Tim Kincaid

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Tim Kincaid, born Timothy Gambiani on July 2, 1944, in Santa Barbara, California, is an American film director, writer, and producer. He is also known as Joe Gage and, earlier in his career, as Mac Larsen. He was active from 1973 to 2017 and was married to Cynthia De Paula (divorced) with two children.

Kincaid started in mainstream cinema with The Female Response (1973). He later moved into adult films under the name Joe Gage, forming a partnership with Sam Gage. Their first three films—Kansas City Trucking Co. (1976), El Paso Wrecking Corp. (1978), and L.A. Tool & Die (1979)—became known as the Working Man Trilogy, praised for bringing narrative drama to gay porn.

In the mid-1980s he began making R-rated exploitation films, starting with Bad Girls Dormitory. He then made sci-fi and horror titles for producer Charles Band, including Breeders, Mutant Hunt, The Occultist, and Robot Holocaust (which gained later attention on Mystery Science Theater 3000). He produced Band’s Enemy Territory and directed Riot on 42nd St. and the black comedy She’s Back starring Carrie Fisher. After a break, he returned to adult filmmaking in 2001 under the Joe Gage name.

Kincaid’s characters often read as gay-identified or bisexual, or simply as ordinary working-class men. He aimed to show real people rather than stereotypes, influencing gay male culture in the 1970s and 1980s. He helped popularize a view of male love as camaraderie and action, with the so-called “Gage Men” seen as sexy, hairy, average Joes.