Rod Phillips (born Gregory Leslie Patton on August 23, 1960, in El Centro, California, died May 24, 1993, in West Hollywood, California) was an American porn star who appeared in gay pornographic films from 1982 to 1993. In the early 1980s, Phillips met Lee Ryder in the Boom-Bom Room, a popular gay bar in Laguna Beach, California. Ryder at that time had already achieved fame as a gay pornographic actor in films distributed by Falcon Studios. Wikipedia
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