Kip Noll

[3] 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.

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.

[24][25] Steve Reinke's meta-porn work Lonely Boy (1993) from The 100 Videos series,[26] which has the same name as the 1962 documentary on Paul Anka[27] (which in turn was named after one of Anka's songs), and Nguyen Tan Hoang's experimental video K.I.P.

[32] In October 2015, model Hugo Villanova posed for ODDA Magazine in a photo shoot titled Grease Monkey, which was inspired by Kip Noll.

[33] 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.