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Charles Gatewood(1942-2016)

  • Director
  • Actor
  • Additional Crew
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Charles Gatewood was born on 8 November 1942 in Elgin, Illinois, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Heavenly Bodies & Messy Girls Videos (1990), Painless Steel (1990) and Bizarre Fetish Videos (1990). He died on 28 April 2016 in San Francisco, California, USA.
BornNovember 8, 1942
DiedApril 28, 2016(73)
BornNovember 8, 1942
DiedApril 28, 2016(73)
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Known for

Heavenly Bodies & Messy Girls Videos (1990)
Heavenly Bodies & Messy Girls Videos
TV Series
  • Director
Painless Steel (1990)
Painless Steel
TV Series
  • Director
Bizarre Fetish Videos (1990)
Bizarre Fetish Videos
TV Series
  • Director
Fangs of Steel (1992)
Fangs of Steel
TV Series
  • Director

Credits

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Director

  • Vernacular Visions 27 Feat. the Video Work of Charles Gatewood (2016)
    Vernacular Visions 27 Feat. the Video Work of Charles Gatewood
    Video
    • original material
    • 2016
  • Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 8
    Video
    • Director
    • 1995
  • Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 9
    Video
    • Director
    • 1995
  • Bizarre Fetish Videos (1990)
    Bizarre Fetish Videos
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1990–1994
  • Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 6
    Video
    • Director
    • 1994
  • Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 7
    Video
    • Director
    • 1994
  • Heavenly Bodies & Messy Girls Videos (1990)
    Heavenly Bodies & Messy Girls Videos
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1990–1994
  • Ron Athey and Charles Gatewood in Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 5 (1993)
    Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 5
    Video
    • Director
    • 1993
  • Fangs of Steel (1992)
    Fangs of Steel
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1992
  • Painless Steel (1990)
    Painless Steel
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1990–1992
  • Shaved!
    Video
    • Director
    • 1992
  • Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 4 (1992)
    Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 4
    Video
    • Director
    • 1992
  • Body Shock (1990)
    Body Shock
    Video
    • Director
    • 1990
  • Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 3
    Video
    • Director
    • 1990
  • Post-Modern Primitives (1990)
    Post-Modern Primitives
    Video
    • Director
    • 1990

Actor

  • Charles Gatewood in Charles Gatewood on His Life in Photography, Publishing and Collage (2016)
    Charles Gatewood on His Life in Photography, Publishing and Collage
    Short
    • Interviewee
    • 2016
  • Ron Athey and Charles Gatewood in Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 5 (1993)
    Erotic Tattooing and Body Piercing 5
    Video
    • Reporter
    • Interviewer
    • 1993
  • Forbidden Photographs - The Video
    Video
    • 1988

Additional Crew

  • Vernacular Visions 27 Feat. the Video Work of Charles Gatewood (2016)
    Vernacular Visions 27 Feat. the Video Work of Charles Gatewood
    Video
    • creative director
    • 2016
  • Bizarre World
    TV Movie
    • footage
    • 2000

Personal details

  • Born
    • November 8, 1942
    • Elgin, Illinois, USA
  • Died
    • April 28, 2016
    • San Francisco, California, USA(injuries from suicide attempt)
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Biographical Movie
    • 2 Articles

Did you know

  • Trivia
    A renown photographer, in the late 80s and early 90s, he specialized in the production and directing of a half-dozen video series of mondo movies and shockumentaries about erotic body piercing and extreme tattooing.
  • Quotes
    [March 16, 1989, in The Bay Area Reporter, Vol. 19, Issue 11, about transitioning from his photographic work to film, and picking up a video camera] Somehow my take was too abstract and too limited for what I was trying to do. So I decided to see if I could make it move and walk and talk... and make it do all of that in color. All of a sudden I realized that for years I've been a frustrated filmmaker and that I'd been denying that part of my work.

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