Eldergays, who were the hottest gay porn actors in the 1980s?

I'm not an Eldergay, but I've always liked Jim Pulver, a top who appeared in the Matt Sterling films:

OP's photo is of Rex Morgan with Leigh Erickson. Here's Perfect Summer, with Casey Jordan, Chris Williams, David Sexton, John Davenport, Jon King, Robert Harris, Ron Pearson, Tom Rucker and Tony Marino.

If you're researching gay porn, here's an invaluable tool.

You can't beat OP's selection - Rex Morgan has always been the hottest gay porn actor ever.

OP - The guy on the right resembles a PARADE FLOAT.

Bruno

I have fond memories of gay and vers, Jon King (RIP John Nelson Gaines).

R7, Me, too! He's one of my favorites.

hot isn't always synonymous with handsome. Chad Douglas using Kevin Williams on the home gym was hot.

All Colt models. Jim French had method to selecting them. Great face, great body, great cock. If you had two of these three qualities, you were likely in.

Sean Davis

Rex Chandler was my guy.

Peter North, back when he was a gay porn performer going by Matt Ramsey.

He was Ramsey-ed by donkey-dicked Rick Donovan in "The Bigger, The Better."

[quote]Rex Morgan has always been the hottest gay porn actor ever.

When did he give up his medical practice?

Eric Manchester was so cute. Check him out in "Giant Splash Shots."

Giorgio Canali in "The Other Side of Aspen II."

[quote] When did he give up his medical practice?

Mary Worth convinced him there was more money in porn.

My favorite 80s gay pornstar was Tom Brock, who was not only handsome, big0dicked, and muscular, but quite tall.

From that era on the blond side, I'd go with Leo Ford (RIP Leo John Hilgeford).

R19, Jay-sus! From Dayton, Ohio.

Love the sweat on the mustachioed dude in OP’s photo. He’s hot.

Leo Ford got a mention in the Andy Warhol Diaries. Just a mention, no actual activity. Andy fell asleep watching Leo, then woke up to the same scene.

What are Rex Morgan's best work? I've watched a few of his scenes and as much as he's feast to look at, they're all pretty boring and passionless. Was he even gay?

R13 Matt Ramsey was the ideal masculine bottom in gay porn. According to a gay porn director he even was a stunt bottom in two uncredited scenes. When he moved on to straight porn as Peter North he would disavow his gay porn work, and even claim he never bottomed, that it was special effects. He loved to bottom, he just didn't want the stigma that went along with it. He allegedly still bottomed in his private life, but that was never substantiated.

Soap opera handsome. Took it like a champ.

Steve Henson was a hot bottom

Not sure if these are 80’s or 90’s. I liked the big stars but these were the names I looked for on the back of the box.

Danny Somers (Summers, Sommers)

Sergio Canali (definitely 80’s)

Jim Bentley

Rocky Armano troppo bello bottom ragazzo

David Ashfield and Kevin Wiles

There were two guys who appeared on “Donahue” in maybe 1988. The theme that day was gay male porn stars. It was good, it wasn’t sleazy. They just sat there and talked. Al Parker was on it but there were two guys who, at the time, were a couple. One was blonde with a mustache and was sort of fem the other guy was buff. Never caught their names.

Al Parker (Andrew Robert Okun)

Jimmy Rideout aka Kurt Marshall twink dreamboat Died in the plague at 23 yo.

I can't believe Peter North aka Matt Ramse took Rick Donovan's dick. It was huuuuge.

I met David Ashfield T a cocktail party back in the day.

Very nice, but his snaggletooth was distracting.

Cory Monroe was another one.

[quote]All Colt models. Jim French had method to selecting them. Great face, great body, great cock. If you had two of these three qualities, you were likely in.

Jim French really knew how to pick them, as well as photograph them. None of them ever looked as good as they did when he shot them for Colt.

Rex Morgan was one of those guys who was so gorgeous that his bad, even by pron standards, acting didn't matter.

Doug Perry. Gavin Blake. Franco Corelli.

Sigh.

Doug Maxon aka Bill Henson legendary bottom. His copy of iconic Calvin Klein ad transformed gay porn. Doug died in the plague at 34.

