Gary Foss Graver (July 20, 1938 â€" November 16, 2006) was an American
film director, editor, screenwriter, 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.Graver was
born July 20, 1938 in Portland, Oregon, to Raleigh and Frances Graver.
His father was a native Oregonian, while his mother was born in
Washington state. Graver was raised in Portland, where he attended
Grant High School. As a teenager, he produced and starred in his own
radio show, and built a movie theatre in his parents' basement where
he showed his own 16 mm films. He also acted in stage productions for
the Portland Civic Theatre.
film director, editor, screenwriter, 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.Graver was
born July 20, 1938 in Portland, Oregon, to Raleigh and Frances Graver.
His father was a native Oregonian, while his mother was born in
Washington state. Graver was raised in Portland, where he attended
Grant High School. As a teenager, he produced and starred in his own
radio show, and built a movie theatre in his parents' basement where
he showed his own 16 mm films. He also acted in stage productions for
the Portland Civic Theatre.
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