Gary Graver

Camera

Gary Graver

Born — Died

1938-07-20 — 2006-11-16

Place of birth

Portland, Oregon, USA

Known for

Camera

Credits

70 titles

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 film…

Known for

Veronica 2030 poster
4.0

Built for pleasure, Veronica 2030 is a love android from the future - but there's a problem with the programming... The robot has discovered the delicious sensation of human passion. The insatiable android must be stopped before she has a sexual short circuit.

Veronica 2030

1999

Horror of the Blood Monsters poster
3.2

Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.

Horror of the Blood Monsters

1970

F for Fake poster
7.4

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

F for Fake

1973

The Other Side of the Wind poster
6.7

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.

The Other Side of the Wind

2018

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead poster
7.1

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018

Angel Eyes poster
4.2

Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. After her mother dies under unusual circumstances, Angel is sent to an institution. Years later, she is let out and tracks down her dear step-dad who now lives with his new girlfriend Michelle. He is technically her only kin so he takes her in, but his girlfriend doesn't like Angel one bit. Angel's obsession with her "dad" is as strong as ever and she fantasizes about seducing him. After spying on him and his girlfriend having passionate sex, she begins playing a deadly game and even tries to seduce his hostile girlfriend. However, Steven has a more immediate and obvious problem - a drug dealer called Johnny Ventura.

Angel Eyes

1993

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

The Other Side of the Wind poster
6.7

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.

The Other Side of the Wind

2018

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead poster
7.1

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

2018

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson poster
6.8

Brought to life through archival material and the reflections of over 40 colleagues, friends and fans, BLOOD & FLESH is much more than the story of a moviemaking life most unusual. It beautifully captures the worlds of outsider filmmaker communities that existed in California in the ’70s, and the weird ways they intersected with Hollywood mainstream and union indies. On Adamson shoots, regular Orson Welles crew and cinematographers like Gary Graver, Vilmos Szigmond and Lazlo Kovaks worked alongside Bud Cardos — and at one point, Charles Manson! Director David Gregory (founder of Severin Films, director of LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) spent years making this film, speaking to everyone down to the cops who investigated Adamson’s murder, vividly encapsulating both a bold life and tragic demise, with alien conspiracies, go-go dancers and Colonel Sanders coming in along the way. If you’ve got even a passing interest in cinema, you want to see this

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

2019

1990s · 9 titles

Bad Girls from Mars poster
3.8

Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production "Bad Girls from Mars." The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they're making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead. Emanuelle immediately begins embarrassing the producers by leading a wild party life around town. Meanwhile the killings continue, and detectives try to stop the fiend responsible.

Bad Girls from Mars

1990

Invisible Dad poster
4.1

Doug Baily's father is weird, but a strange machine in the garage now makes him invisible too. It's a roller coaster ride of fun and hijinks as Doug tries to turn his invisible dad back to normal again.

Invisible Dad

1998

Masseuse poster
4.2

Jack is a real scum-bag who is going to marry Kristy. He has a bad habit of sleeping with other women and stealing all of their money. Two weeks before their marriage, Kristy sees Jack having sex with their maid, Rosa. It turns out that he was threatening Rosa into having sex as well as his secretary, Diane. When he goes away on business, Kristy, Rosa, and Diane devise a way to get him back for all of the things he has put them through. They also decide to turn his house into a special massage parlor for a few nights so Kristy can try to make some of the money back that Jack stole from her.

Masseuse

1996

Shock Cinema: Volume Two poster
4.2

Hour long documentary features interviews with filmmakers, actors and others who work low budget movies.

Shock Cinema: Volume Two

1991

Invisible Mom poster
5.1

A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.

Invisible Mom

1996

Roots of Evil poster
3.8

A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.

Roots of Evil

1992

Operation Cobra poster
4.8

When Interpol officer Kyle Connors, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, watches his partner die in an explosion, he swears he'll hunt down the killer. Yanked of the case by Internal Affairs, Connors defied his orders and follows the only lead he has... to India. Now, he is in a strange land where nothing is what it seems. Who can he trust? A beautiful counter-operative? An earnest young cop? A reclusive arms dealer? In a country where assassins come cheap, Connors finds himself in a cobra's nest of danger and betrayal.

