C. Davis Smith
Dir. de Fotografía
41
Movies
0
TV Shows
"Somebody asked me to write a book about my experiences. I was gonna title it: "Twenty Years in the Porn Business, and I Never Got Laid." Sadly it's a true story!"
Exploitation movie jack-of-all-trades Charles Davis Smith was born on June 18, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a tour of duty in the US Air Force, Smith began his cinematic career in the industrial film business in the 1950s. He went on to shoot, edit, direct, write, and even act in numerous low-budget softcore sexploitation features made throughout the 1960s.
After a stint working in mainstream television, Smith returned to his trash film roots and shot a handful of hardcore porn movies made in and around New York City in the 1970s. He is perhaps best known for his work as a cinematographer on a string of films for legendary Do-It-Yourself maverick schlock cinema auteur Doris Wishman, among them Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965), Another Day, Another Man (1966), Deadly Weapons (1974), Double Agent 73 (1974), Satan Was a Lady (1975) and A Night to Dismember (1983). In addition, he also shot movies for such directors as Victor Milt, Cecil Howard, and Zebedy Colt. Moreover, Smith edited music videos for The Manhattans, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Run-D.M.C.. He provided lively, entertaining, and illuminating commentaries on DVD reissues of assorted enjoyably down'n'dirty grindhouse features that he worked on in various capacities during his colorful and impressive East Coast underground cinema career. Smith died at age 87 on September 20, 2017.
Behind the Camera
The Immoral Three
Dir. de Fotografía
Double Agent 73
Dir. de Fotografía
Deadly Weapons
Dir. de Fotografía
Keyholes Are for Peeping
Dir. de Fotografía
The Sex Perils of Paulette
Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
Hot Nights on the Campus
Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
Indecent Desires
Dir. de Fotografía
Bad Girls Go to Hell
Dir. de Fotografía
My Brother's Wife
Dir. de Fotografía
All My Men
Escritor, Camera Operator, Dir. de Fotografía, Director
Step Into the Third Dimension
Editor
The Amazing Transplant
Dir. de Fotografía
A Taste of Flesh
Historia, Dir. de Fotografía
Too Much Too Often!
Dir. de Fotografía
A Night to Dismember
Dir. de Fotografía
Each Time I Kill
Dir. de Fotografía
Crazy Wild and Crazy
Dir. de Fotografía, Editor
The Girl from S.I.N.
Dir. de Fotografía, Director, Escritor
Scorpio '70
Editor
To Turn a Trick
Escritor, Additional Photography, Director
The Sexploiters
Additional Photography
Banned
Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
Director, Escritor
Lust and the Flesh
Associate Producer, Editor, Dir. de Fotografía
The Farmer's Daughters
Dir. de Fotografía
The Ultimate Voyeur
Escritor
Unwilling Lovers
Editor, Camera Operator, Dir. de Fotografía
In-Flight Service
Director
The Erotic Adventures of Lolita
Dir. de Fotografía
Satan Was a Lady
Dir. de Fotografía