| Ben Dover | |
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| Born | Simon Lindsay Honey[1] 23 May 1956 Sittingbourne, Kent, England |
| Other names | Ben Dover |
| Ethnicity | English |
| Website | |
| http://www.ben-dover.com/ | |
Ben Dover (born Simon Lindsay Honey on 23 May 1956) is an English pornographic actor and director/producer of pornographic movies.
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Lindsay Honey, prior to becoming known as Ben Dover, worked for years with his girlfriend, actress Linzi Drew, who gave birth at 37 to their child, Tyger Drew-Honey.[1] He used the Videx equipment and mail order list to start his own business. He would sell his films from a car boot. Both he and Drew were jailed in the 1990s for selling porn videos, something which they talked about in a BBC Open Space documentary entitled More Sex Please, We're British[1](1993). This documentary, which discussed liberalisation of censorship laws, was made by Isobel Koprowski, the former editor of Forum magazine. At the time of the broadcast, Lindsay Honey had yet to become known by his alias of Ben Dover.
Dover subsequently became best known for his Ben Dover series, which he directed, produced and starred in between 1995 and 2008 and he based on John Stagliano's Buttman. In 1997 Dover won the Breakthrough Award for the Ben Dover series at the AVN awards.[2] He has also won AVN's Best Gonzo Award twice, in 2000 for Ben Dover's End Games and in 2002 for Ben Dover's The Booty Bandit.
Upon original release in the United States, Dover's films were edited by VCA Pictures to exclude the more graphic contents of the original. It wasn't until 2004 that Dover again attempted US distribution for his films. He signed a deal with Kick Ass Pictures and began producing the Ben Dover's Kick Ass Anal Adventures series, of which there have been five instalments. This series was not edited any more than Dover wished.
Dover was included in Larry Flynt's Hustler's Top 50 Most Influential People In Porn list, printed in the January 1999 issue.[1] He also has a line of adult toys bearing his moniker: The Ben Dover Signature line, which produces, among other products, The Ben Dover Realistic Penis and The Ben Dover Anal Kit. In 2006, Ben Dover won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the UK Adult Film Awards,[1] which he co-presented with Kristyn Halborg, Kelly Stafford and friend and co-star Pascal White. In 2008 Dover attended the UK Adult Film Awards once more, representing Television X and Red Hot TV along with Linsey Dawn Mckenzie and other British adult film stars. Television X has shown some of Dover's most recent projects such as St Teenycums which won Best Script at the UK Adult Film Awards 2008. In 2011, he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.[3]
Both Ben Dover and Linzi Drew are referenced in Irvine Welsh's Novel Porno (2002) - in which much of the dialogue is in Scots vernacular - as being present at the Cannes Adult Film Festival, where Welsh's film-makers exhibit their final product. Welsh's character 'Juice' Terry Lawson, the star of adult film they have made, upon hearing that Ben Dover will be there, says 'guid films'.
As well as his pornographic works, Ben Dover has acted in two non-pornographic feature films, the horror/thriller, Deadly Intruder (1985), for which he also provided the incidental music, and the drama Last Resort (2000), in which he played a low budget pornography producer. He performed his one-man show Innocent ‘Til Proven Filthy at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
He has also performed as a musician on various projects:
In September 2009, on BBC4, he featured on the programme Rich Man Poor Man: Ben Dover Straightens, where he attempted to search for personal fulfilment in his life and be taken seriously by making a break in mainstream acting.
In 2010, he was offered a role in the British comedy film On the Ropes (2011 film). The director (Mark Noyce) was reported to be "extremely impressed" with Lindsay's acting skills and professionalism and would consider casting Lindsay for future projects.[4]