---
name: "Preston Holmes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/preston-l-holmes"
fi1m_id: "preston-l-holmes"
imdb_id: "nm0392008"
tmdb_id: 60475
wikidata_id: "Q28936986"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 November 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T23:35:52.981853+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."
---

# Preston Holmes

## Identity

Preston Holmes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/preston-l-holmes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** preston-l-holmes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0392008
- **TMDB ID:** 60475
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28936986
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28936986, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392008/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60475

Producer. Born 24 November 1949 in USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 November 1949, USA
- **Active:** 1989–1993
- **Also known as:** Preston L. Holmes
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 93 (1), 1990s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28936986, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392008/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60475

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Posse*](https://film.one/film/posse.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Preston L. Holmes is an American film producer and production manager. He attended Princeton University and completed the Directors Guild of America East assistant director training programme, after which he worked in commercial production in New York before moving into feature films as a production manager.

His early credits include production supervisor on Spike Lee’s *Do the Right Thing* (1989) and *Jungle Fever* (1991), and co-producer on *Malcolm X* (1992). He produced *Posse* (1993), *Juice* (1992), *Waist Deep* (2006) and *She Hate Me* (2004), and served as executive producer on *Girls Trip* (2017), *Night School* (2018), *Little* (2019), *Till* (2022) and *Praise This* (2023).

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, independentartistgroup.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Posse* (1993), Fi1m 58, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/posse.md)
- *Do the Right Thing* (1989), Fi1m 93, Production Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/do-the-right-thing.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *LOST/FOUND* (2025), Producer
- *Praise This* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Little* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Night School* (2018), Executive Producer
- *The Birth of a Nation* (2016), Producer
- *With This Ring* (2015), Producer
- *Peeples* (2013), Line Producer
- *Waist Deep* (2006), Producer
- *Something New* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Hustle & Flow* (2005), Associate Producer
- *She Hate Me* (2004), Producer
- *My Dinner with Jimi* (2003), Line Producer
- *How to Be a Player* (1997), Producer
- *The Addiction* (1995), Executive Producer
- *Tales from the Hood* (1995), Production Consultant
- *Panther* (1995), as Prison Guard · Producer
- *Crooklyn* (1994), Production Supervisor
- *Posse* (1993), Producer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/posse.md)
- *Juice* (1992), Co-Producer
- *Solomon Northup's Odyssey* (1991), Associate Producer, Production Manager
- *Jungle Fever* (1991), Production Supervisor
- *New Jack City* (1991), Co-Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *Do the Right Thing* (1989), Production Supervisor — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/do-the-right-thing.md)
- *Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper* (1987), Executive Producer
- *Moments without Proper Names* (1987), Production Supervisor
- *Krush Groove* (1985), Unit Production Manager
- *Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom* (1985), Associate Producer
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Executive Producer
- *Hollow Image* (1979), Assistant Director
- *Greased Lightning* (1977), Second Assistant Director
- *Roses For Zingara* (1970), Director

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