Kurt Lockwood
Encyclopedia
Kurt Lockwood is an American
pornographic actor
, model
, and musician.
in 1992 with a B.A. in Theatre. There, he was a member of the improvisational theatre group Erasable Inc.
. He relocated to San Francisco from Baltimore with his band. A year later he moved to Los Angeles. Lockwood acted as an MTV
host and was a raver gang member in a reenactment for the American television series America's Most Wanted
. In addition, he had an assortment of small roles, including an uncredited role as a rollerblading snowman in the Steve Martin
movie Mixed Nuts
. The roles earned him a Screen Actors Guild
card but ultimately didn’t pan out into acting fame and fortune.
Lockwood returned to music by forming the band SexyXrist . In 1999, he toured as the guitarist for Dee Dee Ramone
's band . After doing some gonzo scenes for Luc Wylder
and Alexandra Silk
of Fallen Angels Productions that year Kurt returned to acting and music for the next two years. In addition to those passions, he also did photography and writing, specifically penning a play based on the life of his idol, Kurt Cobain
.
In 2002 Hustler
magazine director Chris Wood offered him the starring role in his own line for Larry Flynt
Digital in a now-defunct online series, www.trailertrash.com. He performed sixty scenes as Johnny Coxville, a parody of the Jackass
star Johnny Knoxville
. This led to Roy Karch asking Lockwood to perform in his features and his career in adult film was off and running. Since 2002 Kurt has been in close to 1400 scenes with various female adult film stars, both on film/tape and on the internet. In addition, he was featured on pornographic actor Seymore Butts
’ Showtime cable reality television
show Family Business
in six episodes in 2005 as well as being featured in pictorial layouts in Penthouse (magazine)
and Hustler.
In 2005 Kurt organized a benefit performance by his band for Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
Detox Bed Program held at the Whisky A Go Go
in Hollywood which raised $5000 to help adult industry performers who couldn't afford drug rehab treatment on their own. Also in 2005 Sex-Z Pictures offered Kurt the directing reins as well as the lead in his first full-length feature The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 69: The Porno Years is an homage to one of Penelope Spheeris
' classic rock/metal documentaries, The Decline of Western Civilization II
. Lockwood sings and plays guitar for his original punk/rock band Porn City Punx. In addition to his many scenes in other adult movies, Kurt has continued to direct features for Bo Kenney and Sex-Z Pictures. He took the helm with such titles as L.A. Vice, a takeoff on the 1980s television series Miami Vice
, as well as Lords of Doggie Style Town, Thumbsuckers 2, Teen Cock Rockers and his latest release The Real Boogie Nights, a parody of the 1997 film Boogie Nights
, with Kurt assuming the Dirk Diggler role.
In 2007, Lockwood retired from the porn industry and moved to Spain to be with his expecting girlfriend. However, he briefly returned to the industry in 2008 and performed in bisexual and transsexual scenes. Lockwood currently lives in the Basque country in the South of France with his fiance and their son since 2009.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
pornographic actor
Pornographic actor
A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...
, model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
, and musician.
Biography
Lockwood graduated from the University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
in 1992 with a B.A. in Theatre. There, he was a member of the improvisational theatre group Erasable Inc.
Erasable Inc.
Erasable Inc. is one of the University of Maryland's oldest student organizations, and one of the best known college improv groups on the east coast...
. He relocated to San Francisco from Baltimore with his band. A year later he moved to Los Angeles. Lockwood acted as an MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
host and was a raver gang member in a reenactment for the American television series America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted is an American television program produced by 20th Television, and was the longest-running program of any kind in the history of the Fox Television Network until it was announced on May 16, 2011 that the series was canceled after twenty-three years, with the final episode...
. In addition, he had an assortment of small roles, including an uncredited role as a rollerblading snowman in the Steve Martin
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer....
movie Mixed Nuts
Mixed Nuts
Mixed Nuts is a motion picture comedy directed by Nora Ephron, based on the French comedy film, Le Père Noël est une ordure . Its cast includes Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Rita Wilson, Anthony LaPaglia, Garry Shandling, Juliette Lewis and Adam Sandler...
. The roles earned him a Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
card but ultimately didn’t pan out into acting fame and fortune.
Lockwood returned to music by forming the band SexyXrist . In 1999, he toured as the guitarist for Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone was an American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, bassist and main songwriter of the punk rock band the Ramones....
's band . After doing some gonzo scenes for Luc Wylder
Luc Wylder
Luc Wylder® is Roman Catholic of Irish and French heritage, an American producer, director, digital cinematographer, pornographic actor and webmaster. Wylder also owns and operates Fallen Angel Video.- Career :...
and Alexandra Silk
Alexandra Silk
Alexandra Silk is an American pornographic actress, pornographic director and adult model.- Biography :A graduate of the State University of New York, Silk began her adult career as a stripper in Las Vegas. During this time she met porn star Jenna Jameson, who advised her on how to enter the...
of Fallen Angels Productions that year Kurt returned to acting and music for the next two years. In addition to those passions, he also did photography and writing, specifically penning a play based on the life of his idol, Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...
