- Tina Russell
Adult bio
name= Tina Russell
gender = female
birth=September 23 ,1948
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death= Death date and age|1981|05|18|1948|09|23
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ethnicity= Caucasian
alias= Lina Russell, Dianna Baker, Tina Russel, Diana Baker, Linda Sanduson, Linda Sanderson
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spelling = USTina Russell (
September 23 ,1948 –May 18 ,1981 ), was thestage name of a pioneering adult film actress active in New York between about 1970 and 1975. She also performed in some of the earliest "live sex shows" to appear in New York in the early-1970s (they actually featured simulated sex). Russell was born inWilliamsport, Pennsylvania .In the late-1960s, she married photographer John Sanderson, later called Jason Russell, and the couple moved to New York City, where Russell enrolled in
New York University . Under the pseudonyms Jason and Tina Russell, the couple began their film careers appearing in short, pornographic "loops" which were shown inpeepshows in New York'sTimes Square . They appeared in a number of "marriage manual" films during the early-1970s and Tina Russell was a featured actress in some of the earliest hardcore pornographic feature films to be produced in New York.Sometime in the mid-1970s, the Russells' relationship came to an end. Tina Russell became depressed and alcoholic. She was visiting her brother in San Diego in May 1981 when she collapsed and was hospitalized. She died several days later of
renal failure . Russell is buried in Resurrection Cemetery,Montoursville, Pennsylvania , under her birth name.In 1985, Russell was posthumously inducted into the
X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame. [cite web |url=http://www.bwdl.net/XRCO-2/hall.htm |title=XRCO Hall of Fame |publisher=X-Rated Critics Organization |accessdate=2008-02-05] [cite web |url=http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=First+Annual+XRCO+Adult+Film+Awards/year=1985/First-Annual-XRCO-Adult-Film-Awards.htm |title=First Annual XRCO Adult Film Awards (1985) |publisher=Internet Adult Film Database |accessdate=2008-02-07]References
*cite book |last=Russell |first=Tina |title=Porno Star |publisher=Lancer Books |year=1973 |oclc=21814690
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