Alain Payet (17 January 1947 – 13 December 2007 in

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), also known under the pseudonyms John Pardaillan, John and Frederick Brasil Amor, James Gardner, James Gartner and Alain Garnier, was a

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director of French

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and

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Biography

Payet began his career in the 1970s, and, for a decade, he served as an assistant director on shoots for

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and Claude Vidal.''Le cinéma X'', edited by Jacques Zimmer, Editions

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, 2002, , entry devoted to Alain Payet, page 408 . In 1973 and 1974, he oversaw the staging of pornographic comedies produced by Lucien Hustaix, such as ''Gambling Dens'' (''Les Tripoteuses'') or ''The Pleasures'' (''Les Jouisseuses''), before launching himself into the profession with the

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of "John Love". Not shying from extreme or deviant sexual practices and amateur actors, Alain Payet cast a 287-pound actress, nicknamed ''Groseille'' (''Currant''), in the movie ''Sexplosion makes black'', and he cast the dwarf Desire Bastareaud as the

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in films like ''Les Gourmandes du sexe'' (''The Gourmet sex'') and ''Les Aventures érotiques de Lili pute'' (''The Erotic Adventures of a Little Whore Lili'') . In 1985, he launched the fashion of "Hard-Crad" with the film ''La Doctoresse a de gros seins'' (''The doctor has big tits''), which remains one of the best selling erotic video of the 1980s in France. In the course of his career, Payet cast in his films many notable French porn actresses, such as Élodie Cherie,

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, Laure Sainclair, Katsuni,

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. In the mainstream film industry, he directed several low-budget exploitation films and

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, such as ''L'Émir préfère les blondes'' (''The Emir prefer blondes''), with

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or, for Eurociné production company, ''Train spécial pour Hitler'' (''Hitler's Last Train'') and ''Helga, la louve de Stilberg'' (''Helga, She Wolf of Stilberg''). His favorite maxim was: "Those who do not masturbate to porn movies are sick".

Selected filmography

Awards and nominations

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: * 2003 winner - Best Director (France) FICEB Awards: * 2000 Ninfa Award winner - Best Director (''La fete a Gigi'' - International Film Grup) * 2002 Ninfa Award winner - Best Director (Public)

Footnotes

External links

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Director Alain Payet at the Adult Film Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Payet, Alain French film directors 1947 births 2007 deaths French people in the sex industry French pornographic film directors