Biography

Fred J. Lincoln was born Frederick Joseph Piantadosi in January 1936. He grew up in the Hell's Kitchen slum neighborhood of New York City. He is widely credited with helping to start the hardcore porn scene in his native New York in the early 1970s, His career spanned four decades in the adult entertainment business. He was usually listed as Fred J. Lincoln or F.J. Lincoln in his adult-film credits.

His career in adult films and video was prolific; his IMDb filmography credits him as director of 310 films, producer of 42, and actor in 64 (most of them non-sex roles). His credits in mainstream cinema are limited, although he did play the role of Weasel Podowski in Wes Craven's classic horror film La Dernière Maison sur la gauche (1972) and worked as a stunt man. In 1984 he won the Critics' Adult Film Award as Best Director for his film Ne dites jamais non! (1983). Lincoln was a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and was the owner of the famous New York City sex club Plato's Retreat during the 1970s and early 1980s. He was married twice, to porn actress/director Patti Rhodes-Lincoln and porn actress Tiffany Clark. He had two children, a daughter named Angelica and independent filmmaker, Charles D. Lincoln. At one point he lived in Ventura, California, in an apartment adjacent to porn actress Erica Boyer.

Fred J. Lincoln died on January 17, 2013, at age 76 from complications of emphysema and heart disease, just days before his 77th birthday.

- IMDb mini biography by: Larry B. (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)