Gary Graver

3 films · 1990 to 1997
Born 20 July 1938, Portland · Died 16 November 2006

Gary Foss Graver was an American film director, editor, screenwriter and 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).

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Gary Graver

Photo: Retromedia TV; filmed by Gary Graver and Jillian Kesner, produced by Fred Ole..., CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

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