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Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

Actor · 1926–2017 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Biography

Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obscenity.

Acted in 49

2010s

  1. 2013

    Loose Lips - Her Last Interview

    Movie

  2. 2011

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. 2008
  3. 2006
  4. One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll

    Movie

  5. 2005
  6. 2004
  7. Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation

    Movie

  8. 2003
  9. Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration

    Movie

  10. Centerfold Babylon

    Movie

  11. Jordan: The Model Mum

    Movie

  12. 2002

    Cleavage

    Movie

  13. 2001
  14. 2000
  15. Ian Fleming: 007's Creator

    Movie

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. 1987
  3. 1985

    Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story

    Movie

  4. 1982

    The Comeback Trail

    Hugh Hefner

  5. 1981
  6. 1980

    Pink Lady

    Hugh Hefner · 1 episode

1970s

  1. 1979

    Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party

    Movie

  2. 1977

    Playboy's Playmate Party

    Movie

  3. 1976
  4. 1973

    The World of Hugh Hefner

    Movie

  5. 1971

    Why Do They Do It?

    Movie

  6. 1970
  7. How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?

    Hugh Hefner

Produced 94

2010s

  1. 2018

    Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

    Executive Producer

2000s

  1. 2008

    Playboy's Nude Celebrities

    Producer

  2. Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2009

    Producer

  3. 2007

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Executive Producer

  4. 2005

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2006

    Executive Producer

  5. Playboy: Women of Fear Factor

    Executive Producer

  6. 2004

    Playboy's Sexy Nude Coeds

    Producer

  7. 2003

    Playboy: Women of Starbucks

    Executive Producer

  8. Playboy: Girls of Reality TV

    Executive Producer

  9. Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration

    Executive Producer

  10. 2002

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2003

    Executive Producer

  11. Playboy: The Ultimate Pamela Anderson

    Executive Producer

  12. Playboy: Joanie Laurer, Nude Wrestling Superstar

    Executive Producer

  13. Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold

    Executive Producer

  14. 2001

    Playboy: Playmates Unwrapped

    Executive Producer

  15. 2000

    Playboy: Sexy Shorts

    Executive Producer

  16. Playboy's California Girls

    Executive Producer

  17. Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

    Executive Producer

  18. Playboy's Girls of Hedonism: Runaway Bay, Jamaica

    Executive Producer

  19. Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

    Executive Producer

  20. Playboy Wet & Wild: Slippery When Wet

    Executive Producer

  21. Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2001

    Executive Producer

1990s

  1. 1999

    Playboy Playmates of the Year: The 90's

    Executive Producer

  2. Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2000

    Executive Producer

  3. Playboy: Best Kept Sex Secrets

    Executive Producer

  4. Playboy's Tales of Erotic Fantasies

    Executive Producer

  5. 1998

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1999

    Executive Producer

  6. Playboy's Naturals

    Executive Producer

  7. Playboy's Babes of Baywatch

    Executive Producer

  8. Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu

    Executive Producer

  9. Playboy: Blondes, Brunettes, Redheads

    Executive Producer

  10. Playboy's Asian Exotica

    Executive Producer

  11. Playboy's Celebrities

    Executive Producer

  12. 1997

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1998

    Executive Producer

  13. Playboy's Girls in Uniform

    Executive Producer

  14. Playboy Video Centerfold: Victoria Silvstedt - Playmate of the Year 1997

    Executive Producer

  15. Playboy: Farrah Fawcett, All of Me

    Executive Producer

  16. Playboy's Girls Next Door - Naughty and Nice

    Executive Producer

  17. Playboy: Jenny McCarthy - The Playboy Years

    Executive Producer

  18. 1996

    Playboy: Wet & Wild VIII - Bottoms Up

    Executive Producer

  19. Playboy: Girls of South Beach

    Executive Producer

  20. Playboy: 21 Playmates Centerfold Collection

    Executive Producer

  21. Playboy Video Centerfold: Stacy Sanches - Playmate of the Year 1996

    Executive Producer

  22. Playboy's Fast Women

    Executive Producer

  23. 1995

    Playboy Video: Playmate Calendar 1996

    Executive Producer

  24. Man of the Year

    Producer

  25. Playboy's Real Couples: Sex in Dangerous Places

    Executive Producer

  26. Playboy: Tempting Trios

    Executive Producer

  27. 1994

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1995

    Executive Producer

  28. Playboy: Wet & Wild - The Locker Room

    Executive Producer

  29. Playboy Video Centerfold: Jenny McCarthy - Playmate of the Year 1994

    Executive Producer

  30. Playboy: Secret Confessions

    Executive Producer

  31. Playboy: Fabulous Forties

    Producer

  32. 1993

    Playboy Video Centerfold: Anna Nicole Smith - Playmate of the Year 1993

    Executive Producer

  33. Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1994

    Executive Producer

  34. Playboy: How to Reawaken Your Sexual Powers

    Executive Producer

  35. Playboy's Erotic Fantasies III

    Executive Producer

  36. Playboy: Night Dreams

    Executive Producer

  37. 1992

    Playboy: Erotic Fantasies II

    Executive Producer

  38. Playboy: The Best of Wet & Wild

