Bobby Astyr

Bobby Astyr, the "Clown Prince of Porn," was one of the pioneering generation of actors who made a name for themselves in blue movies in the 1970s, thriving in an industry where - aside from the legendary John Holmes- women were the star attractions. Like many of the first generation of adult entertainment stars, Astyr was Jewish (it was said of that first cohort that the female stars almost entirely had been born & baptized Roman Catholics and that the male stars - aside from the obviously gentile Holmes - were primarily Jewish, and that this had something to do with the repression of the Catholic Church and the lack of same in Conservative and Reform Judaism). Bobby himself believed that his religion made him more of a "mensch," someone who tried to help his fellow performers, many of whom were troubled or addicted to drugs.

While never a male porn star of the magnitude of Jamie Gillis or John Leslie, let alone the fabled King himself, John Holmes, Bobby Astyr appeared in well over 140 known blue movies, and perhaps was in scores more of loops that are now lost. Bobby won his sobriquet "The Cown Prince" by his uninhibited on-screen antics; he was't afraid to look foolish to get a laugh. His most remembered performance likely remains that of the non-plussed maitre d' in the 1977 classic "Barbara Broadcast" who, in case of any breakage caused by waitresses or restaurant patrons, penalized the perpetrator by "taking it out in trade." The following year, he met and fell in love with adult film actress Samantha Fox; they continued in a long-term relationship, sharing side-by-side apartments, for almost 24 years, until Astyr died of lung cancer in 2002.

Birth Name: Robert H. Charles

Filmography (126 Appearances)

Tina Russell: 1970s Girl Next Door

Nite At The Venus

Merle Michaels Anal Strawberry

Young Twins

The Kinky World of Annie Sprinkle

Legends of Porn

Babes in Joyland

Candy Stripers 2

Veronica's Diary

Magic Girls

American Babylon

Times Square Comes Alive

Sex Spa USA

Behind the Scenes of an Adult Movie

BurleXXX

Office Fantasies

Hypersexuals

Pussycat Galore

Mascara

Back Door Girls

Corruption

The Playgirl

Dinner with Samantha

Once Upon a Secretary

Dirty Looks

Foxtrot

Roommates

I, the Jury

The Devil in Miss Jones 2

Liquid A$$ets

Nasty Nurses

Undercovers

Peepholes

C.O.D.

A Girl's Best Friend

Silky

Platinum Paradise

The Love-In Arrangement

Outlaw Ladies

Tara Tara Tara Tara

Centerfold Fever

Confessions of Seka

Dracula Exotica

Afternoon Delights

October Silk

Princess

Tramp

Her Name Was Lisa

The Seduction of Cindy

Blue Ecstasy

Sizzle

Pleasure Palace

Angie Police Women

Honeysuckle Rose

N.Y. Babes

Babylon Pink

The Love Syndrome

Hot Child in the City

For Richer for Poorer

Tigresses

Blonde in Black Silk

That's Erotic

French Shampoo

People

Double Your Pleasure

The Ganja Express

Chorus Call

Woman in Love: A Story of Madame Bovary

Prized Possession

Painful Desires

The Secret Dreams of Mona Q

Barbara Broadcast

Joint Venture

Breaker Beauties

Lustful Feelings

Punk Rock

Teenage Bikers

Joy

French-Teen

Cherry Hustlers

Pelvis

Odyssey: The Ultimate Trip

The Double Exposure of Holly

French Classmates

Schoolgirl's Reunion

Captain Lust

Fantasy Club of America

Dr. Love and His Strange House of Perversion

The Passion Seekers

Strange Family

The Pitfalls of Bunny

Blonde Velvet

The Affairs of Janice

Sylvia

Through the Looking Glass

That Lady from Rio

The Story of Eloise

Once Over Nightly

Expose Me, Lovely

Ecstasy in Blue

Honey Pie

Thunderbuns

S.W.A.P.

Cheryl's Surrender

Sherlick Holmes

Too Many Pieces

Too Young to Care

Teenage Masseuse

More

Too Hot to Handle

Oriental Blue

Sue Prentiss, R.N.

Satan Was a Lady

When a Woman Calls

Big Abner

Sharon

Love In Maid

The Vixens of Kung Fu (A Tale of Yin Yang)

In-Flight Service

Sex Maniac

The Joyriders

The Erotic Dr. Jekyll

Thrilling Drilling

Intensive Care

Double Header

Latin Heat

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