Gary Graver
Gary Foss Graver (July 20, 1938 – November 16, 2006) was an American film director, editor, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was a prolific filmmaker, working in various roles on over 300 films, but is best known as Orson Welles' final cinematographer, working over a period of six years on Welles' epic film The Other Side of the Wind which was released in 2018, 48 years after it was started. Graver began his career in the late 1960s as a cinematographer and editor of various B-movies, including several films by Roger Corman, before providing additional camerawork on John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence (1974). He continued to serve as the cinematographer of numerous horror films from the late 1970s and through the 1980s, including The Toolbox Murders (1978), Trick or Treats (1982), which he also wrote, edited, and directed; Mortuary (1983), They're Playing with Fire (1984), and Twisted Nightmare (1988). Under the pseudonym of Robert McCallum, Graver was also a prolific director of adult films, working as a cinematographer and director on 135 features. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Graver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2020 · Zandor and Friends as Self
- 2019 · Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson as Himself (archive footage)
- 2018 · The Other Side of the Wind as Documentary Filmmaker
- 2018 · They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story as Himself
- 2006 · Edge of Outside as Self
- 1998 · Invisible Dad as Forger
- 1997 · Operation Cobra as Conspirator
- 1996 · Invisible Mom as Psych Patient
- 1996 · Masseuse as Bob
- 1993 · Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles as
- 1993 · Working with Orson Welles as Himself
- 1992 · Roots of Evil as Vinnie (uncredited)
- 1991 · Shock Cinema: Volume Two as Self
- 1990 · Bad Girls from Mars as Camera Guy
- 1985 · Orson Welles' Magic Show as Self
- 1982 · Society Affairs as Guy on Pay Phone
- 1980 · Co-Ed Fever as waiter (uncredited)
- 1980 · Garage Girls as Man in Beret (uncredited)
- 1979 · The Ecstasy Girls as Slate Operator
- 1974 · Girls for Rent as Billy
- 1973 · F for Fake as Self
- 1973 · The Dirty Dolls as Charlie
- 1973 · And When She Was Bad... as Fire Engine Rider / Man in Alley (uncredited)
- 1971 · Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns as Tim Harris
- 1970 · Horror of the Blood Monsters as Earthly Vampire (uncredited)
- 1970 · The Hard Road as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- 1969 · The Mighty Gorga as Bill
- 1969 · Wild, Free & Hungry as Dave
- 1966 · The Embracers as The Boy