Casey Donovan

Casey Donovan , so known under its true name, John Calvin " Cal" Culver (November 2nd 1943 - August 10th 1987) is a pornographic Acteur American of the Années 1970 and 1980, which played in films gay. It is from several points of view an emblematic figure of the Hédonisme of these years.

Casey Donovan was born John Calvin Culver on November 2nd 1943 in East Bloomfield, state of New York. He works a certain time as teacher in a private school of New York, Ethical Culture Fieldston School of Central Park West, then starts to play theater in the festivals of summer under the name of Cal Culver. He also earned his living like male Escort. At the end of the years 1960 and with the beginning of the year 1970, it appears in parts like Captain Brassbound' S Conversion with Ingrid Bergman, the Merchant of Venice with Rosemary Harris, and a part off Broadway with the gay topic, Circle in the Water. Cal also worked like mannequin, its image appearing in publicities and magazines.

In 1971, Cal played one of the main roles in a thriller with small budget of " sexploitation" , Ginger . This role brought it has to turn in Casey , a gay pornographic film in which he plays the part titrates, homosexual to which its godmother Fée Wanda returns visit (Cal plays this double part as a transvestite), to grant a series of wishes to him which return irresistibly it attracting for the other men. Cal took the first name of the character, Casey, and the name of a popular singer, Donovan, to forge its pseudonym of actor for erotic performances.

It thus appears under the name of Casey Donovan the first time in Boys in the Sand , realized by Wakefield Poole in 1972. The film was an immediate success, known celebrities of the general public going even to see it with the cinema. Nowadays, this film is regarded as one of the great classics of the homosexual erotic cinema, although more strict instructions concerning the obscenity in certain States have constrained to re-elect the film Men in the Sand . In spite of the success of film, Cal/Casey quickly realized that the only carière who was offered to him consisted in turning of films even more erotic. The latter were the bisexual fims Score (1972), The Back Row , with George Payne, Tool & Die , with Bob Blount and Richard Locke, The Other Side off Aspen , with Al Parker and Dick Fisk, Boys in the Sand II , and Inevitable Coils , with Jon King and Jamie Wingo. He also played in several pornographic films heterosexuals, in particular The Opening off Misty Beethoven (1975).

Apart from its career in the cinema for adults, Casey took part successfully in the off-Broadway round of the part Tubstrip , written and put in scene by Jerry Douglas, and it engaged in a close relationship with the former author and star of the cinema and television Tom Tryon. Casey also tried, but without success, to direct a hotel " bed and breakfast" , Donovan Put, with Key West.

Towards 1985, the health of Casey Donovan started to be degraded, because it had contracted HIV. He worked with several associations against the AIDS and cosneilla with his fans to practice the sex without risk and to pass the screening tests of the AIDS. He played in a film of safe-sex for the Gay Men' S Health Crisis, although it lived by denying that it had the syndrome, while at the same time its health condition worsened. Cal Culver, alias Casey Donovan, died of an lung infection related to the AIDS with Inverness, in Florida, on August 10th, 1987.

A Biography of Cal Culver, Servant boy in the Sand: Casey Donovan, AlAmerican Sex Star , written by Roger Edmonson, is appeared in 1998.

Catalog of films

The Back Row, 1972 & 2001 version restored in the form of new film, with (1972) George Payne, Robin Anderson, David Knox, Warren Carlton, Chris the Villette, Arthur Graham, and Robert Tristan and (2001) Kyle Kennedy, Ryan Zane, Chad Hunt, Ethan Richards, Slade Mark, Dante Foxx, Rob Kirk, Danny Lopez, Thomas Jump, and To tan Reeves. Realized by Douglas Jerry.
Casey (Hand in Hand Films Video Jewel) with Angelo Waine, Sparrow Guano and Nat Grey.
L.A. Tool & Die with Richard Locke, Joe Guarantees, Paul Baressi, Bob Blount, Johnny Falconberg, Michael Kearns and Will Seagers. Realization: Joe Guarantees.
Heatstroke with Richard Locke, Roy Garrett, Clay Russell, Clinton Coe, Bud Wallace, John Steele, Richard West. Realization: Joe Guarantees.
Men & Films documentary interview of Rod Philips and Daniel Holt.
Moving with Burt Edwards, Tom Wright, Valley Martin, Peter Fisk and Kurt Gerald. Directed by Wakefield Poole.
Not-Stop with Daniel Holt, Steve Anthony, Steve Hakes, Jorge Rodriquez and Eric Ryan. Directed by Steve Scott.
Other Side off Aspen I (Falcon Studios Videopac #1) with Chad Benson, Dick Fisk, Al Parker, and Jeff Turk.
The Wakefield Poole Collection compilation of Servant boys in the Sand (1971), Jewel (1972), and Servant boys in the Sand 2 (1986), with Cable, Tom Bradford, Peter Fisk, Bill Harrison, Daniel DiCiccicio, Tommy Moore, Stalemate Allen, Dave Connors, Tony Williams, Paul Irish, Victor Houston, Robert Lewis, Rocco Passalini, Michael Green, Bruce Williams, and Roger.
Inevitable Coils (1986), Atkol Video with Ken Diamond, John King, Jamie Wingo, Pat Allen, William L. Kane.

See too

List of the gay pornographic actors
Silverlake Life: The View from Young stag

External bonds

ManNet Review: " The Wakefield Poole Collection: 1971-1986"

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