John holmes gay movies

His enormously long penis got him starring roles in over 2,000 loops, stag films and adult features in a career that spanned nearly 20 years (with a peak of a $3,000-a-day salary). Holmes once estimated he'd had sex with over 14,000 women (on and off screen), and was truly a porn legend. Better still were the big-budgeted pictures that co-starred some of the adult film industry's top leading ladies, including Marilyn Chambers, Seka, Annette Haven and even a young--and underage--Traci Lords.

In the late 1970s Holmes developed a serious drug habit to cocaine (both snorting and freebasing), which prevented him from performing in the on-screen sex he was famous for, resulting in his dropping out of the adult-film business.

The lowest point in his life was when he was implicated in four grisly, drug-related murders on July 1, 1981. His lucrative off-screen penis-for-hire business took him around the world.

His most famous character is probably Johnny Wadd, a lusty, always-on-the-make private detective he played in several crude porno films like Tell Them Johnny Wadd Is Here (1976), The Jade Pussycat (1977), China Cat (1978), Liquid Lips (1976) and Blonde Fire (1978), the last of which is considered the best of the so-called "Wadd films".

After his discharge he moved to Los Angeles in 1964 where he married a young nurse, and worked odd jobs such as taxi driver, door-to-door salesman, postal clerk, temp worker, coffee vat attendant, ambulance driver and forklift driver.

In the late 1960s he gravitated to the underground porno industry. A fifth victim, (Susan Launius, Ronald Launius' estranged wife), barely survived the attack and had no memory of the event.

Although found not guilty of the murders, he remained in jail on previous burglary and contempt-of-court charges until his release in November 1982. His cocaine addiction continued off-and-on, and although work in the porno business was still plentiful, it was no longer as lucrative as it had been, given the explosion in the use of cheaply made videotapes that saturated the market.

By 1969, with the advent of X-rated porn films, Holmes moved into the movie business. He was best known for his exceptionally large penis, which was heavily promoted as being the longest, thickest, and hardest in the porn industry, although no definitive measurement of Holmes' actual penis length exists. His tall, slim build, curly light brown hair, a light mustache and bright blue eyes made him an instantly recognizable star.

He was reduced to making money by robbing people's houses and stealing cars, as well as delivering drugs for the local gangsters. Another story is that in 1967 Holmes was frequenting a men's card playing club in the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena when a photographer for an underground magazine noticed his large "member" while standing next to him at a restroom urinal and gave Holmes his business card, telling him he could get plenty of work in still photo magazines.

He was diagnosed with AIDS late in 1985 but continued working--without telling producers or his co-stars--until 1986, when his increasingly gaunt and frail physical appearance sent up "red flags" in the industry and he could no longer find work.

During the last five months of his life, John Holmes received treatment and stayed at the local VA (Veterans Administration) Hospital on Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles from November 1987 to his death on March 13, 1988 from AIDS-related complications at age 43, with his second wife at his side, former porn star Misty Dawn.

The L.A. authorities, angered by Holmes' refusal to cooperate with the investigation, charged him with committing all four murders. The true nature and details of the Laurel Canyon murders remains unsolved to this day.

After his release from prison, Holmes tried to clean up his act and continue his porno career with a new generation of porno stars.

He was allegedly present at the drug-related torture and murders at a house in the hills above Hollywood of William Deverell, Ronald Launius, Joy Miller and Barbara Richardson--a group suspected by many in the drug underworld of specializing in ripping off drug dealers--by a gang of killers sent by a powerful local gangster named Eddie Nash.

In addition, Holmes was no longer the powerhouse star that he had once been.

By late 1980 he was broke, most of the huge amounts of money he made having gone to feed his drug addiction.