Gerard Damiano
Gerard Damiano was an American director of adult films. He wrote and directed the 1972 cult classic Deep Throat. He also directed the smash hit The Devil in Miss Jones, which rankedin Varietys list of the topgrossing pictures of 1973. Damiano is one of the seminal directors of what is known as The Golden Age of Porn.
He was born to an Italian American Catholic family in the Bronx, New York City. When he was 6, his father died his mother never remarried. The day he turned 17, he joined the United States Navy foryears. Before this, he was a shoeshine boy in Times Square and worked in an automat. Afterwards, he studied Xray technology on the G.I. Bill and was an xray technician at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York, then opened a hairdressing salon with a friend in New York City. Frequently overhearing sexual gossip at the salon convinced him that pornographic films made to appeal to couples would be a commercial success.
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