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Johnny Keyes is most famous for his role as the black stud who ravishes Marilyn Chambers in 1972's Behind The Green Door.

Keyes, born around 1958, took up boxing while serving in the Armed Force to stay out of Vietnam. He appeared in the play Hair as Hud.

Johnny worked two days from morning till night on Green Door. "I'm an actor, Marilyn is an actress. We have to depict a sexual scene together, so we had to get into the scene. I think what the camera caught what us getting into each other, we had to do that to get into the scene. We stopped acting and used the communication of getting into each other to make it come off good on film, and the camera caught it, and it was really good because it was really happening." (C.E.C. p 107)

"In Hawaii I had a German shepherd and these people hired me to have my dog ball this chick. But my German shepherd wouldn't ball her, so I put my hands down between the dog's legs and played with her! My arm's going ninety miles an hour and the chick thinks it's the dog..."