While he's not the hottest psychically, Grant King was an absolute favorite of mine because he was so good at talking dirty. I think that, along with his dominant presence, made up for the fact that he's not a 10 in the looks department.

I often wonder what happened to him. He disappeared entirely from the porn scene in the mid-90s. I tried to find out if he was still alive, but nothing.

Sorry gramps but these fugs can't compare with today's sex gods.

Roger and Bruno

Bill Henson

Bill Henson.

Sailor in the Wild was the first "real" gay pron movie I ever saw back when they actually had theaters which showed entire movies.

Gary Pokorny aka Ken Ryker the ultimate top fantasy. Still with us.

Marc Anthony Donais aka Ryan Idol. First of the studio created G4P stars. Still in jail.

The 80s is a very... wide decade. Personally, I think there were incredibly hot models in the EARLY 80s films. By the mid to late 80s the style of everything got unappealing -- the orange tans, the removal of most body hair, the terrible hair styles, the bad pre-HD video recording equipment and lighting, the condoms, the uncomfortableness of the models (who can blame them with the specter of the plague hanging over them.)

I'm not saying none of the guys from the mid-to-late 80s were handsome themselves, but the vibe/styling was off.

Crawford & Davis of gay porn. Never did a scene together.

Ken Ryker was among the very last of the guys who you'd call a classic Colt model. Say what you will about Billy Herrington, he was also of that same classic Colt mold.

French sold Colt in 2003, but by then the models didn't really compare.

Bruno was total COLT. But more 70s.

The 1980s had to be the most difficult time for gay porn. No one remembers all that non-penetration porn. Or the brief interval of toe fucking. My size 13s could have made me a star.

James Yount aka John Pruitt. Colt Studios personification. Jim French's lover. Still with us.

I was always partial to Rip Colt's "Moose". Not smooth, blonde, shiny, or 80's in his look. But I've always loved guys who weren't the most classically handsome, had pelts for chests and were built like a chifforobe.

R45 EARLY? really EARLY? BC (before CAPS) EARLY or AC (after CAPS) EARLY?

Loved MOOSE r50. Apparently he was blown away when he found out he was so popular.

Dick Masters was my favorite....partly because I knew someone that looked a lot like him

Pruitt did one j/o . Never a duo. Jim French was madly in love with him and wanted to keep him on his god like pedestal. Heard he did share Jimmy with Rock. Since he's a grand dad now obviously Pruitt used a rubber.

Although I came of age in the 1980s, I hated porn from that time because everyone was hairless. Thank god body hair came back in the 1990: and naughts.

Masters was an early AIDS death.

That's great to hear, R52! I always wondered what happened to him. He still takes my breath away.

Brad Mitchell

R31 had a long career till he succumbed to the plague. He made films in 80's but he always had a 60's hippy look.

Al Parker

Leo Ford was so hot. Was he the one who died in a motorcycle accident?

Chad Johnson.

Pruitt was too girly in the face.

With the easy affordibility VCR's and profiferation of "adult video sections" in video stores. The look and quality of gay porn and actors had upgraded drastically from early 80's. The polished "movie star model look" of gay porn star glam by 1985 was the standard. We we queing up to pay $100 a tape for it.. Thank you Matt Sterling.

Another one: John Davenport with the thick wavy hair and full lips and hefty dick and dom top attitude. He was way hot, at least to my taste.

Another John Davenport pic, with 2 costars

R35,

I loved Cory/Corey Monroe too.

There’s a scene I saw once, it’s like a fever dream, where a man picks him up at (I think) a Dairy Queen and takes him to his son’s race car bed.

Never saw it again and wonder if I’m misremembering.

Jesus I knew so many of these guys. They were our caterers,waiters,bartenders,landscapers,pool boys and even baby sitters. Can still recall the feel of Ken Ryker's wiry back hair and sharing a hot tub with Johnny Davenport ,the back seat of a limo with Nicky . Alex Powers asking "Are you someone important?"..."Well ya look like someone important!" Then in a flash they were gone.

Please don't post that AIDS video.

I liked Jeff Quinn, who had a distinctly different vibe.

