The Hottest Porn Star that are Dead (that are not overrated Joey Stefano)

Lee Ryder was amazing

Dick Masters

Lee Ryder was stunning, and bottomed

Kurt Marshall

Met Lee Ryder and had sex with him in the late 80s. Met him at a gay bar in West Hollywood, might have been Revolver or Rage on Santa Monica, early afternoon. He asked for money and all I had was $50 and he accepted and it was great. 69/fucking. Was staying at a cheap motel not too far and it was a highlight of my vacation that year.

Dick Fisk. Killed in a car accident on Halloween night, 1983, traveling between Atlanta and Murietta, Georgia.

Steve Fox, who looked like a Ken Doll

Al Parker

Colt Films star Mike Davis

Joey Stefano

Billy Herrington

Not the hottest just a odd factoid. Josh Weston started porn in 2001, during the time of condom porn, and tri-therapy, and died of AIDS in 2012.

Christopher Lance, who was murdered by his roommate

R11, I forgot that Billy Herrington had died. I'll add Jon King

Al Parker knew how to handle a Big Black Cock

RIP

Vivian vance

R14 here’s a jointing of Jon King and Lee Ryder

Dead porn stars overload

Corbin Fisher's 'Sean'. A gloriously handsome, wonderful, versatile performer.

Dave Slick

One of the early victims of AIDS was Tim Kramer, who worked for Falcon. A tall, lean blond surfer type with a dick for days. How that boy could fuck! Tim is on the right in this picture

Another vote for Christopher Lance (Robert Lance Slacke).

R19 he looked good with hair and his big dick looks great bobbing along there.

fun vintage look

Cody Foster, who died from Liver Cancer

More Cody

I love Dick Masters but it's kinda weird, this is the third thread in the last month to mention him

R26 probably because we are all mesmerized by his beautiful dick. Look at that thing.

this guy

No, r27, it’s because we have an Aspie Thread Copycat on Datalounge.

He ruins and pollutes Datalounge every day, trying to squeeze more attention out of whatever he saw others enjoy. He’s been dragging DL quality down for several years.

R28 He’s so overrated!!!

Thanks for the Dick Fisk pic R6! I thought he was the hottest thing ever back in the day. Never knew what happened to him until now.

Who is the Vivian Vance trollette? Please ID yourself.

Bill Harrison, died of AIDS in 1991

Lon Flexx, died of AIDS in 1995

Another of Lon

He had a handsome face. RIP “Lon Flexx” aka David Lee Anderson

[quote]Met Lee Ryder and had sex with him in the late 80s. Met him at a gay bar in West Hollywood, might have been Revolver or Rage on Santa Monica, early afternoon. He asked for money and all I had was $50 and he accepted and it was great. 69/fucking. Was staying at a cheap motel not too far and it was a highlight of my vacation that year.

If I were to visit you, would you show me the condom you lovingly pressed in your scrapbook as a memento of that vacation?

Tex Anthony who died of AIDS in 1992

He’s the brunette

Big Bill H - excellent cock for deep throating

Luke Bender, aka Steve Kennedy

I second R7's vote for Steve Fox. The guy was Dumb-blonde-gorgeous, had the roundest bubble-butt in history, not to mention those full, cock-suckin' lips.

^^^ Definitely the hottest guy in "Spring Semester".

[quote]Definitely the hottest guy in "Spring Semester".

I meant Tex Anthony at R38.

Scott O'Hara was very well endowed and didn't charge money to have sex with him (if he liked you). Often I would run into him in Chicago or San Francisco at the baths or cruising the streets. I worked for United Airlines at the time and would enjoy sucking, kissing and lots of body contact with. He loved getting fucked more than fucking. His ass with very meaty and it bounced.

Loved Scott O Hara

Mark West.

Mark West died?!

Kyle McKenna was the best built piggiest bottom ever with beautiful full lips and an ass that went on for days.

Czech porn star Denis Reed. Died in a traffic accident. By all accounts the horniest man in the Czech Republic. A true sex pig - he'd fuck or get fucked by anyone - on and off screen. He apparently used to hook up with other gay porn stars at the studio with his girlfriend waiting in the car. And so pretty too!

Blue Blake and Jon Vincent are both gone. I think.

OP - thank you for using the word "dead'

and not "passed away" or worse yet "past away"

Jack Wrangler

Joey Stefano. He was pretty and so charismatic on screen

Arpad Miklos. Easily the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen anywhere

Joey Stefano can never be overrated. He was one of the finest porn stars ever. Incredibly sexy.

Here’s a theme song for the thread.

r48, Kyle McKenna remains my ideal -- his entire look and persona was perfection to me. When I read about how horrible his family had treated him -- both when he was a live and after he had died -- I was heartbroken.

Roman Ragazzi.

Jason Kanarr; known by his porn name: Kristian Brooks.

I knew him for several years when he lived in San Diego. One of the nicest, sweetest guys I have ever met. Quiet, unassuming, polite, so genuinely nice. But with a self-destructive streak when it came to porn. He didn't play safe. By the time he came down with AIDS, he wanted out of the business and just wanted to live a quiet life. It was too late. Great memories of Jason.

