Kevin James (RIP) - most handsome Legend Porn Actor

He gets rimmed in this scene.

His cock was beautiful.

He's my favorite too!

He had the absolute most perfect body. All lean muscle and that huge dick.

He had some great scenes in Taboo 2.

He had the most Shakespearean death for a porn star: Testicular cancer.

I always wondered how a tall, handsome small town Conservative boy from Wisconsin like him ended up in porn.

The King of Queens is dead??!? He was hot and studly!

All-American stud.

He had a gorgeous Cock and balls.

He was definitely hot! Studly Eric Edwards always did it for me. And he could act!

How old was he?

He's quite charming. I tend to avoid straight porn because it makes me feel bad for some reason but he's one hot stud.

R11 when he died? I believe 35.

He really was pretty glorious. There are only a few straight porn performers I enjoy watching. I like Sean Michaels, Hakan Serbes and (earlier) Rocco Siffredi.

R13 Kevin James died in 1990 at age 35.

R14 That's a picture of Kevin Williams, not Kevin James.

R14 Or is that Hakan Serbes?

The pic at R14 is Hakan Serbes.

R14 oh man Rocco Siffredi was incredible while young. He was the first time I ever saw a rimjob. It was so odd to me then but HOT. He loved being rimmed.

The very first hunk I ever saw in porn was Dale DaBone when I was around 15. He was still young and fresh then. I was in love. Most of the men in porn weren’t hot but he was smoking hot. Him and someone else were the first two that caught my eyes.

I later discovered Kevin James who was brilliant and made me appreciate straight porn more lol.

R16, No, that's Hakan Serbes, who I mentioned in my post.

Kevin Gibson (November 17, 1954 – January 24, 1990) was an American pornographic actor whose career lasted from the mid 1970s through the 1980s.

Early life and career

After graduating from George Nelson Tremper High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he went to work in an auto plant in the Detroit area.[citation needed] After several years of shifts where he had to take two showers to get all of the silver chromium dye off of him afterwards, he quit, went to California, and became an adult film star. The exposure in the auto plant may have led to his eventual death.

Adult film career and death

He appeared or co-starred in installments of the Taboo[3][4][5][6] and The Devil in Miss Jones series and in other films, such as Café Flesh,[7] I Like to Watch, Nightdreams,[8][9] and Black Throat. He died of testicular cancer in 1990.[2]

He appeared in the 1981 documentary What Would Your Mother Say?[10] and on the TV series Electric Blue in 1984.

Dale DaBone is a homophobe. My female friend Lorna (that is very beautiful) met him and they became friends (mainly because he wanted to fuck her but she wouldn’t) and she told me he would go on “faggot” rants about gay men that don’t know boundaries as well as crossover performers. He despises Christian and someone else.

Levi Cash is another hottie that I met in FL and he’s another homophobe.

I also loved Toni Ribas

Julian Rios ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍

Jesus Christ, I thought the guy who played Doug Heffernan on the King of Queens died. Wtf OP.

Julian 😍

Why spam the thread with guys other than the topic of this thread?

R27 Because if you read OP's post, it says "Who are some of the straight porn stars you enjoy watching?"

R26 There was no one hotter than Julian in his prime. Beautiful face, beautiful body, beautiful ass, huge dick.

R29 agreed. He’s one of a kind. I don’t think there’s been a performer that I can watch over and over and never be bored.

Rocco in his prime.

R31 Rocco was hot as hell when he was young. But then he started getting really depraved in his films and a lot of the stuff he did was downright repulsive.

R32, I agree. I don't watch any of his later work. His sons are really handsome (they were shown in a different thread). I think he was at his peak playing Tarzan in 'The Shame of Jane'.

What did he start doing that was repulsive?

Anyone know who this young blond is?

R34, He began treating his female partners really roughly, spitting in their faces, forcing them to lick his ass (which can be hot when it's not depicted as degrading). Since I don't watch that kind of stuff, I only have the general gist, since I'll shut the screen down before I'll watch anything like that.

Anyway, here's Joe D'Amato's 'The Shame of Jane'.

Troy Halston.

Tommy Gunn.

On the '70s tip, I loved Mike Ranger, star of the original Taboo, with his thick curved dick and big doe eyes (and only occasional mustache).

