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VCA Pictures
VCA Pictures (Video Company of America) is an American pornographic film production and distribution company. The company was founded by Russ Hampshire, and was formerly a major player during the 'Golden Age of Porn'. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s VCA produced big budget, plot-oriented feature films. In 1982 VCA sold 12,000 units of '' Insatiable'' on its first day of release, making it the top selling video (not just adult video) that year in America. In the 1990s Hampshire served one year in jail for the interstate transportation of obscene materials. In 2003, VCA was bought by Hustler Video, a subsidiary of Larry Flynt-owned Larry Flynt Publications. VCA maintains a separate identity within the LFP conglomerate. VCA distributed the 1998 documentary ''Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes'', and in 2004 provided footage for the HBO documentary ''Pornucopia''. Films Notable films VCA has produced or distributed include '' Insatiable'', ''New Wave Hookers'', ''The Devil in Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pornography
Pornography (often shortened to porn or porno) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal. Primarily intended for adults,"Kids Need Porn Literacy" – , ''Psychology Today'', 30 October 2016 pornography is presented in a variety of media, including , , |
Black Throat
''Black Throat'' is a 1985 interracial pornographic film directed by one-half of the Dark Brothers "purveyors of fine filth" team, Gregory Dark. It stars Peter North, Christy Canyon, Sahara, Craig Roberts, Purple Passion, Tony Martino, Kevin James, Erica Boyer, Marc Wallice, Lady Stephanie, and Steve Drake. Jack Baker stars in a non-sex role. Traci Lords had the original "starring" credit in ''Black Throat'', but her two scenes were removed when investigators discovered that she was underage at time of filming. Although her scenes were removed, her name remains in the theme music used at the start and end of the film. ''Black Throat'' was recognized as XRCO Best Video of the Year in 1985. In 2005, it was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame The XRCO Hall of Fame lists well-known adult entertainment works and workers. The list is managed by X-Rated Critics Organization and inducted annually during the XRCO Award The XRCO Awards are given by the American X-Rated Critics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ninn
Michael Ninn is an adult film director and writer. He began his career as a music video director and made his first adult films in 1992. Adult film career In 1992 Ninn made his first adult erotic films – ''Black Orchid'', ''Principles of Lust'' and '' Two Sisters''. The next year he signed with VCA Pictures and went on to produce a series of award-winning films, including ''Sex'', ''Latex'' and ''Shock''. Ninn's production company, Ninn Worx, has produced dozens of films that have won more than 70 AVN Awards. In 1997, ''Shock'' won eleven awards, including "Best Director" and "Best Video Feature". In 2005, the Ninn Worx film ''Fetish Circus'' won the 2005 AVN award for "Best DVD", and ''Lost Angels: Katsumi'' won "Best Foreign All-Sex Release". In 2006, Ninn won the AVN Award for "Best Director - Non Feature" for the film ''Neo Pornographia''. In 2006, Eddie Van Halen contributed to the soundtrack of Ninn's film ''Sacred Sin''. In 2013 Ninn received an XBIZ Award n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Dover
Simon James Honey (born 23 May 1956), better known as Ben Dover, is an English pornographic actor, director and producer. He has also worked under several other pseudonyms including Steve Perry as producer and Lindsay Honey as an actor and musician. Honey was included in Larry Flynt's ''Hustler'''s ''Top 50 Most Hated People in Porn'' list, printed in the January 1999 issue and in 2011, he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Honey has also won a host of awards for the Ben Dover series including the Breakthrough Award at the AVN Awards in 1997, AVN's ''Best Gonzo'' Award twice (in 2000 for ''Ben Dover's End Games'' and in 2002 for ''Ben Dover's The Booty Bandit''). In 2006, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the UK Adult Film Awards, which he co-presented with Kristyn Halborg, Kelly Stafford and co-star Pascal White. In 2012, Honey was nominated by the Internet Service Providers Association as an Internet Villain for his involvement with his company Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stagliano
John Stagliano (born November 29, 1951), also known as Buttman, is an American entrepreneur, former pornographic film actor, producer and director who founded and owns the Evil Angel pornographic film studio. Early life and career Stagliano grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and attended high school from 1965 to 1969. He enrolled in college, but dropped out in 1969 for several semesters. He then went back to college and studied subjects including English, journalism, and engineering, before transferring to UCLA to major in economics. He originally planned to get an economics PhD and become a professor. He then switched to studying theater, playwriting, modern dance and jazz dance, partly because there were more women in those classes. He is of Italian ancestry with some of his grandparents from Florence. In the 1970s, he wrote erotic fiction for a small newspaper, and did some softcore modeling. He made his debut in a hardcore pornographic film in an 8 mm loop in 1974. In 1979, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Thomas (director)
Paul Thomas is an American pornographic film actor and director. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame. Biography Thomas was born in Winnetka, Illinois to an upper-middle-class family in 1949. His father was of Greek-Jewish descent and his mother of Russian-Jewish descent. His family moved to the nearby Village of Glencoe, Illinois where he attended Glencoe's Central School, played on the school's basketball team and graduated 8th grade in 1963. He then attended New Trier Township High School and graduated in 1967. Although he attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison on a basketball scholarship and studied political science, he turned to acting as a career. He is the nephew of businesswoman Sara Lee Lubin. He began his acting career in the play ''Hair'' in both Chicago and New York. Then he appeared in the stage version of ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' on Broadway and in a touring production, where he played all the male roles except Peter. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leslie (director)
