William Rotsler
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| Born |
Charles William Rotsler July 3, 1926 Los Angeles |
| Died | October 18, 1997 (aged 71) |
| Cause of death | throat cancer |
| Awards | Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist (1975, 1979, 1996, and 1997) |
| Website | www |
Charles William Rotsler (July 3, 1926 – October 18, 1997) was an artist, cartoonist, pornographer and science fiction author. Rotsler was a four-time Hugo Award winner and one-time Nebula Award nominee.
From 1958 Rotsler was involved in the pornography industry, first as a stills photographer on the set of adult films, and later as a film director and actor. He created Adam Film Quarterly (later called Adam Film World) in 1966 as a sibling magazine to Knight Publishing's Adam magazine.Adam Film Quarterly featured much female nudity but only simulated sex acts. Rotsler's magazine also provided commentary about this pornography, halfway between the content of the high-end Playboy and hardcore magazine Hustler, which other media would not cover. Because of the modular quality of these sexploitation films, Rotsler's stills from could be paired with his own text for a constructed narrative or used to illustrate a narrative for a nonexistent movie. Rostler earned reputations both as a writer creating novelizations from sexploitation films, and as a prolific pornographic photographer second only to Marv Lincoln. Because Rotsler became a major player at Adam Film Quarterly, playing many roles in production, he began to use pseudonyms, including "Shannon Carse", "Cord Heller", "Clay McCord", and "Philip Dakota", for various cast and crew credits. He even interviewed himself as these characters in the magazine. Rotsler commented "99% of the credits were pseudonyms. On the 'lesser' productions, I'd direct as Shannon Carse and if I acted, I’d be Barney Boone. If I acted in a Rotsler-directed film, I'd be Shannon Carse." In 1969 Rotsler moved his focus to science fiction at the urging of author Harlan Ellison, although Rotsler had been a cartoonist for fanzines since he designed the cover for National Fantasy Fan volume 7 issue 2 in 1948.
Rotsler wrote, directed, or acted in some two dozen pornographic films during his career with Boxoffice International Pictures. in the 1980s, he was cameraman for the Hollywood segments of the segments for the French TV series "Destination Series," hosted by Bill Warren; Rotsler occasionally appeared on camera. He also wrote Contemporary Erotic Cinema in 1973, published by Ballantine and Penthouse about pornographic movies from an aesthetic point of view.
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