IIRC, didn't a DL-er once claim that Mike was the father of a friend of theirs, and he basically admitted but shrugged off his experience?

I loved Blair Harris, who was a supercute boy-next-door type who worked for a decade but is forgotten now.

There's an obscure straight male porn star of the '70s who I just love: Kent Hall.

He looked just like a bunch of dreamy curly-haired male TV stars of that period — Willie on "Family," the guys on "White Shadow" and "Paper Chase," Willie Aames...

He did four movies, including 1980 blockbuster "Sex World" — a takeoff of "Westworld" with Annette Haven, Kay Parker and John Leslie — and showed off his beautiful dick and lean smooth body. Then he disappeared! WHET Kent Hall?

Were these all silent movies? Christ you guys are old.

They're all on various online sites completely free — watch a few, and you'll get sucked into an entire era that is so joyful and artful you can't help but become an enthusiast.

[quote]I always wondered how a tall, handsome small town Conservative boy from Wisconsin like him ended up in porn.

It's not *that* surprising.

Look at how many Republicans & Trump supporters are in gay porn at Helix, Corbin Fisher, Sean Cody, etc.

I watch Kevin James' scenes on regular rotation. He was perfection.

His cock was truly amazing. It might have been second to John Holmes' in the size sweepstakes (which was not as important then).

Combine that with his Midwestern clean-cut looks and his swim-champ body, and he was just irresistible.

Preppy porn.

He wore a lot of polo shirts.

He also loved to pile-drive; it was something of a trademark.

R46, but unlike Holmes, it looks like Kevin James was cut, which will get him bonus points on DL.

R19 Looks like Dale DaBone broke his neck and has launched a GoFundMe to help pay his medical bills.

If Dale Dabone was homophobic it was only to make others think he was straight. He eventually joined the David Forrest stable of gay "meat & greet" guys, no pun intended.

Dale DaBone: “I’m just going to do it by the protocols. I have no insurance. I gave myself to the business

Looks like he lived by the porn protocols as well. Too stupid (or cheap) to spend some of his money on health insurance. Of course it takes money to keep up a private residence with a pool in southern California and have enough left over for fun times. Necessities seem to take a low priority for people like that.

Did Kevin do any gay porn when he first started out?

Not to my knowledge.

Randy Spears

TT Boy

Steven Drake

In my opinion, Randy Spears was the ultimate in the straight porn world. And he could actually act.

Mike Horner was another one who always looked like he was having the time of his life. I've never seen a man make such faces when he was shtupping some broad.

Steve Drake reputedly enjoyed the services of other men in private.

I remember Sex World (mentioned above) not because of any scenes in particular, but because it was one of the first porn movies I ever saw (straight or gay) AND, really, because I can still even to this day remember this fucking theme song! LOL

Dale Dabone was definitely one of the hottest straight guys in porn.

Never saw KJ before today but he's so my type - tall, on the lanky side, handsome....kinda preppy in that one shot. Very nice!

Kevin wasn't that conservative. When it came to sex anyway. He was a very nice guy and very clean cut in every sense of the word. Unlike most people in porn, he didn't drink or do drugs. Even more sad he died so young, since he didn't have self destructive tendencies like so many in porn. One magazine writer went out to lunch with them after interviewing him for an article and said he had orange juice to drink instead of alcohol!

He got into porn by an accident. He and his sister moved to LA in the late 70s to trying to break into mainstream acting. He happened to move on the same street as Mike Ranger, who Kevin recognized and asked about getting into porn. They took the chance on him since he was young, good looking and hung. He got it up, on and off with no problems on camera and he was always in big demand. He did a ton of loop and magazine work in particular because he a large, very photogenic cock. Mike Ranger joked that Kevin took a lot of his work. They became good friends and Kevin was best man at Mike's wedding to Loni Sanders.

He decided to get into real estate around 1986 and ease out of porn. Around 1987 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He fought it for a couple years before he lost the battle. Not long before he died, he attended one of the award shows to see his friends in the business. He had lost all of his hair and a good amount of weight. He was his usual friendly self according to his friends. Everyone in the business that knew him were very saddend when he died not long afterwards.

