I thought he had a kind of charisma, the ability to make people listen, to make people enjoy what they were doing. Robert told Manshots, in a 1982 interview, that he knew Jack would be well-suited for this profession: “I thought he was a natural. At this time, Jack's lover Robert Alvarez and their friend, Rebel Without a Cause actor Sal Mineo, suggested to Jack that he ought to get into making movies.
In the early '70s, he was working at an architecture and graphic design business and – with his business partner, renowned architect/designer Jaap Penraat – had developed several patents and co-authored a book. He attended Cornell University, Sir George Williams College, and McGill University. Jack was born in Manhattan, New York on January 25, 1935. Mayer”) and was known for making and distributing many high quality productions.
Hand in Hand Films, the studio co-founded by Deveau with Robert Alvarez and Jaap Penraat, was referred to as “the M.G.M of gay porno” (with Deveau dubbed “the Louis B. He made films that were “literate, artistically ambitious and, of course, sexually hot” ( Mandate) shot films in Paris, Fire Island, NYC, and Woodstock, NY and helped to launch careers in gay porn for countless writers, directors, actors, and musicians. Jack Deveau was one of the major directors, producers, and distributors of gay porn from 1972 to 1982.
