Falcon Entertainment an United States

United States

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 company based in San Francisco, California

California

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, is one of the world's largest producers of gay pornography

Gay pornography

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.

Founded in 1971 by Chuck Holmes

Chuck Holmes (entrepreneur)

Charles M. "Chuck" Holmes was an American adult film producer, executive and philanthropist. He founded Falcon Studios in 1971.-Life and career:...

, the company is one of the most recognizable brand names in gay pornography. The owners/managers of several of its major American competitors, Hot House Entertainment

Hot House Entertainment

Hot House Entertainment is a San Francisco-based gay pornography studio founded in 1993 by director Steven Scarborough. The company has several video lines and web properties. In 2002 Scarborough was honored at the GayVN Awards where he was inducted into the Hall of Fame; he also earned a spot on...

, Colt Studios, Channel 1 Releasing, Titan Media

Titan Media

Titan Media is a San Francisco-based gay pornographic film company founded by director and cinematographer Bruce Cam in 1995.-Overview:The company grew to become one of the largest producers of gay adult content in the world...

 and Raging Stallion

Raging Stallion

Raging Stallion Studios based in San Francisco, California, is a major adult film studio and one of the world's largest producers of gay pornography. It was begun by Chris Ward and J. D. Slater; Michael Brandon later became a co-owner. Michael Brandon starred in several Raging Stallion films...

 (Steven Scarborough

Steven Scarborough

Steven Scarborough is an American director of gay pornography and the founder of Hot House Entertainment.- Career :Scarborough started directing at Falcon Studios in the summer 1988 with his first gay adult video Perfect Summer. Handing over the reins was his life partner and founder of Falcon...

, John Rutherford,Chi Chi LaRue

Chi Chi LaRue

Larry David Paciotti is an American film director of gay, bisexual and straight pornography. He is best known in his drag persona as Chi Chi LaRue and has also directed under the names Lawrence David and Taylor Hudson.- Career :...

, Bruce Cam and Chris Ward, respectively) are all film director

Film director

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s who worked with the company.

Products

Falcon has issued more than 400 pornographic films under several brand names comprising The Falcon Family of Companies:

• Falcon Studios is the group's flagship brand
• Jocks Studios focuses on younger models
• Mustang Studios features more mature models
• Massive Studios focuses on muscular and rugged models
• The Falcon International Collection shoots films in Europe
  Europe
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   and focuses on European (mostly Eastern Europe
  Eastern Europe
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  an) models
• The Alone With Series includes interviews with performers that masturbate
  Masturbation
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   alone rather than having sex with another performer

The company operates a website which serves as a retail outlet for its DVDs and sex toy

Sex toy

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s. Video on demand

Video on demand

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 is also available, as well as the ability to purchase and download videos. Live webcast

Webcast

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...

 sex shows are available in a membership area called Falcon TV; membership also includes discounts on other products. Several of the dildo

Dildo

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s offered for sale are modeled on the penis

Penis

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es of Falcon's performers.

Corporate history

Prior to 2004 the Falcon Family of Companies was owned by parent company Conwest Resources Inc.. Conwest was, in turn, owned by the Charles M. Holmes Foundation, a charitable foundation based in Portland

Portland, Oregon

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, Oregon

Oregon

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. The foundation supports a wide range of organizations, including groups protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, organizations which provide support to people living with HIV/AIDS

AIDS

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, and others that help homeless youth or fight pediatric cancer and autism.

In 2004, the company's management bought Falcon from Conwest through 3Media Corp., a company that was formed by Falcon executives Terry Mahaffey and Todd Montgomery. 3Media will eventually assume the Conwest name. The buyout was arranged in order to separate the business from the Charles M. Holmes Foundation, which continues to function as a nonprofit organization.

Terry Mahaffey died on October 31, 2005. Todd Montgomery left the company on May 22, 2008. Steve Johnson became the president and chief executive officer of Falcon and Conwest.

