Chuck Holmes

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Charles M. "Chuck" Holmes (born May 5, 1945 in Terre Haute , Indiana , † September 9, 2000 in San Francisco ) was an American entrepreneur , film producer and film director .

Holmes founded Falcon Studios in 1972 , which produced gay porn films in the decades that followed. As a film director, he made several porn films in the 1970s and 1980s. Holmes died in September 2000 of complications from AIDS . The new San Francisco LGBT Community Center was named after Holmes in 2002. Holmes donated to LGBT and AIDS projects as a philanthropist. Holmes' successor as President of Falcon Studios was Terry Mahaffey († 2005).

Filmography (selection)

  • Flower in Love (1973)
  • Lenny (1974)
  • Night Moves (1975)
  • The Shootist (1976)
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
  • Movie Movie (1978)
  • Three Warriors (1978)
  • Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
  • Inchon (1981)
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1981)
  • The Beast Within (1982)
  • Going Berserk (1983)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CHUCK HOLMES, Founder of Falcon Studios Passes Away at 55 ( Memento from February 10, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Joel P. Engardio & Lisa Hom: The House That Chuck Built. SF Weekly, February 27, 2002, accessed March 27, 2009 .
  3. ↑ LGBT Community Center in San Francisco ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sfcenter.org
  4. ^ Armistead Maupin : The Lives they lived; Gay dad. The New York Times, December 29, 2002, accessed March 27, 2009 .
  5. ↑ http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=314
personal data
SURNAME Holmes, Chuck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holmes, Charles M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur, film producer, and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Terre Haute , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2000
Place of death San Francisco