Long Dong Silver is a British retired

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known for his large

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. He was born in 1960 in London, England, as Daniel Arthur Mead. His

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is a reference to the fictional ''

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'' character

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Career

Famed for the apparent size of his penis, reputedly , he appeared in several pornographic movies in the UK and US during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Photographer Jay Myrdal said that although Silver "was immensely endowed ... a good nine or ten inches", the penis featured in his porn shoots was faked. After at first using "complicated multi-exposure techniques" to enhance it in still photography, Myrdal later persuaded

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, the makeup artist for the 1980 film ''

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'', to create a prosthetic. Myrdal described it as "very light, a very delicate foam latex sleeve that fit on over the cock, carefully glued down underneath by the pubes and then made up". Silver's debut film was the low-budget ''Sex Freaks'', released in 1979, in which he co-starred with Vicki Scott. In 1982, he appeared with the actress Seka in ''Beauty and the Beast'', shot in the US. Silver reached a new audience in the wake of allegations of

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during the

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in the US Senate in 1991, as

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alleged that Thomas had mentioned to her that he was a viewer of Silver's films.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Long Dong Silver Living people 1960 births Black British male actors British male pornographic film actors

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