What is the story of porn star Bill Henson?

He was fearless

Only bareback in 1982-1983 before the aids plague. Did he regret on his deathbed ?

Fred Bisonnes comments: ”Described elsewhere as ‘perfect,’ Henson was, hands down, the most handsome man I ever photographed, with a ‘natural’ physique usually seen only in ancient Greek statues – and he stood six-two, as well. An active-duty U.S. Marine sergeant, straight and married, when recruited to ‘bottom’ in hc gayporn for Catalina and Falcon, on the promise that he had a big future as a fashion model, Doug (real name) was clearly uncomfortable performing gay sex in front of the camera, although more relaxed when shooting nude stills with me. Good to their word, Henson’s recruiters did eventually land him a modeling gig in Europe; this was short-lived, however, when it was discovered that he’d done gay hardcore in the States. ”

William Higgins had this to say about Bill: “Very charismatic person. Loved to get fucked. And I would say that of all the people I ever worked with, he’s the only one that really ever had negative repercussions from being in pornography — because he was so famous that everybody recognized him on the street. You know, he married a very rich girl, and it didn’t take long before she found out that he’d done pornography. So he really wanted to get out of the business and go about being the husband of a very rich girl and working for her father. It did cause him a few untoward moments down in Orange County when people would recognize him and come right up to him with his wife. He finally grew a beard, so that people wouldn’t know who he was. He was into very heavy-duty sex.”

Hot bareback threesome!

So hot.

We liked him, incest be damned.

There have been reports that Bill Henson died of AIDS and various sources state as early as 1989 or as late as 2002.

There would be some chance he contracted HIV from either Eric Stryker (A Matter of Size) or Brian Thompson (Sailor in the Wild) for whom he bottomed and both Stryker & Thompson died of AIDS in the 1980s.

I think William Higgins may have confirmed Hensons death at some point - who really knows?

I'll always have a special place in my heart for Bill Henson and he was in the first gay porno I ever saw, Sailor in the Wild and his seen with Brian Thompson remains one of the hottest ever on film. The whole lead up to the sex is so sexy and seductive. He also had the hottest voice, a sort of southern drawl.

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what a waste! He would be a male model or an actor in Hollywood

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I liked all three of the guys, though only Mike Henson seemed to be gay. Too bad Bill's videos aren't processed better, at least the ones I have seen are in pretty bad shape.

I have a feeling all of these posts are by the same obsessed freak.

He is now a doctor in Orlando.

R13, how do you know ? Wasn't he dead either in 1990 or 2002 ?

He was an enormously attractive guy, and the photos just don't do him justice. He had a kind of proportionality to his physique you just didn't see in other guys from that era. Maybe it's hard to tll now because guys have better trainers and better techniques and look more impressive, but he was incredible for his era.

It's widely agreed that's he's dead of AIDS, but as the posts here show it was never clear when it happened.

[quote] I liked all three of the guys, though only Mike Henson seemed to be gay.

Are you truly that daft? Stop perpetuating this "straight guys doing gay porn" bullshit. THERE ARE NO HETEROSEXUAL MEN DOING GAY PORN! Never have been and never will be. At the least they're bi-sexual and more likely most of them are just deep DEEP closet cases.

I remember when he died, actually. The prospect of no more Muppets was heartbreaking.

r16 You do realize everyone thinks you're crazy. There's a grease fire in your future.

He both grew a beard and married one

imdb.com states Bill Henson died in 1990

And Find-a-Grave says he died in 2002, but there's no grave picture.

He faked his death and is living a peaceful life with hubby Michael Christopher in a small town in New Zealand

Bill Henson, Mike Henson, and Brian Thompson - three of my favorites

No way bill Henson didn’t enjoy what he was doing on film - his masculine intensity and facial responses at being fucked were amazing. Was he doing a lot of coke? I’m normally into hairy guys but it gets no better than Bill.

Does anyone know his real name?

He really was the Jake Ryan of gay porn.

But am I ever gonna see my wedding day???

The great icon of 80's gay porn. His do over of the Calvin Klein underwear ad had every gay boy cuming in his pants. Sad to see how far the bar has dropped to the fugly webcam porn "stars" of today.

Find it hard to believe he was a army drill Sargent with that lush hair helmet.

he used his real name to do porn?

