Legendary adult filmmaker, Gerard Damiano, died on Saturday from natural causes. Damiano was 80 years old when he succumbed to complications from a stroke.

Though perhaps best known for making the highest earning adult film, Deep Throat (1972), which grossed $600 million on a shoe-string budget, Damiano saw little of that money. He also directed The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) along with several other well-known, golden age era classics.

The quintessential American porn director didn't start his career as such. In fact, born to an Italian-Catholic family, Damiano served four years in the Navy as an X-ray technician and worked as a hairdresser in the Bronx before discovering he had knack for directing porn. According to the Ft. Myers News-Press, while running his own beauty parlor in New York City:
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