Jamie Gillis was an American

People of the United States

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 pornographic actor

Pornographic actor

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, director

Film director

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 and member of the AVN Hall of Fame.

Gillis was born in New York City

New York City

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 into a Jewish family and graduated from Columbia University

Columbia University

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. He appeared in more than 470 movies as an actor." He also directed several adult movies. Openly bisexual, he appeared in many gay porn films, but never engaged in sex with a man on camera. Gillis also appeared in a mainstream Hollywood film, Nighthawks

Nighthawks (film)

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(1981) starring Sylvester Stallone

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 in which he played Lindsay Wagner

Lindsay Wagner

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's boss.

He is a pioneer in the pornographic style known as Gonzo

Gonzo pornography

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. In addition to starring in the first Buttman film, he also created the influential On The Prowl series. Featuring a porn star who rides in a limo looking for regular guys to have sex with, the video series was very popular and inspired a scene in the movie Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights

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. He also co-produced the popular Dirty Debutante series with fellow director and performer Ed Powers

Ed Powers

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., as well as the Walking Toilet Bowl series of films that focused on golden showers

Golden Shower

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 and coprophilia

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.

Gillis died on February 19, 2010 in New York City from melanoma

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, which was diagnosed four or five months earlier.

As an actor, selected

• Die You Zombie Bastards!
  Die You Zombie Bastards!
  Die You Zombie Bastards! is a feature length film from Zombastic Productions . Shot in 16mm film between 2001 and 2003, the film premiered theatrically in 2005 and was released on DVD in North America and The United Kingdom in 2007...
  
  (2005)
• Sunset Stripped (2002)
• New Wave Hookers 5 (1997)
• Alien Space Avenger (1989)
• Taboo IV (1985)
• A Coming of Angels (1977)
• WATERPOWER (1975)
• Deep Throat Part II (1974)

'Night of the Zombies' (1981?)

As a director, selected

• Devious Old Gillis (1998)
• Back on the Prowl (1998)
• Back on the Prowl 2 (1998)
• Punished Sex Offenders (1990)
• Takeout Torture (1990)
• On the Prowl (1989)

Awards

• 1976 AFAA
  Adult Film Association of America
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   Best Actor for The Opening of Misty Beethoven
  The Opening of Misty Beethoven
  The Opening of Misty Beethoven is an American hardcore pornography film released in 1976. Produced with a relatively high budget and filmed on elaborate locations in Paris , New York City , and Rome , with a musical score, it owes much to its fastidious director Radley Metzger .-Premise:In a...
  
  
• 1977 AAFA Best Actor for Coming of Angels
• 1979 AAFA Best Actor for Ecstasy Girls
• 1982 AFAA Best Supporting Actor for Roommates
• 1984 XRCO Best Kinky Scene for Insatiable II
• 1987 XRCO Best Actor for Deep Throat 2
• 1987 XRCO Best Supporting Actor for Babyface 2
• 1989 AVN Best Supporting Actor – Film for Pretty Peaches 2
• 1989 XRCO Best Actor for Second Skin
• 1997 AVN Best Actor – Film for Bobby Sox
• 1999 AVN Best Supporting Actor – Video for Forever Night
• AVN Hall of Fame
• Legends of Erotica
• XRCO Hall of Fame
  XRCO Hall of Fame
  XRCO Hall of Fame lists some of the most notable adult entertainment works and workers. The list is managed by X-Rated Critics Organization and inducted annually during the XRCO awards.-Actors:* 1985 John C...
  
  

Source

• Nicolas Barbano: Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner (Rosinante, Denmark 1999) ISBN 87-7357-961-0: Features a chapter on him.

External links

• The Prince of Gonzo Porn - July 2007 interview
• Biography at LukeIsBack.com

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