Buster, one of the most handsome. Died of Aids in May 1991

[quote]Loved Scott O Hara

Scott O'Hara was a big show queen. When he died, his belonging had tons of show albums and sheet music and programs. He loved the old stuff, Cole Porter, etc.

Wasn't Scott a really good writer, too?

I seem to remember him being very smart and well rounded.

I remember when Steve Fox (Rommel Hunt) killed himself back in the late 09s. He had been in and out of jail in Atlanta for a long while. The poor guy was profoundly mentally ill (I assume some form of bi-polar disorder).

Here's list of others I don't think have been mentioned, and a collage for anyone who doesn't remember any of these fine lads.

1 Eric Stone - AIDS 1996

2 Chad Douglas - AIDS 1999

3 Rydar Hanson - AIDS 1989

4 Gordon Grant - AIDS 1993

5 Joe Simmons - AIDS 1995

6 Lance - AIDS 1991

7 Leo Ford - Motorcyle accident 1991

8 Johnny Rahm - Suicide 2004

I'm surprised Chad Douglas died of AIDS. I thought he was solely a top.

Only on video, like so many of the big-dicked guys. It was said he was so inexperienced at topping when he started doing videos they had to have someone show him how it was done. The fact that he rarely showed the bottom any consideration, and just pounded away which caused more than one considerable pain, was evidence of his inexperience.

Exclusive tops rarely die of AIDS, unless they're also intravenous drug users dumb enough to share needles.

Lee Ryder is one of my all-time faves.

R64, Chad Douglas was a bottom in his private life. He was a top in porn because of his big dick.

Steve Kreig

Steve Regis

You guys probably don't remember this guy because he wasn't a big name star. His name was Nick and he was on the Next Door Male site in the early 2000s and he did a video for that old porn guy, Jake something or other. He died with another performer on some trip.

Billy London

Casey Jordan

Chris Williams

R74 I’ve never heard of him. Hot.

Casey Jordan really fucked up his lips later in his career. He looked perfectly normal and then all of a sudden his lips looked like he was having a constant allergic reaction to something.

The gorgeous Eric Stryker aka Noel Kemp. Died of AIDS. Near the end he would attend gay pride festivities with his shirt off, covered in Carposi Sarcoma lesions.

R18, how did SC's Sean die?

SC’s Sean is not dead.

Kip Noll, died of a heart attack

Jon Vincent, died of a Heroin OD

Joe Simmons, AIDS in 1995

Leo and Lance

Steve Regis suddenly collapsed from cardiac arrest when he was out hiking in San Francisco. All of his friends were shocked because he seemed so healthy. It was quite possibly related to steroid use, he was overly muscled.

And Billy London, whose picture was featured at r72, had the most gruesome death. He disappeared, and a few days later, his head was discovered in a trash can on a side street off Santa Monica Blvd. They never found the rest of his body, nor was his killer ever caught.

Leo Ford, died in a Motorcycle accident

Actually they found that Steve Regis had an unknown congenital heart defect that ultimately killed him.

Lance, who killed himself after being diagnosed with aids

CF’s Sean died of drug overdose but he also rode motorcycles.

Casey Donovan, died of AIDS in 1987

Sexy daddy Glenn Steers. He died from AIDS in 1994 at 35 while on vacation in Bratislava, Slovakia with his mother.

Jack Wrangler, emphysema

I have fond memories of Chris Williams, R74. He used to dance at the Chesapeake House in DC. It was a super-sleazy (and super-fun) stripper bar. It was also a couple of blocks from where I worked, so I'd often head there after my shift.

Once night, he was dancing on the box in the back (we called it the "Wonderama Box"). I headed back there on a slow weeknight, and he goes "Oh! A cute one!" He ended up flirting with me the whole night. Eventually, I sucked his dick on the stairs at the side of the stage to help fluff him for his tips. He couldn't cum though, because he had a "date" after the club closed. Ah. My brush with fame.

I played with him a couple of times at the Chesapeake after that. He was a very sweet, but very messed up kid. Since I was around his age (and maybe even messier, at the time) I found him incredibly attractive. I was really sad when his obit hit the paper...

Chris Burns. Died of AIDS at 36 in San Diego.

Mike Henson, died of a heroin overdose

He had a BEAUTIFUL ASS.

Mike Henson’s perfect ass

So sad how many hotties have died, yet Ron Jeremy will live forever

J. W. King. One of the early AIDS casualties. Died in 1986. He was a waiter at the Sheraton Universal next to Universal Studios.

Morgan who is either missing or dead depending on which rumor you read.

Bill Henson, AIDS in 1990

Who were the couple where one committed suicide because he was sent back to Canada or something?

Bill Henson was so fucking hot. Omg. Look at that perfect spread ass.

R. J. Reynolds was J. W. King's lover. Died of AIDS a few months after J. W. died. He did both gay & straight porn.

This is him (standing) with J.W. King.

Bill Henson was PERFECT. Probably one of my all time favs. I could look at him all day.

Fred Halsted of "El Paso Wrecking Co" fame. Committed suicide in 1989 3 years after his lover had died of AIDS. His last words to Fred were "you did this to me". Fred basically went to pieces after that and decided to end it all 3 years later. His suicide note said "I had a good life... I've had looks, a body, money, success and artistic triumphs. I've had the love of my life. I see no reason to go on".

