# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-holmes
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:55:37.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-holmes"
name: "John Holmes"
slug: "john-holmes"
description: "He became the most recognizable name in adult film through sheer volume—573 documented credits—and a physical attribute that defined his brand. Then came the Wonderland murders, AIDS, and a Hollywood afterlife bigger than the original."
tagline: "American pornographic actor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/John_Holmes_pornographic_actor.jpg/330px-John_Holmes_pornographic_actor.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-08-08"
deathDate: "1988-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.799154804270463
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  currentAttention:     28.56841001525166
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Holmes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Holmes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Holmes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Holmes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  John Curtis Holmes, born Estes on August 8, 1944, built a career in pornographic film that made him both prolific and inescapable, with at least 573 credited appearances and a physique that became his calling card. He created the character Johnny Wadd for a series of related films, a persona that stuck. By July 1981, he was entangled in the Wonderland murders, facing charges for his alleged role in the killings. He died from AIDS-related complications on March 13, 1988. What followed was a second act in absentia: books, a Rolling Stone essay, two documentaries, and two feature films—Boogie Nights in 1997 and Wonderland in 2003—that turned his wreckage into Hollywood material.