A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Gregg Ory
Gregory Deuschle
Gregory Patrick
Randy Spear
Birthplace:
Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Born:
June 18, 1961
Randy Spears was born Gregory Deuschle in Kanakee, Illinois. He went to California in the 1980s to do straight acting, and had some moderate success in acquiring minor roles. During this period he also did some modeling. However, he struggled financially due to the writer's strike in the late 1980s, and ended up entering the pornographic film industry to pay his bills. As a porn star, he was very successful garnering dozens of awards, partly because he had acting abilities. However, he says he had issues with working in the industry from the beginning. He could not bring himself to tell his relatives what he was doing and he was concerned the work would destroy his mainstream career. He also says that working in the industry gave him a very distorted view of women and destroyed his relationships with them outside the industry. In 2011, Spears left the industry and has been a vocal critic of it and what it does to our youth.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.