Kip Noll

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Kip Noll, also spelt as Kip Knoll, [1] [2] is a former American gay pornographic film actor-magazine model, active in the 1970s and 1980s. [3]

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Noll, who was a lean-muscled, free-spirited surfer type, achieved iconic status in the newly liberated gay culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Career

Kip was introduced into the gay pornographic film industry by Larry Ginsburg (aka Mark Reynolds) in 1975, [4] [5] [6] first appearing in a few silent film loops in 1977. Kip was cast as the supposed younger brother of actor Bob Noll, and rapidly became the popular "Noll".

Kip Noll on the cover of "The Kip Noll Story", 1978 The Kip Noll Story.jpg
Kip Noll on the cover of "The Kip Noll Story", 1978

He then became closely associated with director William Higgins, who directed him for the first time in the The Boys of Venice Beach (1978), which was a blockbuster. [7] After Kip's success, several other unrelated models were presented as his brothers [2] [8] – Jeff and Scott Noll as his younger siblings, and Marc Noll as his cousin (Chip Noll was introduced as Kip's nephew in later years). [9] [10]

By the early 1980s Noll had become one of the first superstars in the gay porn industry. [11] [12] Kip had made his first magazine appearance at the age of 22, [13] and had two magazines devoted solely to him– "The Kip Noll Story" and "Kip Noll Cocky." [4] The gay magazine Stallion published an in-depth interview with him in one of its early issues when it came out in 1982. [14] [15]

He was a regular performer at the "D.C. Follies", [16] and had also performed at Eros Theatre in the Times Square area to promote his movie The Grease Monkeys (1979). [17] [18] [19] He made his last porn movie in 1985, which he had financed himself. [20]

Legacy

Kip Noll is regarded as the first major twink pornstar, [21] [22] [20] whose popularity paved the way for other twink performers. [23]

Marc Almond has elegized Kip in his poem "Kip" in The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge (1988). [24] [25]

Steve Reinke's meta-porn work Lonely Boy (1993) from The 100 Videos series, [26] which has the same name as the 1962 documentary on Paul Anka [27] (which in turn was named after one of Anka's songs), and Nguyen Tan Hoang's experimental video K.I.P. (2001) [28] – both contain excerpts of Kip's movies, Roomates (1980) and Kip Noll Superstar, Part I (1981), respectively. [29] [30]

J. C. Adams included Noll in his list of 100 most famous porn stars, in his book Gay Porn Heroes (2011), in The Blonds category. [31] And in 2013, Matthew Rettenmund included him in his list of "History's 250 Greatest Gay-Porn Stars" on Boyculture.com at #48. [32]

In October 2015, model Hugo Villanova posed for ODDA Magazine in a photo shoot titled Grease Monkey, which was inspired by Kip Noll. [33]

Personal life

Kip was brought up in New England, and had migrated to San Diego in the 70s, where he worked as a machinist and lived with his wife. He was "presumed to be straight", and had stated that his motivations for porn work were simply financial. [34]

He is said to have dated porn actress Velvet Summers for some time. [35]

Little is known for certain about Noll's life after his retirement in 1985. [36] But it has been claimed that he died in 2001 at the age of 43. [22] [37]

Videography

See also

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  2. 1 2 Limbacher, James L. (1983), Sexuality in world cinema, Volume 2, Scarecrow Press, p. 1434, ISBN   9780810816091, 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.
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