Leo Ford

Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Leo Ford (born Leo John Hilgeford; July 5, 1957 – July 17, 1991) was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornographic films and bisexual pornographic movies and magazines in the 1980s.<ref>Autopornography: a memoir of life in the lust lane (1997), Scott O'Hara, Routledge, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.</ref><ref>Acts of intervention: performance, gay culture, and AIDS: Unnatural acts : theorizing the performative (1998), David Román, Indiana University Press, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.</ref><ref name="BTL">Template:Cite book</ref> He was born in Dayton, Ohio.

Career

In 1989, Ford was crowned King of the Beaux Arts Ball in New York City. His Queen was Melissa Slade.<ref>Beaux Arts Society Template:Webarchive</ref>

Ford paired with David Alan Reis aka "Lance" in Leo & Lance and Blonds Do It Best, Leo and Lance directed by William Higgins; Blonds Do It Best directed by Richard Morgan.<ref name="BTL"/> In his starring role for the film Games, directed by Steve Scott, Ford played a medal-winning swimmer in the Gay Games competition, with Al Parker playing a photographer assigned to take professional portraits of the athlete. In a scene that foreshadowed what happened to Ford in real life, his character had a severe motorcycle accident that left him hospitalized and in a coma.

Ford died in 1991 two days after a motorcycle accident, from a major brain trauma, after being hit by a car while riding his motorcycle near Sunset Boulevard. His partner of 6 years, Craig Markle, survived with minor injuries.

Personal life

Ford had a short-lived relationship with cult actor Divine.<ref>Not simply Divine: beneath the make-up, above the heels and behind the scenes with a cult superstar (1994), Bernard Jay, Simon and Schuster, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.</ref> The two travelled together and he made appearances at clubs in which Divine was contracted to perform. In late 1985, Ford began a relationship with Craig Markle. Ford and Markle lived together in Los Angeles and Hawaii, where they raised tropical birds and ran a tour and recreation business called "Pacific Paradise Tours".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Selected videography

Gay

• Best of Leo Ford
• Blondes Do It Best (1986)
• Colossal Cocks 5
• Flashbacks (J. Brian) (1980)
• Games (1983)
• Leo & Lance (1983)
• New York City Pro (1982)
• A Night at Alfies
• Sailor in the Wild (1983)
• Sex in the Great Outdoors (1980–1984)
• Spokes (1983)
• Stiff Sentence (1986)
• Style (1982)
• William Higgins Class Reunion (1983)
• Summer Of Scott Noll (1981)

Bisexual

• Best Bi Far #1
• Passion by Fire: The Big Switch 2
• True Crimes of Passion

See also

• List of pornographic movie studios
• List of male performers in gay porn films

External links

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