Jeff Stryker
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| Birthdate: | August 21, 1962 (age 44) |
| Birth location: | Carmi, Illinois |
| Birth name: | Charles Casper Peyton |
| Height: | 5' 9" |
| Eye color: | Brown |
| Hair color: | Brunette |
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Jeff Stryker (born Charles Casper Peyton on August 21, 1962 in Carmi, Illinois, USA) is an American porn star who has starred in gay, heterosexual, and bisexual adult films. He lives in California.
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[edit] Film career and personal life
Stryker became known in the adult film industry for his all-American good looks, penchant for dirty talk, and his large penis. His penis is billed at 10 inches in length.
He is primarily famous as a performer in gay films, although for a number of years he strenuously asserted that he was not even bisexual in his personal life. He later admitted to being bisexual, describing his sexuality as “universal.”[citation needed]
He has also tried his hand at “legitimate” acting, notably starring in a 1989 Italian-produced horror movie called After Death, in which he was credited as Chuck Peyton.
Stryker has one son, who he has raised independently (after a lengthy custody battle) since the child was one year old. In September 2004, his son, then 14 years old, was the victim of a hate crime where he was surrounded by nine kids, beaten, his nose broken, and his face stabbed at Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys, California. Jeff was interviewed by TV reporters and stated that he believed that the attack was racially motivated (Jeff Stryker is of Armenian descent). Both Jeff and his son were interviewed by NBC news in Los Angeles about the incident. [1]
[edit] Awards and tributes
Stryker was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame for his body of work in adult films.
Stryker was featured in a 1991 portrait by artists Pierre et Gilles.
Stryker was featured on a Netherlands official postage stamp released in January 2004.
[edit] Merchandising
He is also noted for the “Jeff Stryker Cock and Balls,” a rubber dildo fashioned from a cast of his penis and widely sold in sex stores. The dildo was academically analysed in a paper presented at the 1995 Bowling Green State University Conference in Cultural Studies: Lesbian Pornography and Transformation: Foucault, Bourdieu, and de Certeau Make Sense of the Jeff Stryker Dildo, by Mary T. Conway, then a graduate student at Temple University.
Stryker has released a compact disc (Wild Buck) of country music that he performed, and in his pornographic video, Bigger Than Life, he performed a rock song of the same name.[citation needed]
He has also licensed a line of Jeff Stryker products: calendars, playing cards, T-shirts, greeting cards, Stryker Lube and the Jeff Stryker Action Figure.
[edit] Reaction from other celebrities
- Filmmaker and author John Waters called Jeff Stryker " the Cary Grant of porno." [2]
- Stryker is well-known to be the favorite gay porn star of American comedienne Margaret Cho. Many of her routines involve her love for his films and recently in her latest show, Assassin, she discusses in detail about the many places one can use the “Jeff Stryker” dildo. Stryker had given Cho his commercially-produced action figure.[citation needed]
- In her autobiography, Traci Lords describe him as "handsome but rather dumb looking" after he gave her scornful looks backstage during a fashion show in Paris. Supposedly, he was telling others that Lords "wasn't all that", and if she had made it so far in Hollywood with little talent, then he could be a bigger star. Lords wrote, Someone was actually jealous of my success. I guess that meant I was making progress.
[edit] Legal battles
Stryker sued Health Devices Inc. and California Publishers Liquidating Corp. for over $1 million for breach of contract and piracy when they sold a bootleg dildo of his genitals without paying him sufficiently. The case was heard before a judge in Los Angeles, who eventually brokered a deal whereby the case was dismissed upon payment of $25,000 to Stryker[3]
In 2004 and 2005, Stryker made headlines for his unsuccessful legal harassment of an LA music club and coffeehouse called “Kulak’s Woodshed,” which was located next door to his office in Valley Village[4]. According to most sources, Stryker (Charles Peyton) began his one-man vendetta against Kulak's after he was asked to leave the small music venue/coffee house for disorderly conduct directed toward patrons. Mr. Peyton has not only resorted to legal harassment, but has made a habit of verbally assaulting patrons as they enter the building. On at least one occasion, Stryker demonstrated his kick-boxing routine on the sidewalk outside Kulak's (as featured on Celebrity Justice TV show)[5].
[edit] Stage shows
Jeff Stryker toured in a 1998-99 stage show called "Jeff Stryker Does Hard Time" which was an erotic-comedy set in a prison. The show ended with a dance finale in which Stryker disrobed for the audience.
Jeff Stryker appeared in "A Sophisticated Evening with Jeff Stryker" at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles, Summer 2006. The show was produced by comedy writer Bruce Vilanch. Stryker performed a comic monologue about his life and adventures in adult films, conducted a "porn acting demo" comedy skit with an audience member, and danced in a nude finale where he greeted the audience.
[edit] Videography
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[edit] Other
- Can I Be Your Bratwurst, please (non porn) by Rosa von Praunheim 1999
- How to Enlarge Your Penis 1993
- Jeff Stryker’s Favorite Sexual Positions 1992
- Stryker’s Best Powerful Sex (heterosexual) 1992
- After Death AKA Zombie 4: After Death (non porn) 1988
- The Heiress (heterosexual)
- Jamie Loves Jeff 1987 (heterosexual) with Jamie Summers, Megan Lee, Nikki Nights, Tom Byron, Erica Boyer
- Jeff Stryker: A Romance Video for Women (heterosexual) 1987
- The Switch Is On (bisexual) 1987
[edit] References
- ^ Student Says He Was Ambushed Outside School
- ^ Beyond the Valley of the Pulsating Colostomy Bags: An interview with John Waters!
- ^ Will The Real Jeff Stryker Please Rise
- ^ Obsesssed Porn Star Attacks Los Angeles Community Folk Music Venue
- ^ Stryker's personal site detailing the dispute where there is video of the Celebrity Justice segment
[edit] External links
- Jeff Stryker’s Official Website
- Interview with Stryker about career and personal life
- Jeff Stryker at the Notable Names Database
- Will The Real Jeff Stryker Please Rise (Jeff Stryker, Salon, 18 March 1999)
- outrate.net review of “Stryker Force”
- List of gay porn stars
- Personal web site about his legal battle with his neighbour
- Jeff's song Pop You in The Pooper download
