Robert La Tourneaux

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Robert La Tourneaux (born November 22, 1941 - June 3, 1986 in New York City ) was an American actor .

Life

On Broadway , he played as a stage actor in various theater productions such as Illya Darling in 1967 and The Merchant of Venice in 1973 . He was best known for the 1970 film Die Harten und die Zarten , where he plays a handsome but simple-minded prostitute in a cowboy costume named Tex , who is ordered as a birthday present for a gay man. La Tourneaux, who worked as a prostitute himself before his acting career, had previously played this role on the New York stage. His second most important role was that of the German star pilot Ernst Udet in Roger Corman's pilot film Manfred von Richthofen - The Red Baron from 1971.

La Tourneaux tried to establish himself as a film and television actor in the 1970s, but he did not succeed - he himself blamed his role in Die Harten und die Zarten , since this risky role as a gay and prostitute made him in Hollywood " unoccupied ”. He then worked as a nude model and presented porn films in a gay porn cinema at the end of the 1970s, and finally drifted back into prostitution for lack of money. He was arrested in 1983 for stealing from a client and was taken to the prison island of Rikers Island , where he attempted suicide. He died of AIDS in New York City in 1986, and in the last months of his life he was cared for by the actor Cliff Gorman - with whom he played in Die Harten und die Zarten - and his wife.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

  • 1967: Illya Darling (Broadway production)
  • 1968: The Boys in the Band (off-Broadway production)
  • 1973: The Merchant of Venice (Broadway production)

Movie and TV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincent Canby: Screen: 'Boys in the Band': Crowley Study of Male Homosexuality Opens. New York Times, March 18, 1970, accessed February 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Charles Kaiser: The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America . Grove Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8021-4317-4 ( google.de [accessed March 23, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Michael Riedel: Boys to Men successes and sorrows: what happened to those orgianal "band" members. New York DailyNews, June 23, 1996, accessed February 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ see Extras for Boys in the Band
personal data
SURNAME La Tourneaux, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH United States
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1986
Place of death New York City