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Leo Ford

Leo Ford

American pornographic actor

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.[1][2][3] He was born in Dayton, Ohio.

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Career

In 1989, Ford was crowned King of the Beaux Arts Ball in New York City. His Queen was Melissa Slade.[4]

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.[3] 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.

Private life

Ford had a relationship with cult actor Divine.[5] The two traveled together and he made appearances at clubs in which Divine was contracted to perform. After Divine's death, Ford began a relationship with Craig Markle. Ford and Markle lived together in Los Angeles and Hawaii and raised tropical birds. After Ford's death Markle ran a travel agency and oversaw Ford's collection of pictures from his career.[6]

Selected videography

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    Autopornography: a memoir of life in the lust lane (1997), Scott O'Hara, Routledge, ISBN 0-7890-0144-6, ISBN 978-0-7890-0144-3.
  2. [2]
    Acts of intervention: performance, gay culture, and AIDS: Unnatural acts : theorizing the performative (1998), David Román, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-21168-9, ISBN 978-0-253-21168-2.
  3. [3]
    Escoffier, Jeffrey (2009). Bigger Than Life. Philadelphia: Running Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-7867-2010-1.
  4. [4]
    Beaux Arts Society Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  5. [5]
    Not simply Divine: beneath the make-up, above the heels and behind the scenes with a cult superstar (1994), Bernard Jay, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-671-88467-0, ISBN 978-0-671-88467-3.
  6. [6]
    Ford, Leo. "Ford's Personal Life and Career". Retrieved 20 March 2015.
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