The Dirk Diggler Story

Name: The Dirk Diggler Story
Cast: Michael Stein, Robert Ridgely, Eddie Delcore, Rusty Schwimmer, Ernie Anderson

Explore The Dirk Diggler Story on Accelerated Viewer — cast, details, and an AI quiz you can generate in minutes.

A mockumentary short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson at age seventeen. Presented as a behind-the-scenes television profile, it chronicles the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler, a well-endowed porn star whose fame and fortune spiral into drug abuse and tragedy. Modeled on real-life adult film actor John Holmes, the film serves as an early prototype for Anderson’s later feature Boogie Nights (1997).

No quiz for The Dirk Diggler Story yet — generate a free 45-question quiz across easy, medium, and hard tiers.

Cast & Crew

Director: Paul Thomas AndersonProducer: Shane Conrad

Michael Stein

as Dirk Diggler

Robert Ridgely

as Jack Horner

Eddie Delcore

as Reed Rothchild

Rusty Schwimmer

as Candy Kane

Ernie Anderson

as Narrator (uncredited)

Create your own quiz, free

Accelerated Viewer turns any movie or TV show into a 45-question AI quiz across easy, medium, and hard tiers. Sign in with a magic link and generate your first quiz in minutes.

Get started free