ハリー・リームスさん死去 Harry Reems dies at 65

ハリー・リームス（Harry Reems 1947年8月27日 - 2013年3月19日 ）

Harry Reems dies at 65; porn actor starred in 'Deep Throat'



『ディープ・スロート』（Deep Throat）
共演のハリー・リームスは、元々製作スタッフとして200ドルで雇われたが、100ドルの出演料で映画に出演することに合意した




Harry Reems, who starred with Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film "Deep Throat" and became a cause celebre in Hollywood after he was convicted on federal obscenity charges related to the movie, has died. He was 65.

Reems, who had pancreatic cancer and other ailments, died Tuesday at a Salt Lake City veterans hospital. His death was confirmed by the Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Healthcare System.

He arrived on the Miami set of "Deep Throat" as the lighting director but when the man hired to portray the doctor in the film failed to show up, director Gerard Damiano said: "Put on this coat; you're acting," Reems told The Times in 2005.

At first he enjoyed the celebrity that accompanied starring in one of the most successful pornographic films of all time.

"You could call me the Shirley Temple" of adult films, Reems told an interviewer when "Deep Throat" was released. "Take an X film and make it an R because I have a PG body."

That changed in 1974 when he was charged along with 10 others with conspiring to distribute "Deep Throat" across state lines.

It marked the first time that the federal government had tried to charge an actor for the results of a film's distribution.

After he was convicted in 1976, The Times ran an editorial in defense of Reems under the headline "The Anti-Freedom Conspiracy" and pointed out that noted constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz had volunteered to handle Reems' legal appeal.

"If this conviction stands, no actor and no writer anywhere in the country will be safe from prosecution," Dershowitz said, according to the editorial.

Hollywood's A-list also took note. Celebrities such as Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Gregory Peck helped raise funds to pay Reems' legal bills.

Reems was granted a new trial but the charges were eventually dropped.

The damage to his personal life had been done. While waiting to go on trial, "the heavy drinking began in Memphis," Reems said in 2005 in The Times, and he became a "2-quart-a-day vodka drinker" who at one time lived "in the back of an Albertsons' dumpster in Malibu."

He didn't stop drinking until the late 1980s, when he ended up in Park City, Utah, and entered a 12-step alcohol recovery program.

Once sober, he sold real estate. Reems also turned toward religion.

"I put God in first position, not me," Reems told Utah's Deseret Morning News in 2006, "because anything I had ever done almost killed me."

The son of a small-time bookie and a housewife, he was born Herbert Streicher on Aug. 27, 1947, in New York City. At 18, he joined the Marines but received a hardship leave when his father became terminally ill.

Returning to New York in 1967, he acted in experimental and Off-Off-Broadway productions but turned to adult films when he couldn't pay his bills, according to a 2011 New York magazine article titled "The Afterlife of a Porn Star."

He went on to appear in more than 100 hard-core films that included 1973's "The Devil in Miss Jones." Reems also was interviewed in the 2005 documentary "Inside Deep Throat."

In the late 1970s, he moved to Los Angeles and secured a role as a coach in "Grease" but was let go because filmmakers feared his notoriety would jeopardize the box office in the South, according to the New York profile.

"Acting was my true love," Reems told the magazine, "and I buried that possibility by going into adult films."

Survivors include his wife, Jeanne, whom he married in 1990, and a brother.



「ディープ・スロート」(1972)

「巨大なる男とバタフライズ」(1974)
マリー・フォルサ目当てで　購入したのですが　ハズレでした

「トレイシー・ローズの 禁身交愛」(1985)

「トレイシー・ローズ／熱体女」(1985)






‘Deep Throat’ porn star Harry Reems dies at 65 after losing battle with pancreatic cancer

The Bronx-born porn star, who earned $100 to bed Linda Lovelace in “Deep Throat,” died Tuesday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at a Salt Lake City veterans hospital, his pal Don Schenk said.
Reems, the only U.S. actor ever convicted of obscenity, was 65 and had been living in Park City, Utah.
Born Herbert Streicher, Reems grew up on 168th St. and Grand Concourse and dreamed of becoming a legit actor.
Alas, most of Reem’s talent was in his pants. And desperate for money, he parlayed his remarkable physique and sexual stamina into a porn career, starting at age 21.
“I loved sex,” he said later. “I was very promiscuous. And I loved acting.”


In 1972, Reems found himself an extra on the set of “Deep Throat.” When the male lead failed to show, Reems filled the breach, playing the randy Dr. Young opposite Lovelace.
The movie became a blockbuster that turned the obscure actor into a porn superstud. And with blue movies becoming mainstream, the mustached Reems became an unlikely ambassador for a business that was trying to shake off its seedy image.
But while Reems was rising, a Brooklyn federal grand jury was investigating whether the mob got a cut of the “Deep Throat” profits.

Reems was charged with federal conspiracy to transport “Deep Throat” to Memphis ― a city he’d never set foot in.
The conspiracy charge was later dropped, but Reems was convicted of obscenity ― setting up a legal battle on the limits of free speech.

Hollywood came to Reems’ rescue, setting up a legal defense fund and hiring famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz to represent him.
“Initially it was seen as joke, ha, ha, porno star gets busted," Dershowitz said at the time. "But now people are going around seeing it as a very serious issue."
Reems’ conviction was eventually set aside and the judge ordered a new trial ― though he never set a date. This put the case into legal limbo where it remains to this day.
Meanwhile, Reems’ acting career was going nowhere. He appeared in a movie called “The Squad” that bombed. And he was featured in “National Lampoon Goes to the Movies.”
Depressed, Reems turned to drink and drugs and wound up homeless in Utah.
There, in 1987, Reems found God, got sober, and married his wife Jeanne, who was with him to the end.
Instead of denying his past, Reems chose to keep his nom-de-porn and became a successful real estate salesman with a sterling rep in his business.
“This past, is the past,” he would tell clients.