I have just learned this news via this board, i hope and pray that he passed with minimal pain. I will never forget, i had never viewed erotic pornographic film before, i was ten years old, circa 1988, it was a staggeringly hot summer day, parents were having dinner at niagara falls, i puffed a tiny yet glorious amount of northern california's finest in my room (thank you Grateful Dead touring musical circus), and was feeling restless and anxious, i found myself looking under my father's bed and stumbled upon a dusty videotape hand labelled "assorted short stories", something inside me yearned to play this vhs tape, next thing i know i am on the rug in the living room in front of the tv goggle eyed at what i am viewing, my heart is racing, and i am so tremendously erect that my pants are tearing off, it was a los angeles san fernando valley film set (i would not have known that back then!!!) designed to mimic the interior of an airplane, which excited me as we had just arrived back from my first ever flight a cocoa beach, florida area vacation, and Mr. John Leslie had this wicked grin sitting in his seat and he said "oh yeah darlin'" and the featured actress sat on top of him and he handed her the captain's hat, next thing i know i am stark naked on the floor, the t.v. is blaring with blissful moans, and i realize that all of the windows are open in the house!!! Hope the neighbors are not having a bar-b-que next door! Hey, you never know perhaps amidst their cocktails...the funky music and mayhem blaring out of my television inspired the neighbors to galavant inside their home and cool off together in the finest of pleasureable formats!!!! R.I.P. Mr. Leslie

...loved him as an actor, and especially as a director of the "Voyeur" series.  A life well lived for sure.

As a young man in the 80's I used to love John scenes with Nina Hartley, Vanessa Del Rio, Torri Wells and others. He always gave a great preformance and shown this creativity even more when he started making and directing his own films. He was true pioneer and legend in the industry.  

Anyone who has watched porn has been touched directly or indirectly by Leslie's work. For me, it was the movies he directed in the late 80's early 90's.

Night Shift Nurses - Siobahn Hunter as a sister of mercy going down on Peter North in a hospital bed...

The Chameleon - the card game with Pamela Rose and Lynn Francis and Ray Victory...

Hot Scalding - Pamela Rose opening the movie with a strip tease of Joey Silvera and Damien Cashmere and that fabulous ass of hers...

Curse of the Catwoman - Selena Steele masturbating herself to sleep and then being accosted by Rocco and Patricia Kennedy as she sleeps...

The Tease - Randy West watching while Selena Steele fucks Peter North silly...

So many good scenes...