Gerard Damiano

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Gerard Damiano (born August 4, 1928 in New York City , † October 25, 2008 in Fort Myers ; actually Gerardo Rocco Damiano ) was an American film director . He is best known for his classic porn movies Deep Throat (1972), The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) and the sadomasochistic classic The Story of Joanna (1975). He is often considered one of the most stylish directors in porn chic .

Life

Damiano grew up in the Bronx , New York City. His parents were Catholics of Italian descent; his father died when he was six years old. Even as a child he loved films. As a teenager he worked as a shoe shiner in Times Square and as a table clearer ( busboy ) in a vending machine restaurant in Manhattan.

At the age of 17, he enlisted in the Navy for four years . Subsequently, the GI Bill of Rights enabled him to learn the profession of X-ray assistant. Because he didn't like the job, he retrained to become a hairdresser. Together with a friend, he opened a salon in New York in 1956. He got to know filmmakers through his accountant and got into the film scene. In 1970 he stepped in as the director of a softcore flick called Teenie Tulip , for which he also wrote the script, inspired by the topics of conversation with customers in his own beauty and hairdressing salon.

In 1972 he met Linda Lovelace , whose knowledge of deepthroat he found so amazing that he wrote the hardcore porn film Deep Throat especially for her , which was financed by a member of the Mafia and shot in Miami in six days . The film caused a tremendous sensation. It has been banned in several states in the United States. On the other hand, it sparked a veritable wave of porn chic and a debate about artistic freedom and pornography. The film was produced for $ 25,000 and is considered the most profitable film in cinema history with $ 600 million in revenues through 2008. Damiano didn't get rich with Deep Throat as he ceded his rights to the Mafia financiers, but he became famous in one fell swoop.

In 1973 he shot The Devil in Miss Jones, another porn classic that, in contrast to many of today's genre products, had an artistic claim. Until the late 1980s, he continued to make more hardcore porn films that are considered to be among the better of the genre. He has often written the music for his films since the 1975 film The Story of Joanna , a variation on the story-of-the-O theme. In the early 1990s, when the pornographic film was dead, he shot a few more porn videos, the last one in 1994. After that, he retired into retirement.

Gerard Damiano was married three times. He moved to Fort Myers , Florida with his second wife and two children in 1970 , but continued to work in New York during the week. After separating from his second wife, he moved to California , then returned to Fort Myers a few years before his death and lived there with his children. In February 2005 the documentary Inside Deep Throat came out, which dealt with Deep Throat from a time gap of over 30 years and made Damiano known again. Damiano died on October 25, 2008 of complications from a stroke in Fort Myers.

Filmography

  • We All Go Down (1969)
  • Teenie Tulip (1970)
  • Marriage Manual (1970)
  • The Magical Ring (1971; alternate title: Bottoms Up )
  • Changes (1971; alternative titles: All About Sex ; Sex USA ; This Film Is All About '...' )
  • Deep Throat (1972; as Jerry Gerard)
  • Confessions of Linda Lovelace (1973)
  • The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)
  • Meatball (1973; as D. Furred)
  • Legacy of Satan (1974)
  • Memories Within Miss Aggie (1974)
  • Portrait (1974)
  • The Story of Joanna (1975)
  • Let My Puppets Come (1976)
  • Joint Venture (1977; alternative titles: Erotic Olympics ; The Sex Team )
  • Odyssey (1977; alternate title: Odyssey, the Ultimate Trip )
  • Damiano's People (1979)
  • Fantasy (1979; alternative titles: Fantasy Island ; Fascination ; That Prickly Feeling )
  • For Richer, for Poorer (1979)
  • Skin Flicks (1979; alternate title: Midnight Blue )
  • Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (1981)
  • Never So Deep (1981)
  • The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue (1981; alternate title: Alpha Blue )
  • Consenting Adults (1982)
  • Flesh & Fantasy (1983)
  • Night Hunger (1983)
  • Return to Alpha Blue (1983)
  • Whose Fantasy Is It Anyway (1983; alternate title: Gerard Damiano's Private Fantasies )
  • Inside Everybody (1984; alternative title: Gerard Damiano's Private Fantasies 2: Inside Everybody )
  • Night Magic (1984)
  • Throat 12 Years After (1984)
  • Flesh and Fantasy (1985)
  • Forbidden Bodies (1986)
  • Cravings (1987)
  • Future Sodom (1987)
  • Lessons in Lust (1987)
  • Maximum Head (1987)
  • Slightly Used (1987)
  • Ultrasex (1987)
  • Candy's Little Sister Sugar (1988)
  • Ruthless Women (1988)
  • Dirty Movies (1989)
  • Perils of Paula (1989)
  • Splendor in the Ass (1989; alternative title: Sex Express )
  • Young Girls in Tight Jeans (1989)
  • Buco profondo (1991)
  • Just for the Hell of It (1991)
  • Manbait (1991; alternative title: The Last Couple )
  • Manbait 2 (1991)
  • Eccitazione fatale (1992)
  • Le Professoresse di sessuologia applicata (1992)
  • Naked Goddess (1993)
  • Naked Goddess 2 (1994)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel: Gerard Damiano , Der Spiegel 45/2008, register p. 186.

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personal data
SURNAME Damiano, Gerard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damiano, Gerardo Rocco (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2008
Place of death Fort Myers