Mark Brandon the Actor/Mark Brandon the Porn Star

I'm trying to figure out if the Mark Brandon who is currently starring in the Archie comics Riverdale series is the same Mark Brandon who did "gay for pay" porn in the early 1990s.  They certainly look alike, with the same hair, the same eyebrows, and the same mouth (give or take 30 years).

Mark Brandon the porn star was active from 1991 to 1995, appearing in such magazines as Advocate Men and Inches, and in the porn movies Close Shave 3, Dynastud 2, Rock Hard 2, Dial S for Sex, and Morning Ritual.  Apparently he only appeared in heterosexual and solo j/o scenes.

He looks to be in his 30s, so I'm going to guess a birthday in about 1955.

Here he has darker hair.

Mark Brandon the actor was born in 1951 in Long Beach.  He was working as a fireman when he started auditioning for commercials.  His first screen role was on a 1983 episode of Mama's Family, playing an orderly in a nursing home opposite Harvey Korman.  If he was 23 years old, he would be born about 1960.

During the 1980s, his acting was sporadic: episodes of Santa Barbara, Throb, Dynasty, Unsub, and Danger Bay, mostly under the Mark High.

I have found no pictures of Mark from that era.  We'll have to make do with recent ones.

Between 1991 and 1995, he has six tv and movie appearances: news anchor, presenter, narrator, master of ceremonies, uncredited, and "Marty Spencer" on an episode of Robin's Hoods.  All as Mark High.

Those jobs couldn't have paid very well.  Did Mark take a "jump to the left" and agree to be filmed aroused, as long as he didn't have to actually make it with a guy?

The world wants to know.

By the way, these days he does mostly Hallmark "inspirational movies."  He's married, and has a son.

Mark Brandon the actor, I mean.