Gary Graver

Birthday: 1938-07-20
Deathday: 2006-11-16
Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, USA
Gender: Male
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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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Credits

Year Title Character
2018-11-02 The Other Side of the Wind Documentary Filmmaker
1998-03-24 Invisible Dad Forger
1997-12-05 Operation Cobra Conspirator
1996-02-29 Invisible Mom Psych Patient
1996-02-02 Masseuse Bob
1993-09-08 Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
1992-09-02 Roots of Evil Vinnie (uncredited)
1990-12-08 Bad Girls from Mars Camera Guy
1982-10-01 Society Affairs Guy on Pay Phone
1980-10-29 Co-Ed Fever waiter (uncredited)
1980-04-17 Garage Girls Man in Beret (uncredited)
1979-11-08 The Ecstasy Girls Slate Operator
1974-10-01 Girls for Rent Billy
1973-04-19 The Dirty Dolls Charlie
1973-01-01 And When She Was Bad... Fire Engine Rider / Man in Alley (uncredited)
1971-07-01 Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns Tim Harris
1970-02-01 Horror of the Blood Monsters Earthly Vampire (uncredited)
1970-01-01 The Hard Road Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1969-07-19 The Mighty Gorga Bill
1969-01-01 Wild, Free & Hungry Dave
1966-05-27 The Embracers The Boy