Mike Ranger was from Colorado originally. And he moved to LA in the mid 70s to try and get into porn. William Margold became his agent and got him a lot of work. He did a gay marketed loop and magazine where he stripped and jerked off early in his career. He used the name Mike Arlen for that. He had a huge sexual appetite back then and would fuck a lot of the women he worked with again back at his place afterwards. He was quite the good fuck apparently. He did a lot of loops. Sometimes 2 or 3 a day.

He met Loni Sanders (who became a very popular star) early in her career and fell for her immediately. And unlike all the other girls in the business he was with he fell in love with her, He became very jealous and protective of her. He starting trying to manage her career and started working less himself and managed to rub some people the wrong way, He asked Loni to marry him and leave the business. She agreed to, and they moved to Washington where he worked a porn distribution company as a sales person and she worked as a waitress. She didn't like the lesser income and insisted to Mike she wanted to do more porn to earn some more money again. He didn't like the idea at all but eventually agreed. She met Steve Hirsch, who would soon start Vivid Video and left Mike for him. Mike was supposedly devastated.

He later moved back to his hometown in Colorado and married another women. He is very careful in not having pictures of himself online. He's not in any pictures ever on his wife's social media. The supposed "birth name" on IMDb is incorrect, as is the birthdate (the year is right though).

Funny that Dale Da Bone is homophobic. Many people in the industry thought he was gay and was fucking Joey Ray, who was a porn star and also his "roommate." Some dubbed them Dale Da Homo and Joey Gay.

Miss R61/R62 you are a veritable font of information!

KJ had a big schnoz.

The schlong was much bigger than his nose though.

[quote] Funny that Dale Da Bone is homophobic. Many people in the industry thought he was gay

Well, they were right weren't they. Not many straight men become prostitutes for gay men with David Forrest as their pimp.

[quote]Kevin James died in 1990 at age 35

That means he had the AIDS

R67 Or bisexual at the least. He was kept by homely tennis player Jennifer Capriati for a while.

R68 Kevin really did die of cancer. It wasn't a cover story like say John Holmes tried (he died of AIDS). He had chemotherapy and lost all of his hair.

I don't know the names of the guys I like, many were uncredited. I am a fan of the hairy hippies of the early loops.

7/10.

I don't see the big deal, OP. Is it just because he's a straight performer? There are and have been many sexier guys in gay porn.

[quote]Dale Dabone was definitely one of the hottest straight guys in porn.

Which is like saying someone is a medalist for the Down Syndrome's Math Olympiads.

Randy Spears

Dale messed up his neck and back diving into his pool last week. He had to have pins put in his neck and spine. Because he had no medical insurance, he is asking for 50 grand on gofundme.

I noticed one of the donators (under his real name) was straight porn star turned gay porn star Jason McCain. He was on David Forrests roster for a while also.

Thanks, R61/R62! How do you know this stuff?

R76 Through magazine interviews/articles and corresponding with people that worked in the business back then. Both infront and behind of the cameras. I'll name one since he's dead now and he loved talking about the people in the industry (or his "kids" as he sometime referred to them) was Bill Margold. He was Mike and Kevin's (earlier on in Kevin's career anyway) agent and liked both of them very much. He even gave Mike his stage name (because he thought he looked like he looked like a park ranger). I first corresponded with him by email with him and eventually had several telephone conversations with him. He appreciated fans that genuinely appreciated the stars back then. Man, he was a talker. He could talk for hours and his recollections were usually interesting. He could be a bit grouchy at times, but he was usually nice.

I guess it's sort of ironic and fitting that Bill died doing something he liked - talking about porn on his internet podcast show. He suffered a massive heart attack during his last one.

I really should've proofread my last posting before hitting post. Gotta love dyslexia.

I remember Bill Margold from his early days before he became an agent, when was a porn actor. He was kinda hot in his early years.

The Czeck fashion model Tomas Sholodik is now doing porn as "Tommy Wood". He's got to be the most handsome porn actor of all time.

R58 I love that theme song - very James Bond-esque! Now the damn thing's running through MY head - "Sex...World..."

R74 Sadly, Randy Spears has gone full Jesus freak:

I thought testicular cancer was one of the most curable. I guess they caught it late? Too bad his previous job is likely the culprit.

More on Steve Drake's bi side.

Testicular cancer was largely fatal until the '80s, when they realized platinum-based drugs (like cisplatin) could cure it. (See "Brian's Song.")

