Carroll Raver(1939-2007)
- Cinematographer
- Director
Carroll Raver was a writer, photographer, cinematographer and film director. A native of Carroll County, Md., he attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where he was a National Collegiate Athletic Association champion fencer. Early in his career, while at J. Walter Thompson Advertising (NY), he served as a copywriter, producer and director working on television commercials for national clients including Ford. Later, as an award-winning director and cameraman, he directed commercials for Hertz, General Motors, the U.S. Army, BMW and others. At the time of his death he had shot film on every continent around the world with the only exception being Antarctica. In addition to his accomplishments behind a camera, he was a painter, sculptor, singer and lover of music of all kinds. He especially loved opera. He was fluent in German. He had been a resident of Sea Girt, NJ for 13 years and was instrumental in helping his wife Dane Raver found the Garden State Film Festival in 2002. Prior to that he lived in New York City. He is survived by his third wife, Diane Brown Raver, and their children, Grace, Aimee and William; two children from his first marriage to the former Tina Baensch , Cybele and Kim Raver and two children from his second wife Francine Mazer, Nadja and Jacob.