Michael Findlay

Acting · Directing · Crew · Editing

Народився 27 серпня 1937, New York City, New York, USA

Michael Findlay, along with his wife Roberta Findlay, directed and produced numerous sexploitation movies. They have been described as "the most notorious filmmakers in the annals of sexploitation". In the mid-to-late 1960s, Findlay was prominent among a small group of underground New York filmmakers (including Joseph W. Sarno, Joseph P. Mawra, and Lou Campa) that produced exploitation "roughies" (a mix of sex and sadism) for the grindhouse theater market. Sometimes he would direct under the alias Julian Marsh and act in his own films billed as Robert West. His wife Roberta (aka Anna Riva) was the cinematographer, co-writer, and supporting actress for many of their films together. They also employed the same actors repeatedly, most notably Uta Erickson, and Marie Brent, aka Janet Banzet. The Findlays were friends with George Weiss, producer of Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda and a series of fetishistic Olga films (Olga's House of Shame, Olga's Girls, et al.). In 1964 Weiss encouraged them to make films in this new subgenre of violent sexploitation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Findlay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Фільмографія

• 2021Party Levitation — (archive footage)
• 1977Christopher Street Blues — Director
• 1977Point Me Toward Tomorrow — Cinematography, Director
• 1976Kiss Today Goodbye — Director
• 1976Michael, Angelo and David — Director, Cinematography
• 1976Snuff — Detective (archive footage) (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1976Virgins in Heat — Richard Jennings, Director
• 1976Wet and Wild — Director, Writer
• 1974Shriek of the Mutilated — Decapitation Onlooker (uncredited), Director, Editor
• 1972Invasion of the Blood Farmers — Editor
• 1971The Altar of Lust — Dr. Rogers (voice) (uncredited)
• 1971The Slaughter — Detective (uncredited), Screenplay, Director
• 1971Vice Versa! — Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor
• 1970Bacchanale — 3rd Mourner / Timothy (voice)
• 1970Janie — Homeowner (as Richard Jennings), Director
• 1970Take My Head — Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1969Mnasidika — Director, Producer
• 1969The Ultimate Degenerate — Spencer (as Robert West), Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
• 1968A Thousand Pleasures — Richard Davis, Director, Editor, Producer
• 1968The Curse of Her Flesh — Richard Jennings / Joe Davidson, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
• 1968The Kiss of Her Flesh — Richard Jennings, Writer, Director, Editor, Producer
• 1967Lusting Hours — Partygoer / Call Girl's Client / Voices
• 1967The Touch of Her Flesh — Richard Jennings, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
• 1966Take Me Naked — The Bum's Friend, Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
• 1965Satan's Bed — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1965The Sin Syndicate — Bearded Man (uncredited), Director, Director of Photography
• 1964Body of a Female — Bruno (as Robert West), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator