Bill Cable

I wouldn't say it was softcore.

I would say it was hardcore. He posed with his cock & asshole showing.

Hardcore means penetrative sex.

Maybe in porn, but in print media when you show everything, you're venturing into hardcore.

Softcore usually just means showing your ass.

At one point when he was with Cassandra, they were so broke that they lived a tree house. This was the mid 70s or so, when they both were doing the nude photo shoots and even did one together for Playgirl. They remained friends over the years and she gave him a role as a cop in her "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" movie and attended and spoke at his funeral. She recounted the tree house story at his funeral.

Oh and for the straight porn he did, I've seen a few pics of him with full hard on with a woman in a B&W shoot. She was holding his cock in one. Not sure if they had full on sex or not. There was supposedly a loop as well, but I've never seen it.

What did he die of?

Wasn't he best buds with Christian Brando?

[quote]What did he die of?

Motorcycle accident.

He appears in this video with DL fave Christina Crawford.

He was in the gay movie "Bijou" but did not engage in gay sex. In his commentary, Wakefield Poole said that the guys in the scene were dying to have sex with him and eventually made an on camera approach but he rebuffed them, as seen on film.

He was often featured in the Ah Men catalogue, which was the precursor to International Male. I think AM even had the same SM blvd location as IM. Those photos were among the most erotic I've ever seen.

This looks pretty much like gay pron to me

Sometimes when we touch...

A+ bush and nuts

What was his pron name?

What was his pron name?

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Stoner

Laid back

The famous Playgirl spread ©1974

This is how I like to relax...

Mmmm...Playgirl in 1974 spread.

Thru the netting...

Another gay pron...bring out the whips

I've seen him in a proper hard core str8 pron movie...wish I still had the link....if I find it, I'll post.

I didn't think he actually did porn movies, R22.

I remember hearing about the photos, but not actually hardcore films.

[quote]I didn't think he actually did porn movies, [R22].

Yes, he did. I saw it with my own eyes...and posted a link right here on DL (people thanked me). Fucking, sucking, everything.

That is the most beautiful bush in the history of cinema.

WHO?

I used to think he and Jack Scalia were the same person, based on the Playgirl centerfold.

Elvira/Cassandra also did a Playgirl spread with John Travolta outer and gay porn director Paul Barresi.

[quote]I used to think he and Jack Scalia were the same person, based on the Playgirl centrefold.

I see what you mean, sort of...

R24, you'd have to post it again because I don't believe it either. He made, I believe, three porn appearances, one in Bijou, and two in loops for Colt. In none of these videos did he even masturbate.

He was still very handsome in the early 90s before being murdered by Sharon Stone with an ice pick in Basic Instinct.

I think his friendship ended with Christian Brando after his wife had an affair with him. Talk about a downgrade. Married to someone who looks like Bill then doing Brando.

Many people had big natural bushes in those days.

That was before the ridiculous pubic hair shaving trend developed.

[quote] At one point when he was with Cassandra, they were so broke that they lived a tree house.

If you say his name last name first, it sounds like a monthly expense.

[quote]Many people had big natural bushes in those days.

For many gays of my generation, these 70s Playgirl pics were some of the first images we saw of naked men, such as Bill Cale & the guy @ link.

They did look much more natural & healthy.

For some reason gays today seem to need their pin-ups to have such exaggerated bodies etc...& all that plucking is so feminizing.

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R36, that man is perfection.

His actual surname was Cumpanas (his grandfather was from Croatia). Cable was chosen I guess because it was much easier to pronounce than Cumpanas.

He didn't die until a year and half after the motorcycle accident, which left his paralyzed from the chest down.

How is that in the 70s you could have photographers pose a guy like this but it never seemed to look too trashy....just erotic and natural. Maybe the film photography has something to do with it or just the ease of the models of that era. They seemed to really enjoy what they were doing..

The same kind of shot today always seems to look so garish and tawdry.

I agree, R38.

They were just regular good looking guys...before the '80s when they started to tweak them.

Here's another.

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None of those guys were as hot as Bill was, though.

Even a lot of straight guys shave their bushes today, unfortunately.

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[quote]Many people had big natural bushes in those days.

They were all natural, if not big. The pube shaving thing is the worst thing to happen to men this side of tattoos. (You can grow back your pubes. Tattoos are forever trashy.)

