Dirk Shafer
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Dirk Alan Shafer (November 7, 1962 – March 5, 2015) was an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, he was most noted in the modeling world for having been Playgirl magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year".[1] Shafer related that he did Playgirl for "validation" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive.[2] Shafer wrote, directed and starred in Man of the Year, a 1995 mockumentary about his time as a semi-closeted gay man in the role of a heterosexual sex symbol. Shafer's next directorial project was Circuit, a fictional look at the world of gay male circuit parties.[3]
As of 2008, Shafer was working as a fitness trainer and certified Pilates instructor.[4] In 2012, Shafer returned to the pages of Playgirl for a 20th anniversary photo spread in the August issue.[5]
Shafer was found dead in a vehicle near his home in West Hollywood, California on March 5, 2015. Initial reports indicated he might have suffered a heart attack.[6] Following an autopsy, however, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office determined Shafer's death was the result of "methamphetamine and cocaine toxicity", with hypertensive cardiovascular disease possibly being a contributing factor.[7]
Shafer is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.[8]
Filmography
As actor
- Will & Grace episode "Cheaters" - Blaze (2001)
- Man of the Year - Himself (1995)
As director
- Circuit (2002)
- Man of the Year (1995)
As writer
- Circuit (2002) (with Gregory Hinton)
- Man of the Year (1995)
- Inside Out II (segment "Double Vision") (1992)
Notes
References
- Kramer, Gary M. (2006). Independent Queer Cinema: Reviews and Interviews. Haworth Press. Template:ISBN.
External links
- Template:Trim/ Dirk Shafer at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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- ↑ Former Gay Playgirl Man of the Year Dirk Shaffer Returns 20 Years later and he is hotter than ever...
- ↑ 'Man Of The Year's Dirk Shafer Found Dead
- ↑ Cocaine, meth blamed in ex-centerfold's death in West Hollywood
- ↑ Death of WeHo's Dirk Shafer is Attributed to Meth and Cocaine
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- 1962 births
- 2015 deaths
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- American gay actors
- American gay writers
- American LGBTQ film directors
- American LGBTQ models
- American LGBTQ screenwriters
- American male screenwriters
- Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Film directors from Illinois
- Gay models
- Gay screenwriters
- LGBTQ people from Illinois
- Male models from Illinois
- People from Carbondale, Illinois
- Pilates instructors
- Playgirl Men of the Month
- Playgirl Men of the Year
- Screenwriters from Illinois