my name on the project. Little did I know, unfortunately. 

Under the pseudonym Lancer Brooks, DeSimone directed The Collection (1970), considered to be among the first gay adult films with a plot and dialogue. His credits in this arena would also include Lust in the Afternoon (1971), Confessions of a Male Groupie (1972), Erotikus: History of the Gay Movie (1974), Catching Up (1975), The Idol (1979) and Skin Deep (1982).

 I was interested in exploring gays in love or at least relationships,  he said in a 2019 interview for the Bijou Blog website.  My stories pretty much gravitated to those situations. I was tired of all the films that started with the pizza boy delivering and ending up on the couch. That's not to say I didn't make a few of those, too. But when I really wanted to do something creative and when I got juiced up to do something, it always seemed to go to the relationship stories. 

Many of his movies were distributed by the New York-based gay production studio Hand in Hand Films.

Chatterbox was produced by Bruce Cohn Curtis, who then hired DeSimone for Hell Night. He then reunited with Blair on Savage Streets (1984) but left early on that film before directing and co-writing Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988), starring Mitzi Kapture.

In the mid-'90s, he spent about a year in Mexico City and Acapulco, where he directed every episode (believed to be 60 in all) of the telenovela Acapulco Bay.

In addition to his brother, survivors include his sister-in-law, Lisa; his nieces, Amanda and Gianna; and his great-nephew, Ori. His sister, Carlene, died in May.