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Dave Ruby(I)

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The handsome and muscular Dave Ruby was born David Rubenstein in 1945 in the Bronx in New York City. Of Jewish descent, his father was from Poland while his mother's family came from Russia. When Dave was six years old he moved with his family to Queens, where he was brought up in Kew Garden Hills. Ruby was a jock in high school who played football and baseball as well as ran track. Dave tried out for the major baseball team the New York Mets three times. Following graduation from high school Ruby joined the National Guard in order to avoid the Vietnam draft, worked a series of part time jobs, and made several abortive attempts to become a police officer. Dave attended New York City Community College for a single term and briefly worked in hotel management before deciding on a career as a court reporter.

Ruby became involved in the swinging scene in the early 1970's. During this time Dave was hired by the swinger's club The Midnight Interlude to front their cable TV advertisements. Ruby did his first hardcore movie in the mid-1970's after responding to an ad placed by noted East Coast adult filmmaker Leonard Kirtman. Dave subsequently signed up with Dorothy Palmer's casting agency and went on to appear in a slew of hardcore loops and explicit adult features for such top directors as Lasse Braun, Chuck Vincent, Carter Stevens, Fred J. Lincoln, Phil Prince, Joe Davian, and Shaun Costello. Moreover, Ruby also worked as a male escort, did some nude modeling for Gay Scene magazine, and performed in a live S&M sex show at Club O in the early 1980's. After quitting porn in the late 1980's Dave got married in 1994 and retired from his regular day job as a court reporter with a full pension in 2002. The father of two sons and a stepdaughter that he helped raise, Ruby enjoys ballroom dancing and traveling all over the world.
BornJune 7, 1945
BornJune 7, 1945
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Known for

Manhattan Mistress
6.5
  • Ernie(as David Ruby)
  • 1981
Nasty Girls
6.6
  • Chet
  • 1983
Sizzle
6.1
  • Pete
  • 1980
A Girl's Best Friend
6.6
  • Man at Bar
  • 1978

Credits

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Actor

  • Silence of the G.A.M.S.
    • Mr. Dick
    • Video
    • 1992
  • Cab-o-lay
    • 1988
  • Decadence
    • Man Two (as David Ruby)
    • Video
    • 1988
  • Sex for Secrets
    • Video
    • 1987
  • Bad Attitude
    • Male
    • 1987
  • Lustfire
    • Stanley
    • Video
    • 1986
  • Hot, Wet, and Wild
    • Video
    • 1986
  • The South Bronx Story
    • 1986
  • Fashion Dolls
    • Big Ed
    • 1986
  • Anal Intruder
    • 1986
  • Angela in Wonderland
    • Video
    • 1986
  • The Pleasures of Innocence
    • Jake
    • 1986
  • Afrodisiac
    • Video
    • 1985
  • Black Girls in Heat
    • 1985
  • Vas-o-line Alley
    • Mugger
    • 1985

Producer

  • Lustfire
    • producer (uncredited)
    • Video
    • 1986

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Jonny Canuuk
  • Height
    • 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
  • Born
    • June 7, 1945
    • Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
  • Other works
    Loop: Appeared in the loop "Anal Party" (Showgirl Superstars S-103) with Vanessa del Rio, Samantha Fox and Jesse Adams.
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    • 1 Article

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  • Trivia
    Owned a house in Yonkers, New York from the late 1970's to the mid-1980's that he used to let adult filmmakers make hardcore movies in.
  • Quotes
    [on doing hardcore loops] They were quick, easy, and fun.
  • Salary
    • Teenage Deviate
      (1976)
      50

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