Bobby Astyr
Acting · Born Nov 14, 1937 · Died Apr 7, 2002 (64) · New York City, New York, USA
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
Films
Tina Russell: 1970s Girl Next Door
2011
Nite At The Venus
2011
The Kinky World of Annie Sprinkle
2006
Legends of Porn
19876.0
Candy Stripers 2
19857.3
Magic Girls
19859.0
American Babylon
198510.0
Times Square Comes Alive
19857.0
Veronica's Diary
19857.0
Sex Spa USA
198410.0
Behind the Scenes of an Adult Movie
19846.0
Pussycat Galore
19848.0
BurleXXX
19845.8
Office Fantasies
19849.0
Hypersexuals
19846.0
Mascara
19836.7
Back Door Girls
19835.8
Corruption
19837.0
The Playgirl
19835.5
Once Upon a Secretary
198310.0
Latin Heat
1983
Dirty Looks
19826.0
Foxtrot
19826.3
Roommates
19827.1
I, the Jury
19825.7
The Devil in Miss Jones 2
19825.8
Liquid A$$ets
19827.1
Nasty Nurses
1982
Peepholes
19828.0
Undercovers
19828.0
C.O.D.
19813.4
A Girl's Best Friend
19815.0
Silky
19817.0
Platinum Paradise
19817.3
The Love-In Arrangement
19814.0
Outlaw Ladies
19817.0
Tara Tara Tara Tara
19817.0
Centerfold Fever
1981
World of Henry Paris
1981
Confessions of Seka
19805.8
Dracula Exotica
19805.6
Afternoon Delights
19806.6
October Silk
19804.8
Princess
19807.0
Tramp
19805.8
Blue Ecstasy
19807.8
The Seduction of Cindy
19807.3
Sizzle
19808.0
Pleasure Palace
19795.8
Angie Police Women
19795.0
Honeysuckle Rose
19796.5
N.Y. Babes
197910.0
Babylon Pink
19795.0
The Love Syndrome
19796.3
Hot Child in the City
19799.0
Tigresses
19798.6
That's Erotic
19798.0
Blonde in Black Silk
19798.0
For Richer for Poorer
19798.0
Her Name Was Lisa
19796.4
French Shampoo
19787.0
People
19786.8
Double Your Pleasure
19785.5
The Ganja Express
19784.2
Chorus Call
19785.3
Painful Desires
19789.0
Woman in Love: A Story of Madame Bovary
19786.6
Prized Possession
19787.0
The Secret Dreams of Mona Q
19776.5
Barbara Broadcast
19776.9
Joint Venture
19776.5
Breaker Beauties
19775.7
Lustful Feelings
19777.4
Punk Rock
19777.0
Joy
19776.8
French-Teen
19778.0
Cherry Hustlers
19778.0
Pelvis
19775.2
Odyssey: The Ultimate Trip
19775.3
The Double Exposure of Holly
19776.4
French Classmates
19777.0
Schoolgirl's Reunion
19777.0
Captain Lust
19776.0
The Passion Seekers
1977
The Pitfalls of Bunny
19779.0
Fantasy Club of America
19778.0
Strange Family
1977
Honeymoon Haven
19777.0
Blonde Velvet
19768.3
The Affairs of Janice
19766.5
Sylvia
19765.4
Through the Looking Glass
19766.4
That Lady from Rio
197610.0
The Story of Eloise
197610.0
Once Over Nightly
197610.0
Expose Me, Lovely
19766.0
Ecstasy in Blue
19765.0
Honey Pie
19766.6
Thunderbuns
19768.0
S.W.A.P.
1976
Cheryl's Surrender
19757.5
Sherlick Holmes
19755.3
Too Many Pieces
19757.5
Too Young to Care
19756.0
Teenage Masseuse
19757.7
More
19757.2
Too Hot to Handle
19757.0
Oriental Blue
19754.3
Sue Prentiss, R.N.
19757.5
Satan Was a Lady
19755.6
When a Woman Calls
19758.0
Big Abner
19756.0
Sharon
19756.6
Love In Maid
197510.0
The Joyriders
19759.0
In-Flight Service
19758.0
The Erotic Dr. Jekyll
19759.0
The Vixens of Kung Fu (A Tale of Yin Yang)
19754.5
Sex Maniac
197510.0
Thrilling Drilling
19746.0
Intensive Care
19748.0
Double Header
197410.0