Ken Ryker
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| Ken Ryker | |
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| Born | August 17, 1972 [1] Jeonju, Korea[1] |
| Other names | Bill Flag, Bill Flagstaff, Buck Ramsey |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 230 lb (100 kg; 16 st) |
Ken Ryker, born August 17, 1972, in Jeonju, Korea, is the stage name of an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay, straight and bisexual pornographic movies. He was raised in Texas, but now resides in California.
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[edit] Life and career
After high school, he joined the United States Marine Corps, but was discharged due to a car accident.[citation needed] At this point, in his early 20s, he moved to the San Fernando Valley with his then-girlfriend.[citation needed] He got an agent and began to model for pornographic magazines and perform at strip clubs.[citation needed]
In 1995, Ryker won "Best Newcomer" at the Adult Video News Awards.[citation needed] His 1996 film, The Other Side Of Aspen IV, is one of the most-rented gay videos of all time.[citation needed] Ryker has also been very successful with bisexual movies.[citation needed] Three years after his "Best Newcomer" award, in 1998, Ryker and Steve Harper won the award for "Best Duo Sex Scene" at the Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards, for their performances in Ryker's Revenge (Men of Odyssey).[citation needed]
Ryker has said that he was called "The Firehose" in the boy’s locker room throughout high school, due to the size of his penis.[citation needed] A dildo, measuring 11.5 inches (29 cm) in length and 7.5 inches in circumference (19 cm), was modelled on his penis in the mid-1990s, and is widely available for sale on the internet.[citation needed] According to his publicists, his real penis measures 11 inches long.[citation needed]
In 2000, he settled in Los Angeles, California, and began working for Frixion Lube, a sexual products company, distributing its products.[2] In early 2009, he stopped working at Frixion Lube and began working in real estate.[citation needed] He has not made a pornographic film for some years.[citation needed] He is openly bisexual and has had both gay and straight relationships.[3]
[edit] Partial videography
[edit] Gay
- The Backroom
- Big River
- The New Pledgemaster
- Jet Set Direct: Take One
- The Other Side Of Aspen IV: The Rescue
- The Renegade
- Matinee Idol
- Ryker's Revenge
- Ryker's Web (2003)
[edit] Straight
- Deep Inside Nicole Sheridan
- Raw (2001)
[edit] Bisexual
- Mass Appeal 1
- Mass Appeal 2
[edit] Books
- Skee, Mickey (1998), The films of Ken Ryker (2 ed.), Companion Press, ISBN 9781889138084, http://books.google.com/books?id=hHAIAAAACAAJ&cd=1
[edit] Awards and nominations
- 1995 Gay Erotic Video Awards winner of Best Newcomer.[4]
- 1995 Men in Video Awards winner of Porn Star of the Year.[5]
| GayVN Awards Hall of Fame[6] 2002 |
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Ryan Idol for Idol Country |
AVN Awards for Best Actor-Gay Video for Renegade 1996 |
Succeeded by Kurt Young for Flesh and Blood |
| Preceded by Steve Marks |
AVN Awards for Best Newcomer-Gay Video 1996 |
Succeeded by Kurt Young |
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Biography for Ken Ryker, Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
- ^ Benjamin Scuglia (2007). "The Rise and Fall and Size of Ken Ryker". Archived from the original on 2007-11-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20071112230611/http://www.unzipped.net/features/0112/U0112_ken_cover.asp.
- ^ The Rise and Fall and Size of Ken Ryker, Unzipped magazine. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
- ^ "Gay Erotic Video Awards 1995". Rainbow Collexion / Adam Gay Video Directory. http://www.rainbowcollexion.com/store/GayEroticVideoAwards1995.html.
- ^ "Probe - Men in Video Awards 1995". Rainbowcollexion.com. http://www.rainbowcollexion.com/store/ProbeAwards1995.html. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
- ^ "GayVN Awards Show: Hall of Fame". AVN. http://gayvnawards.avn.com/noms/hall-of-fame.html.
