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Jesús Franco was a Spanish filmmaker, writer, and actor. He was born in Madrid, Spain, on 12 May 1930. He was best known for his horror and exploitation films, which often featured explicit sex and violence. He wrote and directed over 200 films, including the cult classic Vampyros Lesbos (1971). He also acted in many of his own films, often playing the villain. Franco began his career as a film editor in the 1950s, and his first feature film as a director was The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962). He went on to direct a number of horror and exploitation films, including The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966), The Bloody Judge (1970), and Count Dracula (1970). He also wrote and directed a number of erotic films, such as Vampyros Lesbos (1971) and She Killed in Ecstasy (1971). In the 1980s, Franco moved away from horror and exploitation films and began directing more mainstream films, such as the comedy The Man with the Severed Head (1983). He continued to direct films until his death in 2013. Jesús Franco's net worth is estimated to be around $10 million. He earned his wealth through his career as a filmmaker, writer, and actor. He also earned money from the sale of his films and from royalties.

Popular As Jesús Franco Manera
Occupation writer,director,actor
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 12 May 1930
Birthday 12 May
Birthplace Madrid, Spain
Date of death 2 April, 2013
Died Place Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
Nationality Spain

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Who Is Jesús Franco's Wife?

His wife is Lina Romay (23 April 2008 - 15 February 2012) ( her death), Nicole Guettard (1962 - 1980) ( divorced)

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Wife Lina Romay (23 April 2008 - 15 February 2012) ( her death), Nicole Guettard (1962 - 1980) ( divorced)
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Jesús Franco Net Worth

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2007

At the end of 2007 a biographic long feature, "Los Blues del Tio Jess" will be finished. Directed by Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez and produced by microgenesis producciones / canalmicro and Maestranza Films. [September 2007]

2005

After a hiatus of several years, he returned to directing with one feature film and two video features at the age of 75. He now has over 180 directing credits. [2005]

2003

Despite disliking rap, in 2003 he recorded the spoken intro (titled "Ten Cuidado Hermano") for the album "Supervillanos de Alquiler" by Spanish hip-hop band Hablando en Plata.

1975

Together with Lucio Fulci Franco had three films listed on the original UK list of 74 official video nasties: Women Behind Bars aka Women Behind Bars (1975), Devil Hunter aka El caníbal (1980) and Bloody Moon aka Die Säge des Todes (1981).

1970

In the 1970s Franco, along with Luis Buñuel, was declared one of the most dangerous filmmakers for Catholics by the Catholic Church. Upon hearing this, Buñuel got interested in meeting Franco, and said so to his frequent collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, who was at that moment developing a script with Franco. Carrière introduced both to directors each other.

1968

His Succubus (1968) was nominated for the Festival of Berlin, and this event gave him an international reputation. His career got more and more consolidated in the following years, and his endless creativity enabled him to tackle films in all genres, from "B" horror films to pure hardcore sex films. His productions have always been low-budget, but he nevertheless managed to work extraordinarily quickly, often releasing several titles at the same time, using the same shots in more than one film. Some of his actors relate how they they were hired for one film and later saw their name in two or more different ones. As the Spanish cinema evolved, Jesús managed to adapt to the new circumstances and always maintained a constant activity, activity that gave a place in his films to a whole filming crew. Apart from his own production company, Manacoa Films, he also worked for companies like Auster Films S. L. (Paul Auster), Cinematográfica Fénix Films (Arturo Marcos), the French Comptoir Français du Film (Robert de Nesle), Eurociné (Daniel Lesoeur and Marius Lesoeur), Elite Films Productions (Erwin C. Dietrich), Spain's Fervi Films (Fernando Vidal Campos) or Golden Films Internacional S. A. He acted in almost all of his films, playing musicians, lawyers, porters and others, all of them sinister, manic and comic characters. Among the aliases he used--apart from Jesús Franco, Jess Franco or Franco Manera--were Jess Frank, Robert Zimmerman, Frank Hollman, Clifford Brown, David Khune, Frarik Hollman, Toni Falt, James P. Johnson, Charlie Christian, David Tough, Cady Coster, Lennie Hayden, Lulú Laverne and Betty Carter. Lina Romay has been almost a constant in his films, and it's very probable that in some of them she has been credited as the director instead of him. In many of the more than 180 films he's directed he has also worked as composer, writer, cinematographer and editor. His influence has been notable all over Europe (he even contacted producer Roger Corman in the US). From his huge body of work we can deduce that Jesús Franco is one of the most restless directors of Spanish cinema. Many of his films have had problems in getting released, and others have been made directly for video. His work is often a do-it-yourself effort. More than once his staunchest supporters have found his "new" films to contain much footage from one or more of his older ones. Jesús Franco is a survivor in a time when most of his colleagues tried to please the government censors. He broke with all that and got the independence he was seeking. He always went upstream in an ephemeral industry that fed opportunists and curbed the activity of many professionals.

1959

However, he soon applied all his knowledge and experience to his feature directorial debut, Tenemos 18 años (1959). From that moment on all his work was supported by co-production.

1954

He was only six years old when he started composing music under the protection of his brother Enrique. After the Spanish Civil War he was able to continue his studies at the Real Conservatorio de Madrid, where he finished piano and harmony. Being a Bachelor of Law and an easy-read novel writer (under the pseudonym David Khume), he signed on to enter the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográicas (IIEC), where he stayed for only two years, while he worked simultaneously as a director and theater actor. Later he went to Paris to study directing techniques at the I. D. H. E. C. (University of Sorbonne), where he used to go into seclusion for hours to watch films at the film archive. Back in Spain he began rted his huge cinematographic work as a composer, with Cómicos (1954) and El hombre que viajaba despacito (1957), and later worked as an assistant director to Juan Antonio Bardem, León Klimovsky, Luis Saslavsky, Julio Bracho, Fernando Soler and Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent, among others. He also worked at Ágata Films S. A. as production manager and writer. His first works as a director were industrial and cultural short films.

1941

Openly despises his own movies and claims he doesn't think he has ever made a good film, and what he would really like is to have made Citizen Kane (1941) or The Grapes of Wrath (1940) or something like the films of Stanley Donen or Vincente Minnelli.