Gary Graver

Gary Graver

Born: July 20, 1938
Died: November 16, 2006
in Portland, Oregon, USA
Gary Graver was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. In high school he produced and starred in his own weekly radio show. Moving into acting, he studied and performed at the Portland Civic Theatre and Grant High School as well as being a child circus clown and magician. He built a theater in his basement, showing 16mm films and producing plays for the neighborhood kids.

Movies for Gary Graver...

Zandor and Friends
Title: Zandor and Friends
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 2020
Type: Movie
Feature-length documentary taking a look at the making of Al Adamson's Dracula vs Frankenstein.
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Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Title: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: August 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Brought to life through archival material and the reflections of over 40 colleagues, friends and fans, BLOOD & FLESH is much more than the story of a moviemaking life most unusual. It beautifully captures the worlds of outsider filmmaker communities that existed in California in the ’70s, and the weird ways they intersected with Hollywood mainstream and union indies. On Adamson shoots, regular Orson Welles crew and cinematographers like Gary Graver, Vilmos Szigmond and Lazlo Kovaks worked alongside Bud Cardos — and at one point, Charles Manson! Director David Gregory (founder of Severin Films, director of LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) spent years making this film, speaking to everyone down to the cops who investigated Adamson’s murder, vividly encapsulating both a bold life and tragic demise, with alien conspiracies, go-go dancers and Colonel Sanders coming in along the way. If you’ve got even a passing interest in cinema, you want to see this
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The Other Side of the Wind
Title: The Other Side of the Wind
Character: Documentary Filmmaker
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Title: They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 31, 2018
Type: Movie
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
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Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
Title: Fall Guy: The John Stewart Story
Character: Himself
Released: February 20, 2007
Type: Movie
The true to life story of one of Hollywood's top stuntmen, as well as some of the most spectacular stunts ever filmed. "Fall Guy" follows the life and times of legendary stunt man and director, John Stewart.
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Edge of Outside
Title: Edge of Outside
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 2006
Type: Movie
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.
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Invisible Dad
Title: Invisible Dad
Character: Forger
Released: March 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Doug Baily's father is weird, but a strange machine in the garage now makes him invisible too. It's a roller coaster ride of fun and hijinks as Doug tries to turn his invisible dad back to normal again.
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Operation Cobra
Title: Operation Cobra
Character: Conspirator
Released: December 5, 1997
Type: Movie
When Interpol officer Kyle Connors, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, watches his partner die in an explosion, he swears he'll hunt down the killer. Yanked of the case by Internal Affairs, Connors defied his orders and follows the only lead he has... to India. Now, he is in a strange land where nothing is what it seems. Who can he trust? A beautiful counter-operative? An earnest young cop? A reclusive arms dealer? In a country where assassins come cheap, Connors finds himself in a cobra's nest of danger and betrayal.
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Invisible Mom
Title: Invisible Mom
Character: Psych Patient
Released: February 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.
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Masseuse
Title: Masseuse
Character: Bob
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Jack is a real scum-bag who is going to marry Kristy. He has a bad habit of sleeping with other women and stealing all of their money. Two weeks before their marriage, Kristy sees Jack having sex with their maid, Rosa. It turns out that he was threatening Rosa into having sex as well as his secretary, Diane. When he goes away on business, Kristy, Rosa, and Diane devise a way to get him back for all of the things he has put them through. They also decide to turn his house into a special massage parlor for a few nights so Kristy can try to make some of the money back that Jack stole from her.
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Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
Title: Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
Released: September 8, 1993
Type: Movie
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Working with Orson Welles
Title: Working with Orson Welles
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
"Working with Orson Welles" is a low-budget production put together by Gary Graver, who worked as a cameraman for Welles in the last 15 years of his life.
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Roots of Evil
Title: Roots of Evil
Character: Vinnie (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1992
Type: Movie
A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.
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Shock Cinema: Volume Two
Title: Shock Cinema: Volume Two
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Hour long documentary features interviews with filmmakers, actors and others who work low budget movies.
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Bad Girls from Mars
Title: Bad Girls from Mars
Character: Camera Guy
Released: December 8, 1990
Type: Movie
Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production "Bad Girls from Mars." The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they're making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead. Emanuelle immediately begins embarrassing the producers by leading a wild party life around town. Meanwhile the killings continue, and detectives try to stop the fiend responsible.
