Roger Watkins
Directing
- Born
- September 17, 1948 · Binghamton, New York, USA
- Died
- March 6, 2007 (age 58)
Roger Michael Watkins (September 17, 1948 – March 6, 2007) was a film director best known for the notorious 1970s grindhouse movie Last House on Dead End Street. He also directed several porn films. He worked with famous porn actors like Jamie Gillis and Vanessa del Rio.
The Internet Movie Database lists a number of Watkins' aliases (see the information box at right), most of which he seems to have used in Last House on Dead End Street to conceal the fact that he worked in several technical capacities on that film - director, actor, cameraman, etc.
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Watkins began his career in adult film by writing the screenplay for Mystique (1979) which was directed by Roberta Findlay and for which he was uncredited. The following year he began writing and directing adult feature films under the pseudonym Richard Mahler, which he took from combining the names of two of his favorite composers, Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler. His best known adult films (Her Name Was Lisa (1980), Midnight Heat (1983), Corruption (1983), and American Babylon (1985) are considered by many to be more cult films or arthouse films than pornography due to their multi layered narratives that are downbeat in tone, comtaining elements of avant-garde, horror and satire.
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Known for
Behind the camera20
- 1988Decadence Director, Writer
- 1986Scorpion Producer
- 1986Avenged! Producer
- 1985American Babylon Writer, Director, Editor
- 1984Driller Production Manager, Production Design
- 1983Corruption Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
- 1983Midnight Heat Director, Writer
- 1981A Day in the Life of... The Cosmopolitan Girls Editor, Director, Writer
- 1981Spittoon Director, Writer
- 1979Mystique
