Ray Selfe(1932-2001)

Born May 13th 1932 in Croydon Surrey, Selfe was involved in the British film industry since the late 40s, but his most well known work was in 70s Brit exploitation films. He produced 'Sweet and Sexy', 'Under the Bed', was the cameraman for The Hot Girls (74) and supervised the 3-D scenes in Pete Walker's Four Dimensions of Greta (1972) and directed Can I Come Too? (1979) and the action comedy White Cargo (1973) which starred Sue Bond, 'Dave Prowse' and David Jason in an early film role. From the early to late seventies Selfe also ran several sex cinemas in London's West End, and in 1981 directed hardcore footage for the 'export' version of Emmanuelle in Soho (1981). A regular eighties employer was American producer Dick Randall who hired Selfe to edit Don't Open till Christmas (85), and direct Don't Scream it's Only a Movie (89) - a horror film compilation hosted by Vincent Price. Selfe later specialized in 'Hollywood Nostalgia' videos- made up from old (public domain) movie clips sometimes under the alias Roy Selfe, and was interviewed about his exploitation film past in the 1995 BBC documentary 'Doing Rude Things'.