[quote]Please don't post that AIDS video.

Huh?

Nicky...click...click...click

Boy you'd never think that John and Dawn were siblings or that Lindsey was their niece...

Aaron Gage was only in a few films. Caught my eye in the notable Leo and Lance. He also appeared in Sailor in the Wild. Had a gentle frat bro quality to him. Always wondered if he survived the plague and if was able to blend into an office job or whatever in middle age

R67 No fever dream! .. That scene is in a film where Cory Monroe is almost unrecognizable since he has dark hair and a mustache. It's called "57 Pick-Up" from 1988.

Cory is a married man wearing a suit and tie who meets a guy (Charlie Stone/Eric Price) at a burger joint with an outdoor window. Cory takes him back to his place, so the guy can take a shower. One laughable moment comes when Cory says he doesn't want to have sex in the bedroom that he shares with his wife -- BECAUSE SHE'LL SMELL IT -- so they have sex in the kid's room with the race car bed.

This is the fourth scene of the film at link and starts at the 39:40 mark.

btw - Poster R15 who likes Eric Manchester might be interested, because Manchester is in the scene right before that one starting at the 31:23 mark.

^ R67 Link got cut off. Here it is , hopefully.

Brad Hunt

All the Hensons

Dick Fisk, with whom I actually had sex in the back seat of my car, one night in WeHo in 1978

I thought Dick Masters had brain cancer or something. But I guess that could have been a result of the virus.

I loved John Davenport's massive loads......like a fucking fountain.

The other Stryker - Eric

R38 "Grant King" was British, having come to the States with his then-boyfriend, "Matt Windsor," who also got into porn. Maybe he returned to the UK when he was done.

Brad Masters

Is this entire thread the work of one person who keeps talking about "the plague"?

These were the gay stars of my 20s. Matt Sterling and William Higgins really popularized the blond muscle gods porn stars. Leo, Lance, Rex Chandler, Jim Pulver, Eric Stryker, Jim Bentley, John Davenport. But I was very partial to some of the dark haired stars like Eric Manchester, Jon King, J. W. King. I was more attracted to men who looked like them in my private life

Movies have gotten worse and so has the CGI.

So many went on to successful legal careers on the bench ...

John Davenport was so hot! Still with us?

John Davenport thread. Wherabouts seem unknown.

According to ChatGPT: John Davenport was an American adult film actor active primarily in gay and bisexual pornography during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Born on October 7, 1965, in the United States, he passed away on May 29, 1999, at the age of 33. He was known for his performances in various adult films, including titles such as “In Hot Pursuit” (1987), “My Best Buddy” (1988), and “The Best of John Davenport” (1989). He also went by aliases like Daven Port, Johnny Davenport, Mike Paget, and Mike Davenport. His work was characterized by notable physical attributes and performances that left a mark in the adult film industry. 

Paul Morgan was my go to guy.

Ben Barker

^old gay can't post right!^

Paul Morgan was 90s.

A faithful DLer only needs to find one video or scene of Paul Morgan in 1989 to crow triumphantly that R92 is WRONG! Even now, DLers are scrolling through websites trying to find anything anywhere as evidence to shove in R92's electronic face.

Yes, John Pruitt is still with us (at least he was several years back when these images were taken). These are from some sporting event his son was involved in.

THEY'RE ALL MAGA!!!

R24 Yeah, that scene with Rick Donovan wasn't a special effect. It was Peter North's ass getting slammed by a huge cock. He tried to spin the "it wasn't really me bottoming" storyline for years, despite the fact that there are plenty of films and videos of him out there clearly taking dick and loving it. AI didn't exist in the 1980s.

I know a straight porn director who used Peter North in a few straight porn films in the 80s and 90s. He said it was well known among cast and crew that North swung both ways, but it was never to be talked out. He also said North always had one demand when he was on set - that his hair was not to be touched by his scene partners. If you look at any of his movies, no one ever touches hair, so everyone believed he wore a wig.

There was another straight porn actor of the time (I wish I could remember his name) who once talked about doing an MMF scene with Peter North. He said throughout the scene, North seemed singularly focused on the other actor, not the actress, and kept calling him "baby" throughout the scene. Then when it was time for the big climactic moment, North aimed his big dick directly at the other actor's dick and unleashed his famous gallons of cum all over it.

Former straight porn actor TT Boy has a podcast where he interviews classic porn stars - most of them are difficult to get through, since TT Boy is so fucking obnoxious and asks really stupid questions - but I managed to sit through his entire 3-hour interview with Peter North, wondering if they'd ever broach the gay porn subject. Nope. Not once. In the beginning, when North discusses how he got started, he conveniently leaves out any of his 80s gay porn. He clearly let TT Boy know ahead of time that the subject would NOT be discussed.

I wish he'd just own it. It's not like at this point in his career, it's going to ruin him. Everyone knows he did it.

Above I put mistakingly listed Jim Bentley instead of Chad Kinight.

Jum Bentley was fug.

In any threesome/gangbang scene with Peter North, he's always focused on the the other guy(s).

Peter shooting a big load while getting pounded.....sure he's 100 percent straight.

I never wanted Peter North in me, quite deeply.

More Peter North definitely NOT taking dick in his ass in the 1980s.

He did so many threesome scenes with TT Boy. I'm sure he wanted TT to fuck him but he probably didn't dare make a move on the homophobic douche.

[quote] Jum Bentley was fug.

I saw Jim Bentley once on the street in San Francisco in the late 1980s and his good looks blew me away. He was much more handsome in person than he was onscreen.

I once got together with a self-proclaimed "straight guy" who just wanted to jack off while watching Peter North straight porn. He said he got off on seeing North cumming in buckets on women. When I told him North used to do gay porn, then showed him one of North's gay movies, the guy came within a minute.

The long forgotten Tom Steele. He had a huge dick but could also take a huge dick in house mouth without gagging.

Check him out in "Powerline."

The early-mid 80s guys were hot, but despite the porn being pre-condom, they generally didn't shoot their loads inside. They would pull out for the 'money shot', shooting elsewhere. I always found that disappointing. Once condoms came and then went, many cum scenes were more to my liking.

Oh I just remembered out of the blue. One of the guy’s names was Joe Cade.

Good looking, muscular guys with thick/large patches of pubic hair. Playgirl, Colt, Fox and Target studios, Numbers, Torso, Blueboy, etc... Some in the clothing catalogs would show indications they had a big bush.

I was in college back then; after I saw some of the guys in the showers had big bushes, I offered blow jobs to the ones I trusted. They all gave in, no twisting of arms....

What "switched" in the mid/late 80s? So many of the late 70s/early 80s porn performers looked like they were genuinely into it. They looked like they enjoyed gay sex. They enjoyed each other.

Yeah, a lot of those mid/late 80s performers had impressive physiques (not to mention: seemingly unlimited tanning supply and electrolysis budgets). Perhaps they looked more polished, but the sex was so... boring. There was no heat, no connection. It's always been a job, but the mid/late 80s guys made it LOOK like a job. Was there something about the wider availability of VHS tapes? Was it consolidation of studios and the heads of those studios and their directors/producers worshipping "straight acting" men that led to such stiff [derogatory] on screen performances?

TT Boy's brother tried gay porn as Lex Baldwin. He was useless (clearly G4P). Then he did straight porn as "Talon" and had a ton of atrocious plastic surgery.

R110 Lex Baldwin was gorgeous. Talon is frightening to look at.

Most importantly, few, if any, had these hideous tattoos.

There used to be some funny fights on here about Peter North/Matt Ramsey and CGI. Someone would always post that his scene was CGI, and then someone else would post that CGI didn't exist back then, and the debate would ensue.

I have seen three separate videos in which Matt Ramsey bottoms. They didn't have CGI at the time and it's clearly him.

Peter North filmed several three-ways with Sean Lawrence and Sarah Young. He's clearly excited filming with another guy. I know he's not part of gay porn, but I'm a gay man who always enjoys Sean Lawrence's scenes.

The 90s were my time for porn rather than the 80s (when I was still mostly limited to GQ Magazine and late night cable as stand-ins). Rex Chandler at Brad Mitchell debuted at the very tail end of the decade, and I was into them at the time, but in retrospect I'd pick Max Archer.

