Bill Cable

Bill Cable was an American actor, model, stunt performer and screenwriter who died in 1998. Born in Gary, Indiana, he began modeling in 1970 for COLT Studio, where Jim French photographed him as Stoner, and his pictures ran in Playgirl and on the debut April 1975 issue of Mandate. He then moved into erotic films, making his first screen appearance as a whip-carrying leatherman in Wakefield Poole's Bijou (1972) and starring in the short Cooling It in 1973. In mainstream movies he worked as a stunt performer and body double and took supporting parts, among them Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988). His best-known part was Johnny Boz, the rock star killed at the start of Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct (1992). He also appeared on Elvira's Movie Macabre in 1984 and wrote several screenplays.