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'''Kip Noll''', also '''Kip Knoll'''<ref name=out>{{citation |title=One Man's Porn |journal=Out |date=Jan 2003 |volume=11.7 |issn=1062-7928 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92IEAAAAMBAJ |quote=For me, the best porn videos are those from the mid '70s to early 80s (all precondom sex), so let's hear a big round of applause for Kip Knoll (later Noll),...}}</ref><ref name=Limbacher1983/> is an ] ]-] in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name=SCSS1988 >{{citation |publisher=Southern California Sociological Society |year=1988 |title=Sociology and social research |volume=73 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rYfZAAAAMAAJ |quote=In a typical example, the best known gay model of the 1980s, Kip Noll, made his first magazine appearance at age 22.}}</ref> '''Kip Noll''', also spelt as '''Kip Knoll''',<ref name=out>{{citation |title=One Man's Porn |journal=Out |date=Jan 2003 |volume=11 |issue=7 |publisher=Here |issn=1062-7928 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92IEAAAAMBAJ |quote=For me, the best porn videos are those from the mid '70s to early 80s (all precondom sex), so let's hear a big round of applause for Kip Knoll (later Noll),...}}</ref><ref name="Limbacher1983">{{citation |last=Limbacher |first=James L. |title=Sexuality in world cinema, Volume 2 |page=1434 |year=1983 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebYYAAAAIAAJ |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810816091 |quote=Kip Knoll, one of a series of brothers who do gay pictures and movies, is the star of this white sox movie, produced and directed by William Higgins.}}</ref> is a former American ]-], active in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Sociology_and_Social_Research/UfUcAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Perhaps+the+best+known+of+the+gay+porno+stars++of+the+1980s+is+Kip+Noll%22&dq=%22Perhaps+the+best+known+of+the+gay+porno+stars++of+the+1980s+is+Kip+Noll%22&printsec=frontcover |title=Sociology and Social Research |date=1989 |publisher=University of Southern California Press |volume=73 |pages=96 |language=en |quote=Perhaps the best known of the gay porno stars of the 1980s is Kip Noll.}}</ref>


Noll, who was a lean-muscled, free-spirited surfer type, achieved iconic status in the newly liberated gay culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Noll, who is a lean-muscled, shaggy-haired, free-spirited surfer type, achieved iconic status in the newly liberated gay culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s. After he was introduced into the gay ] industry, he became closely associated with director ] who first had Noll appearing in a few silent film loops in 1977. Noll was cast as the supposed younger brother of actor Bob Noll, and rapidly became the popular "Noll". After his video success, several other unrelated models were presented as his brothers: Scott, Jeff, and Mark Noll.<ref name=Limbacher1983>{{citation |last=Limbacher |first=James L. |year=1983 |title=Sexuality in world cinema, Volume 2 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=1434 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebYYAAAAIAAJ&cd=5 |quote=Kip Knoll, one of a series of brothers who do gay pictures and movies, is the star of this white sox movie, produced and directed by William Higgins.}}</ref> By the early 1980s Kip Noll had become one of the first superstars in the gay porn industry,<ref name=Waugh2006>{{citation |last=Waugh |first=Thomas |year=2006 |title=The romance of transgression in Canada: queering sexualities, nations, cinemas |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press |isbn=978-0-7735-3069-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ogfPKJ-vjfkC |page=241 |quote=1970s superstar Kip Noll}}</ref><ref name=Woods1999>{{citation |last=Woods |first=Gregory |year=1999 |title=A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-08088-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rEJ9hpvwlcC&cd=3 |page=362}}</ref> as well as being a regular performer at the "D.C. Follies".<ref name=Rutledge1992>{{citation |last=Rutledge |first=Leigh W. |year=1992 |title=The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present : the people and events that shaped gay lives |publisher=Plume |isbn=978-0-452-26810-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpKHAAAAIAAJ&cd=7 |page=202}}</ref>

