Kurt Marshall (birth name James Allen Rideout, Jr.; November 13, 1965
â€" October 10, 1988) was a model and an actor who performed in gay
pornographic films in the mid-1980s. Although he appeared in only four
films, the gay pornographic industry trade publication Unzipped named
him one of the top 100 gay porn stars of all time in 2006, author
Leigh Rutledge listed him as the ninth most influential gay porn star
of all time in 2000, and adult film magazine editor John Erich called
him one of the "most beautiful" gay adult film stars of the 1980s.Kurt
Marshall was born James Rideout, Jr. in Waterville, Maine, one of 15
children. After high school (he graduated after lettering in swimming
and track and field), he attended San Francisco State University, but
never finished. He said in several interviews that he performed in
adult film in order to earn money for college.In 1984, at the age of
18, he starred in his first film, Matt Sterling's Sizing Up, with
fellow gay adult film star Mark Miller. His role was that of a star
track and field athlete, which echoed his high school sports
experiences. A historian of gay erotic film called Sizing Up a
"superior example of [a] gay porn video which make[s] gay men visible
in places where they have mostly been invisible..." He made three
films the following year, all for Falcon Studios: the highly
influential The Other Side of Aspen II, Splash Shots, and Night
Flight. The Other Side of Aspen II was Falcon's first film which was
shot entirely on video, and Marshall worked with legendary gay adult
film performer Scott O'Hara. O'Hara later wrote in his autobiography
that he was not in the least attracted to Marshall, although much of
the film was later edited to make it appear as if he was having an
intense sexual experience with him and two other blond men. Adult
Video News (AVN), the adult film industry trade publication, later
rated the film as the ninth most innovative and influential gay porn
film of all time in 2005. Marshall's second film, Splash Shots, was
credited with making sex around the swimming pool a gay porn
trope.Assessing his career, Unzipped magazine editorialized that "the
films he appeared in were noteworthy."
â€" October 10, 1988) was a model and an actor who performed in gay
pornographic films in the mid-1980s. Although he appeared in only four
films, the gay pornographic industry trade publication Unzipped named
him one of the top 100 gay porn stars of all time in 2006, author
Leigh Rutledge listed him as the ninth most influential gay porn star
of all time in 2000, and adult film magazine editor John Erich called
him one of the "most beautiful" gay adult film stars of the 1980s.Kurt
Marshall was born James Rideout, Jr. in Waterville, Maine, one of 15
children. After high school (he graduated after lettering in swimming
and track and field), he attended San Francisco State University, but
never finished. He said in several interviews that he performed in
adult film in order to earn money for college.In 1984, at the age of
18, he starred in his first film, Matt Sterling's Sizing Up, with
fellow gay adult film star Mark Miller. His role was that of a star
track and field athlete, which echoed his high school sports
experiences. A historian of gay erotic film called Sizing Up a
"superior example of [a] gay porn video which make[s] gay men visible
in places where they have mostly been invisible..." He made three
films the following year, all for Falcon Studios: the highly
influential The Other Side of Aspen II, Splash Shots, and Night
Flight. The Other Side of Aspen II was Falcon's first film which was
shot entirely on video, and Marshall worked with legendary gay adult
film performer Scott O'Hara. O'Hara later wrote in his autobiography
that he was not in the least attracted to Marshall, although much of
the film was later edited to make it appear as if he was having an
intense sexual experience with him and two other blond men. Adult
Video News (AVN), the adult film industry trade publication, later
rated the film as the ninth most innovative and influential gay porn
film of all time in 2005. Marshall's second film, Splash Shots, was
credited with making sex around the swimming pool a gay porn
trope.Assessing his career, Unzipped magazine editorialized that "the
films he appeared in were noteworthy."
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