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Gary Graver

Gary Graver

Born: 1938-07-20 • Portland, Oregon, USA

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.

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Filmography
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Zandor and Friends
2020 • Self
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson poster
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
2019 • Himself (archive footage)
The Other Side of the Wind poster
The Other Side of the Wind
2018 • Documentary Filmmaker
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead poster
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018 • Self (archive footage)
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Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
2007 • Himself
Edge of Outside poster
Edge of Outside
2006 • Self
Invisible Dad poster
Invisible Dad
1998 • Forger
Operation Cobra poster
Operation Cobra
1997 • Conspirator
Invisible Mom poster
Invisible Mom
1996 • Psych Patient
Masseuse poster
Masseuse
1996 • Bob
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles poster
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
1993
Working with Orson Welles poster
Working with Orson Welles
1993 • Himself
Roots of Evil poster
Roots of Evil
1992 • Vinnie (uncredited)
Shock Cinema: Volume Two poster
Shock Cinema: Volume Two
1991 • Self
Bad Girls from Mars poster
Bad Girls from Mars
1990 • Camera Guy
Orson Welles' Magic Show poster
Orson Welles' Magic Show
1985 • Self
Society Affairs poster
Society Affairs
1982 • Guy on Pay Phone
Co-Ed Fever poster
Co-Ed Fever
1980 • waiter (uncredited)
Garage Girls poster
Garage Girls
1980 • Man in Beret (uncredited)
The Ecstasy Girls poster
The Ecstasy Girls
1979 • Slate Operator
Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer poster
Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer
1976 • Self
Girls for Rent poster
Girls for Rent
1974 • Billy
F for Fake poster
F for Fake
1973 • Self
The Dirty Dolls poster
The Dirty Dolls
1973 • Charlie
And When She Was Bad... poster
And When She Was Bad...
1973 • Fire Engine Rider / Man in Alley (uncredited)
Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns poster
Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns
1971 • Tim Harris
Horror of the Blood Monsters poster
Horror of the Blood Monsters
1970 • Earthly Vampire (uncredited)
The Hard Road poster
The Hard Road
1970 • Police Sergeant (uncredited)
The Mighty Gorga poster
The Mighty Gorga
1969 • Bill
Wild, Free & Hungry poster
Wild, Free & Hungry
1969 • Dave
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The Embracers
1966 • The Boy