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John Curtis Holmes (born John Curtis Estes; August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988), better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character he portrayed in a series of related films), was one of the most prolific male pornographic film actors of all time; he appeared in about 2,500 adult loops and pornographic feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s. Holmes was best known for his exceptionally large penis, which was heavily promoted as the longest, thickest, and hardest in the porn industry, although no documented measurement of Holmes' actual penis length, girth, or tumescence has ever been confirmed. Near the end of his life, Holmes attained notoriety for his involvement in the Wonderland murders of July 1981 and eventually for his death from complications caused by AIDS in March 1988. Holmes was the subject of several books, a lengthy essay in ''Rolling Stone'', and two feature-length documentaries, and was the inspiration for two Hollywood movies (''Boogie Nights'' and ''Wonderland''). ==Early life== Holmes was born John Curtis Estes on August 8, 1944, in the small rural town of Ashville, Ohio, about south of Columbus. John was the youngest of four children born to 26-year-old Mary June Holmes (''née'' Barton); his father's name was not listed on his birth certificate. Mary and her husband, Edward Holmes, the father of John's three older siblings, Dale, Edward, and Anne, were married and divorced three times throughout their marriage, documented by wedding certificates dated 13 April 1936, 13 August 1945, and 12 September 1947.〔Marriage records for Mary Barton Holmes and Edgar Holmes as researched at Familysearch.org https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-FHK9-R , https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-F8D8-K https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-B19G-F7〕 At the time of their first marriage, in 1936, Edgar was 35 years old and already a one-time divorcé; Mary was 17.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-B19G-F7 )〕 After divorcing each other a third and final time, Edgar and Mary each married one more time.〔https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-FH4R-X https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&englishSubcountryName=Ohio&query=%2Bgivenname%3Amary~%20%2Bsurname%3Aholmes~%20%2Bspouse_surname%3Abowman~%20%2Brecord_country%3A%22United%20States%22%20%2Brecord_subcountry%3A%22United%20States%2COhio%22〕 Mary changed John's surname to Holmes when he was a child. In 1986, when prior to a trip to Italy his mother provided him with the handwritten copy of his original birth certificate, Holmes learned the name of his biological father, Carl Estes. Holmes' mother, Mary, was a devout Southern Baptist and with her children regularly attended the Milport Chapel Church; John had perfect attendance. In contrast his stepfather, Edward, was an alcoholic who would come home inebriated, stumble about the house, and even vomit on the children. As a child, Holmes enjoyed a reprieve from his turbulent home life when he visited his maternal grandparents. Mary divorced Edward when Holmes was three or four and moved with her children to Columbus, Ohio, where they lived in a low-income apartment project with a friend of Mary's and her two children. The two women worked as clerks and waitresses in order to support their young children. When Holmes was eight, his mother married Harold Bowman on December 31, 1951. Shortly afterward, Holmes and his family moved from Columbus and settled in the small town of Pataskala, Ohio, about 10 miles east of Columbus. Holmes recalled that Bowman was a good father until Holmes' younger half-brother, David, was born, at which point Bowman lost interest in his stepchildren and began neglecting them.〔〔Source: Sharon Holmes interview in the documentary '' Wadd: The life and Times of John C. Holmes''〕 Holmes left home at age 16 and enlisted in the U.S. Army, with his mother's written permission. He spent most of the three years of his military service in West Germany in the Signal Corps.〔 Upon his honorable discharge, Holmes moved to Los Angeles, where he worked in a variety of jobs, including selling goods door-to-door and tending the vats at a Coffee-Nips factory. During his stint as an ambulance driver he met a nurse named Sharon Gebenini, in December 1964. They married in August 1965. Holmes found work as a forklift driver at a meatpacking warehouse in nearby Cudahy, California. However, repeated exposure to the sub-freezing air in the large walk-in freezer after being outside inhaling the desert-hot air caused him severe health problems, leading to a pneumothorax of his right lung, on three separate occasions, during the two years he worked there.〔 Sharon had health problems, too. During the first 17 months of her marriage to John, she miscarried three times. ==Career== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Holmes (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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