Jerry Butler (born May 13, 1959) is an American pornographic actor. He was one of the most popular male performers in the 1980s, making more than 500 films in his career.
Butler was born Paul Siederman in Brooklyn to a Jewish father and a mother of half German/Irish and half Cherokee Native American descent. His paternal grandfather, Sam Siederman, was the half-brother of Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky. Butler was an aspiring ice hockey pl...
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Jerry Butler (born May 13, 1959) is an American pornographic actor. He was one of the most popular male performers in the 1980s, making more than 500 films in his career.
Butler was born Paul Siederman in Brooklyn to a Jewish father and a mother of half German/Irish and half Cherokee Native American descent. His paternal grandfather, Sam Siederman, was the half-brother of Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky. Butler was an aspiring ice hockey player during his youth, and made it as far as minor league professional playing for the New Haven Nighthawks, a New York Rangers farm team. After a barrage of serious injuries, Butler's hockey future was uncertain, and he set his sights on a different career.
Butler initially tried his luck at mainstream acting, performing in a variety of off-broadway plays such as the character Donald in David Mamet's play American Buffalo and as Hank Halloway in The Gay Dracula. He also had a few walk-ons on the long running soap One Life to Live (1978) as...
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