They took the idols and smashed them! The Rykers,the Strykers the Hensons! And who have got today? A bunch of nogenders!

I recognized the... adapted quote before even seeing your signature, Norm. Without you there wouldn't BE any Falcon Studios!

R16 he isn’t even my type but what a hot man he always made me leak….

Max Archer floated my boat as well. Compact hairy dick mage for sucking and an ass made for rimming

[quote] Oh I just remembered out of the blue. One of the guy’s names was Joe Cade.

Joe Cade was devastatingly gorgeous. For a while he was a couple with Tom Chase and their hotness as a couple must have been off the charts.

[quote] I met David Ashfield T a cocktail party back in the day.

Had a pleasant chat with him at Numbers on Sunset, 1987. I think he had orthodontia at some point.

[quote] I was in college back then; after I saw some of the guys in the showers had big bushes, I offered blow jobs to the ones I trusted. They all gave in, no twisting of arms....

Congratulations, buddy! Proactive cocksuckers were awesome. I hope that a few of them had crotches that were a little musky.

I posted this the last time we did this thread, but I think, to me, what was so hot about David Ashfield was that he looked like the guy down the street. Your big brother's horny best friend. He looked "normal" and gettable. He had a regular body and a regular, but cute face.

I think it's something that got lost in mainstream gay porn, and probably why Sean Cody, in it's original incarnation, took off the way it did - models who looked like regular, good looking guys fucking on camera. The good looking regular guy porn models have been replaced with overly-styled, overly-made up, overly-muscled models who aren't relatable to the audience.

I know some people on here have issues with him, but I think one of the reasons why Joey Mills is so popular is because he looks regular and gettable. Kind of like those 80s porn guys.

Good observations R124. I always liked guys like that, whether they looked like your big brother's friend, or, since I liked older guys, maybe his handsome dad.

But everyone is so buffed, coiffed and inked in porn these days, it's hard to get hard over any of them.

Loved Les Stine. A nice change from the usual gay porn star.

There's no accounting for taste but you gits must love contemporary gay porn cuz you got off to some real fugly dudes.

R115 Here's a Peter North straight MMF scene featuring a cute twink with North. North is totally fixated on the guy's cock in this scene, and at the end, North aims his big cock right at the other guy and blows his huge loads directly on him. The guy finally has to move out of the way. You know North totally got off on that.

OMG! He shot on that other guy for sure.....as one of the comments said, he forgot he was on a str8 porn set

Peter North was well-known for his legendary cumshots.

Al Parker

Max Archer floated my boat as well

He was gorgeous. Sadly he only did a couple videos before fleeing the industry.

Georgio Canalli was my absoute favorite as a young gay growing up. The way Georgio kissed, you just knew he was into it. That man was pure Italian sex.

There was a threeway scene where Peter North was staring at Jon Dough the whole time.

Max Archer looked so much like so many guys I knew. Furry little fucker and a nice dick too.

YUM!

Did Max Archer actually do any interactive gay porn? I remember him from that Advocate Men photoshoot for sure.

I don't know his name but the one with long hair that Chad Douglas fucks by a pool.

R137 I think Douglas did more than one fuck by a pool, but perhaps you're remembering his scene with Leigh Erickson in Matt Sterling's "Giant Splash Shots II: More Memories of Summer" from 1987.

I have a personal story about that, since I lived on the property where this scene and some others were filmed. My landlord who owned the main house would occasionally rent the place out for porn shoots to make some extra money. Director Matt Sterling used the inside and the outside of this home several times. Rental did not include the guest house area that I lived in, but sometimes I'd come home and I'd have to wait before getting to my place. Other times, I couldn't use the pool area or laundry in the garage because they'd be filming. I met several of the actors and crew for these films, and more than once I got invited to the "after party" due to the inconvenience I may have had to put up with during filming.

At the beginning of this film, you see Douglas pull into the driveway in his convertible and park it there. In doing so, he blocked my car in, and I eventually had to ask someone to move it when I wanted to leave...lol