Jennifer Welles

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974) — Jennifer Robinson
2. Sugar Cookies (1973) — Max's Secretary
3. The Groove Tube (1974) — The Geritan Girl
4. Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town (1975) — Drucilla
5. Love After Death (1968) — Lesbian Brunette (Uncredited)
6. Misty (1976) — Elaine
7. Career Bed (1969) — Susan
8. Submission (1969) — Vickie
9. Inside Jennifer Welles (1977) — Jennifer Welles
10. Expose Me, Lovely (1976) — Shelly Knight
11. Little Blue Box (1979) — Jen / Ms. Azure
12. Scorpio '70 (1970) — Layne
13. The Female Response (1973) — Andrea
14. The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974) — Myra
15. Is There Sex After Death? (1971) — Merkin's Assistant
16. The Sexualist (1973) — Monica
17. Virgin and the Lover (1973) — Lynn
18. Little Orphan Sammy (1977) — Hata Mari
19. Sex by Advertisement (1968) — Body Painting Model / Swinger (uncredited)
20. Mrs. Barrington (1974) — Susan
21. Sweet Cakes (1976) — Jennifer Fox
22. The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful (1970) — Elizabeth
23. Honey Pie (1976) — Cynthia Bolling
24. Blonde Velvet (1976) — Eva Kovack
25. Temptations (1976) — Rochelle Hugh
26. A Weekend with Strangers (1971) — Dilys
27. This Sporting House (1969) — Ezmerelda
28. Porn in the U.S.A. (1986) — Seducing Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
29. Thunderbuns (1976) — (archive footage)
30. Desiree Cousteau & Friends: Big & Natural (2010) — (archive footage)

Directed

1. Inside Jennifer Welles (1977) — Director