Harry Reems

Harry Reems
Reems' 1974 mugshot
Born	Herbert Streicher (1947-08-27)August 27, 1947 The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died	March 19, 2013(2013-03-19) (aged 65) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Cause of death	Pancreatic cancer
Other names	Harry Reams, Harry Reemes, Peter Long, Bruce Gilchrist, Charles Lamont, Tim Long, Ned Reems, Dan Stryker, Herb Streecher, Herb Streicher, Herb Stryker, Bob Walters
Occupation	Actor, realtor
Years active	1970–1989
Spouse(s)	Jeanne Sterret (1990–2013; his death)

Herbert Streicher (August 27, 1947 – March 19, 2013), better known by his professional pseudonym Harry Reems, was an American pornographic actor whose most famous role was Doctor Young in the 1972 pornographic cult classic Deep Throat. Throughout the 1970s and into the mid 1980s he was one of the most prolific performers in the adult film industry. He retired from the industry in 1989.

Reems was born Herbert Streicher into a Jewish family. He attended the University of Pittsburgh for a year before briefly serving in the United States Marine Corps, from which he received an honorable discharge following hardship leave. He then elected to pursue an acting career, principally in off-Broadway theater for La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York Theater Ensemble and National Shakespeare Company.

Prior to appearing in Deep Throat, Streicher was chosen by filmmaker Eduardo Cemano to do a hardcore scene in a film called The Deviates, which had been released previously as a softcore film. It was a body-painting sex scene that Streicher later described as his most painful sex experience because the Tempera paint used began to dry and crack. Cemano then starred him in his first 16 mm feature film, called The Weirdos and the Oddballs, which was later upgraded to 35 mm and released as Zora Knows Best. It was for this film that he changed his name to Peter Long.

Looking for ways to support himself, Streicher appeared in dozens of short silent stag films, often referred to as "loops," during the early 1970s. He eventually went on to appear in approximately 140 feature-length sexploitation and hardcore films between 1971 and 1989, with Deep Throat (1972) and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) being the best known, as well as grindhouse roughies like Forced Entry (1973) and Sex Wish (1976); in the former he plays a sadistic Vietnam veteran hellbent on rape and murder, while in the latter he plays a husband turned vigilante seeking revenge over the rape and murder of his wife.