Roberta Findlay
Born: 1943-12-30 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
Filmography
2020
- Cursed Films as Self
1990
- Deep Blood ... (Lighting Technician)
1989
- Banned ... (Director)
1988
- Prime Evil ... (Director of Photography)
- Lurkers ... (Director)
1987
- Blood Sisters ... (Director)
- Lifestyles of the Blonde & Dirty ... (Director)
- Babes in Joyland ... (Director of Photography)
1985
- Tenement ... (Director)
- The Oracle ... (Director)
- Climax! ... (Producer)
- Shauna: Every Man's Fantasy ... (Director)
- Wet Dreams ... (Producer)
1983
- The Widespread Scandals of Lydia Lace
- Mascara ... (Producer)
- The Playgirl ... (Director)
- Private Schoolgirls ... (Director)
- Glitter ... (Director of Photography)
1982
- Liquid A$$ets as Woman Who Gets Flashed by Quim (uncredited)
1981
- Platinum Paradise ... (Editor)
- Blonde Ambition ... (Director of Photography)
- The Tiffany Minx ... (Director)
1980
- Honey Throat ... (Director of Photography)
- Justine: A Matter of Innocence ... (Director)
1979
- Candi Girl ... (Director of Photography)
- Mystique ... (Director)
- Summertime Blue ... (Camera Operator)
- Hot Child in the City ... (Camera Operator)
- Babylon Pink ... (Director of Photography)
- Honeysuckle Rose ... (Music)
1978
- Acting Out ... (Camera Operator)
- Beach House ... (Director)
- From Holly with Love ... (Director)
1977
- The New York City Woman as Woman in Kitchen
- Raw Footage as Cleaning Woman
- A Woman's Torment ... (Director)
- Visions ... (Director of Photography)
- The Final Sin ... (Editor)
- French Classmates ... (Director of Photography)
- Dr. Love and His Strange House of Perversion ... (Director of Photography)
- Kinky Tricks ... (Producer)
1976
- Snuff as Carmela (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Sweet, Sweet Freedom as Hospital Dietician
- Dear Pam as Miss Klug
- Love in Strange Places as Passerby on Street (uncredited)
- Fantasex ... (Director of Photography)
- "Sweet Punkin" i love you.... ... (Editor)
- Saturday Night Special ... (Director of Photography)
- The Honeymooners ... (Director of Photography)
1975
- Anyone But My Husband as Bonnie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
- Slip Up ... (Director)
- The Wetter the Better ... (Writer)
1974
- Shriek of the Mutilated ... (Director of Photography)
- The Clamdigger's Daughter ... (Screenplay)
- Angel Number 9 as Stephanie (voice) (uncredited)
- Fringe Benefits ... (Director)
1973
- Checkmate ... (Director of Photography)
- Teenage Milkmaid ... (Director)
- All in the Sex Family ... (Director of Photography)
1972
- Invasion of the Blood Farmers ... (Director of Photography)
- Rosebud ... (Producer)
1971
- The Slaughter as Carmela (voice)
- Vice Versa! ... (Director of Photography)
- The Altar of Lust as Viveca Hansen (voice) (uncredited)
1970
- Janie as Roberta
- Take My Head ... (Director)
- Bacchanale as 1st Mourner
1969
- The Ultimate Degenerate as Girl on Ferris Wheel / Voices (uncredited)
- Mnasidika ... (Producer)
1968
- The Kiss of Her Flesh as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Curse of Her Flesh as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- A Thousand Pleasures as Mrs. Davis / Voices
1967
- The Touch of Her Flesh as Claudia Jennings (voice) / Credits Girl / Dream Girl (uncredited)
- Lusting Hours as Prostitute / Street Girl / Call Girl / Voices (as Anna Riva)
1966
- Take Me Naked as Elaine
1965
- Satan's Bed as Woman Tied to Pool Table
1964
- Body of a Female as Cindy (as Anna Riva)