William Margold

Acting

William Margold

Born 1943-10-02 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA

William "Bill" Margold was an American pornographic film actor and porn film director. Margold was a former director of the Free Speech Coalition and was a co-founder of X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Fans of X-Rated Entertainment (FOXE). He was the founder of PAW Foundation, the charity for the welfare of pornography industry performers.[2] He was also a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. He was at one time married to the 1980s porn film actress Drea. A frequent news and talk show guest, Margold appeared in scores of documentaries throughout his career, including the 2012 documentary After Porn Ends, which is about life after being in the porn industry. He was the son of Nathan Ross Margold.

Acting credits

Fantasm poster
4.5

Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short segments from his case studies of the most common female sexual fantasies.

Fantasm

1976

Inside Lara Roxx poster
5.8

A Montreal girl takes a disastrous trip inside the porn industry.

Inside Lara Roxx

2012

Bad Girl poster
5.5

The film investigates explicit representations of female sexuality by women, exploring the pragmatic and philosophical questions they pose, with emphasis on the ways in which the creation of women-friendly pornography confronts and alters the expectations of male consumers. Ultimately, Nitoslawska is concerned with how we comprehend desire, gender and identity, how we understand and represent its history, and the resulting affect on culture and human relations.

Bad Girl

2001

Flesh Gordon poster
4.8

Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with his girlfriend Dale Ardor and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff, they set off towards the source of the Sex Ray, unaware of the perils that face them!

Flesh Gordon

1974

Fantasm Comes Again poster
4.7

Libbie is assigned to her paper's sexual advice column, "Dear Collete". She is taking over the job of Harry a crusty old journalist who shows her the pro's and cons of the job while running on a tight deadline to get the column finished for the morning's paper. During the course of the evening they reply to a wide variety of sexual experiences submitted by the readers, some these include, sex in a threesome at a drive-in theatre, sex in a gymnasium, and sex in a library where the "Silence Please" sign gives the male librarian an advantage over the female readers.

Fantasm Comes Again

1977

After Porn Ends poster
5.6

Documentary examining what happens to some of the biggest names in the history of the adult entertainment industry after they leave the business and try and live "normal" lives.

After Porn Ends

2012

Not Quite Hollywood poster
6.7

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

Not Quite Hollywood

2008

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7.3

A snapshot of the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley focusing on a handful of people: Luke Ford, a reporter who breaks the industry's gentlemen's agreement and writes about actors who have HIV/AIDS; Kimberley Jade, a veteran actress who contracts AIDS; Katie June, who arrives in Los Angeles from the South, going on 20, with dreams of becoming a porn star and with her mother's approval; Jim South, who runs a talent agency; and, William Margold, an aging factotum. Others appear on camera to round out a portrait of a busy industry that's lucrative for some and dangerous for others.

Give Me Your Soul...

2000

Fluffy Cumsalot: Porn Star poster
5.1

Fluffy Cumsalot, Porn Star is an extraordinary documentary about porn stars and their stage names. Featuring Ron Jeremy, Marilyn Chambers, Jenna Jameson, Seymore Butts and over 70 more of the world's top porn stars, this film is a fascinating and revealing documentary about adult performers and the origin of their on-screen names.

Fluffy Cumsalot: Porn Star

2003

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy poster
5.9

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy offers audiences a penetrating look inside the world of Ron Jeremy, America's most unlikely sex star and hero to millions. With nearly 25 years in the adult film industry and over 1,600 films to his credit, Ron Jeremy is huge. In his world, Ron reigns supreme-he's made millions of dollars and slept with thousands of beautiful women, and is indisputably the industry's biggest star. And everyone who's anyone knows Ron-a pop icon to millions, he is a beacon of hope for many American male, since he stands as living proof that pretty much anyone can get some. So how did such a classically unhandsome, big and hairy guy ever get to be suchia super stud? In one of the most fascinating and entertaining comedies of the last year, audiences finally get a chance to get inside the life and times of Ron Jeremy, and find out what's really behind the hardest working man in show business.

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

2001

Porndemic poster
5.7

The inside story of the 1998 HIV outbreak that tore through the San Fernando Valley adult film industry told by the people who experienced it. Using archival footage and exclusive, original interviews with such recognizable adult performers as Ron Jeremy, Ginger Lynn, Marc Wallice and Tricia Devereaux among other, the film goes behind the scenes of the porn industry as it confronted a deadly disease which was a threat to its very existence.

Porndemic

2018

When Rated X Ruled the World poster
7.0

When _____ Ruled the World looks at pop culture phenomenona and explores why and how the subject of the show so effectively captured the imagination of the populace. Take a trip down memory lane and explore the zeitgeist of yesterday.

When Rated X Ruled the World

2004

A Taboo Identity poster
3.0

Sociologist David W. Wahl explores the identity work involved in Kay Parker shifting from being a legend of the adult film industry to her current occupation as a metaphysical counselor.

A Taboo Identity

2017

Playpen of the Damned poster
NR

Documentary on the porn industry at the end of the 1980s.

Playpen of the Damned

1990

Auditions poster
5.8

A pseudo-documentary about the processes involved in putting together and casting actors and actresses for a porn film. Although several actual porn stars are in the film, it is not a porn film itself.

Auditions

1978

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn poster
6.2

Director Dag Yngvesson begins making a documentary about the porn industry, until he is asked by a desperate director to shoot film for his next adult movie. After agreeing, he is led deeper and deeper into the world of porn, speaking frankly with many of the industries most famous icons (Jeanna Fine, Bill Margold) and a 19-year-old newcomer named Selena who discusses her career choice on film with her mother. Viewers are invited into many areas of the industry previously not discussed including the private lives of its stars and the inner workings of the industry, in particular how directors go about casting their stars.

Rated X: A Journey Through Porn

1999

The History of Hardcore poster
5.5

A Television documentary commissioned by Channel Four (UK). The programme charts the history of hardcore pornography on film, dating back to the turn of the 20th century. Utilsing rare vintage archive, and original interview material of British and American pornographers, the documentary explores the parallels between mainstream cinema and hardcore porn, underlining the changes that have taken place in the industry since the advent of video, and following a veteran pornographer onto the set of his latest video offering.

The History of Hardcore

2002

Panorama Blue poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Panorama Blue

1974

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Porn... It's a Living

1998

John Holmes: The Man, the Myth, the Legend poster
10.0

A fine documentary that details the sordid life of 1970s pornographic actor John Holmes, from the stories of his fellow actors, his ex-wives, and directors. Clips of his work are shown and insight on what made the man tick are given. Despite all his flaws, you can't help but admire him for what he was.

John Holmes: The Man, the Myth, the Legend

2004

Flesh and Bullets poster
4.8

Two men who meet in a bar in Las Vegas discover that they have one big problem in common, their wives. They decide to do something drastic about it.

Flesh and Bullets

1985

Sleaze Please: The World of Bill Margold poster
7.0

A look into the world of adult film legend William Margold as he struggles for his industry.

Sleaze Please: The World of Bill Margold

2024

Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story poster
5.9

Back Issues is the definitive documentary of porn magazine Hustler, from its nightclub inception as it adapts to pornography in the 21st century. Director Michael Lee Nirenberg's father was was one of the original art directors in the 1970s and 80s. Back Issues is a complete look at the personalities and features that made this the most offensive magazine of all time. The story is told by its publisher as well as the editors, cartoonists, models, attorneys, art directors and cultural figures for the first time ever.

Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story

2014

Erotophonophiliac: Documents of a Lust Murderer poster
1.0

A found footage introspective look into the life of a serial killer.

Erotophonophiliac: Documents of a Lust Murderer

2021

Behind the camera

No artwork available
9.0

Inside auditions with over 40 erotic film stars who didn’t know why they were being filmed!

What Would Your Mother Say?

1982

Dracula Sucks poster
5.7

Seward Sanitarium has been plagued by strange events, all following the takeover of a nearby abbey by Transylvanian Count Dracula. Visiting professor, Van Helsing, believes it to be the work of vampires, and when patients and staff begin turning up dead, realizes that he must act quickly to save the others.

Dracula Sucks

1978

Space Virgins poster
8.0

Space aliens land on Earth looking to repopulate their race, and meet up with a group of horny cowboys and slutty cowgirls.

Space Virgins

1984

Cunning Coeds poster
6.5

What do those college girls get up to?

Cunning Coeds

1985

Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes poster
NR

Gentlemen prefer blondes; blondes have more fun; and with the foxy Cindy Shepard and Desiree Lane as out guides, you'll see why these gorgeous women with sunshine hair are so irresistible. With their All-Star circle of friends we'll share those outrageous scenes of total sexual abandon that make a relationship with a shimmering blonde lady a very special affair. Join the classy and sultry K.C. Valentine, Cherry Adams the pouting fair- haired tigress and sexy Susan West in their passionate interludes with and endless succession of eager studs. Only Hollywood Video could put together such an exciting collection of beautiful blondes in so many explicit scenes of all-out sex. For love, money or just pure enjoyment, these stunning ladies will show you why...Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1983

Sheer Delight poster
5.5

A highly dysfunctional extended family unit bickers and balls their way through a typical day. The catalyst for most of the action is a mysterious pair of panties sent to the house anonymously. Whose panties are they, really?

