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Robert La Tourneaux est un Acteur Américain né le 10 aout 1940

Robert La Tourneaux

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Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 10 aout 1940
Mort 3 juin 1986 (à 45 ans) à New York (Etats-Unis)

Robert La Tourneaux (1940 – 3 June 1986) was an American actor best known for his role of Cowboy, the good-natured but dim hustler hired as a birthday present for a gay man, in the original Off-Broadway production and 1970 film version of The Boys in the Band.

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La Tourneaux made his Broadway theatre debut in the 1967 musical Illya Darling. In 1968, he was part of the ensemble for Mart Crowley’s play The Boys in the Band, which opened on April 14, 1968 at Theater Four in New York City. The advertisement for the film version used head shots of Leonard Frey and La Tourneaux, with La Tourneaux identified as the "present" for Frey’s birthday-celebrating character. Many newspapers refused to run the advertisement.

After the film version of The Boys in the Band was released La Tourneaux’s career. His only other film performances were a supporting part in the Roger Corman film Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) and the independent film Pilgrimage. He also had a small role in a 1974 made-for-television version of the Maxim Gorky play Enemies.

On stage, La Tourneaux appeared in a small role in a Broadway revival of The Merchant of Venice; he was slated to appear in the 1977 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré, but was dropped from the cast prior to the show’s opening.

The openly gay La Tourneaux initially blamed his being typecast as a gay hustler for his inability to receive worthwhile roles, stating in a 1973 interview, "Boys was the kiss of death for me.” In the 1978 anthology Quentin Crisp’s Book of Quotations, La Tourneaux compared his career to another gay actor by saying, "Charles Laughton played every kind of part, but never a homosexual. People knew he was gay, but his public image [which included a wife] never betrayed his public reality. So he was safe. I wasn’t safe."

Unable to secure work as an actor La Tourneaux began nude modeling in gay men's magazines and in 1978 performed nude in a one-man cabaret act at the Ramrod, a New York City theater showing gay pornography films. He eventually became a prostitute.

He also gave an interview to a gay magazine naming his famous married closeted bisexual lovers, alleging one of them to have been Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Walken. He also accused Walken of having an affair with another married actor, Robert Wagner, on the night of actress Natalie Wood's (Wagner's wife) unexplained death. In 1983, La Tourneaux was arrested for assault after trying to extract money from a client and was incarcerated at the Rikers Island prison. While in prison, La Torneaux attempted suicide.

In the early 1980s, La Tourneaux contracted AIDS, and received news coverage when he sought legal channels to prevent being evicted from his apartment when his landlord objected to the presence of a live-in caregiver. La Tourneaux won the court case, but died in Metropolitan Hospital on June 3, 1986. Boys co-star Cliff Gorman and his wife cared for him during his illness until his death.

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Le Baron Rouge, 1h37
Réalisé par Roger Corman
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Guerre, Action
Thèmes Transport, Aviation, Politique
Acteurs John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Hurd Hatfield, Stephen McHattie
Rôle Ernest Udet
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En 1916, dans la France occupée, le baron Manfred von Richthofen, surnommé « le Baron Rouge », est à la tête d'une escadrille de chasse allemande et est opposé à son rival, l'as canadien Roy Brown.
Les Garçons de la bande, 1h55
Réalisé par William Friedkin
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie dramatique
Thèmes Sexualité, Homosexualité, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre, LGBT, LGBT
Acteurs Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill, Frederick Combs, Keith Prentice
Rôle Cowboy Tex
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Un soir Michael reçoit ses amis à l'occasion de l'anniversaire d'Harold qui se fait attendre. Il y a Emory qui assume pleinement son homosexualité, Hank qui divorce de sa femme et vit avec Larry, un gay libertin, Donald l'amant de Michael, Bernard un libraire, Cowboy Tex un jeune prostitué, cadeau pour Harold et Alan ami de la fac de Michael, hétérosexuel. Harold un gay juif flamboyant arrive enfin. Après un orage violent qui oblige les garçons a se réfugier dans le salon, Michael propose un jeu particulier, chacun devra appeler la personne qu'il a le plus aimée dans sa vie. Certaines vérités sur chacun apparaissent au grand jour, des règlements de compte aussi.