A solid-built, physically-imposing US-born black performer, Sledge
Hammer was a veteran of the adult film industry with a 19-year career.
He was born on February 9, 1973 as Marland Anderson. He began his work
in the sex industry in 1995 at 22 years old. Possessing
powerfully-built features and a cocky smile anytime he appeared on set,
Anderson appeared in over 800 films. First starting out with buff
physical traits and braided hair, Anderson gradually underwent changes
over the years, later switching between shaven and flat top hair
styles. Like many of the black studs from the mid 1990s and onward,
Sledge often appears in interracial films. He appeared on countless
websites including the highly-popular interracial porn site, Blacks on
Blondes. He often appeared more in gang bang sex scenes and proved to
be a reliable casting choice when assembling a roster of
willing-and-able black performers to co-star with unsuspecting young
ladies. Anderson was the owner of an extensive career tragically ending
in April of 2012. Anderson died from cardiac arrest brought on by
excessive tasering by police officers responding to a report of a
suicide attempt by Anderson who was living in Reseda area on April 8.
They responded to a disturbance in the Reseda area of California, where
Anderson lived at. In their attempts to subdue the reportedly
"intimidating" Anderson, police officers tasered him excessively.
Anderson was taken to the hospital and was under a coma after EMT's
successfully revived him. Complications involving massive swelling in
his brain and the reported unlikelihood of Anderson regaining
consciousness led to his mother requesting her son to be taken off life
support on April 13, after five days in the hospital.