KIP NOLL: The First Real Twink Superstar

By Josh Eliot

There were Bob and Jeff and Scott and Marc who used the surname “Noll,” but the “Noll” that brought the name into superstar status was Kip Noll. Bob Noll was the first, a very popular Trademark Studios magazine and solo loop star in the early 1970’s. A masculine, handsome man whose work drew instant attention. When producer/director Mark Reynolds (Larry Ginsburg) discovered an eighteen-year-old named Thomas, he cast him under the stage name Kip Noll, assuming the role of Bob’s younger brother. The two of them did have a strikingly identical appearance and demeanor that Reynolds wanted to play off of. Initially, Reynolds wasn’t convinced that Thomas (Kip) had anything special to offer. Kip’s overgrown hair and bushy moustache hid his most attractive attributes, but once he was clean shaven and polished up, the potential was obvious.

The Kip Noll Story & Cuming of Age from Trademark & Mark Reynolds

According to a bio written for Live Journal, Kip began an extensive initial career in the Trademark Studios loop business, many released years later in the compilation Surf & Turf from Cream of the Crop Video. Loops with titles I’ll Do It If You Will and Double Your Pleasure featured Kip as mostly a bottom. Most of the loops were shot while Kip had a front tooth missing. Mark Reynolds filmed and released a solo and accompanying magazine which was called The Kip Noll Story in 1978. Kip continued to work in more silent loops for Reynolds (examples: Fuck Truck and Dreamboys) and took over the spotlight as his “older brother” Bob faded from the industry.

After taking a short break from making movies, Kip made a huge jump into stardom when Reynolds introduced him to William Higgins, who cast him in the starring role for The Boys of Venice (1979). In that movie, Kip's deep masculine voice is heard on screen for the very first time, enhancing his desirability to the audience. It also marked his first role as a top when he mounted Greek stud Emmanuelle Bravos who, unlike Kip, only ever worked in this one movie. The film was a smash hit! In 1979, he followed the success of his initial “talkie” with Grease Monkeys for Jaguar, taking top billing alongside Nick Rodgers and Lee Marlin. The macho role he played hit a chord with his audience, but the shoot itself was no walk in the park. Kip described the threeway sex scene on Pismo Beach as his most difficult because of the ice cold water and very vocal crowd yelling down from the top of the cliffs.

Born in Greenwich, Connecticut on August 7th, 1957 Kip's lean muscled frame, shaggy hair, free spirit and east coast upbringing all added to his charm. He is said to have had a very high sex drive. Even though he was a street hustler when Reynolds met him, he was not gay but leaning more straight or bisexual. The drive for him was the money, that was his motivation.

Shortly after his rise to superstar status, other Noll “siblings” and “cousins” started popping up out of the woodwork. There was Jeff Noll (brother), Marc Noll (cousin), Scott Noll aka Chris Noll (brother). All a schtick from producers and agents trying to cash in on Kip's success. Hell, Scott Masters and I even worked with another Noll sibling in my movies 69: Discover the Secret and Junior Meets the Bear Patrol, Chip Noll, in 2004! Not to be outdone, in 2017 William Higgins discovered Igor Galek, a Czech model who sometimes shot movies under the name Greg Noll! With all those Nolls I mentioned, there are bound to be four or five more, don’t you think? You can see the solo loops of Bob, Jeff, Kip, Mark and Scot Noll in the movie For You Solo Signature Series 6 (1980) from Mark Reynolds and H.I.S. Video.

Most of the other NOLL siblings

Kip’s career was on a constant rise. He promoted Grease Monkeys while performing at the Eros Theatre in Times Square with co-stars Lee and Nick. Kip’s next big release was Kip Noll & the Westside Boys (1979) for Higgins, who was all about riding the wave when he planned to star Kip in his next movie Rear Deliveries. Just prior to production, Kip was involved in a motorcycle accident and could not star in the movie. After recovering, he worked with Lee Marlin and Kourey Mitchell for the Mark Reynolds movie Roommates (1980). The hits kept coming with Cuming of Age (1980) which matches Kip, Scott Noll and Steve York, Al Parker’s Flashback (1981) where Kip and Chris Noll have a scene together, Pacific Coast Highway (1981) with Jack Burke, Brothers Should Do it (1981) with Derrick Stanton, Class of ’84 Part II (1981) with Jeremy Scott and The Legend of Kip Noll: Superstar (1981).

Most of Kip Noll's major releases

The Legend of Kip Noll: Superstar is basically a compilation for most of the movie, where Jon King interviews Kip and asks questions about some of his movie memories from various scenes in his films. A typical comp film until the end, which is more than worth the price of admission. I read that Higgins described how when it came time for Kip and Jon to start their sex scene, they literally ripped the clothes off each other and, before Higgins could tell them to stop (because he was still loading film into the camera), Noll was fucking King on the floor, pounding away like an animal so wildly that Jon King started cumming all over himself, causing Noll to blow his load up King's ass. Without missing a beat, Noll spun King around and continued fucking doggie style. Why weren’t more of my movie sets like that! The film got loaded, Higgins kept shooting and the two kept at it, not even fazed by the fact that they already shot their loads. They came back the next day to shoot the “intro” they had missed and, supposedly, once the intro was shot, the two started screwing again and wouldn’t stop while the crew just packed up the equipment around them. A stark contrast to his off-set life, where it is written that he was dating adult film star Velvet Summers, a petite (4’ 11”) young actress who specialized in bondage themed movies. Velvet was born September 22, 1960 and was also from Massachusetts. She worked in seventeen movies between 1981 and 1984 with titles like Wicked Schoolgirls (1981), The Taming of Rebecca (1982) and When She was Bad (1983).

Kip's girlfriend Velvet Summers & the oversexed scene from Superstar with Kip & Jon King

In 1981, the Follies Theatre opened in New York City and Kip appeared to sold out crowds, which was unprecedented at the time. Noll became famous for incidents where he would have sex with the audience, often putting his erect cock in different audience members' mouths. Quite the showman! His career was more about “on the road” appearances at this point, but he made one final movie in 1983, a movie that he himself financed and directed called Kip Noll’s Casting Couch. Kip was involved in all of the scenes within the movie and it’s said to include the one and only time Ron Jeremy performed auto-fellatio on himself. At this stage in his life, it is reported that Kip Noll got married and worked as a machinist in San Diego. He reappeared again in 1984 for a grand re-opening of the Follies, alongside Lance and Daniel Holt, but no further sightings are noted after that performance. In 1985, rumors circulated of his death but were proven groundless by Manshots magazine. An obituary in a Salt Lake City newspaper shows Thomas (Kip) died on May 21st, 2001 of a heart attack at age 43. Being one of seven brothers, he is survived by his wife and three daughters.

Kip Noll's final movie Casting Couch alongside some of his earliest

Watch Josh Eliot's excerpts/trailers for Kip's classics!
Kip's interview with Jon King from The Legend of Kip Noll: Superstar
Trailer for The Boys of Venice

Bio of Josh Eliot:

At the age of 25 in 1987, Josh Eliot was hired by Catalina Video by John Travis (Brentwood Video) and Scott Masters (Nova Video). Travis trained Eliot on his style of videography and mentored him on the art of directing. Josh directed his first movie, Runaways, in 1987. By 2009 when Josh parted ways with Catalina Video, he'd produced and directed hundreds of features and won numerous awards for Best Screenplay, Videography, Editing, and Directing. He was entered into the GayVN Hall of fame in 2002.

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