Biography

Charles Gatewood was born on November 8, 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 April 28, 2016 in San Francisco, California, USA.

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.

[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.