I imagine Kevin just waited too long before seeing a doctor, to preserve his filmability (even though he might have been phasing out of porn, he was in films released up to the year before his death).

Steve Drake had a bi side?

You're awesome, R77/R78. Do you work for the Rialto Report? You should help preserve this for history.

Tell everything you know about Kevin, please, R77.

Beautiful, fit, hung and seemingly grounded — so tragic and ironic that he died of a curable cancer.

Mike Ranger should re-emerge and own his status! So many have gone before.

Xander Corvus and Seth Gamble were hot when they were young. Now, not so much but they have their moments when they deign to workout.

According to R57, R86

I wonder how many straight porn performers dabbled with men off camera. I imagine even pussy can get boring for sex addicts after a while.

I think most “straight” male performers are actually bi. They all do far too many DP and MMF threesome scenes to be totally straight. No straight man would be cool with kissing a girl after she’s blown another guy or feeling another guy’s dick when they are both inside a girl. Also, a lot of them do solo scenes for gay sites to start in the business

R58 Okay, now you've got me remembering the theme song from the 1980 X-rated movie "Platinum Paradise." I remember the instrumental opening; very funky, with a little hint of 80s new wave pop.

No, that’s a picture of Hakan Serbes.

oh, no! Kevin James!

Someone should really perform "Sex World" in drag!

R96 I'll sing it!

R87 No, I don't have any connection with them. I do appreciate their work because I think the stars from this era deserve to be positively remembered.

R88 I've posted most of what I know about him. One biographical detail wrong in internet bios about him was working in the Detroit auto plants. He actually worked in one in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

As for Mike Ranger, I doubt he'll ever speak about his porn career. It's too bad. I'm sure The Rialto Report has contacted him by now. Who knows, maybe he even answered some of their questions. Some are willing to do that, but not willing to go on record.

Mike Ranger was delicious in his salad days.

R99 That Mike's soon to be wife Loni Sanders.

Mike, Kevin, and Loni had a kinky scene in Sexboat (parody of The Love Boat) where Kevin makes cheaters Mike and Loni have sex while he takes pictures. He calls Mike a cock sucker several times. Too bad it didn't turn into a bi scene where Kevin fucked Mike or made him suck him. In the second scene, Kevin makes a tied up Loni watch him fuck two other girls.

The rest of the movie is set on a all-girl cruise boat. Randy West and Turk Lyon dress in drag to sneak on the boat. Straight for pay R.J. Reynolds pops up as a pirate too.

I remember being obsessed with Kevin James - his body, his cock, how he moved when he fucked

I remember stumbling across him a few years back and finding out he died.

Weird thing is he looks exactly like a friend of mine, down to the dick. He could pass for his twin (or son). Too bad he's bat shit crazy.

Kevin in High School. I'm sure no one he knew back then would've guessed he would've gotten into porn. So wholesome looking.

Yearbook picture #2.

Senior picture.

Sean Rider

R106 Sean tried making a comeback 4-5 years ago. But it doesn't look like anyone hired him and he gave up on his attempted comeback. He was bald, somewhat older looking but in reasonable shape.

Here was his twitter. He seems to have abandoned it.

r80

Who ever knew there was a "Lisa Lampanelli of porn"...

I thought Jon Dough (real name Chet Anuszak) was super-hot in his younger days, before he went for the sleazy biker look. He was handsome, lean and hairy-chested, with a pleasant, ordinary-guy way about him.

Sadly, drug abuse and whatever personal demons he had took their toll. Anuszak committed suicide in August, 2006 at the age of 43.

Here's a brief solo scene of Jon Dough. Such a nice-looking man ...

R58, I had the same experience with Sex World. I saw it at a porn theater at 15th and H, NW, in downtown DC - imagine a porn theater in downtown Washington, and only a block from the White House at that ... but that was the '70s in a nutshell. I didn't much like the movie because I wasn't a big John Leslie fan, but that theme stuck in my head. Thanks for the flashback.

R108 That's funny. Believe it or not, but that woman (Sara Jay) is a big star in porn. She looks like what would've happened if Lisa L. reproduced with Joe Camel. She's hideous.

R109 Jon had a gay brother than posed for some of the gay magazines back in the 80s. Not sure what porn name he used. He's dead now too I believe. Jon got devoured by a bad meth habit he couldn't kick. It was the main reason he killed himself.

