Jesús Franco

Spanish film director (1930–2013)

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Born: 1930-05-12
Died: 2013-04-02
Works: 2

Top works

Bienvenido Mister Cagada
Memorias del Tio Jess

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Film & TV

Directing · 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)

Article

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.