William Higgins (director)
William Higgins (also "Wim Hof") is a director of gay pornographic films. His first film, "Boys of Venice," was produced in 1979. He has since produced over 140 internationally distributed titles.[1] His films have won several Grabby awards and he is in the GayVN Awards Hall of Fame.[2] He is the founder of the film production company Catalina Video.[citation needed]
One of gay porn's pioneers, William Higgins began making movies with a distinctive '"California look" in the 1970s and directed many of Catalina Video's greatest hits for nearly two decades. With classic films like Pacific Coast Highway, The Young & the Hung, Sailor in the Wild, Class Reunion, Big Guns, These Bases Are Loaded, Brother Load, Beyond Hawaii, and French Lieutenant's Boys.
Channel 1 Releasing acquired the rights to Catalina Video in 2007 and is re-mastering many of Higgins' classic Catalina movies and transferring them to DVD.
Awards and nominations
- 1984 Gay Producers Association winner of Special Achievement Award for "Sailor in the Wild 1".[3]
- 1985 X-Rated Critics Organization winner of Best Depiction of Safe Sex for "The Young & the Hung".[4]
- 2000 Grabby Awards nomination for Best International Video and Best Videograph.[5]
- 2000 Grabby Awards winner of Best Classic DVD.[6]
- 2003 Grabby Awards winner of Best Classic DVD.[7]
Selected filmography
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- 1978 Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Boys Of Venice at IMDb
- 1981 Pacific Coast Highway[8]
- 1981 Brothers Should Do It
- 1982 Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Buster Goes To Laguna at IMDb
- 1983 Cousins
- 1983 Sailor in the Wild[9]
- 1984 Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Frat House Memories at IMDb
- 1985 Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Pizza Boy: He Delivers at IMDb
- 1985 Young and the Hung[10]
- 1987 Big Guns[11]
- 1988 William Higgins – Screen Test
- 1989 Down Under
- 1990 Catalina Orgies
- 1991 Sex in the Great Outdoors
- 1992 Frat Pack
- 1997 Wim Hof's Rough Cut (as Wim Hof)
- 1997 Puda: The Attic (as Wim Hof)
- 1998 Sex In The Can
- 1999 Double Czech[12] (as Wim Hof)
- 2001 Prague Buddies 3: Liebestod[13]
- 2001 The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath (as Wim Hof)
- 2002 Hard Day's
- 2003 Kick Club
- 2005 Inside Jirka Gregor
- 2006 Weapon Of Mass Attraction
- 2007 Load Warriors
- 2008 Bjorn Free
- 2009 Exploring Rudolf Schneider
- 2009 Double Czech 2009[14]
References
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- ↑ 1998 GayVN Hall of Fame.
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- ↑ Brett Beemyn (Editor)Creating a Place For Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories, p. 252, at Google Books
- ↑ 2004 Grabby award winner for Best Classic DVD
- ↑ 1985 X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) award for best director.
- ↑ 1987 X-Rated Critics Organization Best Video, 2002 Grabby Award Best Classic DVD and 2006 Grabby Award Best Classic Gay DVD.
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