Abigail Clayton

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Adult-film actress Abigail Clayton was born Gail Lawrence in Huntington, Long Island, NY. After graduating from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Gail migrated to the West Coast, settling in San Francisco. She began working as a film editor and soon was performing in adult film loops with the likes of Annette Haven and Leslie Bovée. A youthful-looking brunette with perky B-cup breasts, prominent nipples, doe-like eyes, and a slight overbite, Abigail was one of the most appealing and memorable stars of the Golden Age of Porn. Her lusty contributions to such classic pictures as Naked Afternoon (1976), Desires Within Young Girls (1977), 7 Into Snowy (1978) and SexWorld (1978) were always arousing. One of Gail's early adult films was Dixie (1976). In this film she plays a promiscuous, underage, teenage prostitute. Dixie was a film Gail regretted making as it was "told with a leering perspective" and also the one and only time she worked with people she didn't know. Gail Lawrence also appeared in a few "mainstream" movies. She starred alongside Gérard Depardieu in Rêve de singe (1978), was especially memorable as a hapless model who is brutally murdered by vicious psychotic Joe Spinell in the horror slasher cult favorite Maniac (1980) and had a small part as a nun in the comedy Les fesses à l'air (1981). Abigail quit appearing in hardcore films in 1980. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2008.

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2023
Suck 'n' Fuck Icons
Movie (archive footage)
2016
Hardcore to Horror
Movie (archive footage)
2003
Big Tit Superstars of the 80's: Kay Parker Collection
Movie (archive footage)
1992
Swedish Erotica Hard 8
Movie (archive footage)
1987
Legends of Porn
Movie (archive footage)
1986
Good to the Last Drop
Movie (archive footage)
1985
Blue Ribbon Blue
Movie Jennifer (archive footage)
1983
The Best of Alex de Renzy
Movie Joey's Girl
1983
Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 1
Movie Missy (archive footage)
1981
So Fine
Movie Nun
1980
Maniac
Movie Rita
1980
October Silk
Movie Martin's Wife
1980
The Best of Porno
Movie (archive footage)
1979
Cave Women
Movie Cavewoman #2
1979
That's Porno
Movie Girl with Blue Choker (archive footage)
1978
Untamed
Movie Cathy