Personal Info
Known For
Camera
Birthdate
1938-07-20
Day of Death
2006-11-16
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Gary Graver
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Graver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (30)
Zandor and Friends
2020
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
2019
The Other Side of the Wind
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
2007
Edge of Outside
2006
Invisible Dad
1998
Operation Cobra
1997
Invisible Mom
1996
Masseuse
1996
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
1993
Working with Orson Welles
1993
Roots of Evil
1992
Shock Cinema: Volume Two
1991