Cameron Fox

No one knows what happened to Bill Henson, actually. There’s different stories about him because he literally vanished, with no one ever seeing him again.

People don’t even know his real name. He’s literally MIA.

There’s the rumor he was murdered, hence his disappearance. Also one that he quietly retired and lives a normal life with a wife and kids. The other is that he did get married and had kids with aids and passed it onto them and is now dead. And the last is that he died of aids back in 1990.

No one knows.

Christian Fox. Attempted suicide by jumping through a plate glass window, ultimately succeeded with a drug overdose. Half surprised he didn't die on Ken Ryker's cock.

Greg Ross, asthma attack.

While not my taste, he was still cute and so young.

Kyle Dean

Kyle Carrington

Hot daddy Cole Tucker. Died at the age of 61 of AIDS in 2015. Employed as a real estate agent in Palm Springs. In the late 90's it was revealed that he had a relationship with former British Conservative Party MEP Tom Spencer.

He was featured in the gay porn documentary Sex/Life In L.A. and the cameras followed him while he did his real estate work. He seemed like a real go-getter in the property selling game.

[quote]When he turned 16, he obtained a fake I.D. and began stripping in several local gay strip clubs. At the time, patrons could fondle the dancers, even masturbating them (although not bringing them to orgasm). Williams' large cock and huge balls were customer favorites. He cut his hair short, and bleached it a lighter shade of blond. He worked out at a local gym (often turning tricks for money in the steam room and showers). He lied and said he was from California in order to build a mystique about himself.

[quote]By all accounts, Chris Williams was a sweet, gentle, caring individual who continuously gave of himself. Deeply scarred emotionally, he nevertheless opened his heart whenever anyone asked him to. His outlook on life was positive, his willingness to help others boundless, and his sensitivity to others' needs almost psychic in nature. He delighted in providing his body to others; it was all he had to give, and so he gave it -- freely, graciously, joyously. He never begrudged sex to anyone.

[quote]But his intelligence, love and selflessness was obvious to anyone who knew him. Men marveled at how much of his life had been squandered. If he had only had more supportive parents, if he had only been counseled about his sexuality rather than forced to deny it, if he had only been given the opportunity and assistance to obtain an education rather than simply been ejected from school... His mind was like a sponge, eagerly absorbing knowledge. His creativity was boundless, exciting and shockingly original. He had no inhibitions, and sought out new experiences, new feelings, new thrills, new ideas and new people constantly.

[quote]Some people said Chris Williams was nothing but a stupid, naive whore. He spread his legs for anyone, idiotically seeking self-worth through sex. That couldn't have been further from the truth.

[quote]But Chris Williams is not forgotten. He made only nine films. But those nine movies portray some of the most honest, joyful, sincere and powerful sexual performances on film. He changed people's lives with his sexual acting. Thousands of men all over the world can point to Chris Williams' films and say, "I learned about my sexuality watching him." Thousands of men can point to his magazine layouts and say, "I learned about beauty from him." Thousands of men -- myself included -- can point to his performance and say, "I saw truth there. I saw honesty there. I saw a man who did not hide his sexuality, was not ashamed of who he was. I saw a man who took joy from his body and the bodies of others, and did not see guilt or wrong in that. I want to be like that man."

The link at R92 is hysterical. People who worship dead porn stars are so fucking weird. What they are able to project onto them is scary and sad. Makes me feel even worse for the whore who died.

Zac Stevens, suicide.

Chad Douglas, aids

[quote]you are in Paradise. Jesus loves you. You, so sweet and noble Boy, gave Love to everone. Your elegant and aristocratic Legs spread is pure Holiness, because it was Love, and Love is ever God. Your sweet Homosexuality was and is a God's Gift, your powerful Orgasms were God's Gift, your strong and wonderful Cock was a God's Gift, your holy Ejaculations and your sacred and precious Sperm were God's Gifts. Chris, noble Boy, noble Love, you are always in our Hearts and when we will be in Heaven with you, we will not leave each other anymore.

Old gay men are NUTTY for dead porn stars. Because they never grow old.

Anyone mention Kyle Dean?

R116 see r109

They're all whores, darlin'.

Eric Stone, mentioned earlier, was one of my favorites--incredibly handsome, and sported a mustache when practically no one wore mustaches.

Almost as soon as he hit in big in 1996 with Falcon, he died.

I loved Eric Stone as well. When he came on the scene i thought "great, a beautiful man who looks like he walked out of the 70s".

Does anyone remember MANSHOTS magazine? They reviewed the latest gay porn movies (on videotape--and maybe in theaters before that--, of course) and the last page of each issue always contained obituaries of gay porn stars who'd passed.

[quote] Old gay men are NUTTY for dead porn stars

Not hardly. The fact that they're dead means nothing. We are just old enough to remember porn stars who were real stars. Men who looked like real men, and not these primped up tarts or diseased looking bareback skags you see working today.

Porn stars of the past were legitimate STARS. They also made $$$$. The best of the best knew how to make hundreds of thousands to millions off of it.

Now they get paid chump change and anyone can be a “porn star” with OnlyFans etc.

R98, Morgan was a terrific performer. I thought that he fell off a mountain or something? In the Angeles National Forest above Los Angeles?

Morgan looks 10. I can’t get into that.

No - he played early 20s in his movies.

