Jamie Gillis (born Jamey Ira Gurman; April 20, 1943 – February 19, 2010) was an American pornographic actor, director and member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
He was married to the porn actress Serena.
According to Al Goldstein, Gillis was always described as "sexually the wildest, most decadent, off-the-wall guy in the business."[4] He was a pioneer in the pornographic style known as Gonzo. In addition to starring in the first Buttman film, he also created the influential On the Prowl series. Featuring a porn star who rides in a limo looking for regular guys to have sex with, the video series was very popular and inspired a scene in the movie Boogie Nights.[9] He also co-produced the popular Dirty Debutante series with fellow director and performer Ed Powers.[10] In the early 1990s, he directed a series of low-budget videos called Jamie Gillis: The Private Tapes, meant for a niche market and sometimes for private customers, which focused on fetish themes such as BDSM but also on some occasions golden showers and coprophilia.[11]
Death
Gillis died on February 19, 2010, in New York City from melanoma, which was diagnosed four to five months earlier.[12] In an audio interview given to The Rialto Report shortly before his death, Gillis stated that in the 1970s he had wanted his ashes to be scattered in Times Square, but years later he changed his mind, stating that the cleaned up Times Square that emerged in the 1990s would contaminate his ashes.[3]
123"Porn Star Jamie Gillis Remembered by Non-Porn-Star Friends". New York. March 15, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2013. His real name was Jamey Gurman; he was a native New Yorker and "renaissance Jew" who graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University and, in the spirit of countercultural exploration and open-mindedness, ended up in porn.
↑"Whatever Happened to Juliet Graham? (And 'The Ganja Express' (1978)?)". August 27, 2017. A statuesque blonde, she appeared in notable films like 'The Story of Joanna' (1975), 'Alice in Wonderland' (1976), and the elusive 'The Ganja Express' (1978) – and dated two early industry regulars, Jamie Gillis and Ashley Moore. For a time she also was a regular in pictorials in the pages of New York-based men's magazines.
