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