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Michael Findlay
New York City, New York, USA
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…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Findlay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
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2021
Party Levitation
Movie (archive footage)
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1977
Christopher Street Blues
Movie Director
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1977
Point Me Toward Tomorrow
Movie Cinematography
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1976
Kiss Today Goodbye
Movie Director
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1976
Michael, Angelo and David
Movie Director
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1976
Snuff
Movie Detective (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1976
Virgins in Heat
Movie Richard Jennings
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1976
Wet and Wild
Movie
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1974
Shriek of the Mutilated
Movie Decapitation Onlooker (uncredited)
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1972
Invasion of the Blood Farmers
Movie Editor
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1971
The Altar of Lust
Movie Dr. Rogers (voice) (uncredited)
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1971
Vice Versa!
Movie Director
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1971
The Slaughter
Movie Detective (uncredited)
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1970
Bacchanale
Movie 3rd Mourner / Timothy (voice)
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1970
Take My Head
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1970
Janie
Movie Homeowner (as Richard Jennings)
More credits
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1969
The Ultimate Degenerate
Movie Spencer (as Robert West)
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1969
Mnasidika
Movie
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1968
The Kiss of Her Flesh
Movie Richard Jennings
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1968
The Curse of Her Flesh
Movie Richard Jennings / Joe Davidson
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1968
A Thousand Pleasures
Movie Richard Davis
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1967
The Touch of Her Flesh
Movie Richard Jennings
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1967
Lusting Hours
Movie Partygoer / Call Girl's Client / Voices
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1966
Take Me Naked
Movie The Bum's Friend
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1965
Satan's Bed
Movie Director
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1965
The Sin Syndicate
Movie Bearded Man (uncredited)
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1964
Body of a Female
Movie Bruno (as Robert West)
