Jesús Franco
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday12 May 1930
Died2 April 2013 (age 82)
Place of birthMadrid, Spain
Known credits273
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…
Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”
2024 · Self - Archive footage
Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Wild Session
2019 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Drácula Barcelona
2017 · Himself
Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert
2015 · Himself (archive footage)
Queridos monstruos
2014 · Self
Call Me Jess Redux
2014 · Himself
Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
2014 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Falks Frauen
2014 · (archive footage)
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Himself
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Director
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Writer
La última película de Jess Franco
2013 · Self
The Rhythm of Jess
2013 · Self
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
2013 · The Director
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Director
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Writer
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Producer
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Music
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Editor
Los profundos sueños de Jennifer
2013 · Voz
Tío Jess
2012 · Self
La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
2012 · Director
La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
2012 · Writer
La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
2012 · Producer
La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
2012 · Editor
La cripta de las condenadas
2012
La cripta de las condenadas
2012 · Director
La cripta de las condenadas
2012 · Writer
La cripta de las condenadas
2012 · Producer
La cripta de las condenadas
2012 · Editor
La cripta de las condenadas
2012 · Original Music Composer
Debris Documentar
2012 · Himself
Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess
2010 · Self
Paula-Paula
2010 · Director
Paula-Paula
2010 · Director of Photography
Paula-Paula
2010 · Screenplay
Paula-Paula
2010 · Dialogue
Paula-Paula
2010 · Special Effects
Paula-Paula
2010 · Editor
Por la gracia de Luis
2009 · Himself
Idoru
2009
Martes de Carnaval
2009 · Don Manolito
Take-Away Spirit
2009 · J.W. Radek
Coffins of Light
2009 · himself
Take-Away Spirit
2009 · Additional Dialogue
A Bad Day at the Cemetery
2008 · Director
A Bad Day at the Cemetery
2008 · Screenplay
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