== Career ==
Kip was introduced into the gay ] industry by Larry Ginsburg (aka Mark Reynolds) in 1975,<ref name=":2">Tim1965 Live Journal. August 21, 2005. </ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kip Noll: Gay Erotic Video Index |url=https://gayeroticvideoindex.com/performer/13837 |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=gayeroticvideoindex.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mark Reynolds: Gay Erotic Video Index |url=https://gayeroticvideoindex.com/director/67 |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=gayeroticvideoindex.com}}</ref> first appearing in a few silent film loops in 1977. Kip was cast as the supposed younger brother of actor Bob Noll, and rapidly became the popular "Noll".
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He then became closely associated with director ], who directed him for the first time in the ''The Boys of Venice Beach'' (1978), which was a blockbuster.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ortleb |first=Charles |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Christopher_Street/GBXkAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22THE+SUPER+BLOCKBUSTER+OF+THE+YEAR+!+the+boys+of+venice+A+WILLIAM+HIGGINS+PRESENTATION+starring+KIP+NOLL+BROKE+EVERY+BOX+OFFICE+RECORD+IN+L.A.+RAVE+REVIEWS+FROM+THE+NEW+YORK+CRITICS+%22%22&dq=%22THE+SUPER+BLOCKBUSTER+OF+THE+YEAR+!+the+boys+of+venice+A+WILLIAM+HIGGINS+PRESENTATION+starring+KIP+NOLL+BROKE+EVERY+BOX+OFFICE+RECORD+IN+L.A.+RAVE+REVIEWS+FROM+THE+NEW+YORK+CRITICS+%22%22&printsec=frontcover |title=Christopher Street |date=1979 |publisher=That New Magazine, Incorporated |language=en}}</ref> After Kip's success, several other unrelated models were presented as his brothers<ref name="Limbacher1983" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Sociology_and_Social_Research/UfUcAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22sharing+the+name+Noll+,+who+are+all+gay+porno+models%22&dq=%22sharing+the+name+Noll+,+who+are+all+gay+porno+models%22&printsec=frontcover |title=Sociology and Social Research |date=1989 |publisher=University of Southern California Press |volume=73 |pages=96 |language=en |quote=Kip Noll is represented in various magazines as having three brothers and two cousins, sharing the name Noll, who are all gay porno models.}}</ref>– Jeff and Scott Noll as his younger siblings, and Marc Noll as his cousin (Chip Noll was introduced as Kip's nephew in later years).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cooper |first=Dennis |url=http://www.frozentears.co.uk/frozen_tears_3/texts/Dennis%20Cooper.pdf |title=Frozen Tears III |pages=40-42 |chapter=Great Moments in Gay Porn #3: The Noll Dynasty}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ingram |first=Billy |title=Punk |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/11469187/billy-eyes-porn-credit-tvparty-books |access-date=2025-01-19 |website= |pages=34-41 |language=en |via=Yumpu}}</ref>

By the early 1980s Noll had become one of the first superstars in the gay porn industry.<ref name="Waugh2006">{{citation |last=Waugh |first=Thomas |year=2006 |title=The romance of transgression in Canada: queering sexualities, nations, cinemas |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press |isbn=978-0-7735-3069-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ogfPKJ-vjfkC |page=241 |quote=1970s superstar Kip Noll}}</ref><ref name="Woods1999">{{citation |last=Woods |first=Gregory |year=1999 |title=A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-08088-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rEJ9hpvwlcC |page=362}}</ref> Kip had made his first magazine appearance at the age of 22,<ref name="SCSS1988">{{citation |title=Sociology and social research |volume=73 |page=96 |year=1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYfZAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Southern California Sociological Society |quote=In a typical example, the best known gay model of the 1980s, Kip Noll, made his first magazine appearance at age 22.}}</ref> and had two magazines devoted solely to him– "The Kip Noll Story" and "Kip Noll Cocky."<ref name=":2" /> The gay magazine ''Stallion'' published an in-depth interview with him in one of its early issues when it came out in 1982.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 1982 |title=STALLION: New Gay Magazine Comes Out |url=https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/YBM002/id/1344/ |work=The Fifth Freedom |page=9 |via=New York Heritage digital collections}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stallion Magazine @ Gay Erotic Archives |url=https://www.gayeroticarchives.com/22_listings/Monthlies/Stallion.html |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=www.gayeroticarchives.com}}</ref>