R31 I doubt it.

r31 Yes, Rose. All three of them did. They were really brothers.

I'm pretty sure I read an obituary of his death way back when in a gay porn magazine, perhaps Manshots, around 1990.

I know gay porn films are not known for their dialogue but Bill Henson got to deliver most of the most memorable lines in Sailor in the Wild. After Brian Thompson has rimmed Bill, Brian readies his cock to enter Bill's hole. Bill is hesitant though and says 'That's a lot bigger than your tongue'. Such a great scene overall, the whole seduction and chemistry between them.

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He never seemed to be enjoying it. There are lots of porn actors like that. It may be that they aren't gay or are simply uncomfortable in front of a camera, but clearly there are a lot of them who have the "God, I can't wait for it to be over, so I can get my money," look on their faces.

IMDB says he died in '90.

"A Matter of Size" was the first gay porn (or any porn) I bought. Some shop in Key West while on vacation in the early '80s, seems like it was around $80, it was very expensive for me. I was scared to death having it in my luggage (I was pretty naive and a worrier). Bill Henson on the cover in a jockstrap; Peter North (aka Matt Ramsey in a tank top, shot from the rear; not sure the link will come through; it's from a blog).

The first scene where Bill Henson and a guy with a bushy mustache named Joe Purcelli (no other credits for him except AMOS) are tossing a football, and the Purcelli guy say, "Yeah, I'm gonna try and get on a college team...it all depends." I always finished that sentence with "....if they let 35-year-olds on a college team."

Anyway, it was a wonderful film—and I call it a film not a movie.

And Bill Henson was a beautiful man. He'd be around 60 today; it's surprising that there's no one who knew him or went to school with him or anything that could definitely confirm what happened to him.

This is a facsinating thread and Ive never even heard of him.

reason i asked if he used his real name was because someone mentioned searching for him on Find-A-Grave. Unless you have his real name, what's the point?

so when did he start The Muppets?

He's fine. He sends his love.

[quote]Bill Henson got to deliver most of the most memorable lines in Sailor in the Wild. After Brian Thompson has rimmed Bill, Brian readies his cock to enter Bill's hole. Bill is hesitant though and says 'That's a lot bigger than your tongue'.

Right after that moment . . .

Yeah he'd be 60 today. Fat,bald with an enlarged prostate. Better to live fast,die young and leave some hot porn to be remembered by.

[quote] Bill Henson got to deliver most of the most memorable lines in Sailor in the Wild. After Brian Thompson has rimmed Bill, Brian readies his cock to enter Bill's hole. Bill is hesitant though and says 'That's a lot bigger than your tongue'.

Slightly OT, but one of my favorite exchanges is in some Falcon opus. Kane O'Farrell is giving an increasingly more intimate massage to Ace Hanson at the gym. Hanson is enjoying it but looking increasingly more concerned. Finally, with O'Farrell's tongue deep up his ass, Hanson blurts out "This isn't going to cost extra is it?!"

Sailor in the Wild was not the first gay porn I ever saw, but it is the first one I remember seeing, in large part due to Bill Henson.

[quote] I am so obsessed with him lately

Okay then.

The top in R5's video, fucking Bill Henson and Nick Harlen, is Kristen Bjorn, who founded his own gay porn dynasty, producing and directing gay porn with men from all over the world. He started out performing in porn before eventually moving behind the cameras. Despite the name, he's actually Russian-British.

Bjorn was actually able to found his own studio with the money he made from performing in porn, mainly at Falcon.

I loved some of the early Bjorn films.

Even if they were weirdly exaggerated (sorry, but most dudes aren't going to shoot 7 times in a row!)

He was perfect in A Matter Of Size. Blew many loads to that football scene of his. Surprising that someone from his past hasn’t come forward to give details.

R8: Southern drawl? Always seemed to me like he had a kind of NY/NJ accent when he spoke in A Matter of Size. Maybe just my faulty memory.

I love the Muppets!!

He had a Boston accent. Sexy.

Mmmm

The most famous of the brothers

R56 Congrats shit stain, 8th time that joke has been used in this thread

That's really sad.

But what about Michael Christopher? What a cock!!!!