Grant Fagan 😢

I remember Eric Stone was in gay magazines nude but not in videos. I assumed he was just a model or something. He looked so masculine!

And then I rented a tape with him on it, full force gay action by Eric Stone!

How did he die? 1996?????? I barely knew of him then.

There were rumors John Danvenport was dead but apparently he's still alive.

Gah, those massive loads he'd shoot....

Rydar Hanson

[quote] We are just old enough to remember porn stars who were real stars. Men who looked like real men, and not these primped up tarts or diseased looking bareback skags you see working toda

MARY!

MARY!

MARY!

They were all disease ridden bareback skags. That's why they're dead.

Bobby Williams, car accident

R128 Eric Stone died from AIDS. The sad thing is that as short as his career was he was obviously doing porn after he knew he was infected. I don't know if he told anyone or if they were even testing the guys back then.

[quote] They were all disease ridden bareback skags. That's why they're dead.

Most of the guys back in those days caught the disease before anyone had even heard of AIDS.

Sexy voiced Brett Ford.

David Rockmore.

Whatever happened to that movie about Joey Stefano's life? Did it ever get made?

No one wants to see a movie about overrated Joey Stefano

One of my favourites, Erik Houston, died in 2016 at 46 reportedly from a heart attack. His death was a shock to me.

Ron Pearson, AIDS related

Eric Stone appeared in porn when it was condom only. Especially his work with Falcon.

Tom Farrell, struck by a car

No one ever talks about the loved ones these guys leave behind.

Tom Farrell's siblings, Perry and Terry, were devastated when he was hit by that car.

Dave Slick's mom, Grace, nearly fell off the wagon.

Patsy, Eric Stone's aunt, was inconsolable.

Don't even get me started on Kyle Carrington's parents, Blake and Alexis...

R102 Here's a better picture of RJ Reynolds. There doesn't seem to be many pictures of him online.

RJ bares a striking resemblance to his cousin Burt.

What is that old timey thing they used to use to keep their contacts. It would sit on the desk and you could spin it around? Do you guys have one of those for dead porn guys? I'm amazed at how quickly you can find these people and pull up their photos. Weren't some of these people doing porn before the internet?

More Bill Henson

[quote] What is that old timey thing they used to use to keep their contacts.

A rolodex. i still have a few boxed up somewhere.

Who passed away first? Bill Henson or his dad, Jim?

I have one video of JW King and RJ Reynolds having full on sex with a broad. RJ didn't surprise me, but I was shocked JW could get it up for vagine. But he did it like a champ. Did a little muff diving as well.

Joel Curry, suicide.

R147 Oh yes, I keep all my old dead porn stars and others in my vintage Rolodex for quick and easy reference.

Andy Mantegna, complications from AIDS.

R151 I don't think RJ really intended on pursuing a career in straight porn because he primarily gay, but he could get it up for women. The women liked him and world request him and the directors kept calling him because he was easy to work with and reliable.

Leo Bramm

A month after Carson's son died in a car wreck he paid tribute to him at the end of a show. Fred de Cordova, the long time producer of the show who always stood just out of camera view during the show motioned to Johnny that the show was going long. Carson was infuriated and from that day forward forbade de Cordova from standing at his podium off camera again.

Oops, wrong thread.

R154, obviously he, not his brother Joe, got the looks in that family.

Still love Criminal Minds, though.

Any truth to the rumor that Johnny Carson’s son was Falcon’s mystery skier in The Other Side Of Aspen 2?

I thought it was prime time soap actor from Folcon's Landing or one of the shows. They're all the same.

Kip Noll died of heart attack? He looked like sturdy young man. He was gorgeous in fact.

i have my 80s rolodex in the attic. Hopefully when I croak the person who clears that out will get a kick out of something so archaic.

The gorgeous Tony Bravo. AIDS.

I'm not so sure Kip Noll is actually dead. Some believe his real name was Thomas Earl Hagen and he was from Connecticut originally and died in Utah in 2001. I found the yearbook picture of Thomas Hagen from Connecticut and he doesn't look like Kip at all.

I guess it's possible Kip's real was is/was Thomas Hagen and people just got him mixed up with another Thomas Hagen and assumed it was him.

It wouldn't be too surprising if he died either. He was said to have been a big drug addict back in the early 80s and was even arrested for it once. He was reportedly straight in his personal life.

IMO Kip is one of the top 10 icons of gay porn.

Is Joe Stephano still alive? He was cute.

The Thomas Hagan from Connecticut. Definitely not Kip Knoll.

Sad that Grant Fagan is dead.

I thought John Davenport was stabbed to death, or something like that?

JD was so sensual

Last I heard, Davenport was alive and residing in the Midwest.

He stunt cocked for actors who couldn't get it up. He stunted for Jeff Stryker in his first few movies.

R137 David Rockmore was very hot as the jailhouse slut from Powertool 2. Apparently that came out the same year that he did (1992). Very said.

I was surprised to learn that John Davenport had a stunt cock for his scene with Lyndon Blair - the hikers fucking in the tent. That was Lyndon Blair's only scene - I always wondered why. Was it a terrible experience for him, or did his circumstances change and he never needed to do any more? Good looking kid with a nice dick in his own right.

R148 hot...what is that from?

