Carter Stevens

{{short description|American pornographic film actor and director (1944-2020)}}

{{about|the pornographic filmmaker|the fictional character|Finding Carter}}

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| name = Carter Stevens

| image = Carter_Stevens_in_2014.png

| caption = Stevens in 2014 at the XRCO Awards

| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|10|17}}{{fact|date=April 2019}}

| birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, US{{fact|date=April 2019}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|30|1944|10|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, US

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| alias = Stud Looper, Peter Sutinov, Alan Grodin, Steve Mitchell, Francis X. Bush, Steven Carter, Steven Mitchell, ükî Mitchæll, Francess X. Bush, Malcolm S. Worob, Mal Worob, D. Byrd, Travis St. Germaine, Steven Carter, Steven Mitchell{{fact|date=April 2019}}

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Carter Stevens (October 17, 1944 – December 30, 2020) was a pornographic film actor, director, grip, gaffer, and film processing lab technician.{{cite web|title=Dirty Work|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/long-island-voice/dirty-work-7154890|website=villiagevoice.com|date=31 August 1999 |publisher=The Village Voice|accessdate=8 May 2017}}

Stevens earned a degree in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology, worked at Eastman Kodak Company and was a shift supervisor at Movielab, the largest independent motion picture processing facility in New York, before going into film-making. He made 8 mm loops, appeared in over 50 adult films between around 1973 and 1993, and directed about 40 films between 1972 and 1996, including a series of films for the Avon Theater chain.{{fact|date=April 2019}}

After Stevens's film Punk Rock received favorable reviews and with the increasing popularity of the punk rock music genre, he re-edited and released the film into an R-rated version, replacing explicit sex footage with more music and expanded plot.{{cite news|title=New Film Pins Hope On Punk|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-K12&p_theme=ahnp_k12&p_nbid=Q5DT58HWMTUxNTIxMjQ1MS44MzY5MDk6MTo4OnN1bW1pdGhz&p_docref=v2:114CF48AE24B9638@EANX-K12-15FF526D8C18E2A5@2443512-15FF0C4FB6F327E5@26&p_action=doc&p_docid=&f_mode=printSetup&f_article=15FF0C4FB6F327E5|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180106055858/http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-K12&p_theme=ahnp_k12&p_nbid=Q5DT58HWMTUxNTIxMjQ1MS44MzY5MDk6MTo4OnN1bW1pdGhz&p_docref=v2:114CF48AE24B9638@EANX-K12-15FF526D8C18E2A5@2443512-15FF0C4FB6F327E5@26&p_action=doc&p_docid=&f_mode=printSetup&f_article=15FF0C4FB6F327E5|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 January 2018|accessdate=6 January 2018|agency=New York News Service|publisher=Miami Herald|date=3 January 1978}}

He fought battles with drugs, a life-threatening heart attack, and charges of obscenity before re-emerging in the 1990s and early 2000s to produce the BDSM-related S&M News, and several print publications.[http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/04/21/podcast-07-carter-stevens-a-porn-renaissance-man/ "Carter Stevens: A Porn Renaissance Man"], [http://www.therialtoreport.com/ The Rialto Report], April 21, 2013