
Directing
Community Rating
4.7
TMDB estimate
Born
December 30, 1943 (age 82)
Born in
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Noted adult and exploitation cinema filmmaker Roberta Findlay was born Roberta Hershkowitz in 1943 in New York City. The youngest in a family of three children, Roberta grew up in a tenement apartment in the Bronx. Findlay's Hungarian immigrant parents wanted her to be a pianist. Roberta met her husband Michael Findlay while a student at the City College of New York after she volunteered to be the accompanying pianist for a silent movie program that Michael was running on campus. Roberta married Michael at age eighteen. The couple collaborated on several sleazy and sadistic exploitation features together in the 1960's which include the notoriously nasty "Flesh" trilogy. After parting ways with Michael in the early 1970's, Roberta went on to direct a handful of explicit hardcore movies for producer and distributor Allan Shackleton. Moreover, Findlay also worked on various films as an editor, composer, producer, and cinematographer. Roberta ended her directing career toiling away on low-budget horror and grindhouse fare throughout the mid to late 1980's. In addition, Findlay and her late partner Walter E. Sear founded the recording studio Sear Sound in New York City. - IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders

Cursed Films
as Self
2020

Deep Blood
as Lighting Technician
1990

Banned
as Director, Director of Photography
1989

Prime Evil
as Director, Director of Photography
1988

Lurkers
as Director of Photography, Director, Editor
1988

Lifestyles of the Blonde & Dirty
as Director
1987

Blood Sisters
as Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
1987
Babes in Joyland
as Director of Photography
1987

Wet Dreams
as Producer
1985

Tenement
as Director, Director of Photography
1985

The Oracle
as Director, Director of Photography, Editor
1985

Climax!
as Producer, Director
1985

Shauna: Every Man's Fantasy
as Director
1985

Mascara
as Producer, Director, Director of Photography
1983

The Playgirl
as Director
1983

The Widespread Scandals of Lydia Lace
as Director of Photography
1983

Private Schoolgirls
as Director
1983

Glitter
as Director of Photography, Director
1983

Liquid A$$ets
as Woman Who Gets Flashed by Quim (uncredited), Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
1982

The Tiffany Minx
as Director, Producer, Editor
1981