R173, SAILOR IN THE WILD

JOEY STEFANO

Tanner Hayes, lymphoma

Kent North, ODed

The Dead Gay Porn Stars’ Memorial captures most of these men.

[quote]Tanner Hayes, lymphoma

Same thing that took his grandmother Helen.

Haus Weston. Heart attack at the age of 29.

Celia still dedicates a portion of her acting job salaries to the American Heart Association to honor her nephew.

Celia still dedicates a portion of her acting job salaries to the American Heart Association to honor her nephew.

Lance.

R18 named him.... man, he was so fucking hot.

Dick Fisk

Wilfried Knight (committed suicide after his partner did).

He was my all-time favorite porn star... hot, but still human & approachable. A guy who'd have probably smiled & let you fuck his hungry ass if you ran into him at Lazy Bear Weekend while he was in a sling, because he was just a fun, down to earth guy who totally *loved* sex.

R1185, we heard about Dick Fisk all the way back at r6, including how he died.

Less is more, r144.

Haus Weston died of cardiac arrest, which is different from a heart attack, and it was definitely thought that it had to do with drug and/or steroid use.

R148 Brian Thompson who is fucking Bill Henson in that scene died of AIDS in the early 1980s.

[quote]His last words to Fred were "you did this to me".

Really? But Joey Yale was a super porn whore, and he did plenty of porn without Fred as well as the few he did with him. And Fred was not HIV positive. So how could he have "done this" to Joey?

Fred definitely adored Joey, and I wasn't surprised when I heard about Fred's suicide. He was a lot sweeter and more vulnerable in real life than his porn image would indicate.

Is it OK to jerk off to dead porn stars?

The whole thread is a jerk off of one obsessive nutcase.

[quote] Is Joe Stephano still alive? He was cute.

No, 'Joey Stefano" died from a drug OD back in 1994. Many still say his drug addiction was helped along primarily by that creature Chi Chi LaRue who was known to provide dope to the performers on his sets. I read once that he even threatened at least one porn star with outing him to his family if he didn't do a scene in a video he was directing.

[quote] And Fred was not HIV positive.

Oh yes he was.

Names Troll:

YOU ARE NOT FUNNY.

R122, you validated r115’s point with your reaction.

Jack Wrangler was 62 when he died. His wife, cabaret diva Margaret Whiting, was 84 at the time. She died two years later. Jack was openly gay (he would famously reiterate it repeatedly - “not bi, not straight, 100% gay”). So that was an interesting relationship that began in 1976 and was sealed in 1994 when they married.

Wikipedia says he was 5’ 10” but I’d see him regularly at the Eagle and other sex joints in NYC in the nineties and he couldn’t have been taller than 5’ 7”. Always handsome, though. Except he never knew how to wear his hair right.

I saw Jack Wrangler in the flesh once, in the 70's at his erotic stage show. I had Jack Wrangler once (in the 80s) in a place of ill repute in NYC. No, he was certainly not 5'10" tall.

i saw Jack and Margaret outside the VIllage Gate at off Broadway opening, 1980s......

This thread makes me never want to watch porn again.

MARY ^

Erik Rhodes. He was always a troubled character (I used to read his blog) so it wasn't a shock when he died, but I was disappointed to hear the news. He was that sterotypical all-American built jock which is not my usual type but there was something about him that was just super sexy. Very handsome with an incredible body, an insatiable ass and a perfect dick, with great performances (check out Basic Plumbing 3 and Beefcake by Falcon for examples) - the defining traits of a true porn star.

Does any of you know what the fuck happened to John Rocklin? He was so fucking gorgeous. I don't even know if he's dead or still alive.

Brian Thompson passing away from AIDS was highly embarrassing for his mother Sada.

R203 I does not know. Does you?

LOL!

Someone in this thread knows too much about porn given he just graduated from middle school

Joey Stephano was dead to me after an interview he did where he said his bisexual movie was the hottest he'd ever done, better than his gay movies. He said the woman in the scenes made him cum twice in one scene, which had never happened in a gay scene. Then he was engaged to her briefly.

Joey's ridiculous heterosexual phase killed him off for me before drugs killed him off for the rest of the world.

R203 has the correct tense, but the incorrect (do any of you) is pretty common.

The missing word, implied, is "one" - "Does any one of you know ..." which is why he's correct.

Similarly, "None of you knows the answer" would be correct, because none is a stand-in for "Not one"

R209 the hell you going on about. The question isn't one of "tense" anyway. It's subject - verb agreement. And, you are wrong.

It was Sharon Kane that did the scene with Joey. Didn't know they dated, but she had sex with and/or dated a lot of guys that did gay porn in the 90s and 2000s. She did a lot of bi movies, did several non-sex cameos in gay movies and composed soundtracks for several movies as well. She was tight with Chi Chi La Rue for quite sometime. They still talk to each other but aren't close as they once were since she retired completely from porn.

I totally forgot that Joey had a cock.

Sharon Kane doesn't look too bad for 63.

Sharon Kane and her pet pig interviewed seven years ago

Joey Stefano probably thought that by bragging about getting turned on by some broad it would make him seem more exciting to all the fags buying his porn videos. Some gay porn stars have very little respect for the people who buy their videos and think of the consumers as little more than visitors to a zoo looking at the wild animals when they're watching porn.

