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Harry Reems is the stage name of one of the most active and popular American pornographic actor of the 1970s and star of the 1972 cult classic, "Deep Throat".

Reems is usually credited under the name Harry Reems, although he has also worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including - Bob Walters, Bruce Gilchrist, Charles Lamont, Harry Reams, Harry Reem, Harry Rheems, Herb Stryker, Jim Greos, Ned Reems, Peter Long, Peter Straight, Richard Hurt, Stan Freemont, Tim Holt and Tim Long.

Born as, Herbert Streicher, on 27 August 1947 in The Bronx, New York City, New York.
Reems served briefly in the United States Marine Corps before electing to pursue an acting career, principally in off-Broadway theater. Looking for ways to support himself, Reems began to appear in dozens of short, silent stag films (often referred to as, "loops") during the early 1970s at 23-years-old.

He eventually went on to appear in approximately 140 feature-length "sexploitation" and hard-core films between 1971 and 1989.

Reems was prosecuted by the Federal Government in 1976 on Federal charges of conspiracy to distribute obscenity across state lines.
He was convicted, but the conviction was overturned on appeal one year later. He received public support from a number of Hollywood celebrities during his trials, including Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty.

Reems left the adult film business in the late 1980s and eventually married a deeply religious woman.

In interviews, Reems has basically has said, "That his past work is the past, but not anything he's ashamed to have done".

For the past decade, he has worked as a real estate salesman in Utah. He even uses the name, "Harry Reems", in his business.

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Reems served briefly in the United States Marine Corps before electing to pursue an acting career, principally in off-Broadway theater.

Looking for ways to support himself, Streicher began to appear 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 hard-core films between 1971 and 1989, with "Deep Throat" (1972) and "The Devil In Miss Jones" (1973) being the best well-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 and murder; while the latter has him as a husband-turned-vigilante to seek revenge over the and murder of his wife.

In 1975, he published a memoir, "Here Comes Harry Reems", in which he details the early years of his experience as an adult film actor. He had sex (in hard-core pornographic film) with the underage Tʀᴀᴄɪ Lᴏʀᴅs.

For the production of, "Deep Throat", in Miami, Florida in January 1972, Streicher was hired to be part of the lighting crew, but the director was unable to cast one of the roles and asked him. He was paid $250.00 for the one-day of acting work. Streicher was unaware that the director had given him the name "Harry Reems" until he saw the movie.

Reems's appearance in, "Deep Throat", led to his arrest by FBI agents in New York City in July 1974, and indictment in Memphis, Tennessee in June 1975 on Federal charges of conspiracy to distribute obscenity across state lines. He was convicted in April 1976 with 11 other individuals and four corporations. His conviction was overturned on appeal in April 1977, because his activities in making the film occurred before a US Supreme Court ruling on obscenity in 1973 (Miller v. California), and Reems was granted a new trial. The charges against Reems were dropped in August. Reems's defense claimed that he was the first American actor to be prosecuted by the Federal Government merely for appearing in a film, and he received considerable support from established Hollywood and New York celebrities during his trial.
His successful appeal was handled by attorney Alan Dershowitz.

Reems was cast in the musical film, "Grease", as Coach Calhoun, the Rydell High track coach (before making pornographic films, he had done legitimate theater). However, for fear that his notoriety would cause the film's box office in the South to be jeopardized, Sid Caesar was cast for the role instead.

Spouse:
Jeanne Sterret (1990 - present)

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Height: 6'

Weight: Unknown

Number Of Adult Films:
140, as actor
2, as director
3, as production manager

After years of drug abuse, Reems began his recovery in 1989.

He married and converted to Christianity.
"Being the low-bottom drunk that I was, I started going around to churches", said Reems. "I called myself a, Church Gypsy".

Reems credits his conversion to, Reverend Mark Heiss, a former pastor with Park City Community Church in Park City, Utah. Heiss was abruptly replaced at the church by someone else, for reasons Reems says were never explained; Reems left the congregation because he believed church attendance was "about putting money in the coffers".

