Bobby Hollander

Bobby Hollander
Born Ira Allen Sachs
April 20, 1929
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died March 7, 2002 (aged 72)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names Bob Hollander, B. Hollanger
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Spouse(s) Gloria Leonard, (m.?-separated)
No. of adult films 181 as director
32 as performer (both per IAFD)

Bobby Hollander (April 20, 1929 - March 7, 2002) was an American adult film director, performer and magazine publisher. He directed 59 pornographic movies between 1979 and 1995. He was one of the pioneers of the shot-on-video porn movie. Hollander was most famous for discovering and managing porn superstar Shauna Grant. He is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.[1]

Pornographic film career

Born Ira Allen Sachs to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Hollander entered the pornography industry in 1970, appearing in loops.

According to a March 14, 1988 article in People, Hollander gave Colleen Applegate her stage name of Shauna Grant, and in the fall of 1982 began managing her career. Over the next year, Grant made thirty X-rated movies. She eventually left Hollander for different management and committed suicide in 1984.

Illness and death

He died on March 7, 2002 at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Los Angeles, California from a brain tumor.

At the time of his death, Hollander was separated from his wife Gloria Leonard.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "XRCO Hall of Fame". XRCO. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
  2. ↑ Slotnik, Daniel E. "Gloria Leonard, Publisher, Pornography Star and Advocate, Dies at 73" (February 5, 2014) nytimes.com

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