Love this thread! Bill Henson has always been a huge favorite of mine. In the late 1990's, if you wanted to watch bareback gay sex - you were not going to see it at the studios or Seancody. I think that an entire generation of closeted young gay guys lusted after men from that Golden Era of porn for that reason alone. Of all of those sexy late 70's and early 80's men, Bill was always my favorite. He was model beautiful for sure, but what really set him apart was the fact that he was so damn masculine yet only bottomed on film. Porn stars don't get any hotter than Bill. I want to believe that he survived to this day and that his death was just staged to get the fans to forget about him and give him some privacy. Who knows? Someone on DL knew him pretty well in San Diego and had a backstory (primarily that he was straight, married, modeled in Europe, grew a beard, and very embarrassed of his porn fame - everything that has already been stated but in far more detail). I think that Bill was his neighbor or tenant or something - don't have time to search for it, but he has been discussed on DL. I remember Bill Higgins talking about how gorgeous Bill was in some written interview. Supposedly the night before Brian Thompson fucked the Hell out of him in the ranger scene (Sailor in the Wild), Bill had gone out to the local bars getting shit-faced drunk and bedding quite a few girls (in his hotel room? Don't remember details). Hungover or not, he could take a dick like a champ. I agree that the seduction scene between Bill and Brian was really quite erotic and oddly well acted. Bill took bigger dicks than Brian, but the heat in that scene is impossible to beat.

r16 seems to be in total denial that half the models in gay porn have always been oriented toward women -- needing, fucking, pursuing, enjoying, marrying women and fathering children with them.

Regardless of the technical label "bisexual" that you need to identify them with. They still prefer chicks and attraction in their minds will never work like yours.

Completely agree R61. The world is full of all types. I find it odd that so many cannot come to terms with that. Gay porn has always been filled with straight male actors. The primary reason is that it is the only genre of pornography that they can make any money doing. Fast cash is appealing to many gorgeous guys who can't "make money" being full-time athletes pursuing the "sport" of bodybuilding.

He must be unrecognizable before his death. can't imagine how much he had suffered. such a tragedy.

My absolute favorite of that era was the beautiful Aaron Gage (shown here gobbling Bill’s cock in “Winner Take All” - I wish their scene had been longer!).. I never read anything about what happened to him.

Aaron and Bill.

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I would bet that the source of the Bill Henson is dead reports is BH himself to keep the stalkers away.

Love Bill’s expression here!

Bill reciprocating

Speaking of Joe Porcelli -- I had this issue of Honcho with Joe on the cover.

I've only got Sailor in the Wild on DVD. I really should purchase Bill's only other three titles Winner Takes All, A Matter of Size and The New Breed, which to be honest I'm not that keen on. But the other two I haven't got are must haves.

Ick, I may have sero-converted just from reading this thread.

Why does it always seem that every gay man goes gaga over Bill Henson. I feel like I'm the only one who actually finds Brian Thompson to be more attractive in their scenes together.

I won’t hold that against you, r73. Brian was super cute and an amazing performer.

Another icon of that era. What I would give to see Bill and.Tom knocking boots

Its amazing that he was only in 5 films (according to GEVI), yet he's still remembered after all these years. He supposedly left porn behind to get married.

R75 - Good ol' Tom! He had one of the best asses in the pre-condom days of porn. Sadly, he rarely put it to work on film. Gorgeous guy in every way. His best scene was getting bent over a subway seat and then royally porked by Jim Pulver in "Bigger Than Life".

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Thank you R78!

OT, but that Tom Brock/Jim Pulver scene in r78 reminded me of Jeff Quinn getting boned by Pulver in the subway scene from "Inch by Inch," which was a great scene; they both seemed really into it. Sweat was pouring off them, although I think I read years ago that it was because the subway set was so hot. I had that one on VHS too. First scene with Tony Stefano, Steve Henson and Brian Estevez (who was credited as Mike Raymond; also went by Michael Wayne the internet says) I liked a lot too. Although Steve Henson looked like he was in pain.

The three actors Tom Brock, Jim Pulver and Jeff Quinn must have all filmed at around the same time and on the same set R80. Even in "Bigger than Life", they cut away from Tom getting his giant ass stuffed with Pulver's big dick to Jeff walking the streets and then back to Tom's bottoming again. When Pulver fucked Jeff in the film that you mentioned - the set looked identical to this set to me. It seems probable that Jim topped both Tom and Jeff on the same set and on the same weekend (well..porn can be filmed any day of the week, but you get my meaning). Great call! (I remember looking for Tom's bottoming scene a few years ago and getting so frustrated when Jeff was getting boned in the same subway and Tom was nowhere to be found LOL. I actually liked both actors. Golden age of gay porn!