Operation Cobra

1997

Working with Orson Welles poster
5.8

"Working with Orson Welles" is a low-budget production put together by Gary Graver, who worked as a cameraman for Welles in the last 15 years of his life.

Working with Orson Welles

1993

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles poster
6.5

The film recalls Orson Welles’ Italian period. “Rosabella” is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of “Rosebud,” the object at the center of the story of Charles Foster Kane, the main character of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles’ debut film.

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles

1993

1970s · 8 titles

Horror of the Blood Monsters poster
3.2

Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.

Horror of the Blood Monsters

1970

F for Fake poster
7.4

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

F for Fake

1973

The Dirty Dolls poster
5.2

Johnny, a psychopath, puts together a gang made up of young teenage girls to commit crimes for him. Everything is going well until one day, during a diamond robbery, the girls are forced to take two hostages and bring them back to the hideout along with the loot. Furious, Johnny wants to kill the hostages so there will be no witnesses, but one of his gang, who happens to be his sister, starts to think that maybe Johnny is going too far.

The Dirty Dolls

1973

Girls for Rent poster
4.8

A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.

Girls for Rent

1974

Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns poster
6.7

A Mexican bandit and his gang are offered a pardon and a cash reward if he will cross the border into America and bring back a gang of murderous gold thieves who robbed the local church and killed the priest and the Head Federales' wife and children.

Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns

1971

The Hard Road poster
5.0

A cautionary tale. At 17, Sherman Oaks high schooler Pam Banner has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to go back to school, so her dad gets her a job as the receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes her to a party, seduces and abandons her; that starts a spiral of partying, free love, and drug use. Pam becomes friends with Jeannie, a hooker who supports Jimmy, a useless druggie. Soon the three of them are living together, and Jimmy seems appealing to Pam. She's missing work more and more often, Jeannie wants out of the life, Jimmy is going through withdrawal, and Pam is in the middle of a maelstrom. Is there any exit for Pam?

The Hard Road

1973

And When She Was Bad... poster
3.3

Ten years after his divorce, a man is surprised by a visit from his now-teenage stepdaughter from that marriage. Although he has a new woman in his life, he lets the young girl stay with them. What he doesn't know is that his new "housemate" is a deranged, homicidal nymphomaniac who tries to seduce both him and his girlfriend and takes her frustrations out on an unlucky Bible salesman.

And When She Was Bad...

1973

The Ecstasy Girls poster
5.7

Struggling actor Jerry makes more money as an escort for the rich and famous than he does acting. Wealthy investor J. C. Church hires Jerry to seduce his sister and nieces, in order to have an excuse to disown them.

The Ecstasy Girls

1979

Behind the camera

Veronica 2030 poster
4.0

Built for pleasure, Veronica 2030 is a love android from the future - but there's a problem with the programming... The robot has discovered the delicious sensation of human passion. The insatiable android must be stopped before she has a sexual short circuit.

Veronica 2030

1999

Angel Eyes poster
4.2

Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. After her mother dies under unusual circumstances, Angel is sent to an institution. Years later, she is let out and tracks down her dear step-dad who now lives with his new girlfriend Michelle. He is technically her only kin so he takes her in, but his girlfriend doesn't like Angel one bit. Angel's obsession with her "dad" is as strong as ever and she fantasizes about seducing him. After spying on him and his girlfriend having passionate sex, she begins playing a deadly game and even tries to seduce his hostile girlfriend. However, Steven has a more immediate and obvious problem - a drug dealer called Johnny Ventura.

Angel Eyes

1993

Angel Eyes poster
4.2

Angel is a disturbed teen who becomes obsessed with her nice stepfather Steven. After her mother dies under unusual circumstances, Angel is sent to an institution. Years later, she is let out and tracks down her dear step-dad who now lives with his new girlfriend Michelle. He is technically her only kin so he takes her in, but his girlfriend doesn't like Angel one bit. Angel's obsession with her "dad" is as strong as ever and she fantasizes about seducing him. After spying on him and his girlfriend having passionate sex, she begins playing a deadly game and even tries to seduce his hostile girlfriend. However, Steven has a more immediate and obvious problem - a drug dealer called Johnny Ventura.

Angel Eyes

1993

Angel in Training poster
6.8

Thirteen-year-old Desi has two big problems: her cartoonist father is being duped by a sexy, money-hungry agent, and she needs to find a date for a friend's birthday party. An apprentice angel is sent to Earth to help Desi deal with the situation.