Whether true or not, a while back, someone on DL posted that his father and mom were hippies in the '70s and he found some Playgirl magazines and my blood runs cold, my daddy is the centerfold. He would later reveal that his dad was Greg Anderson or R45, R46.

[quote]he found some Playgirl magazines and my blood runs cold, my daddy is the centerfold. He would later reveal that his dad was Greg Anderson

Imagine his mortification had he stumbled upon the oeuvre his hot,beefed up daddy, as "Kyle Jessup", produced over at COLT!

R49, not the same model although I heard that as well.

Why do so many guys get tattoos today, R47?

I find it annoying, too.

This thread and pictures are making me nostalgic for the old days. Like many here, I saw my first nude men through Playgirl (my sister and her friend used to shoplift them!). I knew where she hid them and would look at them when she wasn't around. It was a more innocent time, that's for sure--but less manufactured and much less sleazy than today. Maybe it's just changing with the times, but I like the look of these men much more than what's around today.

1976 ad...searching for P'girl models...$1000 for Whomever get the centerfold gig.

Viva Magazine was another 'ladies' mag from that era that featured male nudity - often with women, in soft focus.

Tony Stephano from 'Foxy Lady' Magazine ©1975

Some of the Playgirl models would move on to gay pron...

Too bad about the cigarette at R55.

R56 is Eddie Bloom. He was in Playgirl and Viva but like Cable, his appearances in porn were limited to j/o. He created a sensation in Viva where he was photographed with his girlfriend and people were amazed at the size of his cock. There are some who have confused his photos with actor Andrew Prime, also hugely endowed, but they're two different models.

Are there other photos of Eddie Bloom?

for R59

LINDSAY, is that you! I always wondered what you were doing while I was waitressing at the pancake house!

Now I know!

Tont Stephano at R55, despite the cigarette, (which still somehow works for him) really represents that handsome Italian, glamorous, Studio 54, Halston for Men look of the disco era.

He blends the ruggedly masculine and slightly exotic to absolute perfection.

Tony Stephano also had a bit part in "Tron" playing one of Sark's henchman.

Is this him?

I think it's time someone started a " favorite vintage Playgirl model" thread!

Like fuzzy Bart Turner.

Is this who R65? Who are you referring to?

This guy called himself Sam Jones in Playgirl.

He played whatshername's husband in the movie '10'

He was hot as hell for sure, but, WHO's the BLONDE?!!!

[quote]I think it's time someone started a " favorite vintage Playgirl model" thread! Like fuzzy Bart Turner.

Not if you're going to post FUGLIES like that R66. Might as well look at modern day uglies we see all the time on DL.

It's nice to see very handsome men for a change,

[quote]He was hot as hell for sure, but, WHO's the BLONDE?!!!

Nobody. Why?

Beau Lawrence

Great pose!

If anyone can identify R36, I'd be mighty obliged!

He's called ED Barnard, R38/74.

He also did modelling for gay pron before P'girl.

ED Barnard Blogspot....

R66, Bart Turner was a legit model who created a stir with his Playgirl layout.

Thank you for the link, R77.

Another Bill Cable from his Playgirl shoot ©1974

After Dark ©1977

Isn't that Perry King, R80?

Yes, R81

And is Bill Cable in that issue?

OMG, I used to wear those belts back in '79

That generation of American male pinups was almost always circumcised. No tats, either. We will never see their like again. . .

I know, I know, R85. We never even had to [italic]think[/italic] about foreskin then, except for Leo and/or Lance.

Can anyone provide pictures of Bill with a erection> Or better yet, his hard core porn films. I've seen lots of pics, but none of him hard.

I remember years ago reading an interview with photographer Jim French, aka Rip Colt of Colt Studios. He said he thought Bill Cable was the most beautiful man he ever photographed.

R87, some of the photos in Playgirl have him with a semi woody and it was impressive. The only time I can remember him being hard is in one of the Colt loops where, at the last second, he pops up.

When did Playgirl start to allow hards-on?

[quote]Can anyone provide pictures of Bill with a erection

Why don't you use your imagination?

Big bushes are making a comeback

I think guys back then who were good looking were more cool about it than guys today.

R91, if you want to be that pissy a little bitch about it, why don't we just imagine everything.

