Kurt Marshall (born James Allen Rideout, Jr.;[1] November 13, 1965 – October 10, 1988) was a model and an actor who performed in gay pornographic films in the mid-1980s.

[1] After high school (he graduated after lettering in swimming and track and field), he attended San Francisco State University, but never finished.

O'Hara later wrote in his autobiography that he was not in the least attracted to Marshall, although much of the film was later edited to make it appear as if he was having an intense sexual experience with him and two other blond men.

[9] Marshall's second film, Splash Shots, was credited with making sex around the swimming pool a gay porn trope.

This isn't our moment to party or to think we're going to stay young forever … maybe it's our time to find someone to be safe with … to be happy with … Marshall, an admitted drug user,[citation needed] tested positive for HIV in 1986.