On December 19, 2010, video-on-demand

Video on demand

Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 company AEBN

AEBN

AEBN, short for Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network, is an Internet pornography company that specializes in delivering material through streaming video in a video on demand format. Subsidiaries include PornoTube.-History:...

 purchased Falcon Studios for an undisclosed amount of money. AEBN merged Falcon Studios and Raging Stallion, although the company said that both brands would remain distinct and AEBN's output would remain constant at sixty DVD titles a year (forty from Raging Stallion). Falcon Chief Executive Officer James Hansen would remain with the company as the chief financial officer of Falcon Studios.

Notable directors

• Paul Barresi
  Paul Barresi
  Paul Barresi is an American actor, pornographic film director, private investigator, and media personality. Barresi has also been involved in several high-profile celebrity scandals.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• Steve Cruz
• Chi Chi LaRue
  Chi Chi LaRue
  Larry David Paciotti is an American film director of gay, bisexual and straight pornography. He is best known in his drag persona as Chi Chi LaRue and has also directed under the names Lawrence David and Taylor Hudson.- Career :...
  
  

• mr. Pam
  Mr. Pam
  mr. Pam is an American female director of gay pornography. Openly bisexual, mr. Pam holds a unique position as gay adult's only female videographer....
  
  
• Steven Scarborough
  Steven Scarborough
  Steven Scarborough is an American director of gay pornography and the founder of Hot House Entertainment.- Career :Scarborough started directing at Falcon Studios in the summer 1988 with his first gay adult video Perfect Summer. Handing over the reins was his life partner and founder of Falcon...
  
  
• Chris Steele

Notable performers

(alphabetical by first name)

• Aiden Shaw
  Aiden Shaw
  Aiden Shaw is a writer and also a pornographic actor, who appears in gay American pornographic movies....
  
  
• Al Parker
  Al Parker
  Al Parker was a gay American pornographic actor , producer, and director. He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 40....
  
  
• Arpad Miklos
  Arpad Miklos
  Arpad Miklos is a pornographic actor who appears in gay and straight pornographic films. He currently resides in New York City where he also works as an escort...
  
  
• Benjamin Bradley
  Benjamin Bradley
  Benjamin Bradley was born a slave in Maryland, around 1830. At that time, it was against the law to teach a slave how to read or write. Bradley was able to learn anyway, from his master's children. Bradley was also good at mathematics and showed a natural talent for making things.When Bradley...
  
  
• Billy Brandt
  Billy Brandt
  Billy Brandt, born April 9, 1979, in Flint, Michigan, is an American adult film star who has worked primarily with Falcon Studios and Pacific Sun Entertainment at the beginning of his adult film career.-Biography:...
  
  
• Brad Patton
  Brad Patton
  Brad Patton , is a former gay porn star. Brad spent most of his time growing up in Sweden before being discovered by porn director Chi Chi LaRue...
  
  
• Brent Corrigan
  Brent Corrigan
  Sean Paul Lockhart is a model, actor and gay pornographic actor best known under his stage name Brent Corrigan or his pseudonym Fox Ryder. He is best known for his roles in Schoolboy Crush with Brent Everett and Velvet Mafia with Erik Rhodes...
  
  
• Brent Everett
  Brent Everett
  Brent Everett is a Canadian gay pornographic actor and director. Since 2003, he has appeared in over 14 pornographic films for a variety of studios in the United States.-Biography:...
  
  
• Buster
• Casey Donovan
• Chad Donovan
  Chad Donovan
  Chad Donovan is an American performer and director of gay pornographic films. He has won numerous awards as a performer and director, and is a member of the GayVN Awards Hall of Fame and the Grabby Awards Hall of Fame....
  
  
• Chad Hunt
  Chad Hunt
  Chad Hunt is a former gay porn star who performs in pornographic movies. He has also appeared on the cover of Badpuppy, Jock, Honcho, All Man and Unzipped magazines....
  
  
• Christy Twins
• Claude Jourdan
• Cody Foster
• Colby Taylor
  Colby Taylor
  Colby Taylor is an American gay pornographic actor.In 2001, he won the award for "Best Duo Sex Scene" with Travis Wade at the Grabby Awards for his performance in the Falcon Studios film The Crush....
  
