Career
His first film, "Boys of Venice," was produced in 1979. He has since produced over 140 internationally distributed titles. One of gay porn's pioneers, William Higgins began making movies with a distinctive '"California look" in the 1970s and directed many of Catalina Video's greatest hits for nearly two decades.
With classic films like Pacific Coast Highway, The Young & the Hung, Sailor in the Wild, Class Reunion, Big Guns, These Bases Are Loaded, Brother Load, Beyond Hawaii, and French Lieutenant's Boys. Channel 1 Releasing acquired the rights to Catalina Video in 2007 and is re-mastering many of Higgins' classic Catalina movies and transferring them to DVD.