John Leslie Nuzzo (January 25, 1945 – December 5, 2010) was an American pornographic film actor-director- producer. Usually credited under the name John Leslie, he also worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including John Leslie Dupre, Frederick Watson, and Lenny Lovely. Along with Ron Jeremy, Jamie Gillis, John Holmes, and Harry Reems, Leslie was one of the stalwart male stars of the Golden Age of Porn, when blue movies had narratives, higher quality production values, and distribution in some legitimate movie houses. After Holmes experienced setbacks due to drug and legal problems, Leslie inherited the mantle of the porn industry's top male superstar with the success of ''Talk Dirty To Me'' in 1980. He eventually starred in over 600 porn films before making the transition to director. Early life Leslie was born into an Italian-American family in East Liverpool, Ohio on January 25, 1945. He grew up in the Midland area of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. After graduating from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Pachard
Henri Pachard, Jackson St. Louis and Crystal Blue were the pseudonyms of the American film director Ron Sullivan (June 4, 1939 – September 27, 2008). In the late 1960s, using his real name, Sullivan directed a number of sex-and-sadism Sexploitation films for the then-thriving 42nd Street grindhouse market. Working for Sam Lake Enterprises in New York, he directed his first film, ''Lust Weekend'' (1967). This was followed by ''The Bizarre Ones'' (1967), ''Scare Their Pants Off'' (1968), and ''This Sporting House'', with future adult star Jennifer Welles, in 1969. In the 1980s he adopted the alias "Henri Pachard". From then until his death in 2008, he produced and directed dozens of mainstream pornographic films, including ''The Devil in Miss Jones 2'' and ''Blame it on Ginger,'' starring Ginger Lynn. He also made numerous bondage-discipline features, particularly for the long-running ''Dresden Diary'' series, and many spanking fetish videos such as ''Blazing Bottoms'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Dark
Gregory Dark (born Gregory Hippolyte Brown on July 12, 1957, in Los Angeles) is an American film director, film producer, music video director, and screenwriter. Dark is an adult filmmaker who transitioned into directing Hollywood movies. He has also been credited as Alexander Hippolyte, Gregory Hippolyte, Gregory Brown, and as The Dark Brothers. Early career Dark began his career as a fine artist of both paintings and conceptual art and installations. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Stanford University, he moved to New York City to pursue graduate studies in film at New York University. From the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, Dark directed hardcore and Rated R films. His work from this period helped create the current "alt porn" genre as well as inventing the noir-romance genre of the erotic thriller. ''Sight & Sound'' the journal of the British Film Institute considered Dark's erotic thrillers groundbreaking films of the genre. In the 1980s, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex De Renzy
Alexander de Renzy (August 13, 1935 – June 8, 2001) was an American director and producer of pornographic movies. Born in New York City, de Renzy served in the United States Air Force as a Survival Instructor. Back in the United States, he began making documentary films in San Francisco. In October 1969, he went to Denmark to attend ''Sex 69'', the first porn trade show hosted in Copenhagen after the legalization of adult pornography there. This resulted in his first movie, ''Censorship in Denmark: A New Approach'' (1970), which was released the following year. He was the editor on ''Sexual Encounter Group'' (1970), was a cinematographer on seven movies, and wrote five screenplays. His production ''Lady Freaks'' (1973) introduced porn star legend Annette Haven. His films also include the two 1970s porn classics ''Babyface'' (1977) and ''Pretty Peaches'' (1978). Another de Renzy discovery was Desireé Cousteau. She won the Adult Film Association of America Award in 1978 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Damiano
Gerardo Rocco "Gerard" Damiano (August 4, 1928 – October 25, 2008 ) was an American director of adult films. He wrote and directed the 1972 cult classic '' Deep Throat,'' which starred Linda Susan Boreman ''aka'' Linda Lovelace. He also directed the smash hit ''The Devil in Miss Jones,'' which ranked #7 in ''Variety'''s list of the top-grossing pictures of 1973. (''Deep Throat'' came in at #11 that year, its second consecutive year on the list.) Damiano is one of the seminal directors of what is known as The Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984). Biography Early life Gerard Damiano was born Gerardo Rocco Damiano to an Italian American Catholic family in the Bronx, New York City. When he was 6, his father died; his mother never remarried. He was a shoeshine boy in Times Square and worked in an automat. The day he turned 17, he enlisted in the United States Navy, and served for 4 years. After his discharge, at the age of 21 years, Damiano studied X-ray technology on the G.I. Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Braun
Axel Braun (born Alessandro Re) is an Italian-American adult film producer and director known for his productions of pornographic parodies. The son of Lasse Braun, he is an AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame and NightMoves Hall of Fame inductee. Early life Axel was born and raised in Milan, Italy. His mother had a brief affair with adult film director Lasse Braun. Axel didn't meet Lasse until he was 14. He attended film school at Columbia College Hollywood. Career Braun has directed over 500 movies since 1990. Braun's movie '' Batman XXX: A Porn Parody'' was the best-selling and best-renting title of 2010. Due to the success of ''Batman XXX'', Vivid Entertainment created a new line to capitalize on the superhero and sci-fi genres called Vivid Superhero and Braun was named leading director for the initiative. In 2013, Braun left Vivid and signed an exclusive directing contract with Wicked Pictures to launch Wicked Fairy Tales and Wicked Comix, two imprints dedicated exclusive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
