Rod Fontana | |
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| Born | Ronald Boyer[1] (1952-09-18)September 18, 1952 (age 72) Central, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Other names | Rod Fontanna, Rod Fontana, Scuddle Fontana |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[1][2] |
| Spouse | [1] |
| Children | 1 |
Ronald Boyer (born September 18, 1952), commonly known by the stage nameRod Fontana, is apornographic actor anddirector. In 2005, he was inducted into theAVN Hall of Fame.[3] He was reported to have retired from the adult film industry in 2007 to pursue religious interests,[1][2] but his career continued the next year.[4]
Boyer was raised as aSouthern Baptist inCentral, South Carolina, where he was also born. He preached when in his teens before studying history and religion at college.[1]
Boyer left college early to join theU.S. Army and fight in theVietnam War. On his return in 1975, he had expected to join theNYPD, but the job offer was withdrawn. A friend who was an actor suggested pornography, and Boyer filmed his first scene in the summer of 1976. He left pornography during the 1980s to rejoin the U.S. military, serving as an E-4 specialist. He returned to pornography in the 1990s.[1]Louis Theroux watched a porn shoot including Fontana for his 2005 book "The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures", calling him an "older guy, jolly, manic, overweight".[5]
TheNew York Times reported that Fontana retired from pornography in January 2007 and became a registeredprivate investigator and interested in the Episcopal Church.[1][6] However, he appeared in and directedadult films forHustler Video from the following year and said toAVN that the newspaper had misrepresented him.[4][7]
Fontana is married to former pornographic actress Liza Harper. Their daughter Diana, born in 2002, nearly died of astaph infection in 2003. This incident eventually led the couple to become more religious.[1]
He has been confirmed in the church; he is not working toward ordination as a priest or undergoing training to be a deacon. The article also referred incorrectly to efforts by Mr. Boyer to establish a ministry among sex workers. He discussed the plan with the vicar of his church; he did not meet with the second-ranking official of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
