# Tony Danza in a porn?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260 "2002-06-15T21:34:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarBQSauce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@BarBQSauce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarBQSauce)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/1 "2002-06-15T21:34:31Z")
There’s a rumorgoing around that Tony Danza was in a porn before he was in Taxi. I could find no info on the internet to confirm or deny this. Does anyone have any info that would help out? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/2 "2002-06-15T21:50:47Z")
There was a skillfully doctored photo (Tony’s head, nudie-boy body) published in **In Touch** magazine in the 70s. It still crops up from time to time, but it’s not real. That’s the only “evidence” I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/3 "2002-06-15T22:04:13Z")
Not real…actually MTV onced used the supposed porno in a comedy segment (sans the actual naughtiness all good porn is famous for). The guy does indeed Tony but…its not him. This is in the realm of the infamous “Babs” porno. Looks like her but is not her. How they found someone with the same honker though is surprising:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/4 "2002-06-15T22:11:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BarBQSauce \* > \*\*There’s a rumorgoing around that Tony Danza was in a porn before he was in Taxi. I could find no info on the internet to confirm or deny this. Does anyone have any info that would help out? > Thanks. \*\* Why do you _care_?!?! :eek: Why would anyone care!?!? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/5 "2002-06-15T22:29:58Z")
Tony Danza in a porno? Well, I just lost my appetite… ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/6 "2002-06-15T23:17:46Z")
Gives a whole new meaning to… “Who’s the Boss?” _cracks whip!_ \ Now, excuse me while I… HURRRRRL! ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/7 "2002-06-16T06:06:51Z")
If he was, I’d bet 10 bucks his character was also named “Tony”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/8 "2002-06-16T10:58:48Z")
Nah–you have to be a much better actor than Tony to get into porno. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/9 "2002-06-16T15:47:18Z")
To the question of why anyone would care is that in the 1970s, Tony Danza was a very sexy young man. If you see a (real) photo of him shirtless from that era, you can see that he was an ex-boxer and in terrific shape. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/10 "2002-06-16T15:51:05Z")
Now, mind you I don’t have any definite proof, but when I was a freshman in college, there was (reportedly) a porno with Tony Danza circulating. The famous scene was where he was slapping his penis across the face of some woman while saying “Who’s your daddy?” One of the dorm teams for a series of games ended up taking that phrase as their team name, for that reason. I never saw it, and I tried an Internet search for it, with no success. Maybe it’s just an urban legend? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Green\_Fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Fool)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/11 "2002-06-16T17:57:12Z")
…considering Who’s Your Daddy wasn’t even in use in the 70s… sounds like your college is full of idiots. Watch someone will have a site that shows “Who’s your daddy” as being from a 1934 Cole Porter song. Damn you dopers! ---
**Author:** ![BarBQSauce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@BarBQSauce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarBQSauce)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/12 "2002-06-16T18:01:19Z")
Okay, FTR, I don’t really care. I was just trying to dispel the rumor, as I could find no evidence for it on the internet, and if you can’t find evidence on the internet, it didn’t happen. Just doin my duty in the War Against Ignorance. Thanks all. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/13 "2002-06-16T19:02:42Z")
TMI Post Maybe the rumor stems from the “Who’s the Boss” variation on the Donkey Punch. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/14 "2002-06-16T19:13:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Fool \* > \*\*…considering Who’s Your Daddy wasn’t even in use in the 70s… sounds like your college is full of idiots. > \*\* I don’t remember making any particular claim of when said film was made. Maybe you could point out to me when I did? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/15 "2002-06-16T20:48:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Fool \* > **…considering Who’s Your Daddy wasn’t even in use in the 70s… sounds like your college is full of idiots.** Oh, you youngsters! The Zombies had a #3 hit in 1969 with “Time of the Season”, recorded in 1967, that opens with the lines, “What’s your name/ Who’s your daddy”. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/16 "2002-06-17T00:54:56Z")
**Tony Danza in a porno:** I’ll bet he said, “OH-A!!! A-OH!!!” when he cums during the money shot. Y’know the set-up to _Who’s The Boss_ sounds like a porno. Muscular ex-baseball player takes a job as the housekeeper for an uptight, leggy, blonde advertising executive. Her buxom, slutty, redheaded mother is constantly over at the house flirting with the housekeeper and telling the daughter to get laid more. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/17 "2002-06-17T05:33:38Z")
What a smarmy creep…but in his early days, he looked like about half of the population of Brooklyn…so my guess is, any porno back then would have had someone who looked like him in the right/wrong light…especially after a few beers watching the film alone in the dark with the remote in one hand and… ---
**Author:** ![Xanzia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/df788c/32.png) [@Xanzia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xanzia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/18 "2011-11-13T06:37:30Z")
I actually did a little research into this just because it seemed unlikely and found a 12 minute clip of Danza getting his freak on. It’s on a site called XHamster if you want to do a search. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/19 "2011-11-13T06:55:25Z")
I believe the name of the film was “Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza.” ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260/20 "2011-11-13T06:56:44Z")
> [@Xanzia](#): > > I actually did a little research into this just because it seemed unlikely and found a 12 minute clip of Danza getting his freak on. It’s on a site called XHamster if you want to do a search. [This is the man in the video you cite](http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=dmorris/gender=m/david-morris.htm)which is sometimes referenced by people as “Tony Danza’s porn film” It’s not him. Danza never did a porn film. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-danza-in-a-porn/114260.md?page=2)