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

Snuff

The Ultimate Degenerate

Satan's Bed

Take Me Naked

The Kiss of Her Flesh

Janie

The Touch of Her Flesh

All Movies (23)

• The Widespread Scandals of Lydia Lace1983
• Liquid A$$ets1982 · as Woman Who Gets Flashed by Quim (uncredited)
• Raw Footage1977 · as Cleaning Woman
• The New York City Woman1977 · as Woman in Kitchen
• Dear Pam1976 · as Miss Klug
• Sweet, Sweet Freedom1976 · as Hospital Dietician
• Snuff1976 · as Carmela (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Love in Strange Places1976 · as Passerby on Street (uncredited)
• Anyone But My Husband1975 · as Bonnie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
• Angel Number 91974 · as Stephanie (voice) (uncredited)
• The Altar of Lust1971 · as Viveca Hansen (voice) (uncredited)
• The Slaughter1971 · as Carmela (voice)
• Bacchanale1970 · as 1st Mourner
• Janie1970 · as Roberta
• The Ultimate Degenerate1969 · as Girl on Ferris Wheel / Voices (uncredited)
• The Kiss of Her Flesh1968 · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• The Curse of Her Flesh1968 · as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
• A Thousand Pleasures1968 · as Mrs. Davis / Voices
• The Touch of Her Flesh1967 · as Claudia Jennings (voice) / Credits Girl / Dream Girl (uncredited)
• Lusting Hours1967 · as Prostitute / Street Girl / Call Girl / Voices (as Anna Riva)
• Take Me Naked1966 · as Elaine
• Satan's Bed1965 · as Woman Tied to Pool Table
• Body of a Female1964 · as Cindy (as Anna Riva)

All TV Shows (1)

• Cursed Films2020 · as Self