Tim Kincaid

Tim Kincaid (born 2 July 1944) is an American film director, writer and producer sometimes credited as Joe Gage or Mac Larson.

Biographical note

Born in Santa Barbara, California and raised on Catalina Island, Kincaid directed and wrote an influential trilogy of gay films, collectively referred to as either "The Kansas City Trilogy" or "The Working Man Trilogy" in the late 1970s under the name Joe Gage. The films, "Kansas City Trucking Co.", "El Paso Wrecking Corp." and "L.A. Tool & Die" were praised for their consistent portrayals of male/male sex occurring between rugged, masculine men who came from blue-collar and rural backgrounds and who related as "equal partners" -- avoiding the the frequent stereotypes of such men as effeminate inhabitants of urban gay neighborhoods, or who were caught up in a constraining "you play the woman, I'll be the man" mindset of dominant/submissive roles.

And while the sex was sometimes rough and occurred in disreputable venues such as truck-station restrooms, the characters in the Gage films often displayed bonds of male camaraderie that went beyond fleeting sexual intercourse, and that more or less entirely ignored the boundaries of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" social identity.

To a perceptive viewer, some of the characters in Gage's films can be clearly understood as "gay identified," while others are just as clearly intended to represent "straight trade" -- men who normally inhabit the heterosexual world and may even be happily married. But many other characters, and perhaps most of them, defy easy categorization. The Trilogy films also were praised for their cinematography, editing, music, sound design and use of natural locations to stage scenes in the films.

For all of these reasons, Kincaid's aesthetic sensibilities had a significant impact not only on his contemporaries in the adult film world, but on gay-male culture as it was developing in the 1970s and 1980s. Numerous filmmakers of today cite the Gage films as being highly instrumental in their own development, and at least one gay singer-songwriter has used the phrase "a Joe Gage face" in his lyrics, knowing that for some listeners it would immediately evoke a certain kind of male handsomeness, in much the same way that "Gibson girl" or "Patrick Nagel" bring to mind a specific type of feminine beauty.

In addition to the trilogy, Kincaid directed (also under the name Joe Gage) several notable gay adult films in the early 1980s including "Closed Set" and "Heatstroke". Under the pseudonym "Mac Larson", Kincaid directed several lower budgeted and grittier titles, but these films did not have the same lasting impact as those that he directed under his "Joe Gage" moniker. In the mid 80's, Kincaid shocked many in the gay adult film industry when he gave up erotic filmmaking and married Cynthia DePaula with whom he fathered two sons. DePaula also served as one of the producers on a series of non-adult, low-budget, exploitation films that Kincaid wrote and directed including, Bad Girls Dormitory and Robot Holocaust. The films, frequently produced with noted exploitation film producer Charles Band, were very low-budget with limited production values and frequently ended up as a direct-to-video releases, but many of the films have a cadre of fans entertained by the camp value and tongue in cheek quality of the scripts and dialogue.

When Kincaid's marriage ended in the late 90's, he was persuaded to resurrect his "Joe Gage" persona to return to gay adult filmmaking with "Tulsa County Line", a film which focuses on a seasoned highway patrolman introducing his younger partner to gay experiences during their tour of duty. Since then, he has wrote and directed numerous, highly popular films under contract with the Titan Media Studio, including Back to Barstow, Arcade on Route 9 and the successful Men's Room series which featured a strong emphasis on watersports. The new films won Kincaid a new generation of fans that were attracted to the high production values, strong storytelling, meticulously-paced seduction scenes and an emphasis on casting ruggedly sexy, masculine men of a variety of ages, looks and body types.

Kincaid has also made a few appearances on screen, notably in Morning, Noon and Night (1975) as an adult performer, and was allegedly one of the "Gage Men" featured in the backgrounds of orgy scenes in the films he directed in the late 70's and early 80's. Since then, he has appeared in non-sexual roles in a few adult films and makes an appearance as a commentator in (2008) a documentary about Jack Wrangler, the first gay adult superstar and the star of Kansas City Trucking Co.

In 2001, Kincaid, (as Joe Gage) was inducted into the GayVN Awards Hall of Fame. In recent years, Kincaid has implied that he could be working on his memoirs. He daily posts on his blog at http://joegage.com/

Directing Filmography (non-adult, as Tim Kincaid)

*"She's Back" (1989)
*"Sinbad of the Seven Seas" (1989) (co-director w/Enzo G. Castellari)
*"Mutant Hunt" (1987)
*"The Occultist" (1987)
*"Riot on 42nd St." (1987)
*"Breeders" (1986)
*"Robot Holocaust" (1986)
*"Bad Girls' Dormitory" (1986)

Directing Filmography (adult, as Joe Gage or Mac Larson)

*"Kansas City Trucking Co." (1976)
*"El Paso Wrecking Corp." (1978)
*"L.A. Tool & Die" (1979)
*"Joe Gage's Closed Set" (1980)
*"Handsome" (1980)
*"501" (1981)
*"Heatstroke" (1982)
*"Oil Rig #99" (1978)
*"Red Ball Express" (1979)
*"Tough Guys" (1980)
*"Cellblock #9" (1981)
*"In the Name of Leather" (1985)
*"Tulsa County Line" (2001)
*"Tough Guys: Getting Off"
*"Truck Stop on I-95" (2004)
*"Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 4: Blue Collar Beer Blast" (2004)
*"Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 3: Kegger" (2003)
*"Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 2" (2003)
*"Joe Gage Sex Files Vol. 1" (2003)
*"Closed Set: Titan Stage One"
*"Men's Room: Bakersfield Station"
*"Back to Barstow"
*"110° in Tucson"
*"Alabama Takedown"
*"Cop Shack"
*"Crossing the Line: Cop Shack II"
*"Deep Water Beach Patrol"
*"Gale Force: Men's Room II"
*"Arcade on Route 9"
*"Lifeguard! The Men of Deep Water Beach"
*"Campus Pizza"
*"Barnstorm"
*"Gunnery Sgt. McCool"
*"Road to Redneck Hollow"
*"Men's Room III: Ozark Mtn, Exit 8" (2008)
*"Chainsaw" (2008)
*"Copperhead Canyon" (2008)
*"Home Invasion" (TBA/2008)
*"Slow Heat in a Texas Town" (in production/2009)

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