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Jesús Franco
Directing
12 May 1930
† 02 Apr 2013
Madrid, Spain
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...
Also Known As
Clifford Brown, A.L. Mariaux, Jess Franco, Pablo Villa, Joan Almirall























