# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-halsted
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:26:27.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-halsted"
name: "Fred Halsted"
slug: "fred-halsted"
description: "Fred Charles Halsted was an American gay pornographic film director, actor, escort, publisher, and sex club owner. His films Sex Garage and L.A. Plays Itself are the only gay pornographic movies in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where they were screened before a capacity audience on April 23, 1974. A screening of L.A. Plays Itself was sponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on February 28, 2013, and another took place on December 16, 2011, at the Los Angeles art gallery Human Resources. His films have also been shown the Netherlands Film Museum and in competition at The Deauville Film Festival."
tagline: "American pornographic actor and film director (1941-1989)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-07-20"
deathDate: "1989-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.84662
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357077/"
    handle:    "nm0357077"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88_%DB%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%B9%DA%88"
    title: "فریڈ ہالسٹڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Halsted"
    title: "Fred Halsted"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "فريد هالستيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Halsted"
    title: "Fred Halsted"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Halsted"
    title: "Fred Halsted"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Halsted"
    title: "Fred Halsted"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Halsted"
    title: "Fred Halsted"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%AF%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%B0_%E1%B1%A6%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%9E%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%B4%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%B0"
    title: "ᱯᱷᱨᱮᱰ ᱦᱟᱞᱥᱴᱮᱰ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15810402"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump