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Nathan Blackthorne
(1945
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Birthplace:
Windsor, KS
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Bio:
A
true rags to riches story. Nathan Blackthorne
left his smalltown home in Kansas for Hollywood at the
young age of seventeen. Homeless and peniless
for a time, he eventually rose to the occasion and became
the most sought after leading man in Hollywood, thanks
to influences by film moguls such as Jonas Lamont. A
brief marriage to Lamont's daughter, Jacqueline, catapuled
him to fame in the late sixties. By the late seventies
he added several directorial credits to his resume,
and began splitting his time equally between in front
of the camera, and behind it. In 1979 he met horror
scream queen Alex Reynolds and took her under his wing,
and made no secret of their love affair. That
year's "Serendipity Express", which Blackthorne
directed and co-starred in with Reynolds, became a blockbuster
hit and earned record amounts at the box office. When
Blackthorne's aspiring nephew, James, arrived in Hollywood
and took up with Reynolds, any romantic links with Nathan
Blackthorne ceased. Several films later, personality
conflicts between Reynolds and Nathan Blackthorne halted
any further pairings. A much publicized trial
in which Blackthorne was accused of several counts of statutory rape, ruined
the actor/director's career and prompted a startling confession by Reynolds on
the witness stand. While the jury was deliberating, Blackthorne secretly
fled the country and retreated to Paris, where no extradition
agreement exists with the United States. The District
Attorney of Los Angeles county has never
dropped the warrant for Blackthorne's arrest, preventing him from
returning to the United States without immense legal
ramifications. Recent developments have Blackthorne returning the the
country, arrested, and released on bond pending a re-trial
since no verdict was ever read in the original case.
Meanwhile, an attempt at re-introducing him as
star of a new Sunset
Studios film, Donnie
& Johnny, are currently in development.
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