.
In 2002 Hustler
Hustler
Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. It was first published in 1974 by Larry Flynt. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter which was cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. The magazine grew from a shaky start to...
magazine director Chris Wood offered him the starring role in his own line for Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications . In 2003, Arena magazine listed him as the number one on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list....
Digital in a now-defunct online series, www.trailertrash.com. He performed sixty scenes as Johnny Coxville, a parody of the Jackass
Jackass (TV series)
jackass is an American reality series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, self-injuring stunts and pranks...
star Johnny Knoxville
Johnny Knoxville
Philip John Clapp , better known by his stage name Johnny Knoxville, is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, stunt performer, best known for being the co-creator and principal star of the MTV reality series Jackass, with the catchphrase "I'm Johnny Knoxville, and welcome to Jackass."-Early...
. This led to Roy Karch asking Lockwood to perform in his features and his career in adult film was off and running. Since 2002 Kurt has been in close to 1400 scenes with various female adult film stars, both on film/tape and on the internet. In addition, he was featured on pornographic actor Seymore Butts
Seymore Butts
Seymore Butts is an American pornographic film director, producer and occasional star who has produced hundreds of films in the "gonzo" genre of pornography .-Life and career:...
’ Showtime cable reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
show Family Business
Family Business (TV series)
Family Business was an American reality TV series produced for the cable network Showtime. Based in Los Angeles, the series focused on the pornography industry and the life of Adam Glasser, a reality porn star and video director who uses the stage name "Seymore Butts"...
in six episodes in 2005 as well as being featured in pictorial layouts in Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...
and Hustler.
In 2005 Kurt organized a benefit performance by his band for Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
The Adult Industry Medical Associates P.C. , also known simply as AIM or AIM Medical, was an organization that tested erotic actors for HIV and other STDs on a scheduled basis....
Detox Bed Program held at the Whisky A Go Go
Whisky a Go Go
The Whisky a Go Go is a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, United States. It is located at 8901 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip.-History:...
in Hollywood which raised $5000 to help adult industry performers who couldn't afford drug rehab treatment on their own. Also in 2005 Sex-Z Pictures offered Kurt the directing reins as well as the lead in his first full-length feature The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 69: The Porno Years is an homage to one of Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization...
' classic rock/metal documentaries, The Decline of Western Civilization II
The Decline of Western Civilization II
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years is a documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles heavy metal scene from 1986 to 1988. It is the second film of a trilogy by Spheeris depicting life in Los Angeles at various points in time. The first film The...
. Lockwood sings and plays guitar for his original punk/rock band Porn City Punx. In addition to his many scenes in other adult movies, Kurt has continued to direct features for Bo Kenney and Sex-Z Pictures. He took the helm with such titles as L.A. Vice, a takeoff on the 1980s television series Miami Vice
Miami Vice
Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...
, as well as Lords of Doggie Style Town, Thumbsuckers 2, Teen Cock Rockers and his latest release The Real Boogie Nights, a parody of the 1997 film Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights is a 1997 drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, the script focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, and chronicles his rise and fall from the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s...
, with Kurt assuming the Dirk Diggler role.
In 2007, Lockwood retired from the porn industry and moved to Spain to be with his expecting girlfriend. However, he briefly returned to the industry in 2008 and performed in bisexual and transsexual scenes. Lockwood currently lives in the Basque country in the South of France with his fiance and their son since 2009.
Awards
- 2004 AVN Award – Best Couples Scene - Film for Compulsion with Ashley LongAshley Long__notoc__Ashley Long is a British former pornographic actress.-Awards:* 2004 XRCO Award – Best Single Performance, Actress – Compulsion* 2004 AVN Award – Best Couples Sex Scene, Film – Compulsion...
- 2004 Adams Film Guide – Best Actor for Compulsion
- 2005 AVN Award – Best Threeway Sex Scene - Video for Stories: Lovers & Cheaters with Dani WoodwardDani WoodwardDani Woodward is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress.Before joining the adult industry, Woodward graduated from a vocational school and worked as a medical assistant at a hospital...
and Barrett Blade - 2007 AVN Award – Best Supporting Actor-Film for To Die For
Partial filmography
- Mixed NutsMixed NutsMixed Nuts is a motion picture comedy directed by Nora Ephron, based on the French comedy film, Le Père Noël est une ordure . Its cast includes Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Rita Wilson, Anthony LaPaglia, Garry Shandling, Juliette Lewis and Adam Sandler...
(1994) - Compulsion (2002)
- Erotic Stories: Lovers & Cheaters (2003)
- To Die For (2005)
- The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 69: The Porno Years (2005) – Director
- The Real Boogie Nights (2007) – Director
- Transsexual Babysitters 5 (2008)