John David Carson a gay?

I think that he's a gay and has the aids.

That girl who was his wife was killed by someone with the AIDS, so yeah he probably was.

Fat Rock Hudson looking usually creepy

Also Roddy McDowell is in the movie so yeah JDC is gay, at least he was after he did "Pretty Maids"

I had such a crush on this actor when I was a kid. I think his career was mostly over, but I saw him on reruns.

I've always liked dark eyed, dark haired guys. Even when I was a baby gay.

He dead.

Anyone who says "sexual preference" instead of "sexual orientation" has serious self-loathing issues.

Just saw him a few minutes ago in an ep of MSW. He was so nice.

He looks gorgeous in this photo. I wish it was clearer. I never saw THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE, but I wanted to because I knew he was in it and it sounded like he might have one or two hot scenes in it. On the very minus side, Wikipedia says he was raised as a Christian Scientist, which he continued to practice, and was also into Scientology.

Link to theatrical trailer for THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE on YouTube. There seems to be a link to the full movie in the comments, but I haven't checked it out yet.

Unfortunately, John David Carson is definitely dead. I know this because I actually SPOKE to his wife Diana on the phone, and I did that because I had attempted to contact Carson, intending to write an article about his career in B-movies and television, and seeking an interview with him. I missed him by only a few months - to my enormous disappointment and sadness.

His widow was extremely nice and helpful when I spoke to her; she said John would have loved the opportunity to talk to me. From everything I've heard, he was a very nice guy. I had several more exchanges, via email, with her. This was back in 2009, shortly after I wrote this Wikipedia page.

Virtually ALL the various postings online about Carson's death, whether they're on blogs, B-movie websites, Youtube comments sections, etc - are a result of my initial announcement on an online forum that Carson had died - I did so after finding this out from Diana. He was likely not a famous enough actor for the Hollywood buzz to have picked up the news of his passing; in this case, it seems to have been my research that made the news public (and I'm not saying this to be boastful - if anything, I find it exceptionally depressing.)

In the references field, for the page, I very deliberately entered the data to link viewers to the Death Certificates search page for the state of Nevada, even providing instructions to search for John David Carson and that his death was a matter of public record (which I also noted in the citation itself.) Originally, doing so would bring up his death certificate, on which you could plainly see his information and his cause of death (Lymphoma.) However, for some reason, as of this writing (7/19/2012) it no longer comes up in a search (I just checked.) I have no idea why this is.

He was gorgeous. He was a guest on many, many of those Quinn Martin productions and Universal cop shows.

He was always cast as sensitive rich boys who got kidnapped on Cannon and Barnaby Jones.

Did he flirt with Betty? I would have and I'm gay.

He was somewhat popular in the 70s. He was definitely handsome and charismatic. I know he had executives making passes at him. He refers to this earlier in this thread. I was shocked years ago when I'd heard he'd died. His last appearance was in PRETTY WOMAN.

He was no labia licker

Actually yes he was, r16. That's what his quote is about. He was straight and a victim of the gay casting couch.

He looked good in drag on Angie's show

Like anyone would confuse This Mr Carson with Johnny's unfunny ugly ass.

I see Rock with the beautiful Brenda Sykes next to him. She was married to activist/poet Gil-Scott Heron. She left him because of his heroin addiction. He too was a casualty of AIDS. I loved Brenda on the OZZIE & HARRIET reboot in the 70s.

I had read somewhere that he was runner up to play Keith Partridge.

You could see his cockhead outline in Murder, She Wrote.