Michael Findlay
Personal Info:
KNOWN FOR
Directing
GENDER
male
BIRTHDAY
1937-08-27
DAY OF DEATH
1977-05-16
PLACE OF BIRTH
New York City, New York, USA
ALSO KNOWN AS
Robert West Julian MarshFrancis EllieRobert Wuesterwurst
Michael Findlay
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Findlay, along with his wife Roberta Findlay, directed and produced numerous sexploitation movies. They have been described as "the most notorious filmmakers in the annals of sexploitation". In the mid-to-late 1960s, Findlay was prominent among a small group of underground New York filmmakers (including Joseph W. Sarno, Joseph P. Mawra, and Lou Campa) that produced exploitation "roughies" (a mix of sex and sadism) for the grindhouse theater market. Sometimes he would direct under the alias Julian Marsh and act in his own films billed as Robert West. His wife Roberta (aka Anna Riva) was the cinematographer, co-writer, and supporting actress for many of their films together. They also employed the same actors repeatedly, most notably Uta Erickson, and Marie Brent, aka Janet Banzet. The Findlays were friends with George Weiss, producer of Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda and a series of fetishistic Olga films (Olga's House of Shame, Olga's Girls, et al.). In 1964 Weiss encouraged them to make films in this new subgenre of violent sexploitation.
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Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Findlay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
POPULAR MOVIES
acting
- 2021
- 1976
- 1976
- 1974
- 1971
- 1971
- 1970
- 1970
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- 1969
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- 1966
- 1965
- 1964
production
- 1971
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- 1967
- 1966
- 1964
directing
- 1977
- 1977
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976
- 1974
- 1971
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- 1967
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1964
writing
- 1976
- 1971
- 1971
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- 1968
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- 1967
- 1964
editing
- 1974
- 1972
- 1971
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- 1969
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968
- 1967
- 1966
- 1965
- 1964
camera
- 1970
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1964
crew
- 1977
- 1976