Calvin Culver
by Jack Mitchell
I've featured actor Calvin Culver, (aka Casey Donovan) and his work with iconic photographer Jack Mitchell before. I've even featured his turn in the 1973 film Score. That was awhile ago though, (HERE:) and prior to having actually watched the film. I finally watched it this past summer and the viewing led me to want to take another look back at Culver and his fascinating career.
Culver didn't start out to be an adult film star, it began in the career of teaching. He graduated from teachers' college in the mid-sixties and worked as a teacher in Peekskill and New York City. (wonder if he taught Natalie or Tootie...) He was later fired from his teaching job after an altercation with a student, and began working as an escort trying to earn some cash and help begin his acting career.
Through the help of one of his clients, Culver began to get modeling jobs and acting roles in off-Broadway and Broadway productions. Some of his Broadway roles included: The Merchant of Venice and Captain Brassbound's Conversion with Ingrid Bergman. Culver's adult film career took off at about the same time, with Culver going back between stage and film roles throughout the early to mid-seventies.
In 1971 Culver appeared in the film that would make him famous, Boys in the Sand. The first adult film to achieve mainstream crossover success. The success of the film led Culver to move towards more mainstream work in films. His fame also led to name recognition, which meant more high profile escort clients paying more to be with someone famous.
Although he managed to balance both the adult and the mainstream worlds for a short time, eventually his fame in the adult film world began costing him mainstream modeling and acting roles. Culver then leaned into his adult career. In the early 1980's he began writing a regular advice column for the gay male magazine Stallion. Culver was in a relationship with actor Tom Tryon for several years, but it ended in 1977. Unfortunately Culver's health began to deteriorate and in 1985 he died of an AIDS-related illness in Florida.
There is quite a bit of nudity in Score. The scene below features Culver and the equally hot actor Gerald Grant.
In the mythical city of Leisure, a sexually-liberated husband and wife seduce a younger, staid couple into experimenting with bisexuality and group sex.
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