John Holmes

Acting

John Holmes

Born 1944-08-08 · Ashville, Ohio, USA

John Curtis Holmes (August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988) better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character in a series of related films), was one of the most prolific European Amercian male porn stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and pornographic feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s. 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. Near the end of his life, Holmes attracted notoriety for his involvement in the Wonderland murders in 1981, and eventually for his death from complications caused by AIDS. Holmes was the subject of several books, a lengthy essay in Rolling Stone magazine, two feature length documentaries, and was the inspiration for two Hollywood movies, Boogie Nights and Wonderland. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Holmes (pornographic actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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

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

Playboy: The Story of X poster
6.8

The Story of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as "King of Sexploitation" Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they're now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the 60s when women's rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn's arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. In the 70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind the Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.

Playboy: The Story of X

1998

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes poster
6.1

Friends, enemies, acquaintances, and family of porn star John Holmes recall their experiences with him, from his childhood to his eventual death from AIDS in 1988.

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes

1999

Sex O’Clock USA poster
5.4

The American sexual revolution in motion through Reichenbach's sharp eye: peep shows, gay theatre, X-rated film shoots...

Sex O’Clock USA

1976

Night Screams poster
4.2

A football star throws a party for his friends. Two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.

Night Screams

1987

Panama Red poster
4.9

A hippie musician needs to make $60,000 through selling high grade Panama Red in just three days to pay back a drug smuggler known as The Money Man.

Panama Red

1976

Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret poster
4.5

A documentary examining the use of marijuana by young people in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Included are interviews with people who regularly use marijuana and testify to its beneficial effects as an aphrodisiac and scenes of nude encounter groups, instructions for making marijuana brownies, soldiers in Vietnam smoking marijuana, etc.

Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret

1971

Electric Blue 15 poster
8.0

The wraparound story this time is “Bobby's Boobies,” a Charlie's Angels parody with three top heavy private investigators - computer programmer Shelly (Annie Sprinkle), psychiatrist Katrina (Candy Samples) and nuclear physicist Jill (Julia Parton) - searching for a missing aphrodisiac. Other vignettes include Ginger Lynn in "Slow Dancer," a "Sex in Amsterdam" segment featuring a look inside the upscale brother the Yab Yum Club and Kay Parker and John Holmes discussing their work in adult films.

Electric Blue 15

1984

Teenager poster
4.7

A film company arrives in a small town to shoot a biker movie. The film's director encourages his actors to "live" their parts, and the results are clashes with the townspeople that end in murder.

Teenager

1974

Breast Orgy poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Breast Orgy

1972

Evil Come Evil Go poster
3.4

A religious fanatic murders people who are engaging in sex.

Evil Come Evil Go

1972

Panorama Blue poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Panorama Blue

1974

Bettie Page: The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini poster
7.5

Featuring the vintage films, and pictures that made her a phenomenon, BETTIE PAGE, THE GIRL IN THE LEOPARD PRINT BIKINI, focuses on the life and times of the legendary model, the times in which she lived, and the impact her career had on the subsequent fifty years.

Bettie Page: The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini

2004

Love Secrets of the Kama Sutra poster
9.0

A young couple having problems with their marital/sex life visit an Indian 'guru' at his reserve and ask him for help in this soft-core drama.

Love Secrets of the Kama Sutra

1971

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

Anomalies: A World of Dreams poster
4.0

A mockumentary sex education film featuring four different couples, straight, gay, lesbian, threesome, engaged in lovemaking.

Anomalies: A World of Dreams

1970

Sex and the Single Vampire poster
4.1

Count Spatula's house is invaded by a group of swingers wanting to have sex in a haunted house. This one is available in two different version: an uncut hardcore version running around an hour and a softcore 27-minute reduced cut which is contained as an extra on the Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) / Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? DVD distributed by Something Weird.

Sex and the Single Vampire

1970

No artwork available
5.0

Taboo: The Beginning of Erotic Cinema documents how the nascent technology of film was used to produce the earliest adult films.

Taboo: The Beginning of Erotic Cinema

2004

The Ice House poster
4.7

Ric Martin, an ice house worker, murders women in blind rage after a traumatic accident which occurred at his workplace. Ric’s identical twin brother, police officer Fred Martin is then assigned to investigate the case.

The Ice House

1969

The Pimp Primer poster
2.3

Carl, a low-end hustler and pimp, uses his girlfriend to start his own prostitution ring. Trouble begins when Carl recruits Sherrie, a local waitress who likes sex. A cheesy narrator relates this morality tale.

The Pimp Primer

1970

Love Boccaccio Style poster
7.5

Four ribald short stories set in the Medieval age, each with a ribald bent. The tawdry tales involve a chastity belt, a man pretending to be deaf-mute to gain access to virgins in a convent school and an adulteress on death row who uses her charms to talk a magistrate out of her punishment.

Love Boccaccio Style

1972

Carnal Knowledge poster
4.3

Carla has a birthday party for her pimp Troy and invites Brenda, Chi-Chi, Wild Willie and Big John. They all have softcore sex.

Carnal Knowledge

1970

No artwork available
10.0

Linda confesses her secrets to a psychiatrist.

The Hunter

1971

Behind the camera