Kip Noll

Kip Noll
Born August 7, 1957
Greenwich,

Kip Noll, also Kip Knoll[1][2] was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornographic films and magazines in the 1970s and 1980s.[3]

Noll, who was a lean-muscled, shaggy-haired, free-spirited surfer type, achieved iconic status in the newly liberated gay culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was a young hustler and stripper in gay clubs in New York City during his teen years. After he was introduced into the gay pornographic film industry he became closely associated with director William Higgins who first had Kip appearing in a few silent film loops in 1977. Noll was cast as the supposed younger brother of actor Bob Noll, and rapidly became the popular "Noll". After his video success, several other unrelated models were presented as his brothers: Scott, Jeff, and Mark Noll.[2] By the early 1980s Kip Noll had become one of the first superstars in the gay porn industry,[4][5] as well as being a regular performer at the notorious "D.C. Follies".[6]

Kip starred in a string of Higgins titles in the early 1980s, mostly set outdoors in California or Hawaii. He performed in both the top and bottom roles.

It appears that Kip Noll was actually Thomas Earl Hagen, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on August 7, 1957. The location and date correspond to information given by Kip in a STALLION magazine interview in 1982. In the same interview Kip stated that he came from a family of ten children and that he had three sisters and six brothers. Hagen's obituary, published in the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE on May 24, 2001, listed nine siblings by name, three sisters and six brothers, two of whom predeceased him. Hagen died of a heart attack at 43 while in the care of the Salt Lake City Mission. He had three daughters by a previous marriage.

Contents

Videography

In popular culture

Now I had a dream
Well, more a fantasy
Kip Noll, John Holmes and me
All in bed we were going O.T.T.
What a sight to see
What a sight to see

— Mark Almond, Saint Judy[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "One Man's Porn", Out 11.7, Jan 2003, ISSN 10627928, http://books.google.com/books?id=92IEAAAAMBAJ, "For me, the best porn videos are those from the mid '70s to early 80s (all precondom sex), so let's hear a big round of applause for Kip Knoll (later Noll),..." 
  2. ^ a b Limbacher, James L. (1983), Sexuality in world cinema, Volume 2, Scarecrow Press, p. 1434, http://books.google.com/books?id=ebYYAAAAIAAJ&cd=5, "Kip Knoll, one of a series of brothers who do gay pictures and movies, is the star of this white sox movie, produced and directed by William Higgins." 
  3. ^ Southern California Sociological Society (1988), Sociology and social research, 73, p. 96, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rYfZAAAAMAAJ, "In a typical example, the best known gay model of the 1980s, Kip Noll, made his first magazine appearance at age 22." 
  4. ^ Waugh, Thomas (2006), The romance of transgression in Canada: queering sexualities, nations, cinemas, McGill-Queen's Press, p. 241, ISBN 9780773530690, http://books.google.com/books?id=ogfPKJ-vjfkC, "1970s superstar Kip Noll" 
  5. ^ Woods, Gregory (1999), A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, Yale University Press, p. 362, ISBN 9780300080889, http://books.google.com/books?id=3rEJ9hpvwlcC&cd=3 
  6. ^ Rutledge, Leigh W. (1992), The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present : the people and events that shaped gay lives, Plume, p. 202, ISBN 9780452268104, http://books.google.com/books?id=FpKHAAAAIAAJ&cd=7 
  7. ^ "Marc Almond – Saint Judy". Last.fm. 2008-11-21. http://www.last.fm/music/Marc+Almond/_/Saint+Judy. Retrieved 2010-01-25.