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Jesús Franco
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Spanish film director (1930–2013)
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Jesús Franco Manera, also known by the pseudonyms David Khune and Jess Frank, was a Spanish film director, screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer. Born in Madrid on May 12, 1930, he worked in the genres of horror film and erotica. His professional career began in 1953 and continued until 2013. He spoke German and Spanish.
Franco received the Honorary Goya Award. He was married to Lina Romay. He died in Málaga on April 2, 2013, due to a stroke resulting from natural causes.
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Film & TV
Madrid, Spain
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…
Known for
- Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S” — Self - Archive footage2024
- Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess — Self (archive footage)2021
- Wild Session — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2019
- Drácula Barcelona — Himself2017
- Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert — Himself (archive footage)2015
- Falks Frauen — (archive footage)2014
- Call Me Jess Redux — Himself2014
- Queridos monstruos — Self2014
- Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2014
- Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies — The Director2013
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Spain
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2013
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 18
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Key facts
- Born
- Jesús Franco Manera , ( 1930-05-12 ) 12 May 1930, Madrid , Spain
- Died
- 2 April 2013 (2013-04-02) (aged 82), Málaga , Andalusia , Spain
- Alma mater
- Madrid Royal Conservatory Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu [ es ] Escuela Oficial de Cine [ es ] Institut des hautes études cinématographiques
- Occupations
- Director screenwriter producer cinematographer musician composer actor editor
- Years active
- 1954–2013
- Spouses
- Nicole Guettard ( c. 1962 –1980) Lina Romay ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 25 April 2008</span>"}]]}'>2008 )
- Children
- Caroline Riviere (stepdaughter from first marriage)
- Relatives
- Julián Marías (brother-in-law), Ricardo Franco (nephew)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Madrid
- Place of death
- Málaga
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- erotica
- Image
- Jess Franco 2008.jpg
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- Jesús Franco
- date of birth
- 1930-05-12
- date of death
- 2013-04-02
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1953-00-00
- end of work period
- 2013-00-00
- birth name
- Jesús Franco Manera
- pseudonym
- Jess Frank
- cause of death
- stroke
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Jesús Franco
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Encyclopedic overview
Jesús Franco Manera (12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013), also commonly known as Jess Franco, was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a highly prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies. He worked in many different genres during his career, but was best known for his horror and erotic films, often incorporating surrealist elements.
In a career spanning from 1954 to 2013, he wrote, directed, produced, acted in, and scored approximately 173 feature films, working both in his native Spain and (during the rule of Francisco Franco) in France, West Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and Italy. Additionally, during the 1960s, he made several films in Brazil and Istanbul.
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