His first gay porn film was 1970's Eyes of a Stranger (also known as Eyes of a Gay Stranger Magnum Studios), one of the first hard-core gay adult films to be released commercially in the United States. Wrangler was approached to appear in gay pornographic films by Magnum Studios, the pioneering gay adult film studio and magazine publisher, after studio heads saw a poster for Special Friends featuring him semi-nude. In 1970, he made his first appearance in a male strip show, using the name "Jack Wrangler." (The pseudonymous last name was taken from the label on his Wrangler-brand work shirt.) He finally settled in New York City and found work as a bartender and go-go dancer. He played a former prostitute from Arkansas who becomes a bad go-go dancer in California, in a role which required extensive nudity. One of his first roles was in Douglas Dean Goodman's play Special Friends, one of the first gay-themed plays by a gay playwright to be performed in San Francisco, California. Career Adult film ĭespite his good looks and acting skills, Stillman found only limited early work in Los Angeles, California, and New York City on the stage and as a model and dancer. Stillman graduated in 1968 with a degree in theater from the College of Speech at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He became aware of his homosexuality when he was 10 years old. The series, which starred Eleanor Powell, was a syndicated religious family show that won five local Emmy Awards.
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Stillman began his acting career at the age of nine in the television series The Faith of Our Children (1953–1955).
His mother, Ruth Clark Stillman, was a former dancer in Busby Berkeley musicals. His father was Hollywood film and television producer Robert Thurston Stillman, who produced such films as Champion, Second Chorus, and Home of the Brave and produced television series such as Boots and Saddles, Rawhide, and Bonanza.
Wrangler was born John Robert Stillman in Beverly Hills, California.