Russ Meyer Filmography

Born:: March 21, 1922 in Oakland, CA
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Russell Albion Meyer
Biography:: American filmmaker Russ Meyer channelled his youthful energies into photography, winning several awards for his amateur films before he was 15. Experience under more grueling circumstances came when he worked as a newsreel cameraman in Europe during World War II. As a civilian, Meyer at first...Read More

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Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities

Actors: Al Goldstein, Alex Bennett, O.J. Simpson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Crumb

Synopsis: Few television programs have broken as many taboos as Screw publisher Al Goldstein's groundbreaking late-night cable program Midnight Blue, and in this collection of audacious clips, Goldstein takes a look beyond the porn and politics and into the lives of the era's hottest celebrities. From the Read More

2007
Cult People

Synopsis: This documentary presents interviews and clips with some of cinema's best loved cult figures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Amazon Women on the Moon

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg

Synopsis: The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi cheapie Cat Women of the Moon in particular. Other sketches in Amazon Women include an opening bit with Arsenio Hall; a vignette titled "Son of the Invisible Man" wherein a Read More

9/18/87
Up!

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Edward Schaaf, Mary Gavin, Su Ling

Synopsis: Nobody is what they seem to be in this dizzying Russ Meyer feature, and everyone is a suspect. The reclusive Adolf Schwartz (Edward Schaaf) pays for weird pansexual pleasures performed by an interracial group of prostitutes. Later, Schwartz (who bears more than a passing resemblance to a more Read More

1976
The Seven Minutes

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert Moloney, John Sarno, Wayne Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, Philip Carey, Edy Williams, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: Russ Meyer followed-up his delirious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with this surprisingly straighforward drama, which offered little of Meyer's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor or remarkably proportioned women in favor of a serious message about the evils of censorship. A bookstore sells a copy Read More

1971
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John La Zar, Michael Blodgett

Synopsis: After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers, legendary sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic cult favorite, once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first Read More

1970
Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer

Actors: Duncan McLeod, Robert Rudelson

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Lockwood) is a strip club owner, with a sexually repressed wife, who has been fulfilling his needs at the local brothel. Main madam Claire (Lavelle Roby) hatches a plan to keep him busy with whiskey and sex while a pair of thugs (Duncan McLeod and Robert Rudelson) hide out in the men's Read More

1968
Common Law Cabin

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of Russ Meyer's lesser efforts, Common Law Cabin is nonetheless scintillating entertainment delivered in his usual taut, energetic style. Jack Moran is the proprietor of Hoople's Haven, a broken-down tourist trap on the Colorado River. He ekes out a living with the help of his French Read More

1967
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Actors: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Sue Bernard, Stuart Lancaster

Synopsis: Exploitation maven Russ Meyer created a cult classic with this turbo-charged action film. Three curvaceous go-go dancers in a cool sports car go on a desert crime spree, led by Varla (the amazing Tura Satana), a busty, nasty woman dressed entirely in black. Varla's lesbian moll, Rosie (Haji) Read More

1966
Mondo Topless

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Synopsis: Since Mondo Cane translates to A Dog's World, we can only suppose that Mondo Topless means Topless World. No, the title does not refer to a world without the Arctic Circle. Nudie king Russ Meyer aims his camera at various "traditional" ethnic ceremonies, focusing upon amply endowed females Read More

1966
Motor Psycho

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Steven Oliver, Haji, Alex Rocco, Holle K. Winters, Joseph Cellini

Synopsis: This exploitation film delivers the typically sadistic and fast-paced action expected from cult director Russ Meyer. Alex Rocco stars as veterinarian Corey Maddox, whose wife is raped by a motorcycle gang. The three hoods are led by Brahmin (Stephen Oliver), who was a Section 8 in Vietnam. They Read More

1965
Mudhoney

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Stuart Lancaster, Russ Meyer, Hal Hopper, John Furlong

Synopsis: California McKinney (John Furlong) is hitchhiking to the state he was named for after serving a five-year sentence for manslaughter. He runs out of money in Spooner, MO, and finds work at a farm run by Lute Wade (Stuart Lancaster) and his niece, Hannah Brenshaw (Antoinette Christiani). All Calif Read More

1965
Heavenly Bodies!

Crew: Cinematographer, Producer

1963
Europe in the Raw

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

1963
Wild Gals of the Naked West

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1962
Eve and the Handyman

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Eve Meyer

Synopsis: Soft-core director Russ Meyer helms, writes, produces, and films this erotic, low-budget drama that features various stages of undress and how to get there, as its main attraction. Eve Meyer, who only appears in Russ Meyer films, and Anthony-James Ryan are the protagonists in a series of sexual Read More

1961
The Immoral Mr. Teas

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Ann Peters

Synopsis: With The Immoral Mr. Teas, Russ Meyer reshaped the adult film industry (such as it was in 1959). In a genre that ran to documentaries about nudist volleyball tournaments and shame-based soap operas about the dangers of VD, infidelity, and teen sex, The Immoral Mr. Teas was a colorful Read More

1959
The Desperate Women

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Hahn, Samuel Newman

Synopsis: Louis B. Appleton Jr. was the director of the low-low-budget Desperate Women, while Anne Appleton was the star. Hmm. . .a subtle pattern begins to emerge. Originally ballyhooed as "adults only" and shown only to segregated-by-sex audiences, the film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex Read More

1954