    Executive Producer

  39. Playboy: Wet & Wild IV

    Executive Producer

  40. Playboy's Erotic Fantasies

    Executive Producer

  41. Playboy: Sexy Lingerie IV

    Executive Producer

  42. Playboy's Playmates: The Early Years

    Executive Producer

  43. Playboy's Playmate Bloopers

    Executive Producer

  44. 1991

    Playboy: 101 Ways to Excite Your Lover

    Producer

  45. 1990

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1991

    Executive Producer

  46. Playboy: Playmates at Play

    Executive Producer

1980s

  1. 1989

    Playboy: Wet & Wild

    Executive Producer

  2. Playboy: Sexy Lingerie

    Executive Producer

  3. 1988

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1989

    Executive Producer

  4. Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 13

    Executive Producer

  5. 1987

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1988

    Executive Producer

  6. Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 12

    Executive Producer

  7. Playboy Video Centerfold: Donna Edmondson - Playmate of the Year 1987

    Executive Producer

  8. 1986

    Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1987

    Executive Producer

  9. The Tommy Chong Roast

    Executive Producer

  10. Playboy: Playmate Playoffs

    Producer

  11. Playboy: Farmers' Daughters

    Executive Producer

  12. 1985

    Playboy's Girls of Rock & Roll

    Executive Producer

  13. Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 7

    Executive Producer

  14. 1983

    Playboy Playmate Workout

    Executive Producer

  15. Playboy Video Playmate Review

    Executive Producer

  16. Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 2

    Executive Producer

  17. 1982

    Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 1

    Executive Producer

  18. 1981

    A Whale for the Killing

    Executive Producer

1970s

  1. 1979

    Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party

    Executive Producer

  2. Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration

    Executive Producer

  3. 1977

    Playboy's Playmate Party

    Executive Producer

  4. 1974

    The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

    Executive Producer

  5. 1973

    The Third Girl from the Left

    Executive Producer

  6. The Naked Ape

    Executive Producer

  7. 1971

    Macbeth

    Executive Producer

Created 1

Appearances82

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20

    Self (archive footage)

  2. This Is Farrah Fawcett

    Self (Editor-In-Chief, Playboy) (archive footage)

  3. 2017
  4. 2016

    10 самых...

    Self (archive footage) · 1 episode

  5. 2014

    Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'

    Self

  6. 2013
  7. 2012

    Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

    Self

  9. 2011
  10. 2010

    The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!

    Self

2000s

  1. 2009

    Sex in '69: The Sexual Revolution in America

    Self

  2. 2008

    E!'s Pam: Girl on the Loose!

    Self · 8 episodes

  3. Let's Play, Boy

    himself

  4. Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

    Self

  5. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    Self (archive footage)

  6. 2007
  7. 3000 Miles

    Self

  8. Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein

    Self

  9. Playboy's Girls of World Soccer

    self

  10. King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

    Self

  11. 2006
  12. The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

    Self

  13. Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds

    Self

  14. 2005
  15. Playboy's Wet Hot Nudes

    Self

  16. 2004

    America or Busted

    Self · 1 episode

  17. Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates

    Self - Editor-In-Chief

  18. 2003

    Hugh Hefner: American Playboy

    Self

  19. Celebrity Naked Ambition

    Self - Contributor

  20. Celebrities Uncensored

    Self · 1 episode

  21. 2002

    Playboy: Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold?

    Self

  22. Playboy: The Ultimate Pamela Anderson

    Self

  23. Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion

    Self

  24. Playboy: The Ultimate Pamela Anderson

    Self

  25. Playboy: Joanie Laurer, Nude Wrestling Superstar

    Self

  26. Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold

    Self

  27. 2001

    The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Hugh Hefner

    Self

  28. 2000

    The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect

    Self

  29. Crank It Up!

    Self · 1 episode

1990s

  1. 1999

    The Bunny Years

    Self

  2. Playboy Playmates of the Year: The 90's

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  3. Playmate Pajama Party

    self

  4. 1998
  5. Playboy: The Story of X

    Self

  6. 1997
  7. Playboy: Jenny McCarthy - The Playboy Years

    Self

  8. 1996

    100 Years of Horror

    Self - Interview · 26 episodes

  9. Love in Hollywood

    Self

  10. E! True Hollywood Story

    Self · 6 episodes

  11. A Century of Science Fiction

    Self

  12. 1995

    The World of James Bond

    Self

  13. 1992

    Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

    Self

1980s

  1. 1987

    Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 12

    Self

  2. Sam Kinison: Breaking the Rules

    Self (uncredited)

  3. 1983

    Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 2

    Self

  4. 1982

    Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 1

    Himself

  5. 1980

    Magic Night

    Self

  6. The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

    Self

1970s

  1. 1979

    Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration

    Self

  2. 1975