Vito Paulekas

Vito Paulekas was born on May 20, 1913 in USA. Vito Paulekas's big-screen debut came with The Trip directed by Roger Corman in 1967, strarring Freak Out Dancer (uncredited).

Artist, dancer, and bohemian Vito Paulekas was one of the more colorful figures to gain prominence in the early 1960's Los Angeles hippie freak scene. Vito was born Vitautus Alphonsus Paulekas on May 20, 1913 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The son of Lithuanian immigrant parents, Paulekas spent a year and a half at a reformatory school as a teenager as well as was a marathon dancer during the Great Depression and spent time in jail after being convicted of armed robbery in 1938 before eventually joining the US Merchant Marines in 1942.