- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- December 30, 1943
- Place of Birth
- The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Roberta Findlay
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 edit…
Filmography
tvCursed Films
2020 · Self
movieDeep Blood
1990 · Lighting Technician
movieBanned
1989 · Director, Director of Photography
moviePrime Evil
1988 · Director of Photography
movieLurkers
1988 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
movieLifestyles of the Blonde & Dirty
1987 · Director
movieBlood Sisters
1987 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Babes in Joyland
movieBabes in Joyland
1987 · Director of Photography
movieWet Dreams
1985 · Producer
movieTenement
1985 · Director of Photography
movieThe Oracle
1985 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography
movieClimax!
1985 · Producer, Director
movieShauna: Every Man's Fantasy
1985 · Director
movieMascara
1983 · Producer, Director, Director of Photography
movieThe Playgirl
1983 · Director
movieThe Widespread Scandals of Lydia Lace
1983 · , Director of Photography
moviePrivate Schoolgirls
1983 · Director
movieGlitter
1983 · Director, Director of Photography
movieLiquid A$$ets
1982 · Woman Who Gets Flashed by Quim (uncredited), Writer, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
movieThe Tiffany Minx
1981 · Director, Producer, Editor
moviePlatinum Paradise
1981 · Editor, Director of Photography
movieBlonde Ambition
1981 · Director of Photography
movieHoney Throat
1980 · Director of Photography
movieJustine: A Matter of Innocence
1980 · Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
movieMystique
1979 · Director
movieHoneysuckle Rose
1979 · Editor, Writer, Producer, Director, Music
movieCandi Girl
1979 · Director of Photography
movieBabylon Pink
1979 · Director of Photography, Editor
movieHot Child in the City
1979 · Camera Operator
movieSummertime Blue
1979 · Camera Operator
movieBeach House
1978 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
movieFrom Holly with Love
1978 · Director, Writer
movieActing Out
1978 · Director of Photography, Camera Operator
movieKinky Tricks
1977 · Producer
movieThe Final Sin
1977 · Editor
movieRaw Footage
1977 · Cleaning Woman, Director
movieVisions
1977 · Director of Photography
movieFrench Classmates
1977 · Director of Photography
movieThe New York City Woman
1977 · Woman in Kitchen, Music, Editor, Camera Operator, Director, Writer
movieA Woman's Torment
1977 · Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
Dr. Love and His Strange House of Perversion
movieDr. Love and His Strange House of Perversion
1977 · Director of Photography
movieSaturday Night Special
1976 · Director of Photography
movieThe Honeymooners
1976 · Director of Photography, Camera Operator
movieDear Pam
1976 · Miss Klug, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Editor
movieFantasex
1976 · Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
movie"Sweet Punkin" i love you....
1976 · Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
movieSweet, Sweet Freedom
1976 · Hospital Dietician, Camera Operator, Editor, Director, Writer
movieSnuff
1976 · Carmela (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited), Director of Photography
movieLove in Strange Places
1976 · Passerby on Street (uncredited), Music, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
movieAnyone But My Husband
1975 · Bonnie's Mother (voice) (uncredited), Writer, Director
The Wetter the Better
movieThe Wetter the Better
1975 · Writer
movieSlip Up
1975 · Director
movieAngel Number 9
1974 · Stephanie (voice) (uncredited), Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Producer
movieShriek of the Mutilated
1974 · Director of Photography
movieThe Clamdigger's Daughter
1974 · Screenplay, Producer, Director, Gaffer
movieFringe Benefits
1974 · Director
movieCheckmate
1973 · Director of Photography
movieAll in the Sex Family
1973 · Director of Photography
movieTeenage Milkmaid
1973 · Director
movieInvasion of the Blood Farmers
1972 · Director of Photography
movieRosebud
1972 · Music, Producer, Director of Photography, Lighting Technician, Writer
movieThe Altar of Lust
1971 · Viveca Hansen (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer, Lighting Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Original Music Composer, Lighting Technician
movieThe Slaughter
1971 · Carmela (voice), Director of Photography
movieVice Versa!
1971 · Director of Photography, Screenplay
movieBacchanale
1970 · 1st Mourner
movieTake My Head
1970 · Director
movieJanie
1970 · Roberta, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
movieThe Ultimate Degenerate
1969 · Girl on Ferris Wheel / Voices (uncredited), Lighting Technician, Director of Photography, Producer
movieMnasidika
1969 · Director of Photography, Producer
movieThe Kiss of Her Flesh
1968 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director of Photography, Writer, Lighting Technician, Original Music Composer, Producer
movieThe Curse of Her Flesh
1968 · Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Producer, Lighting Technician, Director of Photography, Writer
movieA Thousand Pleasures
1968 · Mrs. Davis / Voices, Lighting Technician, Producer, Director of Photography, Original Music Composer
movieThe Touch of Her Flesh
1967 · Claudia Jennings (voice) / Credits Girl / Dream Girl (uncredited), Producer, Music, Director of Photography, Lighting Technician
movieLusting Hours
1967 · Prostitute / Street Girl / Call Girl / Voices (as Anna Riva)
movieTake Me Naked
1966 · Elaine, Director, Music, Sound, Lighting Technician, Producer
movieSatan's Bed
1965 · Woman Tied to Pool Table, Lighting Technician
movieBody of a Female
1964 · Cindy (as Anna Riva), Lighting Technician