It turned me off Joey completely just like it does when gay porn stars do similar bragging today.

I HATED that Chi Chi was always shoving Sharon Kane into his movies all the time back then! Ugh.

Gordon Grant

Is there at least one former gay porn actor who died of old age???? This career choice seems cursed.

Well, r218, death by AIDS was a genuine occupational hazard of gay porn stars in the 1970s and 1980s. What's eerie is hearing about all the suicides, drug overdoses, car and motorcycle crashes and the occasional murder. There are, in fact, some porn stars from the 1970s and 1980s who are still alive. David Ashfield, for one, who must be in his late 50s now. I think Kevin Wiles is still alive, though he's HIV positive. George Payne, who did both gay and straight porn in the 1970s, is still alive. Jack Wrangler made it to 62, and died of emphysema. Peter Berlin is 76 and still alive. JT Denver is rumored to be still alive. And Bruno, who was a big star in the 1970s, is still alive. He must be in his late 60s or maybe even early 70s.

Peter North is 62, and still looking pretty good - though he’s been arrested for beating up his wife.

All guys who can't come to terms with being gay beat the shit out of their wives/girlfriends.

[quote]All guys who can't come to terms with being gay beat the shit out of their wives/girlfriends.

Ain’t that the truth

Jeff Stryker is of course still with us, doll's hair and all.

I didn't know Billy Herrington died. I just about jerked off to him a few weeks back out of nostalgia. That'd have been icky.

I'm assuming some of my favorites from back in the day are still alive: Eric Manchester, Danny Summers, Dean Maxwell.

Kevin Williams, twink bottom extraordinaire. Still alive and i don't think he is HIV+

George Payne is 75 years old. How he made it through I'll never know. He must have the immunity gene.

[quote]Is there at least one former gay porn actor who died of old age???? This career choice seems cursed.

Has it occurred to you that that most of the earliest porn actors would only be just now entering their 80s? Porn didn’t really take off until the 70s; before that it was underground and largely anonymous. “Classic” porn stars from the 80s like Chris Williams or Leo Ford would only be in their 50s or early 60s today.

Since this is a thread specifically about dead porn stars, then no, not many can be said to have “died of old age.” Check back in 20 years. Even then, most would have long since slid into anonymity, which only gets easier to pull off with age, so don’t expect a big list of former porn star obituaries going public. The ones who make it to old age without being rediscovered probably aren’t going to go public before they die.

Danny Sommers surfaced a short while back through an email. I just can't remember where I saw it. Maybe it was here. He dispelled most of the rumors (such as him being a pharmacist in San Diego).

Another point to consider when questioning why porn seems “cursed” by so many premature deaths: correlation does not equal causation. Just because performers in a particular field seem to have a high mortality rate, that doesn’t mean that the field itself causes early deaths.

Porn is still not truly mainstream; 20-30 years ago it was social and career suicide. It attracts a wide range of people “outside of the norm:” thrill seekers, the sexually adventurous, people “down on their luck” and desperate for cash, etc. There is a widely-noted tendency for porn to attract performers struggling with past traumas like childhood abuse, often sexual, and the addiction issues and unusual lifestyles that are often present in those folks.

So if you’re wondering why so many porn stars die early, preventable, tragic, often violent or lonely deaths, think about that. It doesn’t attract the same pool of talent as an office job, or even a traditional performing arts career.

George Payne was probably saved because he got married to a woman in the mid 1980s that made him get it together. She was a little older than him and was a casting director for both porn and mainstream. He was a major crack head in the early 80s. He lost everything and was often living in bath houses or anyone with else who would take him in. That usually wouldn't last long.

He wasn't a bad guy at all when sober though. He has a lot of issues from stuff he went through as a child. He and his wife last lost everything again when she got cancer around 5 years ago. George stuck by her until she died from it a few years later. He's still trying to get through life as best he can.

The nature of porn is such that unless you have someone still trying to make bank - like Stryker, Peter North, etc. - you won't know what happened to the guys who are still alive.

They went back to their dreary regular names and lived dreary lives, only occasionally interrupted by thoughts of round asses and pulsating cocks.

George Payne was handsome. What was his ethnicity, anyone know?

R233 According to George, his father was from Croatia and his mother from Yugoslavia. His father probably had either Iranian/Iraqi mixed in there too.

He was especially good looking in the 70s.

Here's a recent picture of George Payne.

This picture of George with director Nicolas Winding Refn is from last August. George was supposed to appear on Refn's tv show Too Old to Die Young.

Is Nicolas Winding Refn gay?

Shit now I’m dating myself. I remember the ads that appeared in the 1970s on the Sunday NYT and Daily News, advertising the Big Top on Broadway, featuring George Payne’s Kiss Today Goodbye. His big topless bearded mug right there in America’s most prestigious news outlet. I must have been 14 years old, but the Sunday Times was available in my hometown. All I did was dream of the day I’d be in New York City and meet all those porn stars. Three years later, I managed to walk into the Gaiety (1977) and actually meet some of them. Being a Hispanic 17-year-old twink helped.

GORDON GRANT was exceptionally hot>

George Payne had the most magnificent chest in porn in his day, and maybe since.

George was a pocket gay, no?