  
• Cole Carpenter
• Cort Stevens
• Diesel Washington
  Diesel Washington
  Diesel Washington is an African American pornographic actor and male escort best known as a dominant top in gay adult films. He was previously a Titan Men exclusive model...
  
  
• Erik Rhodes
  Erik Rhodes (porn star)
  Erik Rhodes is an American pornographic actor who stars in gay pornographic movies. He is an exclusive for Falcon Studios, and is versatile in his public as well as in his private sex life....
  
  
• Gus Mattox
• Hal Rockland
  Hal Rockland
  Hal Rockland is a former American pornographic actor who appeared primarily in gay pornographic movies....
  
  
• Jeff Hammond
• Jeff Palmer
  Jeff Palmer
  Jeff Palmer is a gay pornographic actor who appeared in pornographic films and magazines.-Biography:...
  
  
• Joey Stefano
  Joey Stefano
  Joey Stefano was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay adult films.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• John Davenport
  John Davenport (porn star)
  John Davenport is the pseudonym of an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay and bisexual pornographic films.He was sometimes credited under the stage names Jon Davenport or John Davenport...
  
  
• John Holmes
  John Holmes (actor)
  John Curtis Holmes better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd , was one of the most prolific male porn stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and pornographic feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s...
  
  
• Jon King
• Ken Ryker
  Ken Ryker
  Ken Ryker, born August 17, 1972, in Jeonju, Korea, is the stage name of an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay, straight and bisexual pornographic movies. He was raised in Texas, but now resides in California.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Kevin Dean
• Kevin Williams
• Kip Noll
  Kip Noll
  Kip Noll, also Kip Knoll was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornographic films and magazines in the 1970s and 1980s....
  
  
• Kris Lord
• Kristen Bjorn
  Kristen Bjorn
  Kristen Bjorn is the stage name of a British director and producer of gay pornographic movies and a former gay pornographic actor....
  
  
• Kurt Marshall
  Kurt Marshall
  Kurt Marshall was an actor who performed in gay pornographic films in the mid-1980s...
  
  
• Landon Conrad
  Landon Conrad
  Landon Conrad is an American pornographic actor who stars in gay pornographic movies. He is an exclusive for Falcon Studios since 2009, and he is mainly top in his scenes, but has bottomed too....
  
  

• Lee Ryder
• Leo Ford
• Leo Giamani
  Leo Giamani
  Leo Giamani is an American porn star who has starred in gay adult films.Giamani started his porn career in the spring of 2008 at age 29. Prior to his porn career he worked as a fireman for six months and has a BA in science. He performed exclusively in gay porn except for one heterosexual scene...
  
  
• Mandingo
• Matt Gunther
  Matt Gunther
  Matt Gunther was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornographic movies and magazines from 1990 to 1995. He was popular with gay pornography fans because of his dark eyes, muscular body and large 9 inch penis...
  
  
• Matthew Rush
• Matt Sanchez
  Matt Sanchez
  Matt Sanchez served as a Marine reservist.In March 2007, Sanchez was awarded the first "Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award" at the Conservative Political Action Conference....
  
  
• Maxx Diesel
• Michel Lucas (also known as Michael Lucas
  Michael Lucas (director)
  Michael Lucas is an American-Russian-Israeli gay pornographic actor, director, activist, writer and the founder/CEO of Lucas Entertainment, New York's largest gay-adult-film company...
  
  )
• Nash Lawler
  Nash Lawler
  Nash Lawler is an American pornographic actor who has appeared in gay, heterosexual and bisexual pornographic films and magazines. He is notable for topping noted top man Chad Hunt in the film Endgame, for which he won a Grabby Award....
  
  
• Matt Ramsey (also known as Peter North)
• Pierre Fitch
  Pierre Fitch
  Pierre Fitch is a Canadian gay pornography actor, formerly exclusive to Falcon Studios. He is also an entrepreneur, who now works for himself as an actor and producer of video productions. He is currently performing as a DJ, presenting his own mixes through a number of night clubs in Canada, USA...
  
