Roberta Findlay
Noted adult and exploitation cinema filmmaker Roberta Findlay was born Roberta Hershkowitz in 1943 in New York City. The youngest in a family of three children, Roberta grew up in a tenement apartment in the Bronx. Findlay's Hungarian immigrant parents wanted her to be a pianist. Roberta met her husband Michael Findlay while a student at the City College of New York after she volunteered to be the accompanying pianist for a silent movie program that Michael was running on campus. Roberta married Michael at age eighteen. The couple collaborated on several sleazy and sadistic exploitation features together in the 1960's which include the notoriously nasty "Flesh" trilogy. After parting ways with Michael in the early 1970's, Roberta went on to direct a handful of explicit hardcore movies for producer and distributor Allan Shackleton. Moreover, Findlay also worked on various films as an editor, composer, producer, and cinematographer. Roberta ended her directing career toiling away on low-budget horror and grindhouse fare throughout the mid to late 1980's. In addition, Findlay and her late partner Walter E. Sear founded the recording studio Sear Sound in New York City.
- IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders
Fotos
Películas (28)
Deep Blood
1990 · Lighting Technician
Banned
1989 · Director, Director of Photography
Prime Evil
1988 · Director of Photography, Director
Lurkers
1988 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Blood Sisters
1987 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Tenement
1985 · Director of Photography, Director
The Oracle
1985 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Acting Out
1978 · Director of Photography, Camera Operator
Snuff
1976 · Carmela (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited), Director of Photography
Shriek of the Mutilated
1974 · Director of Photography
The Clamdigger's Daughter
1974 · Screenplay, Producer, Director, Gaffer
Checkmate
1973 · Director of Photography
Invasion of the Blood Farmers
1972 · Director of Photography
Rosebud
1972 · Music, Producer, Director of Photography, Lighting Technician, Director, Writer
The Slaughter
1971 · Carmela (voice), Director of Photography
Vice Versa!
1971 · Director of Photography, Screenplay
Take My Head
1970 · Director
Janie
1970 · Roberta, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Director
The Ultimate Degenerate
1969 · Girl on Ferris Wheel / Voices (uncredited), Lighting Technician, Director of Photography, Producer
Mnasidika
1969 · Director of Photography, Producer, Director
The Kiss of Her Flesh
1968 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director of Photography, Writer, Lighting Technician, Original Music Composer, Producer
The Curse of Her Flesh
1968 · Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Producer, Lighting Technician, Director of Photography, Writer
A Thousand Pleasures
1968 · Mrs. Davis / Voices, Lighting Technician, Producer, Director of Photography, Original Music Composer
The Touch of Her Flesh
1967 · Claudia Jennings (voice) / Credits Girl / Dream Girl (uncredited), Producer, Music, Director of Photography, Lighting Technician
Lusting Hours
1967 · Prostitute / Street Girl / Call Girl / Voices (as Anna Riva)
Take Me Naked
1966 · Elaine, Director, Music, Sound, Lighting Technician, Producer
Satan's Bed
1965 · Woman Tied to Pool Table, Lighting Technician
Body of a Female
1964 · Cindy (as Anna Riva), Lighting Technician
