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Joseph W. Sarno

Born
Mar 15, 1921 · Aged 89
Died
Apr 26, 2010
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gender
Male
Movie credits
2
TV credits
0
Directing credits
99
Also known as (27)
  • Joe Sarno
  • Otis Hamlin
  • Karl Andersson
  • Kurt Mondal
  • Len Wolters
  • Buck Wilson
  • Irvin Weiss
  • Joan Kretchmar
  • Eric Anderson
  • Erik Anderson
  • Irving Weiss
  • Francis Healy
  • Arthur Kraus
  • Charles Knox
  • Curtis Hollingwood
  • Dick Kuzman
  • Francis Healey
  • Hammond Thomas
  • Jeff La Touch
  • John Parkham
  • Joseph W. Sarno
  • Kenneth Morse
  • Lawrence Henning
  • Lester Jordan
  • Louis Roman
  • Louis Warren
  • Leif Knullar

Biography

Joseph W. Sarno (March 15, 1921 – April 26, 2010) was an American film director and screenwriter. One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation, softcore and hardcore genres as well as a number of  shot-on-video features for the '80s hardcore video market. Sarno, a pioneer of the sexploitation film genre, completed his first adult-oriented feature in 1961. Among his best-known films in the genre are Sin…