Jesús Franco

Personal Info

Birthday

May 12, 1930

Day of Death

2013-04-02

(82 years old)

Place of Birth

Madrid, Spain

Also Known As

Clifford Brown

A.L. Mariaux

Jess Franco

Pablo Villa

Joan Almirall

Rosa M. Almirall

Rosa María Almirall

Juan G. Cabral

Betty Carter

Candy Coster

Terry de Corsia

Rick Deconinck

Raymond Dubois

Chuck Evans

Toni Falt

Dennis Farnon

Jess Franck

Lennie Hayden

Frank Hollman

B.F. Johnson

J.P. Johnson

James Lee Johnson

James P. Johnson

David J. Khune

David Khunn

Lulú Laverne

Franco Manera

Jeff Manner

Roland Marceignac

C. Plaut

Robert Zinnermann

Dan L. Simon

Lowel Richmond

Jesus Manera

Jack Griffin

Jesús Franco Manera

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 that he could make more violent and sexual films, and it was at this point that his career began to go downhill commercially, as he turned to low-budget filmmaking with a heavier accent on adult-oriented films.