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12 November 2008 12:00 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Director Gerard Damiano, the writer/director of infamous 'adult' movie Deep Throat, died on October 25th after complications following a recent stroke (as in damage of blood vessels in the brain).As well as being credited with launching the adult motion pict- oh, to hell with it - the porn movie industry, Deep Throat was an incredibly successful independent film, adult or otherwise, and holds the title of most profitable movie of all time.Made for $25,000, it grossed about a bajillion dollars worldwide (although Damiano barely saw a penny of it, thanks to the finances being fronted up by gangsters), Deep Throat was again crystallised in the public consciousness when journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein named their Watergate source after it.Damioano made dozens of skin-flicks after Deep Throat, but never replicated its success. »

28 October 2008 9:09 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Porn moviemaker Gerard Damiano has died. He was 80.

The director of 1972 adult movie Deep Throat passed away in Miami, Florida after suffering from a stroke last month.

The movie was the first pornographic picture to be shown in cinemas and made an estimated $600 million (GBP382 million).

His son, Gerard Damiano Jr, says, "He was a filmmaker and an artist and we thought of him as such.

"Even though we weren't allowed to see his movies, we knew he was a moviemaker and we were proud of that." »

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