<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It all started over thirty years ago. I thought it would be interesting to track down people who’d been involved in the very first adult films because I was intrigued to learn what they remembered about the time – and find out how the experience had affected their lives afterwards.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bear in mind, this was over 30 years ago, before the era of social media, search tools, and online databases, so I had no idea how difficult this endeavor would be.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But I also didn’t know how unwelcome my inquiries would prove – even if I did manage to find anyone to talk to. After all, most of the early pioneers used different names to conceal their identities, and therefore protect their future lives.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A few of them – people like Annie Sprinkle, Jamie Gillis, or Ron Jeremy for example – were still around, quasi-public figures who’d been interviewed many times about their history. But I was more interested in finding the bit-part players, lesser-known figures, people whose involvement had been short, before disappearing, presumably blending back into more conventional 9-5 existences. What did they think about their involvement in such a salacious, unprecedented activity years earlier?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One of these was the actor, &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403612/"&gt;Jeffrey Hurst&lt;/a&gt;. He’d been a handsome, friendly-looking, more-than-competent actor back in early films, always entertaining and engaging, and not just because of his standard-issue, best-in-class, 1970s porno mustache. Who was he, and what was his story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Well, his name wasn’t Jeffrey Hurst for a start: I met a director who’d known him and who reluctantly told me that his real name was Jeff Eagle. I misheard him &amp;#8211; and so for the next five years, I searched high and low – and unsuccessfully – for an ex-sex film actor called &amp;#8216;Jeff Feagle.&amp;#8217; Not my proudest moment, and a lot a wasted effort ensued.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And then I met someone who was still in touch with Jeff, and who told me that Jeff was now a massage therapist living a quiet life in Tucson, Arizona. What’s more, apparently Jeff loved talking about his semi-scandalous past. I contacted him, and quickly became friends with one of the sweetest people I’ve ever come across. And so, when I started The Rialto Report, my interview with Jeff was one of the first that I put out as a podcast.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff died last November. He is much missed. This is our conversation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This episode running time is 61 minutes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; ______________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Jeffrey Hurst photographs:&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Flick-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-609" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Flick-01.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="478" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Flick-01.jpg 478w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Flick-01-221x300.jpg 221w" sizes="(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Image-03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-620" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Image-03.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="520" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Image-03.jpg 520w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Image-03-240x300.jpg 240w" sizes="(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50254" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-02.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="517" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-02.jpg 517w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-02-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50253" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-01.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="517" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-01.jpg 517w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-01-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Mutton.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50251" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Mutton.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="531" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Mutton.jpg 531w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Mutton-246x300.jpg 246w" sizes="(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Longshoreman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50250" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Longshoreman.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="517" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Longshoreman.jpg 517w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Longshoreman-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50248" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot3.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="524" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot3.jpg 524w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot3-243x300.jpg 243w" sizes="(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50247" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="514" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot.jpg 514w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot-238x300.jpg 238w" sizes="(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Hair.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50246" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Hair.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="648" height="822" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Hair.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Hair-236x300.jpg 236w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Clown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50245" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Clown.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="648" height="550" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Clown.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Clown-300x255.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;p&gt;The post &lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/02/22/jeffrey-hurst-3/"&gt;Jeffrey Hurst (1947-2025), R.I.P.&lt;/a&gt; appeared first on &lt;a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com"&gt;The Rialto Report&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Rialto Report

Ashley West

Jeffrey Hurst (1947-2025), R.I.P.

FEB 22, 202661 MIN
The Rialto Report

Jeffrey Hurst (1947-2025), R.I.P.

FEB 22, 202661 MIN

Description

<p><strong>It all started over thirty years ago. I thought it would be interesting to track down people who’d been involved in the very first adult films because I was intrigued to learn what they remembered about the time – and find out how the experience had affected their lives afterwards.</strong></p> <p><strong>Bear in mind, this was over 30 years ago, before the era of social media, search tools, and online databases, so I had no idea how difficult this endeavor would be.</strong></p> <p><strong>But I also didn’t know how unwelcome my inquiries would prove – even if I did manage to find anyone to talk to. After all, most of the early pioneers used different names to conceal their identities, and therefore protect their future lives.</strong></p> <p><strong>A few of them – people like Annie Sprinkle, Jamie Gillis, or Ron Jeremy for example – were still around, quasi-public figures who’d been interviewed many times about their history. But I was more interested in finding the bit-part players, lesser-known figures, people whose involvement had been short, before disappearing, presumably blending back into more conventional 9-5 existences. What did they think about their involvement in such a salacious, unprecedented activity years earlier?</strong></p> <p><strong>One of these was the actor, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403612/">Jeffrey Hurst</a>. He’d been a handsome, friendly-looking, more-than-competent actor back in early films, always entertaining and engaging, and not just because of his standard-issue, best-in-class, 1970s porno mustache. Who was he, and what was his story?</strong></p> <p><strong>Well, his name wasn’t Jeffrey Hurst for a start: I met a director who’d known him and who reluctantly told me that his real name was Jeff Eagle. I misheard him &#8211; and so for the next five years, I searched high and low – and unsuccessfully – for an ex-sex film actor called &#8216;Jeff Feagle.&#8217; Not my proudest moment, and a lot a wasted effort ensued.</strong></p> <p><strong>And then I met someone who was still in touch with Jeff, and who told me that Jeff was now a massage therapist living a quiet life in Tucson, Arizona. What’s more, apparently Jeff loved talking about his semi-scandalous past. I contacted him, and quickly became friends with one of the sweetest people I’ve ever come across. And so, when I started The Rialto Report, my interview with Jeff was one of the first that I put out as a podcast.</strong></p> <p><strong>Jeff died last November. He is much missed. This is our conversation.</strong></p> <p><em>This episode running time is 61 minutes.</em><br /> ______________________________________________________________________________________</p> <h2>Jeffrey Hurst photographs:</h2> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Flick-01.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-609" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Flick-01.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="478" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Flick-01.jpg 478w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Flick-01-221x300.jpg 221w" sizes="(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Image-03.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-620" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Image-03.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="520" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Image-03.jpg 520w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RR-Image-03-240x300.jpg 240w" sizes="(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-02.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50254" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-02.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="517" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-02.jpg 517w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-02-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-01.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50253" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-01.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="517" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-01.jpg 517w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR-Image-01-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Mutton.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50251" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Mutton.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="531" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Mutton.jpg 531w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Mutton-246x300.jpg 246w" sizes="(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Longshoreman.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50250" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Longshoreman.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="517" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Longshoreman.jpg 517w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Longshoreman-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px" /></a><br /> <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot3.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50248" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot3.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="524" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot3.jpg 524w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot3-243x300.jpg 243w" sizes="(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50247" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="514" height="648" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot.jpg 514w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Headshot-238x300.jpg 238w" sizes="(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Hair.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50246" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Hair.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="648" height="822" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Hair.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Hair-236x300.jpg 236w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Clown.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50245" src="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Clown.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Hurst" width="648" height="550" srcset="https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Clown.jpg 648w, https://www.therialtoreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/RR_Jeff_Clown-300x255.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <p>The post <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/02/22/jeffrey-hurst-3/">Jeffrey Hurst (1947-2025), R.I.P.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com">The Rialto Report</a>.</p>