Bruce Seven (June 4, 1946 – January 15, 2000) was an American

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producer and

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. He created 200 films and is a member of the

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Career

Bruce Seven worked on

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s in the mainstream

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industry before he entered the

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business. He started filming bondage porn on

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as a hobby around 1970. He was first hired as a professional

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around 1980, shooting bondage features for Bizarre Video. In 1983 Seven and actor

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formed Lipstik Video, a producer of

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themed porn. For Lipstik, Seven produced and co-directed his first film ''Aerobisex Girls''. Seven said publicly that he made lesbian porn because it's his preferred masturbation aid, of which there was, when he started, very little. Bruce Seven married

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Bionca in 1984. She appeared in a number of Seven's S&M fetish films such as ''Autobiography of a Whip'' (1991), which also included future porn producer

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. From 1984 to 1986, Seven directed a line of videos for

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featuring

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. He also produced and directed the ''Loose Ends'' series for 4-Play Video starting in 1985. In the late 1980s he became seriously ill from

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. He recovered in 1989. Starting in 1990, Seven made films for John Stagliano's Evil Angel Productions as an outside director. For Evil Angel, he directed bondage films including ''House of Dark Dreams'' and lesbian films including ''Where the Girls Sweat''. He also directed several films in the ''Buttman'' and 'Buttwoman'' series. In 1993, Seven worked with Bionca to launch her new production company, Exquisite Pleasures. He produced and co-directed ''Takin' It to the Limit'' with Bionca. The video was Bionca's debut as director and it won the 1994

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for Best Video. He also directed the ''Buttslammers'' series of all-girl films. In 1995, Seven suffered a

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which left him using a wheelchair. He continued to produce and direct, but he withdrew from day-to-day filmmaking. Bruce Seven died on January 15, 2000 from complications of emphysema and the stroke.

Honors

Seven was inducted into the

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in 1993. Two of his films, ''Aerobisex Girls'' and the original ''Loose Ends'', are also listed in the XRCO Hall of Fame. Seven is also a member of the

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. In 2007 he received a posthumous Adam Film World Lifetime Achievement Award.

Awards

*1994

"Best Video" - ''Takin' It to the Limit'' (co-director with Bionca). Retrieved on 2007-10-03. *2007 Adam Film World "Lifetime Achievement Award"

References

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External links

* * * * Websit
Bruce Seven Films
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