  
• Rex Chandler
  Rex Chandler
  Rex Chandler is an American actor and former pornographic actor who appeared in gay adult films.Chandler was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan on August 14, 1966. A former Mr. Michigan, he decided to move to Los Angeles in 1990 to seek out roles in the entertainment field. He modeled for several...
  
  
• Rick Donovan
• Rick Pantera
  Rick Pantera
  Rick Pantera a.k.a John Pantera is a male African-American porn star performing in adult entertainment films in the 1990s...
  
  
• Ricky Martinez
  Ricky Martinez
  Ricky Martinez is a Dominican porn star, best known to perform autofellatio. Although he defines himself straight, he has been seen in many gay-themed pornographic movies, such as BuckleRoos , Trunks, and Anaconda...
  
  
• R.J. Danvers
• Rob Romoni
  Rob Romoni
  Rob Romoni is an American gay pornographic actor and model who appears in gay pornographic films and magazines.-Awards and nominations:* He was honored with an award for "Best Ass" at the 2004 Grabby....
  
  
• Rod Phillips
• Roger
• Roman Heart
• Samuel Colt
  Samuel Colt (actor)
  Samuel Colt is an American pornographic actor who appears in gay pornographic films and magazines. He is a Falcon Studios exclusive model....
  
  
• Sean Davis
• Shane Rockland
• Steve Cruz
• Steve O'Donnell
• Tag Adams
  Tag Adams
  Tag Adams , is the stage name of a pornographic actor appearing in gay pornography.- Awards :...
  
  
• Timothy J. Boham
  Timothy J. Boham
  Timothy John Boham also known as Marcus Allen , is a former adult film star who was convicted of the first-degree shooting death of 43-year-old Denver businessman John Paul "J P" Kelso.-Porn career as "Marcus Allen":...
  
  
• Tom Chase
  Tom Chase
  Tom Chase is a gay porn star who has been active since the 1990s, starring in numerous films. Chase is 5'10", muscular, weighs 200 pounds. Tom Chase has worked with Falcon Entertainment and Colt Studio Group, two of the larger same-sex adult film studios in the United States...
  
  
• Tommy Blade
  Tommy Blade
  Tommy Blade is an American adult-film actor in gay pornography. Apart from his work in the adult-film industry, he is a fitness instructor in Tampa, Florida, and he was a former Air Force recruit....
  
  
• Tristan Mathews
  Tristan Mathews
  Tristan Mathews is a former American pornographic actor, model and director who has starred in gay and bisexual adult films.-Adult industry work:...
  
  
• Tyler Saint
  Tyler Saint
  Tyler Saint is an American pornographic actor who appears in gay pornographic films and magazines. His date of birth has been listed as March 3, 1970, and his given age often correlates with that date, however in an interview for Playgirl TV posted July 10, 2008, he gave his age as, "a young...
  
  
• Vince Rockland
  Vince Rockland
  Vince Rockland is an award-winning, American performer, active between 1993 and 1999, and known primarily for his work in all-male adult films, although he also acted in other adult genres. Rockland's best-known film is Three Brothers, which costarred his two brothers, older sibling Shane Rockland...
  
  
• Wolf Hudson
  Wolf Hudson
  Wolf Hudson is a Dominican-American male pornographic actor, director and street dancer.-Early life:Wolf Hudson was born on November 24, 1984, in New York, New York, and is of mixed ancestry: French, Afro-Latin American/Dominican descent. Hudson briefly lived in the Dominican Republic in his early...
  
  
• Zak Spears
  Zak Spears
  Zak Spears is a gay pornographic actor who performs in adult films.Spears appeared in the 1995 feature film The Doom Generation using the name Khristofor Rossianov, and in the 2006 black comedy feature film Forgiving the Franklins under the name Khris Scaramanga.- Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards :Zak...
  
  
• Zeb Atlas
  Zeb Atlas
  Zeb Atlas is an American male bodybuilder, softcore performer, go-go dancer, personal trainer, model and porn actor.-Biography and career:...
  
  

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See also

• List of companies headquartered in San Francisco
• List of gay pornographic movie studios