I remember Gordon Grant working in the cashier booth at a self-pay gas station in Toluca Lake around 1980. I always felt a little sorry for him, that that was the best job he could get.

Maybe he was doing research for the film "Pumping and Pumping", r242.

[quote] JT Denver is rumored to be still alive.

JT is alive and living in (shocking) Colorado. His Facebook status has him listed as retired as of March 2018.

Believe it or not, this is not the first time we have a thread like this (I KNOW!) and I remember in a previous similar thread, Amex-porn star that was alive and well and continuing to live a normal life said hi. Don’t remember who it was but he seemed pretty level-headed.

An ex-porn star

What's JT Denver's real name?

George Payne (with Jack Wrangler)

It's very likely that Bill Henson died from AIDS - he bottomed condomless for both Brian Williams and Eric Stryker.

"Brian Williams"?

Yes, I did gay porn following witnessing JFK's assassination.

JT Denver is very much alive.

I believe you may have confused him with his brother John Denver who was decapitated in that plane crash.

R250 I think R249 means Brian Thompson - the sailor in Sailor in the Wild. And not only did Henson bottom for Thompson after Thompson pulled out and blew over his arse his shoved his cock back up Henson's arse.

What is JT Denver's real name on Facebook?

Burke Ramsey, r254.

He wanted his porn name to be Ram Burkley, but decided it inadvisable.

Did George Payne ever bottom?

Brian Thompson had been in the USNavy. I thought he had a beautiful body, wonderful proportions. Sailor in the Wild was a 1983 pre-condom William Higgins flick with Brian Thompson, Bill Henson, Leo Ford, Rick Donovan, Buster, Cory Adams, Aaron Gage, Dave Sommers - so - good looking guys so relaxed about sex. I was in college and it represented a lost dream to me because that was the year HIV was identified and safer sex information was reaching all the way to campuses like mine. And I had this feeling that SF, LA, NYC, Paris, were filled with gay guys all sick and dying and I would never have any fun. In fact when I moved to SF in 85, that is what I found. Luckily some young people more chill than myself taught me to relax about sex but just use a condom all the time. SF was grim, that year, however.

Thanks for talking about what you experienced r258

I remember Nick R71. He only did solo and straight scenes. He and his friend "fell" off a cliff in either NY or Canada. The rumor was that they were pushed because he refused to do gay porn.

[quote] The best of the best knew how to make hundreds of thousands to millions off of it.

This never happened. No performer has ever made millions (!!!) from doing gay porn.

R257 - tied up, but never bottomed

No, not from performing, but there have been a few who've made some serious bank from producing. And most of them started out performing. I imagine Chris Ward probably made some serious money when he sold Raging Stallion 10 years ago.

Never taking it up the duff is probably why George Payne is still alive.

Does anyone know whatever happened to Matt Forrest? I've heard about 5 different stories, from still living to death by AIDS.

Tim Barnett went the Jeffrey Epstein route.

[quote]imagine Chris Ward probably made some serious money when he sold Raging Stallion 10 years ago.

Hopefully he shared the wealth with his uncle Burt.

We hired Tex Anthony to perform in one of our best selling films, he was a real sweetheart to work with, a joy to direct, and he also seemed to be a realman fish fucker! We are saddened that he was killed by drugs.

JT Denver, Tex Anthony. I'm surprised there wasn't a porn star who had Idaho in their name.

I blew many of the stars, Josh Weston was without a doubt the most georgous and enigmatic....

details, please, r269

I’ve never had a problem jerking off to a dead pornstar. I don’t know them, they exist only as fantasy in that moment, and I’m not thinking of their death while doing it; who fucking cares? I like classic porn and classic pornstars. The ones who aren’t dead are over 70 and close to it, and I’m not thinking of their current state, either.

R87 Not before being spitroasted by me and my friend Dennis one drunken night at his Key West B&B, Casa Donovan in 1979...

He was a very welcoming host.

It is a shame that Tex Anthony never got to see his niece, La La, make it big.

The way I heard it, r260, is that he and his friend (who I believe was a gay go-go dancer) ran out on a taxi fare, and in the dark jumped a fence to a gravel pit? or something equally dangerous and fell to their deaths.

Josh Weston was gorgeous--one of the most beautifully ripped bodies in porn. But he was a sad and lonely guy.

Okay, here's a longer description of "Nick's" death. Apparently they were both straight. "Nick's" mother seemed to believe in some sort of conspiracy, but it could also be a NO WAY COULD MY SON BE DOING GAY PORN type reaction. Sad no matter how you look at it.

This thread is another obsession of that mental nutcase who keeps talking to himself. Fucking freak who did all those Jussie Smollett threads and then went on and on and on an on about skanky Sharon Tate being so beautiful. A very old troll who writes like an excited teenage girl. All these porn dudes died before most of us were born. And their movies suck from what we see. It's not like we haven't seen "vintage" porn. Skinny dudes with no definition to their chest or legs and not much ASS. Getting fucked or sucking dick in the joyless way the eldergays did it back in the 1870s. The AIDS generation. Sex without consequence OR passion. Some of the dudes were good looking but they were double losers if they were involved in porn back then. Social outcasts and seriously fucked in the head. The OP says that the ones who aren't dead went on to live boring lives. What a demented nutcase that ancient dude is. He thinks because he jerked off to them that their drug fucked stripper whore lives were worthwhile and how sad they died of AIDS. He loves to remember when he was young - 40 years ago. He will NOW respond within seconds.....because 96% of these posts are from the same dude. He goes on about Supermodels of the 1970s too if that's not too sexy for ya. Dude needs a better medication than meth.