Classic porneaux!

Die young

We don't have this kind of gay porn star anymore

[quote]r15 Is dwarf-tossing still a thing?

I wonder if he infected his unknowing wife, too.

^^ OMG....gravely mistaken cut + paste!

But is somehow fits, in a zen-like way.

Crazy falcon sluts

mmmm

R70, I saw Joe Porcelli bartending at The Works on Columbus Ave in the 1980s

Bill was drop-dead, smokin HOT. So masculine (likely straight), so beautifully chiseled, so handsome, so perfectly proportioned/round-butted/long legged/guns/buns/pecs, and so adorably dumb in an aw-shucks sort of way. One of the hottest men ever captured on film - the fact that he was an exclusive bottom makes him the holy grail for all of us tops. His tight as a drum, stretchy little light pink hole was saliva-inducing to say the least.

Was he really dead? When did he die?

"Was" he really dead?

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Have any of you sleuthy DL guys ever met him? Back when he lived in San Diego, etc.?

R93 I wish.

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His life of military service and then gay porn coupled with a mysterious death timeline indicates an MKULTRA victim.

He may be alive but living under a new identity.

Never cared for him.

While it would be nice to think that, I doubt that is the case.

He made Sailor in the Wild in 1983 and his sex scene was with Brian Thompson. Thompson the top, Henson (as usual) the bottom. After Thompson pulls out and comes on Henson he then shoves his cock back into Hensons butthole.

Thompson died of AIDS in 1985 I think. Thompson loved sex and had multiple partners. He may not have been the one to pass on HIV to Henson but it is possible. I'm not playing the blame again by the way, just being logical - Henson was an adult and made a decision. It was a tragic period for lots of gay men and non gays as well. No one is to blame but that Sailor in the Wild scene and Thompsons death not to longer after most likely means Bill Henson passed away.

Anyone know if he passed his aids to his wife?

R98 - the very endowed Doug Weston also bare fucked Henson in A Matter of Size (as did Eric Stryker in the same scene). Both actors who topped him died of AIDS years later. In fact, he was topped by many actors who were poz. He had roughly a 50/50 chance of not seroconverting while filming those scenes. Sad but true.

It's a well known fact that the Clintons had him killed.

god dam he was hot

hope he alive

also jim pulver and tom brock I shot a ton of wads to. BLESS U SIRS

Jim Pulver was an exclusive top and Tom Brock almost an exclusive top - the exception being as a bottom to Jil Pulver in Bigger Than Life. Their chances of contracting HIV would be low, provided they didn't bottom condomless in their private lives. I suspect Brock may have been sort of straight.

Omg, he is so hot. I want to lick every inch of his body

He was basically flawless IMO. As sexy as he was facially and as perfect as his body was - his voice was maybe his hottest feature. GORGEOUS man and was a total fantasy if you are a top..

He looks so innocent like an angel

His solo in The New Breed is one of the best. Classic

[quote] It's a well known fact that the Clintons had him killed.

He muttered a criticism of them under his breath once in the early 90s; but Hillary caught it on one of her many spy satellites, and then it was all over for him.

any links to Brian Hawks vids? the one with a lion where some guy fuks the shit out of brian…..HOT

R100, Eric Stryker was my favorite. He had that masculine, all-American look that was the stuff of fantasy.

Of course even this thread has to be converted to manic Hillary hate and slander on the New and Improved Nazilounge.

I always found him to be blah.

His scene partner Aaron Gage was much hotter.

omg jim pulver was GOD

No guy that does gay porn or porn where he has sex with men like bisexual porn, is heterosexual/straight...but a lot of queens need this fantasy.

WEHT Joe Porcelli? Did he survive the 1980s, or not? Also WEHT Barry Hoffman I know he was bisexual and was kept by James Leo Herlily for awhile and was the basis for the character Joe Buck in the midnight cowboy novel and later film.

R115 Joe Porcelli if he's not dust is now...