Gary Graver

Gary Graver

1938-07-20 – 2006-11-16 (age 68) Portland, Oregon, USA
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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.

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Known For

Masseuse
Masseuse

1996

as Bob

Operation Cobra
Operation Cobra

1997

as Conspirator

F for Fake
F for Fake

1973

as Self

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

2018

as Self (archive footage)

The Other Side of the Wind
The Other Side of the Wind

2018

as Documentary Filmmaker

Girls for Rent
Girls for Rent

1974

as Billy

Bad Girls from Mars
Bad Girls from Mars

1990

as Camera Guy

The Embracers
The Embracers

1966

as The Boy

The Mighty Gorga
The Mighty Gorga

1969

as Bill

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

1973

as Charlie

Edge of Outside
Edge of Outside

2006

as Self

Invisible Mom
Invisible Mom

1996

as Psych Patient

Working with Orson Welles
Invisible Dad
Invisible Dad

1998

as Forger

Horror of the Blood Monsters
Horror of the Blood Monsters

1970

as Earthly Vampire (uncredited)

And When She Was Bad...
And When She Was Bad...

1973

as Fire Engine Rider / Man in Alley (uncredited)

Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns
Wild, Free & Hungry