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John Curtis Holmes (8 August 1944-13 March 1988) was a legendary American adult film actor who was credited in at least 537 films, and who was said to have slept with over 14,000 women. Holmes was a legend during the 1970s, but he degenerated into a drug addict and criminal, taking part in the Wonderland murders of 1981 as Eddie Nash's associate. He died of AIDS in 1988 after being acquitted of murder.
Biography[]
John Curtis Estes was born in Ashville, Ohio on 8 August 1944, and he was raised as "John Holmes" by his devout Southern Baptist mother and his alcoholic stepfather. Holmes enlisted in the US Army at the age of sixteen with his mother's permission, serving in West Germany for three years as a Signal Corps soldier. He was honorably discharged in 1963, and he took nurse Sharon Gebenini as a wife in 1965 while working as an ambulance driver. In April 1965, he became a forklift driver at a meatpacking warehouse in Cudahy, California.
Adult film career[]
Holmes later found his true calling when he entered the adult film industry, using his physical talents to beco
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John Holmes
ACTOR
1944 - 1988
John Holmes
John Curtis Holmes (né Estes; August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988), better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character he portrayed in a series of related films), was an American pornographic film actor. He ranks among the most prolific adult film performers, with documented credits for at least 573 films. Holmes was best known for his exceptionally large penis, which was heavily promoted for its length, hardness, thickness, and staying power. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Holmes has received more than 672,614 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). John Holmes is the 488th most popular actor (up from 551st in 2019), the 890th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,024th in 2019) and the 242nd most popular American Actor.
John Holmes is most famous for being one of the most prolific male porn stars of all time.
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John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches (paperback)
(This is the second, expanded edition.)
Most people might, understandably, predict that the world's first porn star was a woman, but they would be wrong. John Curtis Holmes was just a simple country boy from Ohio when he moved to California in 1964. It was the infancy of hardcore, so in Holmes' wildest dreams, he could not have predicted the turbulent ride on which he had embarked by publicizing his private parts. With the fame he achieved by playing his most famous character - a gun toting detective named Johnny Wadd - came money. Holmes was pleased to spend it on his wife and mistresses, but soon was in over his head after he became addicted to cocaine.
Unfortunately for Holmes, in the years that followed, his addiction led him into several desperate choices - including setting up a robbery at the home of Ed Nash, a powerful L.A. nightclub owner. The robbery resulted in one of the most gruesome, unsolved, multiple-murders in Hollywood history. Amazingly, before his untimely death in 1988, Holmes regained his momentum, remarr
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