He was a regular performer at the "D.C. Follies",<ref name="Rutledge1992">{{citation |last=Rutledge |first=Leigh W. |year=1992 |title=The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present : the people and events that shaped gay lives |publisher=Plume |isbn=978-0-452-26810-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpKHAAAAIAAJ |page=202}}</ref> and had also performed at Eros Theatre in the ] area to promote his movie ''The Grease Monkeys'' (1979).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Grease Monkeys : Gay Erotic Video Index |url=https://gayeroticvideoindex.com/video/2858 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=gayeroticvideoindex.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Fury |first=Jason |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Rope_Above_the_Bed_Below/qmOWCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Kip+Noll&pg=PT33&printsec=frontcover |title=The Rope Above, the Bed Below |date=2016-03-08 |publisher=Open Road Media |isbn=978-1-5040-2992-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hawes |first=William |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Caligula_and_the_Fight_for_Artistic_Free/oflL1anesoYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Kip+Knoll&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover |title=Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: The Making, Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film |date=2014-01-10 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5240-8 |pages=3 |language=en}}</ref> He made his last porn movie in 1985, which he had financed himself.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Rogers |first=Destiny |date=2023-12-03 |title=NSFW! The first ever twink superstar: Kip Noll |url=https://qnews.com.au/nsfw-the-first-ever-twink-superstar-kip-noll/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=QNews |language=en-AU}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Kip Noll is regarded as the first major ] pornstar,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Escoffier |first=Jeffrey |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Bigger_Than_Life/2mxfDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA1979&printsec=frontcover |title=Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore |date=2009-05-26 |publisher=Running Press |isbn=978-0-7867-4753-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Feist |first=Jeremy |date=2011-05-19 |title=Kip Noll |url=https://xtramagazine.com/love-sex/kip-noll-33998 |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=Xtra Magazine |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> whose popularity paved the way for other twink performers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cooper |first=Dennis |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Ugly_Man/LLQLAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Arguably%20the%20most%20famous%20gay%20porn%20star%20of%20his%20era.%20His%20popularity%20paved%20the%20way%20for%20the%20%22twink%22%22&dq=kip%20noll&printsec=frontcover |title=Ugly Man: Stories |date=2009-05-26 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-171544-0 |pages=191 |language=en}}</ref>

] has ] Kip in his poem "Kip" in ''The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge'' (1988).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nelson |first=Emmanuel S. (Emmanual Sampath) |url=https://archive.org/details/aidstheliteraryr00nels/mode/2up?q=Kip |title=AIDS--the literary response |date=1992 |publisher=New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International |others= |isbn=978-0-8057-9029-0 |pages=161, 215 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Woods |first=Gregory |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Historia_de_la_literatura_gay/hZM3U6_1PmkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Kip+Noll&pg=PA374&printsec=frontcover |title=Historia de la literatura gay |date=2001-11-05 |publisher=Ediciones AKAL |isbn=978-84-460-1196-5 |pages=374-375 |language=es}}</ref>

]'s meta-porn work ''Lonely Boy'' (1993) from ''The 100 Videos'' series,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steve Reinke. Lonely Boy from The Hundred Videos. 1993 {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/118444 |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> which has the same name as the ] on ]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gaines |first=Jane M. |year=1999 |title=Lonely Boy and the Vérité of Sexuality |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Canadian_Journal_of_Film_Studies/Uy0IAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=gay+porn+star |journal=Canadian Journal of Film Studies |publisher=Film Studies Association of Canada = Association canadienne d'études cinématographiques. |volume=8-9 |issue=1}}</ref> (which in turn was named after ]), and Nguyen Tan Hoang's ] video ''K.I.P.'' (2001)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hilderbrand |first=Lucas |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Inherent_Vice/oeWkAVmwu28C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=kip+knoll&pg=PA193&printsec=frontcover |title=Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright |date=2009-05-28 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-9219-4 |pages=193 |language=en}}</ref>– both contain excerpts of Kip's movies, ''Roomates'' (1980) and ''Kip Noll Superstar, Part I'' (1981), respectively.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Waugh |first=Thomas |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Romance_of_Transgression_in_Canada/MBCDUypv1doC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Kip+Noll&pg=PA241&printsec=frontcover |title=Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas |date=2006-07-18 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=978-0-7735-8528-7 |pages=240-241 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Freeman |first=Elizabeth |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Time_Binds/iYe8Kp9XXT4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Kip+Noll&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover |title=Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories |date=2010-11-29 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-4804-7 |pages=2-14 |language=en}}</ref>

] included Noll in his list of 100 most famous porn stars, in his book ''Gay Porn Heroes'' (2011), in The Blonds category.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GAY PORN HEROES: 100 MOST FAMOUS PORN STARS |url=https://print.gayeroticarchives.com/gay-porn-heroes-100-most-famous-porn-stars/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=print.gayeroticarchives.com}}</ref> And in 2013, ] included him in his list of "History's 250 Greatest Gay-Porn Stars" on Boyculture.com at #48.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-01-17 |title=History's 125 Hottest Gay-Porn Stars: My List |url=https://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2013/01/125-hottest-gay-porn-stars.html |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=Boyculture.com |language=en}}</ref>

In October 2015, model Hugo Villanova posed for ODDA Magazine in a photo shoot titled ''Grease Monkey, Inspired by Kip Noll''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grease Monkey. Inspired by Kip Noll (ODDA Magazine) |url=https://models.com/work/odda-magazine-grease-monkey-inspired-by-kip-noll/432700 |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=MODELS.com}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Kip was brought up in ], and had migrated to ] in the 70s, where he worked as a ] and lived with his wife. He was "presumed to be straight", and had stated that his motivations for porn work were simply financial.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Laurin |first=Daniel |title=Straight Guys: Sexual Identity and Realism in Gay Pornography |date=2024 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Toronto |url=https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/c452e3ea-bad8-42d8-8a16-6f2f1ab5f1c8 |pages=38, 77-78}}</ref>

He is said to have dated porn actress Velvet Summers for some time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=West |first=Ashley |date=2018-12-09 |title=Avon Films: Journeys into the Dark Heart of XXX - Part 2, The Procurer |url=https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/12/09/cheri-champagne/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=The Rialto Report |language=en-US}}</ref>

Little is known for certain about Noll's life after his retirement in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web |last=DickBank |title=RetroMales - Classic and Vintage Gay Porn From Bijou |url=https://www.retromales.com/models/kip-noll.html |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=www.retromales.com |language=English}}</ref> But it has been claimed that he died in 2001 at the age of 43.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLrxSjwE5M0 |title=The FIRST Gay TWINK Superstar KIP NOLL {{!}} Iconic Stars {{!}} Video Essay {{!}} LGBTQIA+ |date=2024-01-30 |last=Demystifying Gay Porn |access-date=2025-01-19 |via=YouTube}}</ref>