Not if you're going to post FUGLIES like that [R66].

Bitch, if he was good enough for GQ and Playgirl he CERTAINLY is good enough for you!

I think he's totally fuckable.

How can you tell from that picture, R95?

R96.

Call me when YOU get a GQ cover.

R95, you need to decide whether you consider him one of the "FUGLIES" or "CERTAINLY good enough for you." Until then, you sound a little...indecisive.

a favorite

another

Thanks for bringing it back to Bill Cable.

That's a lovely picture, R100. I like him better beardless, but that is nice.

Bill Cable was named "Stoner" at Colt Studio. There are some freebie photos on Colt's webpage. I recall many nudes were published. The website is awesome.

Here's one of the movies he shot.

Sad end:

In October 1996, Cable was involved in a motorcycle accident in Laurel Canyon in which he sustained a fractured vertebrae in his neck, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. Cable died of these injuries on March 7, 1998, at the age of 51. His funeral was attended by Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman).[12] Cable was cremated.[13] The William Laurence Cumpanas Fund[14] was established after his death, supporting the Croatian Sons CFU Lodge 170 in Merrillville, Indiana.

R98.

I'm not schizoid....I neglected to put quote marks around the bratty comment from R70.

For the record, I find Bart Turner infinitely fuckable.

Fabian posed for Playgirl. I liked his bush.

Type in the keywords "Stoner" "Colt" "Nude" in a Google search and click the images results.

You're welcome.

Cable reminds me of Steve Reeves, certainly at R99. Both of them were beautiful men.

Always loved him in the Ah Men series.

Of course, the best thing about these photos, certainly with Cable and Tony Stephano : no tattoos in sight.

Thank you for the Ed Barnard identification and link, r75/76

Thanks for the link, R60.

Andrew Prime in the top photos, Eddie Bloom with girlfriend in the bottom.

PRINE, not Prime.

R113, baby, that's PRIME beef.

Cable was in a crappy porn movie from 1978 called Jungle Blue, clad in a loin cloth, but all of the hardcore scenes were stunted by John Holmes. It was pretty obvious with Cable's hot body compared to Holmes pasty scrawny body. Holmes may have had a huge cock, but Cable's ass hair alone is more attractive than anything else about Holmes.

Yes, the same thing was done in the also crappy "Last Tango in Acapulco." Cable humps a woman ineptly (with no cock shots, erect or soft), then footage of a stunt cock is inserted.

Oddly, both films involve Cable's character getting castrated, just like his bit part in Basic Instinct!

Linked is a wonderfully obsessive Bill Cable tumblr blog:

Thanks for that link, R116. I found the pics I mentioned earier from the loops or photoshoots of Bill with a full hard on.

Pic one.

Pic two

A different and better view of Bill displaying his hole.

Bill getting head from a woman.

Getting his balls sucked on.

Yes, those are the only known full boner shots. It's a pity Rip Colt didn't get erection shots in the expansive 'Stoner' photo shoot.

Are those Bill Cable photos genuine, or were they altered in some way?

They're real. They were published in books and magazines (Hollywood Rated X, Star Nudes and Hollywood Hotline).

If only the supposed loops (or even more pics from the shoot) would surface.

[quote]Bill getting head from a woman.

[quote]Getting his balls sucked on.

Thanks so much for your explanations. We'd still be puzzling over them if you weren't here.

I spent so many hours of my young life fantasizing over the pics at R7. Just about the most perfect image of a man I had ever seen.

Correction: I Spent so many hours of my young life fantasizing over the pics at R17. Just about the most perfect image of a man I had ever seen.

same here r126/7

I think he was the first naked male I looked up on the internet, and in those days there was so little out there. Most of the results were about cable bills, as a previous poster mentioned

That makes three of us [R126]/7/8! And I'd forgotten about him (how?!) until I stumbled on this thread. Playgirl must have used one of those photos as a teaser on their table of contents page, because I had a small version of the photo of him laying on his back looking lush (a photo without the woman) that I'd cut out and hidden away in my wallet. Carried it around for years. Rarely looked at it, but still. Thanks to this thread I now have that photo in my phone.

R98 , I finally found out his full name in this thread:Bart Turner. I rented a room in his house in L.A. back in the late eighties. He was the first person I met who was HIV positive, and I was curious to find out when he died but I could´nt remember his last name. He was forty something then but he was still very hot, and nice too. Anyone knows when and how he died?

