Tom DeSimone
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Film director Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Tom DeSimone (1 July 1939, Cambridge, Massachusetts - 17 October 2026, Palm Springs, California) was an American film director. He studied at Emerson College and earned a master's degree at UCLA, and directed gay adult films under the name Lancer Brooks, including The Collection (1970), the first gay X-rated feature with a plot and dialogue. His mainstream work includes Chatterbox (1977), Hell Night (1981), The Concrete Jungle (1982) and Reform School Girls (1986). He was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame in 2005 and died of terminal cancer in 2026 at the age of 87.
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American film director of Chatterbox and Hell Night, and a pioneer of gay adult cinema.
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- Born
- 1 July 1939, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; died 17 October 2026, Palm Springs, California, USA
- Career
- The Collection (1970) as Lancer Brooks; Chatterbox (1977); Hell Night (1981); The Concrete Jungle (1982); Reform School Girls (1986); GayVN Hall of Fame 2005
- Country
- United States
- Note
- Some sources give his birthplace as Revere, Massachusetts; Cambridge is used here per Wikipedia. Portrait is an EDGE pass: a Hell Night set still with DeSimone and Linda Blair; first out if a stronger pass is found
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