Charles Everett Traynor (August 21, 1937 – July 22, 2002) was an American actor, businessman, and talent agent. He was best known for promoting the pornography careers of his ex-wives, Linda Lovelace and Marilyn Chambers. Lovelace wrote in her autobiography, Ordeal (1980), that Traynor was abusive during their marriage and that he threatened and coerced her into her role in Deep Throat (1972).
Career
Traynor was a minor figure in the early East Coast pornographic film industry and appeared in a number of short "loops" in the early 1970s, usually with his then-wife, Linda Lovelace. He was the production manager of the 1972 movie Deep Throat.
Relationship with Linda Lovelace
Gloria Steinem discussed Traynor and Lovelace's relationship in a 1980 article in Ms. magazine, "The Real Linda Lovelace". Steinem stated that "the myth that Lovelace loved to be sexually used and humiliated was created by her husband" and that he kept her as his prisoner. In Legs McNeil's and Jennifer Osborne's 2005 book The Other Hollywood, several witnesses, including Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano, state that Traynor beat Lovelace behind closed doors, but they also question her credibility. Marilyn Chambers said that Lovelace's allegations "hurt Chuck". Deep Throat, Part 2 actress Andrea True said that most people did not like Chuck Traynor and sided with Lovelace. Lovelace's sister, Barbara Boreman, later said in an interview in Inside Deep Throat that she was disappointed that Traynor died before she could kill him. In the second commentary on the DVD of Inside Deep Throat, one member of the production crew of Deep Throat also alleged that Traynor beat Lovelace.
Traynor was portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard in the 2013 film Lovelace.
Death
Traynor died at the age of 64 of a heart attack in Chatsworth, California, on July 22, 2002, three months after Lovelace died from massive trauma and internal injuries as a result of a car accident in Colorado.