Today, outside organized religion, he continues to meditate, pray and offer gratitude to god.
"If I didn't put god in my life, I'd be dead now", he said. "I am not religious. I'm spiritual, 100 percent".
He continues to identify himself as, "Harry Reems".

Reems was interviewed in the 2005 documentary, "Inside Deep Throat".

Harry Reems and his legal battle are featured in episode #105 of the series, "Swingtown".

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"Erecter Sex 4: Pole Position" (1970)

"The Altar Of Lust" (1971)

"His Loving Daughter" (1971)

"The Weirdos and The Oddballs" (1971)

"The Abductors" (1972)

"Selling It" (1972)

"Deep Throat" (1972)

"Cherry Blossom" (1972)

"So Sweet, So Dead" (1972)

"Girls In The Penthouse" (1973)

"Revolving Teens" (1973)

"Case Of The Full Moon Murders" (1973)

"The New Comers" (1973)

"Over Sexposure" (1973)

"Filthiest Show In Town (1973)

"Devil In Miss Jones" (1973)

"Forced Entry" (1973)

"Ape Over Love" (1974)

"Wet Rainbow" (1974)

"Doctor Feelgood" (1974)

"Teenage Cheerleader" (1974)

"Deep Throat Part II" (1974)

"College Girls" (1974)

"Hotel Hooker" (1974)

"Intensive Care" (1974)

"The Love Witch" (1974)

"Sherlick Holmes" (1975)

"More" (1975)

"Linda Lovelace Meets Miss Jones" (1975)

"Every Inch A Lady" (1975)

"Butterfly" (1975)

"Sexual Freedom In Brooklyn" (1975)

"Christy" (1975)

"Sometime Sweet Susan" (1975)

"Experiments In Ecstacy" (1975)

"Bel Ami" (1976)

"Sex Wish" (1976)

"French Schoolgirls" (1976)

"Erotic Dr. Jekyll" (1976)

"French Deep Throat" (1977)

"Let Me Die A Woman" (1977)

"Harry and His Geisha Girls" ( 1978 )

"To All A Goodnight" (1980)

"Demented" (1980)

"Dream House" (1981) [TV movie]

"Mae West" (1982) [TV movie] Narrator

"National Lampoon's Movie Madness" (1982) Vice Squad Cop ("Municipalians")

"Society Affairs" (1982)

"The Love Syndrome" (1982)

"Eighth Erotic Film Festifal" (1983)

"Wolf Cubs" (1983)

"For Your Thighs Only" (1984)

"Sister Dearest" (1984)

"Girls On Fire" (1984)

"Those Young Girls" (1984)

"The Cartier Affair" (1984) [TV movie]

"R.S.V.P." (1984) [TV movie]

"Titillation" (1985)

"Trashy Lady" (1985)

"Lucky In Love" (1985)

"Lust In Space" (1985)

"Obsession" (1985)

"Older Men With Young Girls" (1985)

"Oriental Jade" (1985)

"Passage To Ecstasy" (1985)

"Rubdown" (1985)

"Talk Dirty To Me One More Time" (1985)

"The Grafenberg Spot" (1985)

"Tower Of Power" (1985)

"Too Naughty To Say No" (1985)

"Beverly Hills Exposed" (1985)

"Deep Chill" (1985)

"Dream Lover" (1985)

"Educating Mandy" (1985)

"Scandals: Tracey Adams" (1986)

"Flasher" (1986)

"Having It All!" (1986)

"Naughty Nurses" (1986)

"Private Fantasies VI" (1986)

"Ginger's Greatest Boy/Girl Hits" (1986)

"Ginger's Sex Asylum" (1986)

"Pulsating Flesh" (1987)

"Corporate Assets" (1987)

"L'Amour" ( 1988 )

"China and Silk" ( 1988 )

"Honky Tonk Angels" ( 1988 )

"Night Prowlers" ( 1988 )

"Some Kind Of Woman" ( 1988 )

"Too Good To Be True" (1989)