Jesús Franco

Birthday
1930-05-12

Jesús Franco - , Screenplay, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Assistant Production Manager, Original Music Composer, Special Effects Makeup Artist, Story, Scenario Writer, Second Unit, Second Unit Director, Editor, Music, Assistant Director known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Around the World in Eighty Days» (1956), «Women in Cellblock 9» (1978), «Call of the Blonde Goddess» (1977), «Celestine» (1974), «55 Days at Peking» (1963),

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. Although he produced a few well-received, low budget horror films in the early 70's, many people in the industry considered him a porn director due to the huge number of X-rated adult films he began churning out. Franco returned to low-budget horror in a brief comeback period from 1980-1983, but after 1983, his career took a second downturn. With the exception of his Faceless and Killer Barbys, his post-1984 films are almost unwatchable due to the incredibly low budgets he was forced to work with. Franco has nevertheless retained a large cult following through the years with his sexually-charged horror films, some of which are regarded as masterpieces by his avid followers.

The most significant works of Jesús Franco

Chimes at Midnight (1965)

Position: Second Unit, Second Unit Director
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)

Position: Screenplay, Story, Director
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
Character: Insp. Ahmet
Position: Director
Count Dracula (1970)
Character: Van Helsing's servant (uncredited)
Position: Screenplay, Director
Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Character: Memmet
Position: Screenplay, Director, Original Music Composer, Special Effects Makeup Artist
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
Character: Basilio
Position: Director, Writer
Zombie Lake (1981)

Position: Writer
55 Days at Peking (1963)

Position: Assistant Production Manager
99 Women
99 Women (1969)
Character: Official (uncredited)
Position: Screenplay, Director, Story


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