Michael Findlay

Michael Findlay

Nacimiento : 1937-08-27, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1977-05-16

Historia

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

Perfil

Michael Findlay

Películas

Christopher Street Blues
Director
What would you do if you were a young & very pretty office guy who desperately wanted a promotion? Well, if everybody in your office was gay, married, but very, very hot you’d sleep and blackmail your way to the top!
Point Me Toward Tomorrow
Cinematography
Dr. Bill Howard dumps his lover Tony in favor of Eddie, who he blinded in an auto accident. Will the new relationship survive, or is just not meant to be?
Point Me Toward Tomorrow
Director
Dr. Bill Howard dumps his lover Tony in favor of Eddie, who he blinded in an auto accident. Will the new relationship survive, or is just not meant to be?
Kiss Today Goodbye
Director
Charlie is a construction worker who cheats on his nagging lover (and he does nag!) with the married, closeted, Bill.
Michael, Angelo and David
Cinematography
When Italian boy David visits New York City to see his cousin Michael (and his assistant, Angelo), he falls in love with Marc Stevens.
Michael, Angelo and David
Director
When Italian boy David visits New York City to see his cousin Michael (and his assistant, Angelo), he falls in love with Marc Stevens.
Snuff
Detective (archive footage) (uncredited)
The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Snuff
Writer
The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Snuff
Director
The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Virgins in Heat
Richard Jennings
A masked man breaks into a Times Square adult movie theater and forces the projectionist at gunpoint to show assorted pornographic scenes to him.
Virgins in Heat
Director
A masked man breaks into a Times Square adult movie theater and forces the projectionist at gunpoint to show assorted pornographic scenes to him.
El grito del mutilado
Decapitation Onlooker (uncredited)
Unos estudiantes van en busca del abominable hombre de las nieves. Son acaudillados por su profesor, quien se propone a toda costa tomar fotografías o capturar un ejemplar del yeti.
El grito del mutilado
Editor
Unos estudiantes van en busca del abominable hombre de las nieves. Son acaudillados por su profesor, quien se propone a toda costa tomar fotografías o capturar un ejemplar del yeti.
El grito del mutilado
Director
Unos estudiantes van en busca del abominable hombre de las nieves. Son acaudillados por su profesor, quien se propone a toda costa tomar fotografías o capturar un ejemplar del yeti.
Invasion of the Blood Farmers
Editor
Somewhere in upstate New York, a young woman is terrorized by a group of rural farmers primarily interested in a harvest of blood.
The Altar of Lust
Dr. Rogers (voice) (uncredited)
A sexually confused young woman in a session with her psychiatrist relates her tale of coming to New York City from Sweden after being raped by her stepfather, falling in love with a young man named Don and then realizing that she is finding herself attracted more and more to women.
The Slaughter
Detective (uncredited)
A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Years after this flopped at the box office, it was purchased by Michael Findlay and became the backbone for the notorious film Snuff (1975).
Vice or Versa
Screenplay
A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality. To date, no known prints of this title have surfaced.
Vice or Versa
Editor
A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality. To date, no known prints of this title have surfaced.
Vice or Versa
Producer
A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality. To date, no known prints of this title have surfaced.
Vice or Versa
Director
A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality. To date, no known prints of this title have surfaced.
The Slaughter
Screenplay
A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Years after this flopped at the box office, it was purchased by Michael Findlay and became the backbone for the notorious film Snuff (1975).
The Slaughter
Director
A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Years after this flopped at the box office, it was purchased by Michael Findlay and became the backbone for the notorious film Snuff (1975).
Bacchanale
3rd Mourner / Timothy (voice)
Follows a young woman as she travels through the strange, surreal passages reminiscent of Dante's Inferno.
Take My Head
Narrator (voice)
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Take My Head
Director of Photography
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Take My Head
Editor
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Take My Head
Producer
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Take My Head
Writer
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Take My Head
Director
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Janie
Director
A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
Janie
Homeowner (as Richard Jennings)
A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
The Ultimate Degenerate
Producer
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
The Ultimate Degenerate
Screenplay
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
The Ultimate Degenerate
Editor
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
The Ultimate Degenerate
Spencer
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
The Ultimate Degenerate
Director
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
Mnasidika
A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group of lesbians find the man, tie him to a tree, then partake in an incredible deed.
Mnasidika
Director
A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group of lesbians find the man, tie him to a tree, then partake in an incredible deed.
Mnasidika
Producer
A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group of lesbians find the man, tie him to a tree, then partake in an incredible deed.
The Kiss of Her Flesh
Producer
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
The Kiss of Her Flesh
Editor
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
The Kiss of Her Flesh
Richard Jennings
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
The Kiss of Her Flesh
Writer
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
The Kiss of Her Flesh
Director
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
The Curse of Her Flesh
Richard Jennings / Joe Davidson
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
The Curse of Her Flesh
Writer
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
The Curse of Her Flesh
Producer
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
The Curse of Her Flesh
Editor
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
The Curse of Her Flesh
Director
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
A Thousand Pleasures
Richard Davis
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
A Thousand Pleasures
Editor
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
A Thousand Pleasures
Producer
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
A Thousand Pleasures
Director
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
The Touch of Her Flesh
Editor
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
The Touch of Her Flesh
Producer
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
The Touch of Her Flesh
Writer
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
The Touch of Her Flesh
Richard Jennings (as Robert West)
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
The Touch of Her Flesh
Director
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
Lusting Hours
Partygoer / Call Girl's Client / Voices
Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers, then on to streetwalkers, male hustlers, and high-class call girls. The madam runs the bordello, she depends on the photographer to supply her with pornography; he's in the city, using his camera to lead him into depravity. The streetwalkers risk arrest from the cops and abuse from the johns. Even the call girls have a tough time: from their expenses to their lack of self-reflection. Their motto: "Live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse."
Take Me Naked
Editor
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Take Me Naked
Director of Photography
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Take Me Naked
Producer
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Take Me Naked
The Bum's Friend
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Take Me Naked
Director
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Satan's Bed
Editor
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
Satan's Bed
Director of Photography
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
Satan's Bed
Director
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
The Sin Syndicate
Director of Photography
At a Senate crime hearing, four young girls testify as to how, shortly after their arrival in New York, they became "zero girls," also known as "party girls".
The Sin Syndicate
Bearded Man (uncredited)
At a Senate crime hearing, four young girls testify as to how, shortly after their arrival in New York, they became "zero girls," also known as "party girls".
The Sin Syndicate
Director
At a Senate crime hearing, four young girls testify as to how, shortly after their arrival in New York, they became "zero girls," also known as "party girls".
Body of a Female
Bruno (as Robert West)
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Body of a Female
Camera Operator
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Body of a Female
Producer
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Body of a Female
Writer
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Body of a Female
Editor
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Body of a Female
Director
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.