Paul Thomas (director)

For other people named Paul Thomas, see Paul Thomas (disambiguation).
Paul Thomas
Born Philip Toubus[1]
1949 (age 66–67)[2]
Winnetka, Illinois[2]
Other names Phil Toubes, Phil Tobias, Phil Tobus, Phil Thomas, Paul Tanner, Paul Thobias, Judy Blue, Cleo Edwards, Cloe Edwards, Bo Edwards
Ethnicity Caucasian
No. of adult films 650 as actor
374 as director (per IAFD)[3]

Philip Charles Toubus, better known as Paul Thomas,[1] is an American pornographic film actor and director. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.[4][5] He is unrelated to Paul Thomas Anderson, who directed Boogie Nights, a mainstream film portraying the porn industry. He was a major male star in the Golden Age of Porn.

Biography

Philip Toubus was born in Winnetka, Illinois, to a wealthy family. He is the nephew of Sara Lee Lubin, of the "Sara Lee" foods company. Though he attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he turned to acting as a career.
He acted in Broadway theatre, playing a starring role in Hair. He also played Peter in the 1973 film version of Jesus Christ Superstar.[6] Toubus signed with the William Morris Agency and went to Hollywood, where he appeared in several television shows. Luke Ford accounts that Toubus at this point appeared ready to start a career in mainstream television and movie work, but that he would then turn to the career for which he would be come more famous.[7]

Toubus started working in pornography in 1974. He met the porn producers the Mitchell Brothers while playing in a musical in San Francisco. He performed in several porn loops for them and, in 1976, appeared in his first porn feature, The Autobiography of a Flea.[2]

Toubus performed mostly using the stage name Paul Thomas, but he has also appeared under several other names.

In 1982 Toubus was arrested for smuggling cocaine into the United States from South America. Convicted, he served one year in jail.[1][2] Following his release from prison, Toubus resumed his career and, in 1983, won the Adult Film Association of America Award for Best Actor in Virginia. He also played a starring role in the 1985 film series Taboo American Style.

Toubus started directing porn films in 1985, and has directed for Vivid Entertainment since 1986.

As of 2007 Toubus—as Paul Thomas—has acted in over 500 films and directed nearly 300 films, winning seven Adult Video News Awards[8] and two X-Rated Critics Organization Awards[9] for best director. He was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in 1986.[5] In 2006 he was inducted into the Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame.[10] He is also a member of the Adult Video News Hall of Fame.[4] He is a personal friend of Jennifer Ketcham, who recounts Thomas' directing style as relying heavily on aesthetics with "one-hundred-page scripts" and "deftly placed lighting" in order to create shadow effects on his performers' bodies. She also stated that Thomas would require more acting from his performers than many other directors in the industry.[11]

Partial filmography

As actor

Adult films

As director

Awards

Literature

References

  1. 1 2 3 Steven Mikulan (May 9, 2007). "Paul Thomas: The auteur of sex". LA Weekly.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Dana Kennedy (October 31, 1997). "NUDE AWAKENING". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 24, 2007.
  3. ↑ Paul Thomas at the Internet Adult Film Database. Retrieved on January 6, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "AVN Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on August 14, 2007.
  5. 1 2 "XRCO Hall of Fame". Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  6. ↑ Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on October 24, 2007.
  7. ↑ Ford, Luke (1999). A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film. Prometheus Books. p. 103.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "AVN Awards Past Winners". Retrieved October 24, 2007.
  9. 1 2 3 "XRCO Award Winners – 2002 & Before". Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ Steve Nelson (February 4, 2006). "Why Remember Old Porn?". Adult Industry News. Retrieved October 24, 2007.
  11. ↑ Ketcham, Jennifer (2012). I Am Jennie. Gallery Books. p. 227.
  12. ↑ "Paul Thomas' awards listed at IMDB". Retrieved August 24, 2007.
  13. 1 2 Sherri L. Shaulis (February 8, 2008). "Web, Studio Winners Announced At XBiz Awards". AVN.com. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
  14. ↑ Rutter, Jared (January 12, 2008). "2008 AVN Awards Winners Announced". AVN. Archived from the original on April 4, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2007.
  15. ↑ XBIZ Nominees 2013, XBIZ, January 2013

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