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 Organization annually to people working in adult entertainment and it is the only adult industry awards show reserved exclusively for industry members. Once every calendar year, XRCO m ...s. The first XRCO Awards were presented in Hollywood on February 14, 1985. home page Inductees must have been industry members for at least ten years. Members are listed in the order that they were inducted, with the year they were inducted, if known: Actors Actresses Directors Fifth Estate ;Auxiliary Fields Film Creators |
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Adult Entertainment
The sex industry (also called the sex trade) consists of businesses that either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment. The industry includes activities involving direct provision of sex-related services, such as prostitution, strip clubs, host and hostess clubs and sex-related pastimes, such as pornography, sex-oriented men's magazines, sex movies, sex toys and fetish or BDSM paraphernalia. Sex channels for television and pre-paid sex movies for video on demand, are part of the sex industry, as are adult movie theaters, sex shops, peep shows, and strip clubs. The sex industry employs millions of people worldwide, mainly women. These range from the sex worker, also called adult service provider (ASP) or adult sex provider, who provides sexual services, to a multitude of support personnel. Etymology The origins of the term ''sex industry'' are uncertain, but it appears to have arisen in the 1970s. A 1977 report by the Ontario ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Buck Adams
__NOTOC__ Buck "Backhand" Adams (born Charles Stephen Allen; November 15, 1955 – October 28, 2008) was an American pornographic film actor and director. Career Adams was a boxer and bouncer before entering the pornographic film industry in the early 1980s, shortly after his sister Amber Lynn began her adult film career. He made his directorial debut with the 1988 movie ''Squirt''. He performed in over 700 movies and directed about 80. Death Adams died on October 28, 2008, due to complications from heart failure. He died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, with his daughter Christa, his sister Amber Lynn, and his close friend Harold Jenkins at his side. Adams had survived several heart attacks during the 1990s. Just before his death he built a studio where he intended to produce Internet videos. Awards *1987 AVN Award – Best Actor (Video) – ''Rockey X'' *1990 XRCO Award – Best Sex Scene – ''The Chameleon'' (with Tori Welles) *1992 AVN Award – Best ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evan Stone
Evan Stone is an American pornographic film actor and director. In 2011, Stone became the third actor in history to receive the AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year three times. That same year, he was listed by CNBC as one of the twelve most popular stars in porn, being the only man to make the list. Stone has also been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Early life Stone was born in Ames, Iowa. He was raised by his adoptive father, who worked as a firefighter, in Dallas, Texas. Stone is a 1982 graduate of Gobles High School in Gobles, Michigan. He played college football in the position of defensive lineman for the Western Michigan Broncos, a NCAA Division I team, but had to retire after suffering an injury. To make a living, he worked as a forklift driver, gas station attendant, dinner theatre performer, mechanic, and slaughterman at JBS. Career Stone entered the sex industry as an exotic dancer, which he did for ten years. In 1997, he began performing in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lexington Steele
Clifton Todd Britt (born November 28, 1969), better known by his stage name Lexington Steele, is an American pornographic actor, director, producer, and former stockbroker. He is the owner of the adult production companies Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc. In 2003, Steele became the first actor to receive the AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year three times. He has been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Steele has also made several mainstream appearances, including the film '' Crank: High Voltage'' (2009) and episodes of '' Weeds'' and ''Nip/Tuck''. Early life Steele was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey. After graduating from Morristown High School, he attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. After two years, he transferred to Syracuse University in New York. In 1993, Steele graduated from Syracuse's College of Arts and Sciences with Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and African American studies. Career Steele started ou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christoph Clark
Christoph Clark (born 9 February 1958) is a French pornographic actor, producer and director. Career Called "perhaps the most popular male star in the French porn industry", Clark was born in France, but after working with figures including Marc Dorcel and Michel Renaud, he moved to Budapest in 1991, where he established his Euro Angel production company. Clark claims to be the first foreign producer to make a porn film in Hungary.Sigel, p.179 He distributes his movies via John "Buttman" Stagliano's Evil Angel company. Stagliano financed Clark's anal sex-themed series ''Euro Angels'', which starred Hungarian actresses. Clark began directing for Evil Angel in 1997. His first film was ''Euro Angels'', and he has since directed series including ''Beautiful Girls'', ''Angel Perverse'', ''Dressed To Fuck'', ''Euro Angels'', ''Euro Angels Hardball'', ''Big Natural Tits'', ''Nasty Intentions'', ''Top Wet Girls'', ''Euro Slit'' and ''Euro Domination'', and one-off releases like ''Chris ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Steven St
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. In English, Stephen is most commonly pronounced as ' (). The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie. The spelling as Stephen can also be pronounced which is from the Greek original version, Stephanos. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan ; related names that have found some curr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jon Dough
Jon Dough (born Chester "Chet" Joseph Anuszak; November 12, 1962 – August 27, 2006) was an American pornographic actor active between 1985 and 2006. Early life Dough was born Chester Anuszak and grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. When he was eight years old, his mother's boyfriend began sexually abusing him and his younger brother. At age 15, Dough was sent to live with his uncle. At the age of 18, Dough enrolled at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. Four years later, he graduated with a degree in biology. Career Dough moved to Los Angeles, where he initially intended to seek work as a soap opera actor. However, a photoshoot with adult magazine ''Hustler'' quickly resulted in steady work in the adult industry. His first film was a short loop he made for Lance Kinkaid in 1985. In 1999, Vivian Valentine received a black eye after being hit by Dough during the filming of Anabolic Video's ''Rough Sex''; however, she has said: "I have no regrets or bad feelings about i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mark Davis (porn Star)
Mark Davis (born 6 August 1965) is an English former pornographic actor, director, and exotic dancer. In 1998, ''The Independent'' labeled him "Britain's biggest male porn star in America". In 2012, he announced his retirement from the adult industry. He has been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. Early life Davis grew up in Essex. In 1981, his family moved to Toronto, Ontario. Career After graduating from high school, he went to Los Angeles to shoot a ''Playgirl'' pictorial at 18 years of age. Soon thereafter, he moved to the US permanently. From 1984 to 1988, he was employed as a stripper for the " Chippendale" dancers. In January 1993, Davis began his career in adult films. In 2003, Davis was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. In February 2006, he was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame. In his last years (2009-2012), he worked primarily for ''kink.com'', serving villainous roles in BDSM scenes. In 2012, Mark Davis announced his retirement from pornography, en ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Randy Spears
Randy Spears (born June 18, 1961), sometimes credited as Greg Ory, is an American retired pornographic actor and director who has appeared in numerous adult feature films. Spears is noted among porn actors for his comedic acting talent. Career Mainstream Spears left Illinois for California during the early 1980s, to pursue a career in acting. He landed small roles in the mainstream films ''Trading Places'' and ''Blow Out''. Spears was seen in three mainstream films under the name Gregory Patrick. In the 1988 comedy ''Sexpot'' he played the role of Damon; the same year he appeared in the horror comedy '' Critters 2: The Main Course''. A year later, Spears starred, along with Georgina Spelvin Shelley Bob Graham (born March 1, 1936), known professionally as Georgina Spelvin, is a former American actress and pornographic performer who is best known as the star of the classic 1973 pornographic film ''The Devil in Miss Jones'', released ... and Linda Blair, in ''Bad Blood'', a go ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Billy Dee
William Randall Daniels, better known by the stage name Billy Dee (born September 25, 1951) is a retired American adult film actor. Life and career Born and raised in San Diego, California, Daniels is of mixed ancestry, of Irish, Mexican and African heritage, one of six children; he has four brothers and a sister. He worked from the age of 11, often on his grandfather's farm milking the cows, and lost his virginity at 14 in a barn, although he did not have sex again until he was 17. By the early 1970s, he began appearing in short 8mm film loops, appearing in the first of them at age 24. By 1978, at age 27, he appeared in his first big-budget porn flick, ''The Legend Of Lady Blue'' with fellow porn stars Gloria Leonard and John Leslie. Daniels had the most prominent part of his career during the second-wave of the so-called Golden Age of Porn from the mid-late 1980s to the early-mid 1990s. In a period when the segregation of pornographic actors on racial lines was a sensitive i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rocco Siffredi
Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano; 4 May 1964) is an Italian Pornographic film actor, pornographic actor, director and producer. He took his stage name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film ''Borsalino (film), Borsalino'' (1970). Known as the "Italian Stallion", Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films. He is known for appearing in the "Buttman" series of adult movies and mostly for his anal scenes. Pornography career Siffredi met porn actor Leonardo Codazzo in a French sex club in 1985 and was introduced to producer Marco and director Michela, who cast him in his first pornographic role, ''Attention fillettes...'' (''Watch Out, Little Girls...'') in 1987, in which he performed anal sex. Siffredi then stepped away from porn and worked as a fashion model, but returned to the business after two years with the help of porn actress Teresa Orlowski. Siffredi went on to perform in both plot-based and Gonzo pornogr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Genesis (magazine)
''Genesis'' is a men's pornographic magazine which began publication in 1973. It exclusively features female stars of the adult film industry. Branding itself as "The Home of Porn's Hottest Stars", ''Genesis'' features pictorials, exclusive columns by adult film stars, interviews, feature articles, movie reviews and news. It is published by the Magna Publishing Group, which also publishes '' Swank'', ''Gent'', ''Velvet'', and many other popular men's magazines. ''Genesis'' features masthead publisher Tera Patrick and has had columnists including adult film stars Houston, Jasmin St. Claire, Mari Possa, Carmen Luvana, Tyler Faith and The Love Twins. L. Fletcher Prouty served as the Washington, D.C. editor. ''Genesis'' is also known for its amateur erotic photo contest, "Sex Star Hunt" (which was formerly known as "Friends and Lovers"). The magazine publishes an annual list of rankings of the top adult film stars entitled "Porn's Hot 100" and is the co-creator and producer of the a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |