Pollock
Karen Pollock
Jason Pollock
Jason Pollock
Hans Namuth

Edith Metzger

Veterinarian
Young Gyp
Old Gyp
News Broadcaster (voice)
Newspaper Boy (uncredited)
East Hampton Police Officer (uncredited)