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Dirk Alan Shafer 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". Shafer related that he did Playgirl for "validation" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive. 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.
Birth Name
Dirk Alan Shafer
Born
Wednesday, 07 November 1962
Died
Thursday, 05 March 2015
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Will & Grace | Blaze | 2017 |
Will & Grace | Blaze | 1998 |
Man of the Year | Dirk / Self | 1995 |
In the Life | Self | 1992 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Will & Grace | Blaze | 2017 |
Will & Grace | Blaze | 1998 |
Man of the Year | Dirk / Self | 1995 |
In the Life | Self | 1992 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Circuit | 2002 |
Man of the Year | 1995 |