Laura Cannon

Laura Cannon was a beautiful and capable actress who was a welcome and enticing presence in a handful of lowdown raunchy X-rated New York City hardcore features made throughout the early to mid-1970's. Laura was born Janet Lynn Channin on April 6, 1947 in Evanston, Illinois. She was of Jewish descent and first began acting in grade school theater productions. The younger sister of two older brothers, Laura and her family moved to La Jolla, California when she was a little girl. Following graduation from La Jolla High School in 1965, Cannon went to New York City to attend the NYU Tisch Graduate Acting School, which she eventually graduated from in 1971. Laura got work as an extra in assorted movies shot in New York City and began her career in the adult entertainment industry as a nude model for various men's magazines (she's featured on the cover of the November, 1972 issue of Frolic). After making an important contact with actress turned agent Linda Boyce, Cannon started acting in soft-core sex movies for noted East Coast adult filmmaker Leonard Kirtman in the late 1960's before graduating to more explicit hardcore fare in the early 1970's. Cannon was especially memorable as an amorous art college student in Joseph W. Sarno's crude yet still arousing and enjoyable The Young, Erotic Fanny Hill (1971). She was excellent and heart-breaking as brassy but forlorn and troubled prostitute Dusty Cole in Andy Milligan's sensationally sordid Fleshpot on 42nd Street (1972) and gave a very strong and convincing performance as deranged Vietnam veteran serial rapist/killer Harry Reems' unfortunate second victim in the notoriously nasty porn roughie Forced Entry (1973), which was one of six movies she acted in along with "Forced Entry" director Shaun Costello. In the wake of quitting the adult film industry circa 1974, Laura continued to live in New York City for a number of years before eventually returning to La Jolla, California. Cannon died at age 63 on June 17, 2010.