Jerry Butler Dead

He was a total stud.

A lot of the straight Golden Age of Porn stars have been dying in the last 2-3 years.

As that one TV news guy said.....Keep fucking that chicken......

R2 linky stinky

Wasn't he married to Wednesday on the original Addams Family (Lisa Loring, who was later in As The World Turns)?

^^^ Yes. They were a mess together.

In his youth, Butler had a uncanny resemblance to Chris Pine.

And in your youth, R6, you had 20/20 vision.

R4, I saw them on some talk show and she said she sold her wedding ring to buy heroin and they both started laughing like hyenas. The audience sat stone faced. It was quite pathetic.

R6 maybe not uncanny, but yes they have similar facial structures.

Yes; two eyes, a nose and a mouth!

That doesn't mean as much as you think, r10.

I don't remember him at all, and I'm old as dust.

He also seemed like he was going to have a heart attack when it came time for the money shot.

Not all that in the peen department, as I recall.

what did he die from?

Cancer r15.

I had no idea he and Lisa had been heroin users. I thought she left him because she thought he was a loser or something like that.

Pancreatic cancer

he was handsome but very average penis.

What a relief! At first I thought...

I just watched a clip of him in Taboo 3. He was pretty sexy and the penis was nice.

Jerry Butler reminds me of Joey Lawrence. Since Joey has filed for bankruptcy, he COULD BE Jerry Butler in The Jerry Butler Story

Joey filed for bankruptcy? WHOA!

The Iceman Cometh.

Little Jerry

I spilled spooge watching him in action in his movies. One of the few good looking in shape guys in straight porn back in the day.

I was waiting tables at a Brooklyn diner called Martin's circa 1981, to pay for college, run by Jerry's uncle. His dad ran the catering hall next door where Jerry would strip at Sweet Sixteens and Bat Mitzvahs. He'd come into the restaurant all the time and there was no denying he had sex appeal! It was a shock to find out he had gone into porn, but given his good-natured cockiness early on -- knowing he had a good body and that his body was going to be what earned him $$$ even in Brooklyn -- it kind of made sense.

I learned about his porn career after I got to know him and still have not seen it.

all of the links stink.

Small dick, a quick shooter, but a hot body and ass. Also, he had a wacky performance style.

he was a good performer

I saw him in a record store in Greenwich Village during his porn years (record stores -- remember them?). He was really short. (And I'm not particularly tall.) But he had a great build. He was with a taller friend and it seemed like Butler was a follower and his friend was the leader.

I read that one reason Loring left him was because he was sneaking and doing porn after she made him promise he wouldn't.

I liked him back in the day because he was built like a real man. A real fine looking man. No the usual schlubby creeps, or razor thin guys in straight porn back in the day. Face it, back then the producers of straight porn didn't care what the guys looked like. They were making porn for men to buy. Little did they know that even straight men wanted the men in porn to be reasonably good looking.

His wikipedia listing says that he made several appearances on "One Life to Live." Did Vicki Sleestak entertain a porn star at Llanfair?

Loring had a very bad heroin habit. She's lucky to survive. Jerry's wasn't as severe. He looked bad in the last few years of his porn career in the early 90s - bloated, pale and sweaty. He regained his looks after he got off drugs and started working out again.

R33 Jerry was just a day player on OLTL. He was up for the contract role of Brad Vernon also, but didn't get it because he rejected the advances of the casting director. He said Anthony George and Phil Carey were hot for him and tried getting him as well.

Around 1983, he tried out for a part on GH, but of course didn't get it. Also around this time, he came close to getting a recurring role on Three's Company as a porn star called "Stud Butler" that was supposed to move next door. This fell through because he wouldn't sleep with the guy who was pushing the storyline.

[quote] Little did they know that even straight men wanted the men in porn to be reasonably good looking.

Sure, Jan.

Anthony George was gay? Jeez, did Dark Shadows have ANY straight men on it?

In the soaps they were all gay.

It's always been surprising the Jerry Butler reported that Phil Carey was interested in him. Of all the OLTL actors, Phil Carey and Bob Woods seemed like the only ones who were surely straight. But then one never knows.

Didn't Phil Carey play the first gay character on a sitcom (All In The Family)? Of course, Tony Geary was supposed to be straight in the same episode, so go figure...

I have his memoir "Raw Talent: the adult film industry as seen by its most popular male star." It was "as told to Robert Rimmer ("rimmer?") and Catherine Tavel, whoever the hell they were. I got it for two bucks at a used book sale. It's hilariously bad and poorly spelled with atrocious grammar. But it is kind of amusing. It's pretty funny when he reminisces about his female co-stars, most of whom he doesn't find attractive. One is "sort of mousy looking." Another one reminded him of a "little clown" and she "often had bad sores around the mouth." Another "looks like Ray Bolger in drag." He also comments on the hygiene of some of his leading ladies. Of one he said "if you did a 69 with her it was like cleaning an unclean birdcage with your tongue." Another one had "the smelliest pussy I ever stuck my nose into." Ah, the glamour and excitement of being a porn star. Anyway, his early death doesn't surprise me much. Porn stars tend not to live very long lives.

