---
name: "Dan Halsted"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dan-halsted"
fi1m_id: "dan-halsted"
imdb_id: "nm0357074"
tmdb_id: 5379
wikidata_id: "Q5213633"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "12 July 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-13T21:55:13.422887+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dan Halsted

## Identity

Dan Halsted

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dan-halsted
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dan-halsted
- **IMDb ID:** nm0357074
- **TMDB ID:** 5379
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5213633
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Halsted, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5213633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357074/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5379

Producer. Born 12 July 1962 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 12 July 1962, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (2), 2020s 62 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 69 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Romance 2, Action & Adventure 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $37m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Halsted, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5213633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357074/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5379

## Biography

Dan Halsted is an American film producer and talent manager. Born on 12 July 1962 in New York City, he moved to Beverly Hills, California, in 1976 and graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science.

He began his career in 1984 as an assistant to Scott Rudin at 20th Century Fox and later worked as an agent at United Talent Agency. He served as senior vice president of production at Hollywood Pictures and was president of Illusion Entertainment Group with Oliver Stone from 1996 to 1999. In 1999 he founded Halsted Pictures (later Manage-ment) and secured a first-look deal with Mandalay Pictures.

Halsted's producing credits include *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), *Any Given Sunday* (1999), *S.W.A.T.* (2003), *Garden State* (2004) and *We Have a Ghost* (2023). He also executive produced the television series *Witchblade*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Time Bandits* (2024), Fi1m 62, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/time-bandits-2024.md)
- *Garden State* (2004), Fi1m 71, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/garden-state.md)
- *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-virgin-suicides.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Time Bandits* (2024), series, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/time-bandits-2024.md)
- *We Have a Ghost* (2023), Producer
- *Our Flag Means Death* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Red Bird Lane* (2021), Producer
- *The Rendezvous* (2016), Producer
- *Bleeding Heart* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Stockholm, Pennsylvania* (2015), Producer
- *Learning to Drive* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Restraint* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Garden State* (2004), Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/garden-state.md)
- *Freshman Orientation* (2004), Producer
- *Beyond Borders* (2003), Producer
- *S.W.A.T.* (2003), Producer
- *Serving Sara* (2002), Producer
- *The Day Reagan Was Shot* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Witchblade* (2001), series, Producer
- *The Art of War* (2000), Executive Producer
- *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-virgin-suicides.md)
- *Any Given Sunday* (1999), Producer
- *The Corruptor* (1999), Producer
- *Cold Around the Heart* (1997), Producer
- *U Turn* (1997), Producer
- *Freeway* (1996), Executive Producer
- *Nixon* (1995), Co-Producer
- *Whip Smart*, Producer

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