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The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Fred Olen Ray & Doris Wishman
Title: The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Fred Olen Ray & Doris Wishman
Character: Self
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
Direct-to-video specialist Fred Olen Ray is interviewed on the set of his film Bad Girls from Mars. Ray’s career is thoroughly covered, from Alien Dead and Scalps all the way up to Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. Also included, a profile of female exploitationeer Wishman, who began her career producing sedate nudist camp movies before she wound up crafting mind-bending masterpieces full of busty assassins and demented organ donors.
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Orson Welles' Magic Show
Title: Orson Welles' Magic Show
Character: Self
Released: January 24, 1985
Type: Movie
Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In this unfinished television special, filmed between 1976 and 1985, Welles performs various magic tricks for the camera, promising that no trick photography is used.
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Society Affairs
Title: Society Affairs
Character: Guy on Pay Phone
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A penniless thief gets involved in a scheme to obtain money and sex by using his resemblance to a wealthy family scion.
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Co-Ed Fever
Title: Co-Ed Fever
Character: waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1980
Type: Movie
A national news magazine publisher decides to do a front-page story on his daughter's sorority.
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Garage Girls
Title: Garage Girls
Character: Man in Beret (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1980
Type: Movie
The misadventures of sexy female mechanics who attempt to open their own business.
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The Ecstasy Girls
Title: The Ecstasy Girls
Character: Slate Operator
Released: November 8, 1979
Type: Movie
Struggling actor Jerry makes more money as an escort for the rich and famous than he does acting. Wealthy investor J. C. Church hires Jerry to seduce his sister and nieces, in order to have an excuse to disown them.
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Girls for Rent
Title: Girls for Rent
Character: Billy
Released: October 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.
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F for Fake
Title: F for Fake
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
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The Dirty Dolls
Title: The Dirty Dolls
Character: Charlie
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Johnny, a psychopath, puts together a gang made up of young teenage girls to commit crimes for him. Everything is going well until one day, during a diamond robbery, the girls are forced to take two hostages and bring them back to the hideout along with the loot. Furious, Johnny wants to kill the hostages so there will be no witnesses, but one of his gang, who happens to be his sister, starts to think that maybe Johnny is going too far.
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And When She Was Bad...
Title: And When She Was Bad...
Character: Fire Engine Rider / Man in Alley (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Ten years after his divorce, a man is surprised by a visit from his now-teenage stepdaughter from that marriage. Although he has a new woman in his life, he lets the young girl stay with them. What he doesn't know is that his new "housemate" is a deranged, homicidal nymphomaniac who tries to seduce both him and his girlfriend and takes her frustrations out on an unlucky Bible salesman.
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Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns
Title: Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns
Character: Tim Harris
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A Mexican bandit and his gang are offered a pardon and a cash reward if he will cross the border into America and bring back a gang of murderous gold thieves who robbed the local church and killed the priest and the Head Federales' wife and children.
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Horror of the Blood Monsters
Title: Horror of the Blood Monsters
Character: Earthly Vampire (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.
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The Hard Road
Title: The Hard Road
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A cautionary tale. At 17, Sherman Oaks high schooler Pam Banner has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to go back to school, so her dad gets her a job as the receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes her to a party, seduces and abandons her; that starts a spiral of partying, free love, and drug use. Pam becomes friends with Jeannie, a hooker who supports Jimmy, a useless druggie. Soon the three of them are living together, and Jimmy seems appealing to Pam. She's missing work more and more often, Jeannie wants out of the life, Jimmy is going through withdrawal, and Pam is in the middle of a maelstrom. Is there any exit for Pam?
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The Mighty Gorga
Title: The Mighty Gorga
Character: Bill
Released: July 19, 1969
Type: Movie
A circus owner and a lady trapper trek into the African jungle to capture a giant gorilla for his circus.
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Wild, Free & Hungry
Title: Wild, Free & Hungry
Character: Dave
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A carnival owner gets mixed up with gangsters and a speedboat racer. He soon finds himself in danger of losing his business, his wife and all his money.
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The Embracers
Title: The Embracers
Character: The Boy
Released: May 27, 1966
Type: Movie
A girl and a boy meet, and a sexploitation feature ensues.