[quote]Of one he said "if you did a 69 with her it was like cleaning an unclean birdcage with your tongue." Another one had "the smelliest pussy I ever stuck my nose into."

Our Cheryl did PORN?

[quote]because he wouldn't sleep with the guy who was pushing the storyline.

Well that was stupid, wasn't it? He could have had a new role on a sitcom tailored to him, and instead he refused to let a casting director suck his dick. What an idiot.

Phil Carey? I wonder if Jerry Butler got his Buchanans confused. Phil Carey was married most of his life and had five children. Clint Richie, on the other hand, was never married, had no kids, retired to a hick little California town near Sacramento known for its cowboys and a comparatively large number of same-sex households, and has this comment in his wikipedia: "the most interesting times of his life were in the Yakima River Valley, where he taught his best friend, Robert Clayton, to ride a horse."

R40 Jerry Butler alienated most of his old friend and colleagues with the publishing of that book. According to the Rialto Report, who also did an audio interview with him four years ago, said there were not adult industry people at his funeral.

I have a friend who was one of the biggest male stars in the industry during the "golden age" and later went on to become a director of adult films. He knew and worked with Jerry Butler. He said Jerry was a "loose cannon," possibly bipolar, who was very hard to control. My friend, who, like Jerry, was an actual actor, said Jerry was incredibly talented and could have had a mainstream career, but he was just too volatile and unpredictable. My friend did like Jerry as a person, though, and said there was a huge heart behind all the bluster and dysfunction.

Surprisingly, my friend is one of the few people Jerry had nice things to say about in his autobiography.

In their tribute to Jerry, The Rialto Report had some recent pictures of him. He looked pretty damn good back in 2015. He held up well.

R43, Wikipedia also talks about another ass that got on Clint Ritchie's horse: "He (Clint Ritchie) was under contract at 20th Century Fox with Tom Selleck and is credited with teaching Selleck how to ride a horse."

Lynda, Gabe, and Penny would sometimes get together and vent about Tom hogging all the good dick in town.

When I was a youngin' and didn't yet have the balls to watch gay porn ............. Butler was a go to when watching straight porn. If he was in a movie, I was sure to watch it.

Sad to hear this. He seemed to have a tough life. His autobiography 'Raw Talent' made me laugh out loud with the blunt descriptions of his co-stars.

😂 Was it a work related injury?

Ditto, r47.

R26 He would strip at Sweet Sixteen’s and Bat Mitzvah’s....WTF?

One of the all time greats in vintage porn

Did he ever do gay porn?

When did he do his final scene?

My gawd he got fat.

I'm still alive.

Totally forgot about him! He was the handsomest of the straight male porn stars of the time. At that time, straight porn didnt have that many good looking men.

Several big names in 70s and 80s have died in the last year - Jerry, Jennifer Welles, Johnny Keyes, and R. Bolla died last week.

That should be - Several big names in 70s and 80s straight porn have died in the last year.

Jerry didn't really have a bad life after porn though. He got off drugs, got a steady job, and enjoyed life. Like many of straight male stars, he seemed to have trouble in his love life though, and remained single for most of his life after porn.

It's not much of a shocker. Lots of porn stars don't live into a ripe old age. I have his memoir "Raw Talent." it's very poor written (and he had help writing it) but it's funny in a gross way. He talks about the hygiene of some of his leading ladies, something I always wondered about. Some of his co-stars smelled or tasted bad; I always wondered how porn stars deal with something like that. They usually just do what they have to do, although he describes one incident with a female co-star who "creamed" a lot. He was going down on her when "a lump of curdled cream" lodged itself on his tongue. He jumped up to run to the bathroom to wash his mouth out and the director got mad "at ME!" Such is the life of a porn star. RIP, Jerry.

Jerry Butler. Nice build. But never heard of him before.

Ride that cock......

Jerry didn't write any of it. He pretty much just talked into the tape recorder and they transcribed it and broke it down and rearranged it into chapters.

More Jerry.

R61 That's not Jerry, that's Blake Palmer.

Blake is still alive, but hasn't aged very well...

Jerry in a threesome.

I always found him to be sexy. If I could ever had have sex with a straight male porn star, it would have been Butler.

Loved his moans and grunts. Very sexy.

Damn Blake Palmer looks rough these days. The body is okay, especially for a man his age. But that face is broke down. If he had a full head of hair he would look somewhat presentable. But what little he has left he's let grow into that long stringy crazyman mess.

I liked his song "Amos Moses"

I seem to recall that Blake Palmer did some gay porn as well -- maybe only j/o scenes, though.

Blake Palmer was gross.

Marc Wallice is on a disability and living in a trailer park. He was interviewed for the Showtime documentary "Porndemic" which covered the 1998 HIV outbreak that Wallice was believed to be patient zero. He didn't seem to have much remorse.

R64 No, Blake. Just NO. There comes a time when every 1980s porn star must put away their cocks and saggy man boobs and move on to something else.