Queer Places:
Los Angeles National Cemetery
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Joe Tiffenbach (December 31, 1923—January 27, 1992) was a a Director, Writer, Cinematographer.
Joseph William Tiffenbach was born on 31 December, 1923 in Los Angeles County, California, the son of Joseph and Mary Tiffenbach. Joe enlisted in the Army Air Corps in July 1943.
On returning to civilian life in 1946, Joe went to college, and while in college, a friend introduced him to Billy Haines, former film star and later an interior designer in Hollywood. At Billy's home one evening, Joe met John Darrow, a former film actor who became an agent, and John's lover Charles Walters, choreographer and director of several film musicals (e. g. , The Unsinkable Molly Brown, High Society, Good News). When Joe finished college, he began working in the 20th Century Fox mail room and eventually transitioned into producing travel films and handling various tasks on location shoots for major studio films.
Around 1950, Joe modeled for a number of physique photos: for Bruce of L. A. , Dave Martin, and AMG. By the sixties, Joe was taking his own physique photos, and from there, went on to photographing and filming gay erotica.
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