That cheesy Sex World song was originally made for a Britsh/German TV series called Star Maidens. They pretty much used the lyrics to come up with the premise for the Sex World movie. I wonder if they even bothered to license the song?

Here's a clearer version of the song.

R77 Are you the same guy who clued me into "Chuck Martino " and his life after pron? If so I wish you would talk more about the old school Swordsman. You seem to know ALOT

Big "Frank James" will always be king !

Kind of a bagin basement Peter North (without the loads) .....Tony / Chuck Martino

He looks like Tig Ntaro in the photo at R105.

I love rough stuff, including Rocco's.

But I have seen an aging, sagging Rocco fucking from behind as he dunks some chick's head in the toilet, and I can see why that would turn some off.

Early porn mostly sucks, r43. IN A BAD WAY.

They don't have close-up camera coverage of the action that is lengthy. The camera doesn't stay on one activity or shot long enough to get into it.

In many cases, it was legally treacherous to show penetration or close-ups of action. So you have a bunch of physique modeling in terrible lighting.

Well, not many porn stars truly allowed themselves to be pimped by David Forrest, r67.

David Forrest would advertise anyone he knew escorted for men, with or without their permission. Forrest would expect a pimp charge/finder's fee, even long after internet ads made him obsolete.

It was either The Sword or Str8upgayporn that busted him for "representing"models for live bookings who never gave him permission.

Yeah, Sean Rider really hit a wall, r107.

He was just our type and the sizemeat was truly magnificent.

We are unable to watch his movies because having to also view the naked stinkfish causes us to become nauseous,

My favorite Kevin scene

R123 I wish he was my big brother

Legendary Porn actor Brandon Iron has committed suicide.

R123, That's Kevin with Dorothy Lemay in Taboo II, which also starred Honey Wilder, Eric Edwards, Kay Parker and Juliet Anderson.

"Kay Parker" and "Juliet Anderson". How delightfully unporny.

R127 Back in the "golden age" of porn, most of the actors and actresses had real names.

Dale DaBone

Mark Davis

Colt Steele

Julian Rios

Jon Dough (RIP)

ALL hot

Mark Davis making Ruby Jewel scream in this vid...

Colt Steele, former Chippendale...

Wow. How great the women looked back in the old days of straight porn. Just saw some straight porn from Brazzers, and I was horrified how the women look like drag queens and Big Ang impersonators (loved Mob Wives Big Ang though. May she rest in peace).

We used to talk to one of the chipendales dancers who went to golds gym venice, he was quite friendly and said that the stinkfish paid for 'services' later after the show!

^Oh, I’m sure that was a regular thing.

Yes R125 RIP Brandon Iron and his huge prick

I wonder if Kevin James ever messed around with guys off screen.

R1's link was an eye opener. I thought straight male rimming in porn was a late 1990s thing. I guess everything old is new again.

R137 it’s been happening since the 80s or late 70s.

Rimming men was common in European porn. European men who became porn stars here in the states are the ones that brought that stuff here. Rocco was always pushing that in his films.

Rimming in straight porn has been there since the beginning. Not as nearly common as in today porn, but it was more in loops than in features. It usually wasn't shot as explicitly as the scenes are today often are either.

Director Henri Pachard often had guys getting rimmed in his movies. Tom Byron and Peter North got rimmed in the 80s movies several times. Some female stars were known to be into and doing it several times in their movies, like Jesie St. James and Erica Boyer.

The 1978 movie "Easy" starring Jesie St. James had both her rimming and fingering guys a few different scenes.

Europeans brought it over

I seen a loop on Vintage Erotica Forum from the first half of the 70s with Andrea True, Roger Caine (before he had his nose job) and a few other women, where he got his (very hairy) asshole rimmed in an extreme close up. So it's been in American porn since the beginning of commercial porn also.

It was featured in loops then. It wasn’t how it is now. And if it was then it was fetish scenes

I mean fetish films.

Here's a link to the Roger Caine rimming scene. I'd guess it's from around 1972 or so since he and Andrea True look young and he had his nose job by the mid 70s.

[quote] Erna

Cunt!

[quote] Rest In Penis

The perfect epitaph for many a porn actor.