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Roberta Findlay

Roberta Findlay

Director · Born 1943-12-30 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

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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 bio…

Directed

  1. Tenement (1985) — Director
  2. The Oracle (1985) — Director
  3. Blood Sisters (1987) — Director
  4. Prime Evil (1988) — Director
  5. Lurkers (1988) — Director
  6. A Woman's Torment (1977) — Director
  7. Mascara (1983) — Director
  8. Justine: A Matter of Innocence (1980) — Director
  9. Janie (1970) — Director
  10. Anyone But My Husband (1975) — Director
  11. Liquid A$$ets (1982) — Director
  12. Mnasidika (1969) — Director
  13. Take Me Naked (1966) — Director
  14. Banned (1989) — Director
  15. The Altar of Lust (1971) — Director
  16. 'Sweet Punkin' I Love You... (1976) — Director
  17. The Playgirl (1983) — Director
  18. Private Schoolgirls (1983) — Director
  19. Angel Number 9 (1974) — Director
  20. Shauna: Every Man's Fantasy (1985) — Director
  21. The Clamdigger's Daughter (1974) — Director
  22. Climax! (1985) — Director
  23. Rosebud (1972) — Director
  24. Fringe Benefits (1974) — Director
  25. Fantasex (1976) — Director
  26. Mystique (1979) — Director
  27. Take My Head (1970) — Director
  28. Glitter (1983) — Director
  29. The New York City Woman (1977) — Director
  30. Slip Up (1975) — Director
  31. Beach House (1978) — Director
  32. From Holly with Love (1978) — Director
  33. Lifestyles of the Blonde & Dirty (1987) — Director
  34. Dear Pam (1976) — Director
  35. The Tiffany Minx (1981) — Director
  36. Honeysuckle Rose (1979) — Director
  37. Raw Footage (1977) — Director
  38. Love in Strange Places (1976) — Director
  39. Sweet, Sweet Freedom (1976) — Director
  40. Teenage Milkmaid (1973) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Snuff (1976) — Carmela (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
  2. Cursed Films (2020) — Self
  3. The Ultimate Degenerate (1969) — Girl on Ferris Wheel / Voices (uncredited)
  4. The Touch of Her Flesh (1967) — Claudia Jennings (voice) / Credits Girl / Dream Girl (uncredited)
  5. A Thousand Pleasures (1968) — Mrs. Davis / Voices
  6. Janie (1970) — Roberta
  7. The Kiss of Her Flesh (1968) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  8. The Curse of Her Flesh (1968) — Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
  9. Anyone But My Husband (1975) — Bonnie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
  10. Bacchanale (1970) — 1st Mourner
  11. Lusting Hours (1967) — Prostitute / Street Girl / Call Girl / Voices (as Anna Riva)
  12. Satan's Bed (1965) — Woman Tied to Pool Table
  13. Liquid A$$ets (1982) — Woman Who Gets Flashed by Quim (uncredited)
  14. Take Me Naked (1966) — Elaine
  15. The Altar of Lust (1971) — Viveca Hansen (voice) (uncredited)
  16. Angel Number 9 (1974) — Stephanie (voice) (uncredited)
  17. Body of a Female (1964) — Cindy (as Anna Riva)
  18. The Widespread Scandals of Lydia Lace (1983)
  19. The New York City Woman (1977) — Woman in Kitchen
  20. Dear Pam (1976) — Miss Klug
  21. Raw Footage (1977) — Cleaning Woman
  22. Love in Strange Places (1976) — Passerby on Street (uncredited)
  23. Sweet, Sweet Freedom (1976) — Hospital Dietician
  24. The Slaughter (1971) — Carmela (voice)