Angel in Training

1999

Masseuse 3 poster
4.4

A brothel owner finds herself the target of an assassin.

Masseuse 3

1998

Party Camp poster
4.5

A teenage boy takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp. He finds that the camp is run like a military training camp, and he resolves to turn it into Party Central.

Party Camp

1987

Sexual Roulette poster
3.8

When a young couple loses all of their money at a casino, the husband performs certain "favours" in order to work the debt off, while his wife is unaware of this kinky arrangement.

Sexual Roulette

1997

Nerds of a Feather poster
5.0

Filled with the fast-paced thrills of a 007 epic and the suave sophistication of a Pee Wee Herman adventure, this film takes the sacred, great all-American Nerd and puts him where he belongs - on a top secret spy mission.

Nerds of a Feather

1989

Trick or Treats poster
4.0

A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.

Trick or Treats

1982

Trick or Treats poster
4.0

A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.

Trick or Treats

1982

Trick or Treats poster
4.0

A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.

Trick or Treats

1982

Roots of Evil poster
3.8

A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.

Roots of Evil

1992

Black Widow Escort poster
4.0

After the events of The Escort (1997), a psychiatrist becomes obsessed with inmate Suzanne, who survived being shot, and traumatized Debra, the object of Suzanne's deadly obsession.

Black Widow Escort

1998

Texas Lightning poster
3.2

A tough, macho, truck driver decides to make his soft son more manly by taking him hunting. They vacation and go to a honky tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.

Texas Lightning

1981

Texas Lightning poster
3.2

A tough, macho, truck driver decides to make his soft son more manly by taking him hunting. They vacation and go to a honky tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.

Texas Lightning

1981

Evil Spirits poster
3.7

A dark comedy thriller that manages to skillfully blend humor and mystery into one incredible film from its thrilling beginning to the shocking climax! The superb all-star cast is a unique collection of characters who find themselves with one very special thing in common -- they are all boarders of Mrs. Ella Purdy (Karen Black) and totally dependent upon her gracious nature. The suspense mounts as, one-by-one, they fall sacrifice to ominous secrets enshrined within the walls of her foreboding house! Murder and mayhem prevail throughout the tense but often humorous situations as each victim draws nearer to his or her fate.

Evil Spirits

1991

Working with Orson Welles poster
5.8

"Working with Orson Welles" is a low-budget production put together by Gary Graver, who worked as a cameraman for Welles in the last 15 years of his life.

Working with Orson Welles

1993

The Escort poster
3.2

A psycho escort (Shauna O'Brien) sets her sights on a married woman (Landon Hall). Revenge, blackmail and murder follow in this steamy late night thriller. There were several sequels.

The Escort

1997

The Attic poster
4.7

A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at altar. She fantasizes his death and finds joy only with her pet monkey. When the monkey disappears, a shocking past is revealed.

The Attic

1980

Moon in Scorpio poster
3.6

A Vietnam vet with PTSD and his new wife are invited for their honeymoon aboard his war buddy's yacht along with a third war friend and their girlfriends. Soon, they are being slaughtered one-by-one by a mysterious gloved assailant with an unusual pronged murder weapon.

Moon in Scorpio

1987

Crossing the Line poster
5.2

A rich kid, with a fondness for fast bikes, is blamed when a motorcycle accident puts his best friend in a coma.

Crossing the Line

1990

The Hard Road poster
5.0

A cautionary tale. At 17, Sherman Oaks high schooler Pam Banner has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to go back to school, so her dad gets her a job as the receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes her to a party, seduces and abandons her; that starts a spiral of partying, free love, and drug use. Pam becomes friends with Jeannie, a hooker who supports Jimmy, a useless druggie. Soon the three of them are living together, and Jimmy seems appealing to Pam. She's missing work more and more often, Jeannie wants out of the life, Jimmy is going through withdrawal, and Pam is in the middle of a maelstrom. Is there any exit for Pam?

The Hard Road

1973

Bikini Traffic School poster
3.0

Las Vegas strippers inherit a traffic school while a local slumlord dreams of building a corrupt community.

Bikini Traffic School

1998

One Million Heels B.C. poster
4.7

A woman finds a cavegirl in the backyard so they decide to have showers, strip, and dress in lingerie.

