William Randall Daniels, better known by the stage name Billy Dee (born September 25, 1951) is a retired

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adult film actor.

Life and career

Born and raised in

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, Daniels is of mixed ancestry, of Irish, Mexican and

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n 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

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and John Leslie. Daniels had the most prominent part of his career during the second-wave of the so-called

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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 issue and top female stars were often reluctant in performing with black males, being a very light-skinned African American man ("everyone thought he just had a great tan") and speaking " smoothly",Billy Dee - Excalibur Films profile
/ref> Daniels could pass for white, securing him roles in top-rated pornographic productions with prominent porn stars such as

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(''Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies'' series) and one-time girlfriend Nikki Knights,Adult Hall of Fame
following his debut with a small role in ''The Legend Of Lady Blue'' (1978) and also making him the only African American actor the 1980s top star

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had performed with. Nevertheless, he could also play roles in productions with explicit black theme such as the

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and ''Caught from Behind V: Blondes and Blacks'' (1986), the

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special release in an

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video series. Accordingly, Daniels is today foremost credited as a porn actor who had blurred the colour lines in the American porn industry. He was inducted into the

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in 2002.

Personal life

Billy Dee had a daughter with a girlfriend in the U.K. and later went on to marry adult actress Suzannah French.Rialto Report interview with Billy Dee
Now the grandfather to eight, and great grandfather to two, Daniels shuffles time between the U.K in

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and the U.S.

References

External links

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Rialto Report interview with Billy Dee
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