Roger Watkins

Directing·Sep 17, 1948·Binghamton, New York, USA

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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. 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. (Wikipedia)

Film	Credit
Decadence1988 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Spine1986 · Man at Police Headquarters	Man at Police Headquarters
Scorpion1986 · Producer	Producer
AAvenged!1986 · Producer	Producer
American Babylon1985 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Corruption1983 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Midnight Heat1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Day in the Life of... The Cosmopolitan Girls1981 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Spittoon1981 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Her Name Was Lisa1980 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Mystique1979 · Writer	Writer
Shadows of the Mind1979 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Pink Ladies1979 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Fun House1977 · Terry Hawkins, Director, Writer, Producer	Terry Hawkins, Director, Writer, Producer
Black Snow1971 · Director	Director
A Double Feature1971 · Director	Director
And All Through the House1971 · Director	Director
Ron Rico1969 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Requiem1968 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Masque of the Red Death1959 · Director	Director