==Videography== ==Videography==
* ''The Best of Kip Noll'' (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton, Scott Taylor, Jack Burke, Jeremy Scott, Rick, Mark Brennan. * ''The Best of Kip Noll'' (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton, Scott Taylor, Jack Burke, Jeremy Scott, Rick, Mark Brennan.
* ''Boys of Venice'' (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton, Scott Taylor, ], Emanuelle Bravos, Clay Russell, Butch McLester, Guy da Silva, Johnny Stone, Jimmy Young and Darla Lee. * ''Boys of Venice'' (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton, Scott Taylor, Eric Ryan, Emanuelle Bravos, Clay Russell, Butch McLester, Guy da Silva, Johnny Stone, Jimmy Young and Darla Lee.
* '']'' (Catalina Video) with ], ], Derrick Stanton, Jack Burke, ], and ]. Directed by William Higgins. * '']'' (Catalina Video) with ], ], Derrick Stanton, Jack Burke, ], and ]. Directed by William Higgins.
* ''Catalina Orgies Vol. 2'' (Catalina Video) with Tom Brock, Dean Chasen, Jay Hawkins, Eric Radford, Ricki Benson, Mark Scott Solo, Sergio Canali, Dan Ford, Larry Richards, Tim Richards, Perry Field, Ben Barker, Rob Stevens, Jim Taylor, Rick Brennan, Mike Brennen, Chris Henderson. * ''Catalina Orgies Vol. 2'' (Catalina Video) with Tom Brock, Dean Chasen, Jay Hawkins, Eric Radford, Ricki Benson, Mark Scott Solo, Sergio Canali, Dan Ford, Larry Richards, Tim Richards, Perry Field, Ben Barker, Rob Stevens, Jim Taylor, Rick Brennan, Mike Brennen, Chris Henderson.
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* ''Kip Noll Superstar'' (Catalina Video) with Emanuelle Bravos, Rick & Mike Brennen, Jack Burke, Jeremy Scott, Derrick Stanton and Jon King. * ''Kip Noll Superstar'' (Catalina Video) with Emanuelle Bravos, Rick & Mike Brennen, Jack Burke, Jeremy Scott, Derrick Stanton and Jon King.
* ''Try to Take It'' (] Pac 51) with Guillermo, Dick Fisk, Frank, Todd Parker, Bill Eld. * ''Try to Take It'' (] Pac 51) with Guillermo, Dick Fisk, Frank, Todd Parker, Bill Eld.
* ''Wild Young Fuckers'' (Catalina Video) with John Rocklin, ], Matt Ramsey, Scott Roberts, Paul Madison, Lance Whitman, Derrick Stanton, Michael Christopher, Mike Dean, Rick Kennedy, Mike Gibson, John Von Crouch, Sparky Ames, Bobby Madison, Georgio Canali, Todd Johnson, Troy Richards, Steven Richards, Mike Henson, Kevin Williams and ]. Directed by William Higgins. * ''Wild Young Fuckers'' (Catalina Video) with John Rocklin, ], Matt Ramsey, Scott Roberts, Paul Madison, Lance Whitman, Derrick Stanton, Michael Christopher, Mike Dean, Rick Kennedy, Mike Gibson, John Von Crouch, Sparky Ames, Bobby Madison, Giorgio Canali, Todd Johnson, Troy Richards, Steven Richards, Mike Henson, Kevin Williams and John Davenport. Directed by William Higgins.
* ''Young Men of the 80's Vol. 4'' (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton. * ''Young Men of the 80's Vol. 4'' (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton.
* ''Class of 84'' Directed by William Higgins. * ''Class of 84'' Directed by William Higgins.
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==External links== ==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0634466}} * {{IMDb name|0634466}}
* {{IAFD name|name=Kip Noll}}


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American gay pornographic film actor-magazine model

Kip Noll, also spelt as Kip Knoll, is a former American gay pornographic film actor-magazine model, active in the 1970s and 1980s.

Noll, who was a lean-muscled, free-spirited surfer type, achieved iconic status in the newly liberated gay culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Career

Kip was introduced into the gay pornographic film industry by Larry Ginsburg (aka Mark Reynolds) in 1975, first appearing in a few silent film loops in 1977. Kip was cast as the supposed younger brother of actor Bob Noll, and rapidly became the popular "Noll".

Kip Noll on the cover of "The Kip Noll Story", 1978

He then became closely associated with director William Higgins, who directed him for the first time in the The Boys of Venice Beach (1978), which was a blockbuster. After Kip's success, several other unrelated models were presented as his brothers– Jeff and Scott Noll as his younger siblings, and Marc Noll as his cousin (Chip Noll was introduced as Kip's nephew in later years).

By the early 1980s Noll had become one of the first superstars in the gay porn industry. Kip had made his first magazine appearance at the age of 22, and had two magazines devoted solely to him– "The Kip Noll Story" and "Kip Noll Cocky." The gay magazine Stallion published an in-depth interview with him in one of its early issues when it came out in 1982.

He was a regular performer at the "D.C. Follies", and had also performed at Eros Theatre in the Times Square area to promote his movie The Grease Monkeys (1979). He made his last porn movie in 1985, which he had financed himself.

Legacy

Kip Noll is regarded as the first major twink pornstar, whose popularity paved the way for other twink performers.

Marc Almond has elegized Kip in his poem "Kip" in The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge (1988).

Steve Reinke's meta-porn work Lonely Boy (1993) from The 100 Videos series, which has the same name as the 1962 documentary on Paul Anka (which in turn was named after one of Anka's songs), and Nguyen Tan Hoang's experimental video K.I.P. (2001)– both contain excerpts of Kip's movies, Roomates (1980) and Kip Noll Superstar, Part I (1981), respectively.

