
Directing
Community Rating
3.9
TMDB estimate
Born
August 27, 1937
Died
May 16, 1977 (age 39)
Born in
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 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

Party Levitation
as (archive)
2021

Christopher Street Blues
as Director
1977

Point Me Toward Tomorrow
as Cinematography, Director
1977

Kiss Today Goodbye
as Director
1976

Michael, Angelo and David
as Director, Cinematography
1976

Snuff
as Detective (archive footage) (uncredited), Director, Writer
1976

Virgins in Heat
as Richard Jennings, Director
1976

Wet and Wild
as Director, Writer
1976

Shriek of the Mutilated
as Decapitation Onlooker (uncredited), Director, Editor
1974

Invasion of the Blood Farmers
as Editor
1972

The Altar of Lust
as Dr. Rogers (voice) (uncredited)
1971

The Slaughter
as Detective (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
1971

Vice Versa!
as Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer
1971

Bacchanale
as 3rd Mourner / Timothy (voice)
1970

Take My Head
as Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
1970

Janie
as Homeowner (as Richard Jennings), Director
1970

The Ultimate Degenerate
as Spencer (as Robert West), Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
1969

Mnasidika
as Producer, Director
1969

The Kiss of Her Flesh
as Richard Jennings, Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
1968

The Curse of Her Flesh
as Richard Jennings / Joe Davidson, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
1968