Al Parker

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Al Parker (actually Andrew Robert Okun ; born June 25, 1952 in Natick , Massachusetts , † August 17, 1992 in San Francisco , California ) was an American film director , film producer and porn actor .

Life

Parker was born in Natick, Massachusetts and grew up in the Boston area . He moved to California in the mid-1970s. There he was hired by Hugh Hefner in the Playboy Mansion as a butler. He was discovered as a porn actor by the film director Jim French , who gave him the pseudonym Al Parker . Parker began working as a porn actor at Brentwood Studios .

Also in the mid-1970s, Parker met the much older Richard Cole , who became his partner. The couple joined the relatively hedonistic lifestyle of the time. In 1980 they jointly founded the film studio Surge Studios , the main purpose of which was to produce films and videos with Al Parker. Parker was active both as a film producer and director as well as an actor. The Surge Studios soon began trying to produce not only the usual time, 12 to 15 minutes long porn film loops on 8 mm film, but also presented films with a larger budget feature-length ago. Many of his films were made near Parker's home in Hermosa Beach , California. The Surge Studios were among the first companies in the porn industry, with the advent of AIDS practicing safe sex made compulsory.

In 1986, Parker's partner Richard Cole died of complications from AIDS. Parker continued to work as a director and film producer after his death and later met the Canadian porn actor Justin Cade , with whom he entered into a relationship. Parker died on August 17, 1992 of complications from AIDS .

After his death, Roger Edmonson published a biography of Al Parker under the title Clone: ​​The Life and Legacy of Al Parker Gay Superstar .

In Ralf König's comic Roy & Al , the main actor is a collector of old Al Parker porn films on Super 8 . From a friend in New York was, he gets Lollipop's gift in its original packaging and inherited by his Catholic mother little " diaphragm - Terrier " he calls from Fiffi from Hirschberg on Al to.

Filmography (selection)

  • Heavy Equipment (1977)
  • Inches (1979, German: Lollipop's )
  • Wanted (1980)
  • Flashbacks (1981, also: Al Parker's Flashback )
  • Turned On (1982)
  • A Few Good Men (1983)
  • Dangerous (1983)
  • Games (1983)
  • The Other Side of Aspen (1983)
  • Therapy (1983)
  • Weekend Lockup (1983)
  • Head Trips (1984)
  • One in a Billion (1984)
  • Outrage (1984)
  • Rangers (1984)
  • Strange Places, Strange Things (1984)
  • Daddies Plaything (1985)
  • Century Mining (1985)
  • Hard Disk Drive (1985)
  • High Tech (1986)
  • Oversize Load (1986)
  • The Best of Colt: Part 4 (1986)
  • Best of Brentwood 1 (1987)
  • Turbo Charge (1987)
  • Better Than Ever (1989)
  • The Best of Colt Films: Part 10 (1991)
  • Overload (1992)
  • The Best Of Al Parker (2008, posthumous)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf König: Roy & Al . MännerschwarmSkript Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-935596-64-2 , pp. 18, 40, 42
personal data
SURNAME Parker, Al
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Okun, Andrew Robert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, film producer and porn actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Natick , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1992
Place of death San Francisco , California