R.I.P. Dr. Butts

(Kudos for the headline and the heads up to Terry)
Jamie Gillis, one of porn’s most enthusiastic and gifted thespians, has died of cancer at the age of 66. Trained for the stage in New York, Gillis, aka The Hebrew Hammer, aka Buster Hymen, aka Jamie Rugman, found his talents lay elsewhere, and began doing live sex shows while reading poetry and reciting Shakespeare so the shows would be considered socially redeeming and would not be raided by the police. Earning a reputation as “very wild and horny,” or more eloquently “his range [was] elastic, his performances visceral. He effortlessly conveyed gravitas and ease onscreen,” he starred in more than 400 films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Mummy Dearest, Last Rumba in Paris, Terms of Endowment, Cherry-etts for Hire, For Your Thighs Only, Golden Girls: The Movie, On Golden Blonde, Wanda Whips Wall Street (aka Stocks and Blondes), Carnal Encounters of the Barest Kind, Invasion of the Love Drones, and Wine Me, Dine Me, 69 Me. His On the Prowl series of films inspired the On the Lookout scene in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights.