Acting
Bobby Astyr
Biography
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
Movies with Bobby Astyr
I, the Jury
1982
C.O.D.
1981
Pelvis
1977
Centerfold Fever
1981
Barbara Broadcast
1977
The Love-In Arrangement
1981
Thrilling Drilling
1974
Roommates
1982
Tigresses
1979
Tramp
1980
Dracula Exotica
1980
Cheryl's Surrender
1975
Outlaw Ladies
1981
Expose Me, Lovely
1976
Breaker Beauties
1977
Sharon
1975
Back Door Girls
1983
Too Young to Care
1975
Magic Girls
1985
Liquid A$$ets
1982
Blonde Velvet
1976
Legends of Porn
1987
N.Y. Babes
1979
Sherlick Holmes
1975
Young Twins
2007
The Devil in Miss Jones 2
1982
Painful Desires
1978
The Joyriders
1975
Mascara
1983
Confessions of Seka
1980
Cherry Hustlers
1977
In-Flight Service
1975
Dirty Looks
1982
Blue Ecstasy
1980
A Girl's Best Friend
1981
The Kinky World of Annie Sprinkle
2006
Nite At The Venus
2011
Tina Russell: 1970s Girl Next Door
2011
That's Erotic
1979
Nasty Nurses
1982
Dr. Love and His Strange House of Perversion
1977
Corruption
1983
Sue Prentiss, R.N.
1975
Satan Was a Lady
1975
Pussycat Galore
1984
Babylon Pink
1979
The Erotic Dr. Jekyll
1975
Lustful Feelings
1977
Double Your Pleasure
1978
Odyssey: The Ultimate Trip
1977
Pleasure Palace
1979
Too Many Pieces
1975
October Silk
1980
Punk Rock
1977
Teenage Masseuse
1975
More
1975
The Ganja Express
1978
The Double Exposure of Holly
1977
French-Teen
1977
American Babylon
1985
Afternoon Delights
1980
The Playgirl
1983
French Shampoo
1978
Candy Stripers 2
1985
Behind the Scenes of an Adult Movie
1984
Chorus Call
1978
Woman in Love: A Story of Madame Bovary
1978
Schoolgirl's Reunion
1977
Blonde in Black Silk
1979
BurleXXX
1984
Captain Lust
1977
Peepholes
1982
Tara Tara Tara Tara
1981
The Seduction of Cindy
1980
Thunderbuns
1976
Silky
1981
The Secret Dreams of Mona Q
1977
The Affairs of Janice
1976
Office Fantasies
1984
People
1978
Sylvia
1976
Princess
1980
The Vixens of Kung Fu (A Tale of Yin Yang)
1975
Honey Pie
1976
Sex Spa USA
1984
For Richer for Poorer
1979
Big Abner
1975
Hypersexuals
1984
Intensive Care
1974
When a Woman Calls
1975
Hot Child in the City
1979
Undercovers
1982
Her Name Was Lisa
1980
Honeysuckle Rose
1979
Love In Maid
1975
Prized Possession
1978
The Passion Seekers
1977
The Love Syndrome
1979
Once Upon a Secretary
1983
The Pitfalls of Bunny
1977
Times Square Comes Alive
1985
Fantasy Club of America
1977
Strange Family
1977
That Lady from Rio
1976
Sizzle
1980
S.W.A.P.
1976
The Story of Eloise
1976
Platinum Paradise
1981
Oriental Blue
1975
Once Over Nightly
1976
Joint Venture
1977
Joy
1977
French Classmates
1977
Sex Maniac
1975
Angie Police Women
1979
Ecstasy in Blue
1976
Babes in Joyland
1987
Dinner with Samantha
1983
Veronica's Diary
1985
Foxtrot
1982
Teenage Bikers
1977
Merle Michaels Anal Strawberry
2009
Through the Looking Glass
1976
Too Hot to Handle
1975
Double Header
1974
Latin Heat
1973