January 26, 2021 10:57 PMGayVN
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LOS ANGELES—Legendary director Scott Masters, who founded Studio 2000, Nova Studios, and
In Touch magazine — and pushed the boundaries of what it meant to publish male nudity — died late last year in a nursing home in Bloomington, Ill. He was 86.
Masters, whose real name was Bill Sheffler, also worked under the names of Robert Walters, Ken Albert and Robert Stephens. He is credited with helping launch Catalina Video with William Higgins, as well as discovering Jeff Stryker and other porn legends with his co-director John Travis.
He was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame and given Legend awards by the Gay Erotic Video Awards; placed on the Wall of Fame by the Grabby Awards in Chicago; and he was the first recipient of any gay awards show at the Gay Producers Association of America in 1984.