Known For
Camera
Born
Jun 18, 1930
Died
Sep 20, 2017
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
43 titles
C. Davis Smith
Biography
"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.
Known For
Filmography
Meet-Cute Fantasies Vol. 1
Director
Better than Sex! or: How to Make a Wishman Film
Himself
Each Time I Kill
Director of Photography
Step Into the Third Dimension
Editor
Babes in Joyland
Director of Photography
A Night to Dismember
Director of Photography
The Erotic Adventures of Lolita
Director of Photography
Neon Nights
Director of Photography
Unwilling Lovers
Editor
Come with Me My Love
Director of Photography
The Farmer's Daughters
Director of Photography
White Fire
Director of Photography
Satan Was a Lady
Director of Photography
Big Abner
Sound
The Immoral Three
Director of Photography
In-Flight Service
Director
Certified Mail
Cinematography
Deadly Weapons
Cinematography
Double Agent 73
Cinematography
Badge '69'
Lighting Technician
The Young Nymphs Kitty and Kathy
Narrator
Rosebud
Keyholes Are for Peeping
Director of Photography
The Altar of Lust
Hans
The Amazing Transplant
Director of Photography
Scorpio '70
Editor
The Ultimate Voyeur
Writer
Graffiti
Director
Too Much Too Often!
Director of Photography
Indecent Desires
Director of Photography
To Turn a Trick
Writer
A Taste of Flesh
Story
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
Male Voyeur / Blindfolded Man
My Brother's Wife
Director of Photography
Hot Nights on the Campus
Editor
The Girl from S.I.N.
Professor Drake
Banned
Editor
All My Men
Writer
Bad Girls Go to Hell
Director of Photography
The Sex Perils of Paulette
Editor
Lust and the Flesh
Associate Producer
The Sexploiters
Cameraman
Crazy Wild and Crazy
Director of Photography