Clifford Brown
A.L. Mariaux
Jess Franco
Pablo Villa
Joan Almirall
Rosa M. Almirall
Rosa María Almirall
Juan G. Cabral
Betty Carter
Candy Coster
Terry de Corsia
Rick Deconinck
Raymond Dubois
Chuck Evans
Toni Falt
Dennis Farnon
Jess Franck
Lennie Hayden
Frank Hollman
B.F. Johnson
J.P. Johnson
James Lee Johnson
James P. Johnson
David J. Khune
David Khunn
Lulú Laverne
Franco Manera
Jeff Manner
Roland Marceignac
C. Plaut
Robert Zinnermann
Dan L. Simon
Lowel Richmond
Jesus Manera
헤수스 프랑코
Jack Griffin
Jesús Franco, Directing
Madrid, Spain | 1930-05-12 | 2013-04-02
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 Faceless and Killer Barbies, his films after 1984 are quite disliked and obscure due to their incredibly low budgets. 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.
