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Birthday: Jul 20, 1938
Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, USA

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Bad Girls from Mars Camera Guy 1990
The Mighty Gorga Bill 1969
Girls for Rent Billy 1974
Horror of the Blood Monsters Earthly Vampire (uncredited) 1970
Invisible Dad Forger 1998
The Dirty Dolls Charlie 1973
Co-Ed Fever waiter (uncredited) 1980
Wild, Free & Hungry Dave 1969
Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns Tim Harris 1971
Edge of Outside Self 2006
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead Self (archive footage) 2018
The Embracers The Boy 1966
Shock Cinema: Volume Two Self 1991
Operation Cobra Conspirator 1997
Masseuse Bob 1996
Invisible Mom Psych Patient 1996
Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story Himself 2007
The Hard Road Police Sergeant (uncredited) 1970
Garage Girls Man in Beret (uncredited) 1980
And When She Was Bad... Fire Engine Rider / Man in Alley (uncredited) 1973
Roots of Evil Vinnie (uncredited) 1992
Society Affairs Guy on Pay Phone 1982
The Ecstasy Girls Slate Operator 1979
F for Fake Self 1973
The Other Side of the Wind Documentary Filmmaker 2018
Working with Orson Welles Himself 1993
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson Himself (archive footage) 2019
Zandor and Friends Self 2020
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles 1993
Orson Welles' Magic Show Self 1985
Series Cast Year
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