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| Born | Leo John Hilgeford (1957-07-05)July 5, 1957 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | July 17, 1991(1991-07-17) (aged 34) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Partner(s) | Divine, Craig Markle |
Leo Ford (born Leo John Hilgeford; July 5, 1957 – July 17, 1991) was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornographic films and bisexual pornographic movies and magazines in the 1980s. He was born in Dayton, Ohio.
Career
In 1989, Ford was crowned King of the Beaux Arts Ball in New York City. His Queen was Melissa Slade.
Ford paired with David Alan Reis aka "Lance" in Leo & Lance and Blonds Do It Best, Leo and Lance directed by William Higgins; Blonds Do It Best directed by Richard Morgan. In his starring role for the film Games, directed by Steve Scott, Ford played a medal-winning swimmer in the Gay Games competition, with Al Parker playing a photographer assigned to take professional portraits of the athlete. In a scene that foreshadowed what happened to Ford in real life, his character had a severe motorcycle accident that left him hospitalized and in a coma.
Personal life
Ford had a short-lived relationship with cult actor Divine. The two travelled together and he made appearances at clubs in which Divine was contracted to perform. In late 1985, Ford began a relationship with Craig Markle. Ford and Markle lived together in Los Angeles and Hawaii, where they raised tropical birds and ran a tour and recreation business called "Pacific Paradise Tours". In July 1991, Ford was hit by a car while riding a motorcycle with Markle. He died shortly after from his injuries. After Ford's death Markle ran a travel agency and oversaw Ford's collection of pictures from his career until his own death in 1994.
Selected videography
Gay
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Bisexual
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See also
Notes
- Autopornography: a memoir of life in the lust lane (1997), Scott O'Hara, Routledge, ISBN 0-7890-0144-6, ISBN 978-0-7890-0144-3.
- Acts of intervention: performance, gay culture, and AIDS: Unnatural acts : theorizing the performative (1998), David Román, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-21168-9, ISBN 978-0-253-21168-2.
- ^ Escoffier, Jeffrey (2009). Bigger Than Life. Philadelphia: Running Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-7867-2010-1.
- Beaux Arts Society Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Not simply Divine: beneath the make-up, above the heels and behind the scenes with a cult superstar (1994), Bernard Jay, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-671-88467-0, ISBN 978-0-671-88467-3.
- "Leo Ford - Trivia". IMDb.
- Ford, Leo. "Ford's Personal Life and Career". Retrieved 20 March 2015.
External links
Categories:- 1957 births
- 1991 deaths
- American male pornographic film actors
- LGBTQ pornographic film actors
- American LGBTQ male actors
- LGBTQ people from Ohio
- Motorcycle road incident deaths
- Male actors from Dayton, Ohio
- Pornographic film actors from Ohio
- Road incident deaths in California
- 20th-century American male actors
- 20th-century American LGBTQ people