Jennifer Welles
Actor
Biography
Jennifer Welles was an American porn star chiefly active in the soft- and hardcore genres of the 1970s, although she began her acting career in the late 1960s in the sexploitation genre. Welles was also a fetish model for such magazines as Bizarre. Using the alias "Liza Duran," she appeared in a variety of softcore sexploitation and "roughie" grindhouse films produced in New York. Some of these include: Sex by Advertisement (1967), Career Bed, Submission, and This Sporting House directed by Henri Pachard (all from 1969). Welles appeared in many films, but the best known was Inside Jennifer Welles (1977), which she is also credited with having directed (although the film was actually anonymously directed by sex-exploitation veteran Joseph W. Sarno). She also appeared in a few mainstream films, most notably The Groove Tube opposite Chevy Chase. Welles won the Erotica Award for Best Actress in 1977 for the film Little Orphan Sammy, and was the editor of EROS, The Magazine of Decadent Sophistication, in that same year.
As Director
Filmography
Confessions of a Young American Housewife
as Jennifer Robinson 1974
Sugar Cookies
as Max's Secretary 1973
Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town
as Drucilla 1975
The Groove Tube
as The Geritan Girl 1974
Love After Death
as Lesbian Brunette 1968
Misty
as Elaine 1976
Career Bed
as Susan (as Lisa Duran) 1969
Submission
as Vickie 1969
Inside Jennifer Welles
as Jennifer Welles 1977
Expose Me, Lovely
as Shelly Knight 1976
The Female Response
as Andrea 1973
The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego
as Myra 1974
Is There Sex After Death?
as Merkin's Assistant 1971
The Sexualist
as Monica 1973
The Virgin and the Lover
as Lynn 1973
Little Blue Box
as Jen / Ms. Azure 1979
Sex by Advertisement
as Body Painting Model / Swinger (uncredited) 1968