I knew Josh since before he was in porn. He was very shy....loved stayin home with his doggie. One of the most well read and brilliant men ive known, …. He hated 9 to 5 jobs, and did porn/escorting for easy money. alas, clients got him strung out on meth/coke, tho of course in the end twas his decision. Those of us who knew him, will never accept the way he ended, so sad, be happpi up above dear.

I think of him every day. and his cute doggie, Lola.

I blew Joey Stefano at a strip club in Frisco, he would go to the rear in the dark and take cocks dicks from ev body.

He was stunning.

shitty that both strip clubs In town are shut down, wtf.

For a brief period in the 1980s we were employed by David Forest as one of her starlet

starlets

Awesome, R280.

Did you ever meet his son, Denis Forest?

Did she bear a child?

Gia Carnage was an ugly bitch. If she hadn't died of AIDS, no one would remember her name. She wasn't a good model and she certainly wasn't beautiful.

R277 it appears if there's a "mental nutcase" on this thread it's more likely to be you than this other person you've repeatedly accused. You seem unhinged.

R284=Jennifer Aniston

God dam I miss the days of the stripper clubs when you could take them in a back room and suck then fuk their cunts to hell....

America is so boring now.

BUMP

Gone but not forgotten. We still fap to them

R279 the Campus? I saw him strip at The Campus theater in 1990 maybe, 1991. I didn’t suck his dick, but I watched a few guys try to. He couldn’t get hard.

I do think that neither Bill Henson not Tex Anthony are dead

I think they just disappeared from the scene altogether and people spread rumours online (shocker) and certain sites went with it

It's also fairly obvious than neither want to have anything to do with their gay porn past and they probably LIKE the idea that they "died" so people wouldn't try to find them

You can add Kipp Noll to that list too

Straight porn but always loved Kevin James

It's always "suspect" when a porn performer dies but there is no official date of death, his or her real name doesn't come out, none of the big adult industry magazines reported on it at that time, no one they worked with on their films has ever spoken about vthem dying to the press, their death happened in the pre internet era etc

Bill Henson, Tex Anthony and Kip Noll ALL fit into this criteria

Also, there have been straight female porn stars have faked their deaths just because they wanted out of the business and didn't want to be bothered etc.

Grant Fagan, who just died a year or two ago, was pretty hot too in The Young and the Hung and The Pizza Boy: He Delivers

Vintage is better

It just is

What did Grant Fagan die from?

Just watched that opening scene with Bill Henson and Tex Anthony and some blond guy from The New Breed in 1981

Damn that was hot!

Only made it to the opening scene, huh, r298?

Heh heh.

R297, Like Luke Perry, he just keeled over one day and died of an ischemic stroke.

This is all sad.

Joey Stefano truly IS overrated

[quote]r284 Gia Carnage was an ugly bitch. If she hadn't died of AIDS, no one would remember her name. She wasn't a good model and she certainly wasn't beautiful.

It just so happens I am [italic]sick of your shit![/italic]

And, you’re in the wrong thread.

Josh WEston was the hottest one I ever met, and smart as fuk. a treasure....He was the highlight of my trips to Frisco for many years, he was a fukkin blast.

rest in peace sweet man...

Stefano was WAY overrated.

Yes r304. I don’t see what was so special. And his scenes were BORING

R229 Yes, Danny's apparent surfacing happened here on DL in a WEHT thread about him. Here's the link. Danny/John pops in at Reply 33.

"Xander Scott" (Michael Ariel Cohen) who did most of his work at Randy Blue.

retrospective ...

Jon Vincent. Loved how dominant he was. Sexy.

Robert Harris 😢

I wish Corbin Fisher hadn't pulled all of Sean's videos.

Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher have been pulling a lot of their videos.

Amen R311.

Stupid fucking studio run by straight men.

What's stunning to me is how hot these men were before steroids and the steroid body came into fashion.

Who was the guy who died after he was punched in the head? He was hot.

^ Lindon Hawk. He was murdered in a road rage incident.

Matt Gunther. Such a great body and cock and face.

Matt Gunther had a bad case of 'tard face. Total turnoff.

I'll never forget. Circa 1994, I was working at Music Plus on Fairfax and Beverly. I was 23. This gorgeous kid, maybe 19-20 comes in. Blonde, muscles, tight shirt and jeans. He exuded this cool, youthful masculinity. I got an instant boner.

I started flirting, and I was surprised that he flirted back. He eventually told me he was in adult films and his name was Christian Fox.

I asked him if he wanted to hang out. He took a piece of paper and wrote "Brad's Buddies - Christian Fox" and a phone number. "Call my manager."

Later, I called and was told Christian was $250 an hour. Too rich for my blood. Anyway, this kid was beyond hot. So fucking sexual.

Two years later in New Orleans, he threw himself through a plate glass window, and swallowed a bottle of pills. Left a note to friends. Died. At age 23. Poor dude.

[quote]he threw himself through a plate glass window, and swallowed a bottle of pills

R319 What?