Michael Findlay
Overview
- Born
August 27, 1937 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
May 16, 1977 · New York City, New York, USA (helicopter accident)
- Nicknames
- Robert Wester
- Julian Marsh
- Mike Findlay
- A. Bochin
- Francis Ellie
- Michael Crane
- Douglas Fenway
- Michael Fenway
- Mike Fenway
- Julien Marsh
- Richard Jennings
- Jullian Marsh
- Oscar Riva
- Robert West
- Robert Wuesterwurs
- Height
6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
Mini Bio
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Film-maker Michael Findlay was killed in a helicopter accident on the roof of the (then) Pan Am Building in New York city. On his way to John F Kennedy airport to connect with a Paris-bound flight, Findlay was planning to demonstrate his new 3-D camera to potential backers in France. Findlay and three other passengers were about to board the helicopter when its landing support collapsed. The helicopter fell onto one side and its spinning rotor blades decapitated Findlay and killed three other passengers. A woman on the street below was also killed when she was hit by a detached rotor blade from the helicopter.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
Family
- Spouse
Roberta Findlay( ? - May 16, 1977) (his death)
Trivia
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For the film Funk (1976) he invented a new portable 3-D camera. When he was killed in the helicopter accident he was on his way to Paris to meet potential financial backers of the camera, and was holding a test model of his invention.
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.
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