C. Davis Smith
Camera
Born 1930-06-18
Died 2017-09-20
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
43 credits
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"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.
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Filmography
Other credits
30 credits
Indecent Desires
The Amazing Transplant
Bad Girls Go to Hell
The Immoral Three
Hot Nights on the Campus
My Brother's Wife
A Taste of Flesh
Keyholes Are for Peeping
The Sex Perils of Paulette
Step Into the Third Dimension
A Night to Dismember
Each Time I Kill
Too Much Too Often!
The Girl from S.I.N.
Lust and the Flesh
Scorpio '70
Crazy Wild and Crazy
Banned
Graffiti
Rosebud
The Farmer's Daughters
Unwilling Lovers
The Erotic Adventures of Lolita
Satan Was a Lady
Badge '69'
Babes in Joyland
Big Abner
Come with Me My Love
White Fire
Neon Nights
Acting
15 credits
Double Agent 73
Deadly Weapons
All My Men
The Sexploiters
The Girl from S.I.N.
Better than Sex! or: How to Make a Wishman Film
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
To Turn a Trick
Banned
The Altar of Lust
The Young Nymphs Kitty and Kathy
Unwilling Lovers
Certified Mail
Badge '69'
Big Abner
Directing
8 credits
All My Men
The Girl from S.I.N.
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
To Turn a Trick
Graffiti
In-Flight Service
Come with Me My Love
Meet-Cute Fantasies Vol. 1
Writing
6 credits
A Taste of Flesh
The Ultimate Voyeur
All My Men
The Girl from S.I.N.
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
To Turn a Trick
Producing
1 credit
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