Im not impressed. Guys like him were a dime a dozen in the 70's. You had to get them drunk or promise them some good weed to suck their dick..but as long as you didn't come off like a cock hungry queer..they were cool with it. I used to go to a near by park to watch these high school and college guys in tiny nylon shorts throw frizbees. I always had pot and a 6 pack...8 visits to the park out of 10 would result with me bringing a hot, horney and hung "Bill type" back with me to suck off..Those were the days.

I grew up in Miami in the 70s and I met a lot of straight Cuban guys who couldn't get their wives to gives them a blowjob, so they went out to get one from a gay kid like me.

There was nothing like sex in the 1970s. It's impossible to explain to the kids today.

R133 I was only a kid in the 70s so I don't know what it was like, but I imagine that today so many guys are afraid that one sexual experience makes them gay or that they have to label themselves that men have become more homophobic. Back then a guy would get a blowjob and think nothing of it, I guess. And I think guys were probably a lot cooler back then and more laid back about sex.

R134 you got it.

Now add to all of that the feeling of safety. In the 1970s guys were having sex all over the fucking place: in parks, parking lots, rest rooms, movie theaters...everywhere. You were left alone. It was an incredible feeling of freedom.

Today you'd be freaked out about getting arrested or shot or winding up on a surveillance cam or on someone's iPhone.

Umm, lots of people were arrested, and some of those friendly men were plainclothes police, who were forced to be gay bait as a kind of internal police hazing ritual.

Archie always makes sure we pay our Bill Cable on time every month.

[quote]Umm, lots of people were arrested, and some of those friendly men were plainclothes police, who were forced to be gay bait as a kind of internal police hazing ritual.

We're talking about the 1970s... those kinds of arrests were extremely rare.

There is MUCH more danger of being arrested for having sex in a public place today.

This thread is amazing. I had no idea who Bill Cable was and totally would have missed this thread if it hadn't been atop the recent threads list when I decided to see what was new on DL. With that in mind, this does sound like a good suggestion. If no one else wants to start one, I will...

[quote]I think it's time someone started a " favorite vintage Playgirl model" thread!

Well, do it then, you don't need anyone's permission .

Yeah, go ahead, R139. There have been various Playgirl threads here over the years and they seem to be popular. There was one last year about celebs in Playgirl but I can't find it now.

Did Bill Cable appear in any other legitimate pictures besides Basic Instinct?

He was so beautiful.

R142 Yes, he was in “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure" he played a cop in both.

His Variety obit said he was also in "The Blue Lagoon" (I've seen this movie a few times and don't recall seeing him in it, it been 20+ years since I've seen it last though), “The Issue at Stake" and "Tarzan of the Amazon". But I can't find out anything about the latter two.

Oh and he was in some crappy low budget movie in 1996, shortly before his tragic motorcycle accident called "The Deadly Cure". It's so obscure the IMDb doesn't even list it.

It was released on DVD in 2007, but the DVD looks like it was taken from Z grade VHS tape. But even with the awful picture quality, you could see Bill was still very handsome.

From looking around that Bill Cable blog, it looks like Bill was the boy toy of actress Barbara Nichols (kinda a 2nd rate Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield type) who was nearly 20 years older than Bill.

Here's a pic of them together (Bill's in a speedo).

Yum.

I spent years occasionally searching on eBay for a copy of "Last Tango in Acapulco," thinking it would be some lost treasure. When I finally found an mp4 copy online somewhere, it was such a disappointment. You never see his cock, let alone any actual fucking by him.

Same with that awful "Jungle Blue" mess. But at least he runs around in a loincloth, and you can see his ass.

I bet his farts smelled like Chanel.

One other "lost" Bill movie "What's Love" from 1987. Bill co-wrote it along with Carlos Tobalina who cast and directed Bill in The Last Tango in Acapulco and Jungle Blue. It's apparently a softcore spoof in the vein of Boogie Nights. If Bill (entering middle age, but still very hot) was shown naked in it, it would be worth a watch.

So far, none of the other guys pictured on this thread come close to the beauty and perfection of Bill Cable.

