Gary Graver

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.
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- 1938-07-20 · Portland, Oregon, USA
- Died
- 2006-11-16
Known for
- Always (1989) — Additional Photography
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974) — Second Unit Director
- F for Fake (1973) — Self
- The Other Side of the Wind (2018) — Documentary Filmmaker
- Eating Raoul (1982) — Second Unit Director of Photography
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) — Self (archive footage)
- The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) — Additional Photography
- Evil Toons (1992) — Director of Photography
- The Toolbox Murders (1978) — Director of Photography
- Up! (1976) — Production Assistant
- Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988) — Second Unit Director of Photography
- Demon Wind (1990) — Additional Photography
- Mortuary (1982) — Director of Photography
- Sweet Sixteen (1982) — Second Unit Director of Photography
- Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) — Director of Photography
- Deathsport (1978) — Director of Photography