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Personal Info

Known Credits 126

Gender Male

Birthdate 1930-05-12 (95 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Madrid, Spain

Also Known For Clifford BrownA.L. MariauxJess FrancoPablo VillaJoan AlmirallRosa M. AlmirallRosa María AlmirallJuan G. CabralBetty CarterCandy CosterTerry de CorsiaRick DeconinckRaymond DuboisChuck EvansToni FaltDennis FarnonJess FranckLennie HaydenFrank HollmanB.F. JohnsonJ.P. JohnsonJames Lee JohnsonJames P. JohnsonDavid J. KhuneDavid KhunnLulú LaverneFranco ManeraJeff MannerRoland MarceignacC. PlautRobert ZinnermannDan L. SimonLowel RichmondJesus Manera헤수스 프랑코Jack Griffin

Jesús Franco

Biography

Jesús "Jess" Franco was a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orloff, which received wide distribution in the United States and England. Though he had some American box office success with Necronomicon, his first women-in-prison film Ninety-Nine Women, and his two Christopher Lee films, The Bloody Judge and Count Dracula, he never achieved wide commercial success. Franco moved from Spain to France in 1970 so th ...

Known For

Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada 'S'

Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess

Wild Session

Drácula Barcelona

Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert

Acting

2024 -- Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada 'S' | Self - Archive footage

2021 -- Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess | Self (archive footage)

2019 -- Wild Session | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2017 -- Drácula Barcelona | Himself

2015 -- Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert | Himself (archive footage)

2014 -- Queridos monstruos | Self

2014 -- Call Me Jess Redux | Himself

2014 -- Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2014 -- Falks Frauen | (archive footage)

2013 -- Revenge of the Alligator Ladies | Himself

2013 -- La última película de Jess Franco | Self

2013 -- The Rhythm of Jess | Self

2013 -- Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies | The Director

2013 -- Los profundos sueños de Jennifer | Voz

2012 -- Tío Jess | Self

2012 -- La cripta de las condenadas |

2012 -- Debris Documentar | Himself

2010 -- Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess | Self

2009 -- Por la gracia de Luis | Himself

2009 -- Idoru |

2009 -- Coffins of Light | himself

2009 -- Take-Away Spirit | J.W. Radek

2008 -- Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler | Padre del Dr. Weissman

2008 -- Martes de Carnaval |

2007 -- Jesús Franco, manera de vivir | Himself

2007 -- Beloved Count | Self

2007 -- Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre | Pete

2007 -- Bloody Jess | Self

2005 -- Ban the Sadist Videos! | Self

2005 -- The Well |

2005 -- Jess' Women | self

2005 -- Jesús in Furs | Himself

2004 -- See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico! |

2003 -- On the Threshold to Another World | Himself

2003 -- Death Karate in Torremolinos | Miyagi

2003 -- Red Venice | Jess Franco

2002 -- Perversion Stories | Self

2002 -- Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie | Himself

2001 -- Journey into Perversion | Himself

2000 -- Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote | Self

2000 -- Call Him Jess | Himself

1999 -- Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell | Dr. James Wong

1999 -- Vampire Blues | The Merchant

1992 -- El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa |

1989 -- Esmeralda Bay | Boat Captain

1988 -- Flesh Eating Mothers | Policeman

1988 -- Esa cosa con plumas |

1986 -- Girl with the Red Lips | Professor Karame

1985 -- Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong | Dr. Wong

1984 -- A Crack for Two | Tom

1984 -- Lilian, the Perverted Virgin | Bernardo

1984 -- The Sinister Doctor Orloff | Manolo

1984 -- Night Has a Thousand Desires | Psychiatrist (uncredited)

1984 -- Camino solitario | Doctor Callman

1984 -- Bahia Blanca | The Miseries (uncredited)

1983 -- Macumba Sexual | Recepcionist

1983 -- The Night Of Open Sex | Count

1983 -- Black Boots, Leather Whip | Matón en cementerio de coches (voice) (uncredited)