One Million Heels B.C.

1993

One Million Heels B.C. poster
4.7

A woman finds a cavegirl in the backyard so they decide to have showers, strip, and dress in lingerie.

One Million Heels B.C.

1993

Erika's Hot Summer poster
4.6

Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them, and then dumping them. One day he meets the woman of his dreams on the beach: Erika. Once he's frolicked on the beach and taken her to bed, the other women in his life become unsatisfactory, and he suffers a playboy's crisis. One of his other women proves to be a bit more persistent than he expects.

Erika's Hot Summer

1971

Erika's Hot Summer poster
4.6

Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them, and then dumping them. One day he meets the woman of his dreams on the beach: Erika. Once he's frolicked on the beach and taken her to bed, the other women in his life become unsatisfactory, and he suffers a playboy's crisis. One of his other women proves to be a bit more persistent than he expects.

Erika's Hot Summer

1971

Erika's Hot Summer poster
4.6

Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them, and then dumping them. One day he meets the woman of his dreams on the beach: Erika. Once he's frolicked on the beach and taken her to bed, the other women in his life become unsatisfactory, and he suffers a playboy's crisis. One of his other women proves to be a bit more persistent than he expects.

Erika's Hot Summer

1971

Jaded poster
8.0

After getting beat up by her husband, a woman leaves home and seeks refuge at her cousin's place, surrounded by a strange assortment of people, including an equally abused transsexual.

Jaded

1989

And When She Was Bad... poster
3.3

Ten years after his divorce, a man is surprised by a visit from his now-teenage stepdaughter from that marriage. Although he has a new woman in his life, he lets the young girl stay with them. What he doesn't know is that his new "housemate" is a deranged, homicidal nymphomaniac who tries to seduce both him and his girlfriend and takes her frustrations out on an unlucky Bible salesman.

And When She Was Bad...

1973

And When She Was Bad... poster
3.3

Ten years after his divorce, a man is surprised by a visit from his now-teenage stepdaughter from that marriage. Although he has a new woman in his life, he lets the young girl stay with them. What he doesn't know is that his new "housemate" is a deranged, homicidal nymphomaniac who tries to seduce both him and his girlfriend and takes her frustrations out on an unlucky Bible salesman.

And When She Was Bad...

1973

And When She Was Bad... poster
3.3

Ten years after his divorce, a man is surprised by a visit from his now-teenage stepdaughter from that marriage. Although he has a new woman in his life, he lets the young girl stay with them. What he doesn't know is that his new "housemate" is a deranged, homicidal nymphomaniac who tries to seduce both him and his girlfriend and takes her frustrations out on an unlucky Bible salesman.

And When She Was Bad...

1973

The Kill poster
4.9

A hot young vixen is kidnapped and raped by a dangerous gang of heroine smugglers, who rape and kill anyone who gets in their way. Then a tough private detective is hired to track down the bastards.

The Kill

1968

The Kill poster
4.9

A hot young vixen is kidnapped and raped by a dangerous gang of heroine smugglers, who rape and kill anyone who gets in their way. Then a tough private detective is hired to track down the bastards.

The Kill

1968

Sandra: The Making of a Woman poster
5.3

Sandra, a teenager who lives in the countryside, is brutally abused by her neurotic and alcoholic father. After his death, Sandra goes to San Francisco to experience the free love.

Sandra: The Making of a Woman

1970

Sandra: The Making of a Woman poster
5.3

Sandra, a teenager who lives in the countryside, is brutally abused by her neurotic and alcoholic father. After his death, Sandra goes to San Francisco to experience the free love.

Sandra: The Making of a Woman

1970

Vegas High Stakes poster
7.0

Two Vegas strippers witness two gangsters murder one of their boyfriends in the parking lot at the end of their shift. The gangsters want to silence them, so they flee town... with the gangsters in chase.

Vegas High Stakes

1996

Vegas High Stakes poster
7.0

Two Vegas strippers witness two gangsters murder one of their boyfriends in the parking lot at the end of their shift. The gangsters want to silence them, so they flee town... with the gangsters in chase.

Vegas High Stakes

1996

The Embracers poster
8.0

A girl and a boy meet, and a sexploitation feature ensues.

The Embracers

1966

The Embracers poster
8.0

A girl and a boy meet, and a sexploitation feature ensues.

The Embracers

1966