Jesús Franco
Directing
Born May 12, 1930
-- Died Apr 02, 2013
· 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 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...
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6.6
movie
Around the World in 80 Days
as Extra (uncredited)
1956
7.2
movie
Chimes at Midnight
Second Unit Director
1965
6.9
movie
55 Days at Peking
Assistant Production Manager
1963
5.7
movie
Vampyros Lesbos
as Memmet
1971
5.8
movie
Count Dracula
as Van Helsing's servant (uncredited)
1970
7.1
movie
Death of a Cyclist
Assistant Director
1955
4.6
movie
Greta, the Mad Butcher
as Dr. Milton Arcos (as Jess Franco)
1977
3.1
movie
The Hot Nights of Linda
as Dr. Roberts (as Jess Franck)
1975
4.7
movie
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
as Basilio
1973
3.2
movie
Zombie Lake
Writer
1981
5.0
movie
Bloody Moon
as Doctor (uncredited)
1981
4.4
movie
Female Vampire
as Dr. Roberts
1975