Phil Prince

Directing·May 28, 1953·The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

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Phil Prince was born Philip Joseph Prince in the Bronx borough of New York City. With a French & English father and an Irish mother, Phil grew up in a strongly Irish neighborhood. After his mother died when he was 12, he lost interest in school and left home at 13, heading for the Irish enclave of Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, being taken in by the Irish mob and eventually also working with the Italian mob. Marrying a Puerto Rican stripper Teresa, the couple began performing live sex shows for the Avon Theaters, a chain of east-coast sex theaters based in NYC. Teresa was murdered in 1977, and Phil increasingly took various management work for the Avon Theaters. Replacing Avon's first in-house director Joe Davian, who directed films in the late 70s, Phil eventually started writing and directing low-budget, increasingly extreme BDSM-themed porn movies for Avon in the early 1980s - films that became key exhibits of the Meese Commission on pornography in 1986. On June 6, 1984, Prince was involved in a drug-money-related shooting that sent him to prison for four and a half years, after which he became a truck driver until a tank-trailer explosion injured him in 2008 and forced him to retire. Phil Prince died at home in upstate NY in 2018, at the age of 65.

Film	Credit
Sick & Nasty Classic Porn Previews2008 · (archive)	(archive)
The Prince of Porn2002 · Self	Self
A Total Eclipse of the Moon1987 · Director	Director
Tailgunners1985 · Producer	Producer
Savage Sadists1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Den of Dominance1983 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Pain Mania1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Daughters of Discipline1983 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Forgive Me, I Have Sinned1983 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
The Stimulators1983 · Director	Director
Oriental Techniques in Pain and Pleasure1983 · Phil, Police Officer (uncredited), Director, Writer	Phil, Police Officer (uncredited), Director, Writer
Kneel Before Me1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Dr. Bizarro1983 · Dr. Laurence A. Sullivan, Psychiatrist (Dr. Bizarro), Director, Writer, Producer	Dr. Laurence A. Sullivan, Psychiatrist (Dr. Bizarro), Director, Writer, Producer
Tales of the Bizarre1982 · Phil - 4th Story, Director, Writer, Producer	Phil - 4th Story, Director, Writer, Producer
The Taming of Rebecca1982 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
The Temptress1982 · Director	Director
Angel in Distress1982 · Policeman / Escapee Capturer (voice), Director	Policeman / Escapee Capturer (voice), Director
The Story of Prunella1982 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer