Leo Ford
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| Born | Leo John Hilgeford June 5, 1957 Dayton, Ohio, United States |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Porn actor, Model |
| 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.[1][2][3] He was born in Dayton, Ohio.
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Career
In 1989, Ford was crowned King of the Beaux Arts Ball in New York City. His Queen was Melissa Slade.[4]
Ford paired with David Alan Reis aka "Lance" in Leo & Lance and Blonds Do It Best, both directed by William Higgins.[3] 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, the character he played in Games had a severe motorcycle accident that left him hospitalized, and in a coma. He died in Los Angeles some years later at the age of 34, a few days after being hit by a car while on a motorcycle.[5]
Private life
Ford had a relationship with cult actor Divine.[6] The two traveled together and he made appearances at the clubs in which Divine was contracted to perform in. After Divine's death, Ford began a relationship with Craig Markle. Ford and Markle lived together in Los Angeles and Hawaii and raised tropical birds. After Ford's death Markle ran a travel agency and over saw Ford's large collection of pictures from his career.[7]
Death
Ford died July 17, 1991 when the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a truck making an illegal turn onto Sunset Boulevard. Ford suffered massive head trauma and died two days later. His partner, Craig Markle was riding with him but suffered only minor injuries. Ford was cremated and his ashes sent to San Francisco, where after a wake at Josie's Bar they were scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge.[8]
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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.beauxartssociety.org/19356.html
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- ↑ 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.
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External links
- Leo Ford at the Internet Movie Database
- Leo Ford at Find a Grave
- Articles with hCards
- 1957 births
- 1991 deaths
- American male pornographic film actors
- LGBT pornographic film actors
- LGBT entertainers from the United States
- Motorcycle road accident deaths
- People from Dayton, Ohio
- Pornographic film actors from Ohio
- Road accident deaths in California
- 20th-century American male actors
