1. Richard Pacheco was born on Howard Marc Gordon; May 5,1948 and is an American former pornographic film and video actor, writer and director who retired from the X-rated business in the mid-1980s.
16 Facts About Richard Pacheco
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Richard Pacheco appeared in more than 100 x-rated films and videos.
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Richard Pacheco has won multiple adult film awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director.
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Richard Pacheco was Playgirl magazine's Man of the Year in 1979 as Howie Gordon.
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Richard Pacheco graduated with honors from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1966 and was the president of his class.
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Richard Pacheco applied to the Episcopal Theological School at Harvard and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Richard Pacheco was considering studying to become a Rabbi, and according to Pacheco was accepted by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, but when he learned that he would have to travel to Israel and study Aramaic for two years, he opted to appear in a porn film instead.
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Richard Pacheco appeared in that first film under the name "McKinley Howard", and used many aliases until Anthony Spinelli's Talk Dirty to Me, in which he co-starred as "Richard Pacheco".
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In November 1984, Pacheco stopped appearing in porn movies without condoms in reaction to his wife's concerns about the growing AIDS epidemic.
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Richard Pacheco worked in non-sex roles, and as an assistant director to John Leslie until 1986.
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Richard Pacheco only directed one film himself, 1987's Careful, Richard Pacheco May Be Watching, starring Seka, but that one won the Best Film award and won him the Best Director award from AVN Awards 1988.
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Richard Pacheco was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in January 1999, along with Bob Chinn and Annie Sprinkle.
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Richard Pacheco and Sprinkle were given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Free Speech Coalition in the year 2000.
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Richard Pacheco has extensively written and spoken about pornography, including columns, articles, reviews, speaking about pornography and AIDS.
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Richard Pacheco was in the 2012 documentary After Porn Ends, which is about life after being a porn actor.
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Richard Pacheco told his parents about his career as he was becoming successful, with appearances in Playgirl, and on the Phil Donahue Show, which he says made them more supportive.