R151 Agreed

Here are some Bill vids on xhamster. Including the full movies Jungle Blue and The Last Tango in Acapulco. The hardcore close-ups are not of Bill though.

R139 If you start a Playgirl thread, post the link here. It's harder to find threads since they redesigned the website.

Bill dated Lucie Arnaz back in 1975. In the newspaper article they referred to him as a screenwriter and not as a nude model.

Gary Morton told Lucie that the gay Bill Cable would be perfect for her.

[quote]R90 When did Playgirl start to allow hards-on?

I was looking around, and some blog said that the first hard-was Geoff Minger in 1980, but I know that Howie Gordon (Straight Porn Performer Richard Pacheco) sported a hard-on back in 1978. Here's Geoff

And Howie, but clearly, neither of them could hold a candle to Bill.

Ron Jeremy (under his real name Ron Hyatt) sported a hard-on in the Real Men section in the October 1978, the issue prior to Howie's.

Geez, that thing practically reaches up to his tits!

These guys were all "friends" and were all hanging out with Marlon Brando's son. Bill Cable was fucking the daylights out of men like Billy Wilder. Cable could have been a star except for his fucking too many old guys, many, old Hollywood types. They dumped him when he got greedy.

R160 great gossip! I knew Cable hung around with Christian during his seedy drug period but hadn't heard the rest about him and elder g's

I'm sure men were propositioning him constantly when he was trying to make it in Hollywood. He had it all physically really, great face, body and cock.

As gorgeous as he was though, he was a rather wooden actor. Not sure he wouldn't became a big star. He should've gotten more roles in Movies and TV as a hunk type that didn't have to act much.

So sad how he freaks out in the film 'Bijou,' just standing there like a stoned sag stud at the edge of a hardcore orgy.

I wish someone could find the possible film clip that may go with his now-precious full erection straight porn pics.

R163 There are apparently two different loops with him. One with a blonde women and another with a brunette woman.

DL friendly pic with the woman's pussy lips blocked out.

He and Elvira must've stayed friends even after he married someone else. I can vividly remember him doing a cameo on "Movie Macabre." It was a trashy Italian Frankenstein movie, and he essayed her idealized male creation during her commentary. He rises up out of her cauldron at the end of the episode, all bronzed, oiled-to-a-sheen, and wearing a Tarzan-style loincloth. I was just a kid and my jaw hit the floor. His Slavic features were so dark, sexy, and exotic to me.

Thanks for the link, R165. I forgot about that.

As for the str8 porn loops, I even endured fast-forwarding through a bunch of similar-looking vintage porn compilations online; haven't found them yet.

He also did a creepy straight SM magazine spread (the woman's bound and tortured; ick). Found a PDF online somewhere. He's never hard in any of the pics.

R166 What's the name of the magazine or PDF filename? I'm not into S&M, but anything with Bill Cable is worth a look in my opinion.

It's called "Hit & Fun." I bought it for (obviously) $10, then sold it on eBay for four times as much years ago; only scanned a few pages:

Some devoted fan uploaded almost all of Bill Cable's (sadly disappointing) pornos, except 'Bijou.'

Devoted fan tumblr blog (probably linked up-thread)

That's one kind of Cable service I wouldn't mind paying $150/mo. for.

He got sucked off by a guy for Colt and had his ass eaten, too.

He went by Stoner for Colt.

Stupid Tumblr ruined the Bill Tumlr blog, so the guy who ran it moved it to Wordpress.

Wasn't he involved with Christian Brando?

[quote]He got sucked off by a guy for Colt and had his ass eaten, too.

Are there any video clips online?

I seem to remember we couldn't find those last time it was brought up.

R175 they were friends but it may have fallen apart when Christian slept with Bill's wife Shirley

I read this in the Peter Manso bio of Brando

Any relation?

Video clip.

Another sexy performance - a cop in Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Cassandra is one lucky bitch.

BOO ON BIG BUSH!

He's a good-looking guy, though.

R179 That's not Bill/Stoner. Colt mislabeled the video.

R182, big bushes were hot.

Hello everybody!!!

I'm the Owner of Wiki and tumblr/WP pages of Bill Cable! I'm currently looking for this Hit & Fun magazine... :(

r165

I see why you neglected to mention the minstrel show aspect of his "performance".

Woof!

Barb 'n' Bill.

He give me fo dolla