Sheer Delight

1984

Cupid's Arrow poster
9.0

Due to Cupid's arrows (disguised as darts from a dart gun), Lucinda seduces her husband Steven's friend Jack, followed by the electrician. Steven himself is seduced by his buxom ex-wife Marge and surprised in his bathtub by door-to-door-saleswoman Ginger.

Cupid's Arrow

1984

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7.5

A trio of sexually liberated adults decided to create the X-Team to help people who have sexual problems. This time the X-Team works on a difficult case. A handsome businessman complains that his wife has no interest in sex anymore, and the X-Team promises to find out the reason. It turns out that his wife cheats on him, but the husband refuses to believe this even after seeing the steamy pictures of his wife having sex with other men. The X-Team is about the drop the case when the businessman's secretary offers her help. This exciting 1980s porn movie is packed with raunchy action featuring lesbian sex, artful blowjobs, group sex and much more.

The X-Team

1984

Passionate Lee poster
8.0

Tired of always getting it in the face, so to speak, superstar porn queen Lee Fontaine demands a vacation to get away from it all. Her agent arranges for some frolicking fun in the country for her with his nephew. Upon arrival, she quickly meets up with a horny fan who has more than sex on his mind. His plan is to get Lee and some of her filmdom friends and offer them to his college professor in exchange for money and good grades.

Passionate Lee

1984

Superware Party poster
7.0

A salesman makes quite an impression with his goods when he shows up at a woman's door.

Superware Party

1979

Eternal Bliss poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Eternal Bliss

1990

One Night at a Time poster
8.0

After new single mom Maggie is relieved by neighbor Mandy and Mandy's masseur, her daughters Dorothy and Amy move on from their dates to a Telegram Man. After Mandy seduces hesitant handyman Louis, Maggie is in bed with Mitchell.

One Night at a Time

1984

Twice a Virgin poster
9.0

Transsexual superstar Shannon (Catherine Crystal) has sexual encounters with women before her sex-change operation and with men afterward.

Twice a Virgin

1984

A Night for Legends poster
10.0

Putting together an awards show is a monumental task. Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, they've all had a lot of practice, and the result is a smooth-run, professional-looking program. But, the first show for each was probably a bit chaotic. This is the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO)'s first attempt at an awards show for the adult film industry. Chaos doesn't begin to describe it. Held in a showbar in West Hollywood on Valentine's Day, 1985, XRCO awarded fifteen "Heart-Ons" to actors, actresses, screenwriters, directors, theatrical films and direct-to-videos, and another three in an all-male category. An additional five Heart-Ons, with categories like "Lascivious Lesbian" and "Orgasmic Oral" went to participants in specific scenes.

A Night for Legends

1985

Night Flight poster
8.0

A mysterious man arranges special flights. This one contains an oriental woman who smuggles diamonds, an embezzler, a female movie star, a male rock-star, a nurse and more.

Night Flight

1980

Dream Jeans poster
9.0

A struggling tailor meets a mysterious designer purporting magical dungarees that can make fantasies come true.

Dream Jeans

1987

Little Girls Talking Dirty poster
7.0

Christina DeLongpre owns and operates Fingertalking, where she pulsatingly performs the fine art of telephone-sex to absolute perfection. But warm and wet word-of-mouth appears to have gotten out of hand. This has resulted in an increase in the volume of Christina's business to the point where she is forced to hire additional help. Rising to the oral occasion are an erotic trio of talented talkers named Lisa, Tina and Claire. During an in-depth interview, Christina advises the girls that their best routine is to picture themselves actually living out the sexual situation that they are describing. As the girls go deep dialing on their own, each of them ends up in a steamy situation that explicitly proves that the next best thing to one's fist is the telephone!

Little Girls Talking Dirty

1985

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9.0

Recently deceased Texans take a plane ride to the afterlife

Lust Flight 2000

1978

Frat Brats poster
9.0

Meet Barb, Babs, Babar & Buttons - The Final Brats. These chicks have the worst reps on campus, and that's just the way they like it! But when a stuck-up cheerleader named Muffy tries to shut them down, the Brats go "all out" in their recruitment of fraternal lust... and pass with high honors!

Frat Brats

1989

Fantasy Follies poster
9.0

Eric Edwards and Kay Parker are dining in a fashionable living room. As they get through their salad and wine, they begin philosophizing about the X-rated industry. Their discussion turns into a series of dream-like thoughts which come alive right before our very eyes.

Fantasy Follies

1983

Older Women with Young Boys poster
8.0

With their husbands away on a fishing trip, some wives hire college students as handymen for their houses' chores. Officially denouncing soap operas' older woman-younger man motifs, each secretly seduces one or more of the students.

Older Women with Young Boys

1985