Became a mainstream American leading man in Italy from 1979 to 1981 under his real name Robert Kerman. The Italian film industry was notified from the U.S. that Robert was actually Richard Bolla, adult film star from New York. Kerman was quickly sent back to the states where he as Richard Bolla "performed" for another 4 years. Once said in a documentary interview that he got an agent and performed in mainstream productions during the mid-to-late 1980s, like No Way Out (1987). Then, one day, the agent told him that she could not book him any more and dropped him as a client. He was devastated and struggled a bit to recover from that incident.
