Gary Graver

Biography

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.

Most Known For

Masseuse

as Bob

F for Fake

as Self

Girls for Rent

as Billy

The Other Side of the Wind

as Documentary Filmmaker

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

as Self (archive footage)

Invisible Mom

as Psych Patient

Horror of the Blood Monsters

as Earthly Vampire (uncredited)

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson

as Himself (archive footage)

The Dirty Dolls

as Charlie

Invisible Dad

as Forger

Operation Cobra

as Conspirator

Roots of Evil

as Vinnie (uncredited)

Bad Girls from Mars

as Camera Guy

Edge of Outside

as Self

The Mighty Gorga

as Bill

Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story

as Himself

Working with Orson Welles

as Himself

Wild, Free & Hungry

as Dave

Zandor and Friends

as Self

Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns

as Tim Harris