1. Charles Everett Traynor was an American actor, businessman and talent agent best known for having promoted the careers of pornographic film stars Linda Lovelace and Marilyn Chambers, both of whom were married to him.
10 Facts About Chuck Traynor
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Lovelace wrote in her autobiography Ordeal that Chuck Traynor was abusive during their marriage and had threatened and coerced her into her role in the pornographic film Deep Throat.
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Chuck Traynor was a minor figure in the early US East Coast pornographic film industry and appeared in a number of short "loops" in the early 1970s, usually with his then-wife, Linda Lovelace.
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Chuck Traynor was the production manager of the 1972 movie Deep Throat.
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Chuck Traynor said that during Deep Throat one can see scars and bruises left on her legs from a beating by Traynor.
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In Legs McNeil's and Jennifer Osborne's 2005 book The Other Hollywood, several witnesses, including Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano, state that Chuck Traynor beat Lovelace behind closed doors, but they question her credibility.
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Deep Throat, Part 2 actress Andrea True said that most people did not like Chuck Traynor and sided with Lovelace.
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Lovelace's sister, Barbara Boreman, later said in an interview in Inside Deep Throat that she was disappointed that Chuck Traynor died before she could kill him.
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Chuck Traynor was portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard in the 2013 film Lovelace.
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Chuck Traynor died at the age of 64 of a heart attack in Chatsworth, California, on July 22,2002, three months after Lovelace died from massive trauma and internal injuries as a result of a car accident in Colorado.