RM made stars of LA strippers and Playboy girls. He made sex fun, violence camp, and sleaze appealing. He was the ultimate Bizarre film-maker.

To this day, his aesthetic is admired and copied. Quentin Tarantino, John Waters, even The Spice Girls and Janet Jackson have more than nodded in Meyer's direction in their work.

His career started in a more sober fashion, as a World War II newsreel cameraman, but his first film, made in 1959, could be seen as the first real US porn film. The Immoral Mr Teas turned a profit of $1million - a vast sum in those days.