Phil Prince(1953-2018)
- Director
- Casting Department
- Writer
Philip Joseph Prince was born on May 28, 1953 in the Bronx. His father Philip was of French and English descent while his mother Mary was an Irish woman who was born and raised in Country Cork. Moreover, Prince had two stepbrothers and a sister. Phil grew up in an Irish Catholic community and learned early on how to hold his own in a fight. Prince became involved in all sorts of criminal activities after losing his beloved mother to cancer at age twelve and eventually dropped out of high school in his mid-teens. Phil moved to the rough neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen and hooked up with a local Irish mob known as the Westies. Prince also befriended a local hood named James 'Jimmy C.' Coonan, who helped Phil get a job working as muscle for a ring of Times Square strip clubs. Prince met and married a Puerto Rican stripper named Teresa Mendez; the couple went on to perform in live sex shows in adult clubs circa 1973. However, Phil eventually got burned out from performing live sex shows and turned to dealing cocaine instead. Moreover, Teresa was tragically murdered in September, 1977. In the wake of his first wife's untimely death Prince went on to work as a projectionist and night manager for the Avon porn theater chain. (He also continued to engage in all kinds of wild criminal behavior such as stealing television sets around this time.) Phil got married a second time to a woman named Susie in April, 1979.
It was through his association with the Avon theater chain and his friendship with Avon head honcho Murray Offen that Prince wound up directing a handful of notoriously sick and twisted BDSM-themed hardcore roughies for Avon in the early 1980's. After making said films for Avon, Phil returned to dealing cocaine and was involved in a shooting incident at a Haagen Daz ice cream parlor in the West Village that resulted in Phil serving three years in a maximum security prison. After getting paroled in 1988 Prince got a job as a truck driver as well as ran a pizzeria for ten years. His second wife Susie died in 2011. Phil died at age 65 on September 11, 2018 in his home in Beacon, New York. He was survived by three children and three grandchildren.
It was through his association with the Avon theater chain and his friendship with Avon head honcho Murray Offen that Prince wound up directing a handful of notoriously sick and twisted BDSM-themed hardcore roughies for Avon in the early 1980's. After making said films for Avon, Phil returned to dealing cocaine and was involved in a shooting incident at a Haagen Daz ice cream parlor in the West Village that resulted in Phil serving three years in a maximum security prison. After getting paroled in 1988 Prince got a job as a truck driver as well as ran a pizzeria for ten years. His second wife Susie died in 2011. Phil died at age 65 on September 11, 2018 in his home in Beacon, New York. He was survived by three children and three grandchildren.