Gary Graver
Camera·1938–2006·Portland, Oregon, USA
54 horror credits
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.
Director7 films
Roots of Evil
Director
Evil Spirits
Director
Moon in Scorpio
Director
Trick or Treats
Director
Amanda by Night
Director
The Attic
Director
And When She Was Bad...
Director
Writer2 films
Trick or Treats
Screenplay
And When She Was Bad...
Screenplay
Producer2 films
Trick or Treats
Producer
And When She Was Bad...
Producer
Cinematographer41 films
Swamp Terror
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Haunting Desires
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The Mummy's Kiss: 2nd Dynasty
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Tomb of the Werewolf
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Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood
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Leeches!
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Thirteen Erotic Ghosts
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Phantom Love
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Alien Escape
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Sorceress II: The Temptress
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Star Hunter
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Witch Academy
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Sorceress
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Possessed by the Night
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Roots of Evil
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Evil Toons
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Evil Spirits
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Camp Fear
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Bad Girls from Mars
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Spirits
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Haunting Fear
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Click: The Calendar Girl Killer
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Alienator
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B.O.R.N.
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Deep Space
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Moon in Scorpio
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The Phantom Empire
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Twisted Nightmare
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They're Playing with Fire
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Trick or Treats
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Mortuary
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Amanda by Night
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The Attic
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The Toolbox Murders
Director of Photography
Invasion of the Bee Girls
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Bummer
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And When She Was Bad...
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein
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Blood Mania
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The Mighty Gorga
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Satan's Sadists
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Editor4 films
Trick or Treats
Editor
And When She Was Bad...
Editor
The Mighty Gorga
Editor
Satan's Sadists
Editor
Actor8 films
Zandor and Friends
Self
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Himself (archive footage)
Roots of Evil
Vinnie (uncredited)
Shock Cinema: Volume Two
Self
Bad Girls from Mars
Camera Guy
And When She Was Bad...
Fire Engine Rider / Man in Alley (uncredited)
Horror of the Blood Monsters
Earthly Vampire (uncredited)
The Mighty Gorga
Bill
Other Crew9 films
Jacqueline Hyde
Lighting Technician
Final Examination
Second Unit Director of Photography
Venomous
Additional Photography
Demon Wind
Additional Photography
Beverly Hills Vamp
Second Unit Director of Photography
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Second Unit Director of Photography
Sweet Sixteen
Second Unit Director of Photography
The Sword and the Sorcerer
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Eating Raoul
Second Unit Director of Photography