Grant Durtschi, 48, was arrested last month at the San Francisco International Airport while on a layover to a flight to the Philippines, court records show.
Despite the SFPD arresting him and seizing copies of his film, he won an obscenity case in court.
Other local operators, many of them young and college-educated with neatly kept theaters, helped San Francisco spearhead the shortly lived "porn chic" era in the early '70s, marketing to young couples and curious out-of-towners everywhere from the Tenderloin to the Marina.
De Renzy kept facing legal challenges but made an estimated 200 adult films before dying at the age of 65 in 2001.
Fuller and a colleague also run Modern Lifestyle, an online platform that connects about 50 sex clubs around the country.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 14 of18 This file photo shows Alex De Renzy's porn film house, the Screening Room, on 180 Turk St.