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American pornographic actor
Jeff Stryker
Jeff Stryker in 2007
BornCharles Casper Peyton
(1962-08-21) August 21, 1962 (age 62)
Carmi, Illinois, USA
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Jeff Stryker (born Charles Casper Peyton, August 21, 1962) is an American porn star who has starred in bisexual, gay, and straight adult films. He lives in California.

Early life

Jeff Stryker grew up in Springfield, Illinois. His father was a car salesman and his mother was a nurse.

Pre-film career

Jeff Stryker worked as a stripper and delivered balloon-o-grams before a local photographer sent shots of him to gay adult film director John Travis in California.

Film career and sexuality

Stryker is primarily known as a performer in gay pornography films, although Jamie Loves Jeff was one of the biggest selling heterosexual adult movies of all time for its producer, Vivid Entertainment. He describes himself (in a somewhat joking fashion) as sexually "universal". He has also said, "I don’t define myself as anything."

He has also worked as a non-pornographic actor, starring in a 1989 Italian-produced horror film called After Death (Revenge of the Zombies), in which he was credited as Chuck Peyton. Later in the American DVD release, the name Jeff Stryker was used as well. A trailer interview was added with Stryker describing the experience he had while shooting this movie in Manila. Stryker also starred in the short film by German cult director Rosa von Praunheim Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? Stryker also appeared in a 1995 German television movie The Black Curse starring James Brolin, as well as the 1988 Italian feature Dirty Love.

Awards and tributes

Merchandising

The Jeff Stryker Cock and Balls, a dildo fashioned from a cast of his penis, is widely sold in sex stores. The sex toy is notable not only for being popular, but also because Stryker and the manufacturer of the item litigated for the rights to its likeness as part of Stryker's intellectual property. The case eventually reached a mutually acceptable resolution (see § Legal Battles). In a 1999 Salon article written by Jeff Stryker, a New York journalist and the porn actor's namesake, the dildo is even described as an object of higher culture. It was mentioned in Allan Gurganus' 1997 novel Plays Well with Others, where the novel's narrator cleans up a closet filled with dildos, the premium find being "a Jeff Stryker, a monster, but somehow Roman in its genial fluted civic beauty."

Stryker has released a country music album titled Wild Buck (1995). In 2003, he released a limited edition anatomically correct action figure of himself.

Reaction from other celebrities

  • Filmmaker and author John Waters called Jeff Stryker “the Cary Grant of porno.”
  • American comedian Margaret Cho's routines involve her love for his films. In her show, Assassin, she discusses in detail the many places one can use the dildo. Stryker had given Cho his commercially produced action figure.
  • In her autobiography, Traci Lords describes him as “handsome but rather dumb looking” after he gave her scornful looks backstage during a Thierry Mugler Fashion show in Paris.

Legal battles

Stryker sued Health Devices Inc. and California Publishers Liquidating Corp. for over $1 million for breach of contract and piracy when they sold a bootleg dildo of his genitals without paying him sufficiently. The case was heard before a judge in Los Angeles, who eventually brokered a deal whereby the case was dismissed upon payment of $25,000 to Stryker and the return and right to reproduce all items which Stryker endorsed.

Kulak's Woodshed

Stryker has had arguments with Kulak's Woodshed, a folk-music nightclub, that is next door to his office. He claims that the club causes disturbance normally associated with large late-night urban venues: noise, drugs, unruly patrons, vandalism, graffiti, public urination and parking headaches. James Britton, who operates a floor covering business on the other side of the club, also complains that the club has damaged his business. In January 2009, the L.A. Weekly reported that Stryker blamed the nightclub for preventing him from completing his autobiography, as the noise and crowds disturbed his concentration. “(My writing has) been put on perpetual hold until I can get myself back together,” he told the newspaper. “I got a $25,000 advance on (the book) but could never complete it.”

But Paul Kulak counter claims (according to the L.A. Weekly) that Stryker has made threats to him and the club's customers: “He constantly reminds me he’s a firearms expert and will hide behind his back door when I dump the trash. Once, he started making mechanical gun clicks. I could see he had a pistol in his hand as he was dry-firing it... I’m willing to risk my life to keep this going.” Stryker responded to Kulak's claim and was quoted as saying, "That guy is so out there!"

Stage shows

Stryker appeared in A Sophisticated Evening with Jeff Stryker in Los Angeles, Summer 2006 and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Summer 2007. The show was produced by comedy writer Bruce Vilanch. In the show, Stryker performed a comic monologue about his life and adventures in adult films, conducted a "porn acting demo" comedy skit with an audience member, and danced in a nude finale where he greeted the audience.

From 1999 through 2001, Stryker performed in a stage show called Hard Time, a comedy send-up of gay porn prison films. In the finale, Stryker danced nude. After the play, Stryker met with the audience at the door. The show toured several cities including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, San Diego and Houston.

Selected filmography

Gay and solo

  • Jeff Stryker Does Hard Time 2001
  • Stryker 2000 solo/masturbation
  • Jeff Stryker’s Underground 1997
  • Santa’s Cummin’! 1996 solo/masturbation
  • J.S. Big Time 1995
  • The Tease 1994 solo/masturbation
  • How to Enlarge Your Penis 1993 solo/masturbation
  • 10 Plus 1992 solo/masturbation
  • 10 Plus Volume 2 1992 solo/masturbation
  • Busted 1991
  • In Hot Pursuit 1991
  • Powertool 2: Breaking Out
  • Just You & Me 1990 solo/masturbation
  • On the Rocks 1990
  • Stryker’s Best: Powerful Sex 1989
  • The Look 1987
  • Stryker Force 1987
  • In Hot Pursuit 1987
  • Powerfull 2 1987
  • Powertool 1986
  • Bigger Than Life 1986

Straight

  • Stryker/Ryker in "RAW"
  • Jamie Loves Jeff
  • Cummin' Together
  • Dreaming of You
  • Heiress
  • Jamie Loves Jeff 2
  • Cyberstud"
  • Jeff Stryker's Favorite Sexual Positions 1992
  • Milk and Honey
  • Take Me
  • The Rebel
  • The Giant
  • In Your Wildest Dreams

Bisexual

  • The Switch Is On 1987
  • Every Which Way 1990

Other/non-porn

  • Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? 1999 comedy short by Rosa von Praunheim
  • After Death (also known as Zombie 4: After Death) 1989
  • Dirty Love 1988
  • Circus of Books, a 2019 documentary by Rachel Mason, features an interview with Stryker. The film focuses on the Los Angeles bookstores and porn shops Circus of Books, operated by Karen Mason and Barry Mason. Stryker worked with the Masons and did book and video signings at the shop.
Awards
Preceded byDerek Cameron & Kurt Young
for Tradewinds 		AVN Awards for Best Sex Scene-Gay Video (with Derek Cameron)
for Jeff Stryker's Underground
1998 		Succeeded byMike Branson & Tom Chase
for California Kings

See also

References

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