Robert Joel was an American actor. He was born Robert Joel McLane, and was sometimes credited under the name Robert McLane. He grew up on a farm in South Carolina and graduated from Furman University. He starred in Blue Summer with Bo White and again with White in A Very Natural Thing. Joel played the lead, David, a gay ex-monk, who finds love in New York City. His other co-stars were Curt Gareth, Jay Pierce, and Vito Russo, who went on to write The Celluloid Closet. Joel also appeared in Russ Meyer's Up! , Little Murders, Barbara, Arthur Kopit's Indians on Broadway, and a 1971 PBS television drama, They. He died of AIDS in 1992

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