1983 -- The Bizarre World of Jess Franco | Self

1983 -- The Blues of Pop Street | Sam Chesterfield

1983 -- Blood on My Shoes | Abductor

1983 -- En busca del dragón dorado | Blind Old Man

1981 -- Jailhouse Wardress | Uncle Jess

1981 -- Bloody Moon | Doctor (uncredited)

1981 -- Sadomania | Lucas

1981 -- Sex Is Crazy | Film Director

1980 -- White Cannibal Queen | Mr. Martin

1980 -- What a Honeymoon | Dying Man (uncredited)

1979 -- Justine and the Whip | Strange Guy

1979 -- The Sadist of Notre Dame | Mathis Vogel

1977 -- Slaves | Radeck's Assistant

1977 -- Kiss Me Killer | Marcel

1977 -- Greta, the Mad Butcher | Dr. Milton Arcos (as Jess Franco)

1976 -- Shining Sex | Dr. Seward

1976 -- White Skin Black Thighs | Graf Anastasio

1976 -- Les emmerdeuses |

1976 -- Ladies House of Pleasure |

1976 -- Barbed Wire Dolls | Maria's Father (uncredited)

1976 -- Midnight Party | Janos Radeck

1975 -- Downtown | Al Pereira

1975 -- Exorcism | Mathis Vogel, aka Laforgue

1975 -- Demoniac |

1975 -- The Hot Nights of Linda | Dr. Roberts (as Jess Franck)

1975 -- Women Behind Bars | Bill

1974 -- Celestine | Sleeping Man

1974 -- Night of the Skull | Andy

1973 -- Dolls for Sale |

1973 -- A Virgin Among the Living Dead | Basilio

1973 -- Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac | Inspecteur Hernandez

1973 -- Female Vampire | Dr. Roberts

1973 -- The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein | Morpho

1973 -- Eugenie de Sade | Attila Tanner

1973 -- El misterio del castillo rojo |

1973 -- The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff | Lord Comfort (uncredited)

1972 -- The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse | Crosby / Drunk Man in Nightclub

1972 -- Daughter of Dracula | Cyril Jefferson

1972 -- Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves | Director

1972 -- The Corpse Packs His Bags | Gonzales

1972 -- Vampir Cuadecuc | Self

1971 -- She Killed in Ecstasy | Dr. Donen

1971 -- X312 - Flight to Hell | Man at John Somers'

1971 -- Vampyros Lesbos | Memmet

1971 -- The Devil Came from Akasava | Tino Celli

1970 -- Count Dracula | Van Helsing's servant (uncredited)

1970 -- Eugenie | Man in Red Ritual Scene (uncredited)

1969 -- Your Caresses |

1969 -- Venus in Furs | Jazz Musician (uncredited)

1969 -- The Castle of Fu Manchu | Insp. Ahmet

1969 -- Marquis de Sade: Justine |

1969 -- Two Undercover Angels | Napoleon Bolivard

1969 -- Kiss Me Monster | Abilene's Contact Man

1969 -- The Girl from Rio | Guitar Player

1969 -- 99 Women | Official (uncredited)

1968 -- The Blood of Fu Manchu |

1968 -- Succubus | Writer

1967 -- Lucky, the Inscrutable | Ciego / Zoltan / Guitarrista

1966 -- The Diabolical Dr. Z | Inspector Tanner

1966 -- Attack of the Robots | Pianist (uncredited)

1966 -- Attack of the Robots | Piano Player

1966 -- Residence for Spies | Casino Piano Player (uncredited)

1964 -- Strange Voyage | Don Venancio

1964 -- Death Whistles the Blues | Saxofonista en Club de Nueva Orleans (uncredited)

1964 -- Dr. Orloff's Monster | Piano Player

1962 -- The Awful Dr. Orlof | Pianist (uncredited)

1958 -- Anna Said Yes | Pianista (uncredited)

1956 -- Around the World in Eighty Days | Extra (uncredited)