Robert Kerman

Robert Kerman fascinates me as a witness to a specific, vanished moment in film history. He was a Brooklyn College man who became one of the defining faces of the so-called golden age of adult cinema, most famously through Debbie Does Dallas, and earned both AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame nods. What I respect is that he refused to be boxed in, also building a presence in mainstream pictures. It is easy to dismiss the genre, but to him this was a real acting life. He passed in 2018, and I think he deserves to be remembered honestly, complications and all, as a true product of his era.

Name (English)

Robert Kerman

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・バラ

Reading

りちゃーど・ばら

Born

December 16, 1947 – December 27, 2018

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

pornographic actor / film actor

High school

Lafayette High School

University

Brooklyn College

Awards & achievements

• 1997 AVN Hall of Fame
• 2008 XRCO Hall of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Kerman
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1291283

Tags

• New York
• pornographic actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.