J. C. Adams included Noll in his list of 100 most famous porn stars, in his book Gay Porn Heroes (2011), in The Blonds category. And in 2013, Matthew Rettenmund included him in his list of "History's 250 Greatest Gay-Porn Stars" on Boyculture.com at #48.

In October 2015, model Hugo Villanova posed for ODDA Magazine in a photo shoot titled Grease Monkey, Inspired by Kip Noll.

Personal life

Kip was brought up in New England, and had migrated to San Diego in the 70s, where he worked as a machinist and lived with his wife. He was "presumed to be straight", and had stated that his motivations for porn work were simply financial.

He is said to have dated porn actress Velvet Summers for some time.

Little is known for certain about Noll's life after his retirement in 1985. But it has been claimed that he died in 2001 at the age of 43.

Videography

  • The Best of Kip Noll (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton, Scott Taylor, Jack Burke, Jeremy Scott, Rick, Mark Brennan.
  • Boys of Venice (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton, Scott Taylor, Eric Ryan, Emanuelle Bravos, Clay Russell, Butch McLester, Guy da Silva, Johnny Stone, Jimmy Young and Darla Lee.
  • Brothers Should Do It (Catalina Video) with Jon King, J. W. King, Derrick Stanton, Jack Burke, Giorgio Canali, and Jamie Wingo. Directed by William Higgins.
  • Catalina Orgies Vol. 2 (Catalina Video) with Tom Brock, Dean Chasen, Jay Hawkins, Eric Radford, Ricki Benson, Mark Scott Solo, Sergio Canali, Dan Ford, Larry Richards, Tim Richards, Perry Field, Ben Barker, Rob Stevens, Jim Taylor, Rick Brennan, Mike Brennen, Chris Henderson.
  • Directors Best: William Higgins Vol. 2 (Catalina Video) with Emmanuelle Bravos, Rob Stevens, Jon King, Lee Marlin, Rick Lindley, Derrick Stanton, Guy DeSilva.
  • For You #6 with the five Noll "brothers" in one movie: Bob Noll, Kip Noll, Jeff Noll, Mark Noll, Scott Noll, and Kourey Mitchell and Steve York.
  • Kip Noll & the Westside Boys (Catalina Video) with Ben Barker, Rob Stevens, Jim Taylor, Rick Brennan, Mike Brennen, and Chris Henderson. Directed by William Higgins
  • Kip Noll Superstar (Catalina Video) with Emanuelle Bravos, Rick & Mike Brennen, Jack Burke, Jeremy Scott, Derrick Stanton and Jon King.
  • Try to Take It (Falcon Video Pac 51) with Guillermo, Dick Fisk, Frank, Todd Parker, Bill Eld.
  • Wild Young Fuckers (Catalina Video) with John Rocklin, Jeff Quinn, Matt Ramsey, Scott Roberts, Paul Madison, Lance Whitman, Derrick Stanton, Michael Christopher, Mike Dean, Rick Kennedy, Mike Gibson, John Von Crouch, Sparky Ames, Bobby Madison, Giorgio Canali, Todd Johnson, Troy Richards, Steven Richards, Mike Henson, Kevin Williams and John Davenport. Directed by William Higgins.
  • Young Men of the 80's Vol. 4 (Catalina Video) with Derrick Stanton.
  • Class of 84 Directed by William Higgins.
  • Cuming of Age
  • Grease Monkeys
  • Room Mates
  • Pacific Coast Highway

See also

References

  1. "One Man's Porn", Out, 11 (7), Here, Jan 2003, ISSN 1062-7928, For me, the best porn videos are those from the mid '70s to early 80s (all precondom sex), so let's hear a big round of applause for Kip Knoll (later Noll),...
  2. ^ Limbacher, James L. (1983), Sexuality in world cinema, Volume 2, Scarecrow Press, p. 1434, ISBN 9780810816091, Kip Knoll, one of a series of brothers who do gay pictures and movies, is the star of this white sox movie, produced and directed by William Higgins.
  3. Sociology and Social Research. Vol. 73. University of Southern California Press. 1989. p. 96. Perhaps the best known of the gay porno stars of the 1980s is Kip Noll.
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Further reading

  • "Interview: Kip Noll." Stallion, June 1982.

External links

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