Randy Spears

Randy Spears

Spears in September 2010
Born (1961-06-18) June 18, 1961
Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Other names Greg Ory, Nick Russell, Randy Sprars, Gregory Patrick, Greg Patrick, Wayne Green
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 184 lb (83 kg)
Spouse(s) Danielle Rogers (2 children) (Divorced)[1]

Randy Spears (born June 18, 1961), sometimes credited as Greg Ory, is a former American pornographic actor and director[2] who has appeared in numerous adult feature films. Spears is noted for his comedic acting talent.[3]

Career

Mainstream

Spears left Kankakee for California during the early 1980s, to pursue a career in acting. Spears was seen in three mainstream films under the name Gregory Patrick. In the 1988 comedy Sexpot he played the role of Damon; the same year he appeared in the horror comedy Critters 2: The Main Course.[4] A year later, Spears starred, along with Georgina Spelvin and Linda Blair, in Bad Blood, a gothic thriller also known as A Woman Obsessed. He also acted in commercials and in a one-week stint on Ryan's Hope in 1989 where he played a bartender. Spears recalls this time as being "fun".[5][6]

In 2009, Spears provided the voice of a character called John Q. Mind in the episode "In Country...Club", the fifth-season premiere of American Dad!.[7]

Adult films

Spears was introduced to the industry in 1987 by Ona Zee.[8] In a 2016 interview, he said he was an aspiring actor who, after a few years in show business, fell on hard times due to the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike. He said he turned to modeling when a make-up artist handed him her card and told him to dial the number if he ever felt like doing nude work. With nothing more than a can of beans and a can of potatoes in his cupboard, he called a month later, despite his concern that working in the adult entertainment industry could hurt his professional career later on. Spears said he felt conflicted after his first shoot, for which he earned $400. Still, he fielded and accepted more offers, which came in, he said, once producers noticed he had some acting experience. Initially, he kept his mother uninformed about his new profession.[9][5][10] Spears' first billing was as detective Hank Smith in The Case of the Sensuous Sinners, released in 1988. In 1990, Spears and Tom Byron traveled to Australia and made the films Singles Holiday, Lost in Paradise, Dial a Sailor, Sexual Healer and Outback Assignment.[11] The same year, he won the Adult Video News Best Actor Award for his performance in The Masseuse with Hyapatia Lee. Spears also played Captain Jim Quirk in the "Sex Trek" series, which was a sex-parody of Star Trek. He has since been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

In 2011, he shot his last film in the pornography film industry, having broken down in tears as he left the set. He publicly announced in 2015 that he had left the industry, turning to Christianity.[4][12]

Personal life

He was best friends with the late Jon Dough, with whom he entered the business at around the same time. Spears expressed that Dough was "like a brother" to him. Following Dough's suicide in 2006, Spears and his wife set up a memorial fund on MySpace to help pay for the funeral costs.[13][14][15][16]

In a 2011 interview, Spears has stated that he regrets not having "stuck it out in Hollywood" and that he originally wanted to be a marine biologist when he grew up.[17]

In a 2015 interview, Spears said that he had severe drug problems during his time in the adult business and that a vicious circle kept him in the business all those years: "I had to go to work, to do the porn, so that I could buy the drugs, to bury the pain of doing the porn. So I’d go to work, and do the porn, so I could buy the drugs, to bury the pain. And around and around it went." Spears also claimed that the business changed his view of women, perceiving them as sexual objects, adding "I lost the ability to have a loving and caring relationship. I thought I was still able. I was fooled."[4]

Spears has been married twice and met his first wife while working on set.[18][19]

Spears was once married to fellow actress Danielle Rogers and the couple had two children.[1]

Awards

AVN Awards:

XRCO Awards:

Other Awards:

Selected videography

References

  1. 1 2 "Conversations with Randy Spears". adultfyi.com. April 5, 2006. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Complete 2008 eLINE Award Winners from Venus Berlin". AVN. Retrieved 2014-05-29.
  3. ↑ Martin, Nina K. (2006). "Chapter 10: Never Laugh at a Man with his Pants Down: The Affective Dynamics of Comedy and Porn". In Lehman, Peter. Pornography: Film and Culture. Rutgers University Press. pp. 189–205. ISBN 9780857728883.
  4. 1 2 3 "The 'Most Decorated Male Adult Film Star' Ever Reveals Why He Suddenly Left Porn". nextshark.com. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Conversations with Randy Spears". adultfyi.com. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Ryan's Hope". IMDb. 7 July 1975. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "John Q. Mind (Character)". IMDb. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Hall Of Fame Inductee: Randy Spears". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on 2003-08-06. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  9. ↑ "Most Successful Male Porn Star Of All Time Speaks Out On Porn". YouTube. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Open Your Mind in a Conversation with Randy Spears - Adult Film Legend & Human Being". YouTube. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  11. ↑ Henderson, Rowan (2015). "Exhibiting the Sex Industry: Sex Work as Work in the Australian Capital Territory". Labour History. 108: 173–184. doi:10.5263/labourhistory.108.0173.
  12. ↑ "He Was a Porn Star for 25 Years and in a 'Very, Very Dark Place.' Then, This Happened". The Blaze. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
  13. ↑ "Jon Dough Passes Away". AVN. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  14. ↑ "Adult film star Chet Anuszak a.k.a. "John Dough" (44) took his own life by overdosing on pills". mydeathspace.com. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  15. ↑ "Jon Dough (jondoughmemorial)". myspace.com. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  16. ↑ "Randy Spears, Demi Delia Establish Jon Dough Memorial". XBIZ. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  17. ↑ "Most A Final Conversation with Randy Spears". YouTube. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  18. ↑ "Can You Separate Sex & Love? More with Randy Spears". YouTube. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  19. ↑ "Ruby Wax talks to porn star Randy Spears about juggling sex and love". YouTube. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  20. ↑ "1991 AVN Award winners". Adult Video News. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  21. ↑ "AVN Winners 1994". Adult Video News. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  22. ↑ "AVN Winners 2000". Adult Video News. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
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  24. ↑ "AVN Winners 2003". Adult Video News. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
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  27. ↑ Rutter, Jared (2008-01-12). "2008 AVN Awards Winners Announced". AVN. Archived from the original on April 4, 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
  28. ↑ "2010 AVN Award Winners Announced". AVN. 2010-01-10. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
  29. ↑ Peter, van Aarle. "Historical "Best Porn Movie" Winners". rame.net. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  30. ↑ "PREVIOUS WINNERS and NOMS". Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  31. ↑ "XRCO Hall of Fame". Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  32. ↑ "XRCO Winners 2003". Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  33. ↑ "XRCO Winners 2004". Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  34. ↑ "XRCO Winners 2005". Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  35. ↑ "XRCO Winners 2006". Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  36. ↑ "XRCO Winners 2007". Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  37. ↑ "Adult Video Awards". Canbest. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  38. 1 2 3 "Past Winner History". nightmoves.com. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  39. 1 2 "Additional FOXE Award Winners Announced". AVN. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  40. ↑ "The FICEB Ninfa, Tacón de Aguja and HeatGay Awards". Web.archive.org. 2007-06-09. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
  41. ↑ Peter Warren (2007-06-23). "2007 F.A.M.E. Award Winners Announced". AVN. Retrieved 2007-06-24.

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