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FILM DIRECTOR

Jesús Franco

1930 - 2013

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Jesús Franco Manera (12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies. In a career spanning from 1954 to 2013, he wrote, directed, produced, acted in, and scored approximately 173 feature films, working both in his native Spain and (during the rule of Francisco Franco) in France, West Germany, Switzerland and Portugal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jesús Franco has received more than 644,019 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jesús Franco is the 172nd most popular film director (up from 174th in 2019), the 288th most popular biography from Spain (up from 295th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Spanish Film Director.

Jesús Franco was a Spanish filmmaker who is most famous for his horror films.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jesús Franco ranks 172 out of 1,581. Before him are Masaki Kobayashi, Alexander Dovzhenko, Jonathan Demme, Kathryn Bigelow, Bille August, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. After him are Nikita Mikhalkov, Claude Lanzmann, Robert Aldrich, Peter Weir, Don Siegel, and G. W. Pabst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jesús Franco ranks 65. Before him are George E. Smith, Johan Galtung, Robert Aumann, Harvey Milk, Stanley Miller, and Joanne Woodward. After him are Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Akira Suzuki, Luce Irigaray, Gérard Genette, Derek Walcott, and Pierre Bergé. Among people deceased in 2013, Jesús Franco ranks 43. Before him are Gylmar dos Santos Neves, James M. Buchanan, Ieng Sary, Ronald Dworkin, Jerome Karle, and Nagisa Oshima. After him are Richard Matheson, Viktor Kulikov, Lawrence Klein, Manfred Rommel, J. J. Cale, and Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Jesús Franco ranks 288 out of 2,932. Before him are Fernando Alonso (1981), Muhammad I of Granada (1194), Ibn Jubayr (1145), Juan Díaz de Solís (1470), Telmo Zarra (1921), and Berengaria of Castile (1180). After him are George Santayana (1863), Carles Rexach (1947), Luis Enrique (1970), Muhammad I of Córdoba (823), Carmen Maura (1945), and Benito Pérez Galdós (1843).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Spain

Among film directors born in Spain, Jesús Franco ranks 4. Before him are Luis Buñuel (1900), Pedro Almodóvar (1949), and Carlos Saura (1932). After him are Bigas Luna (1946), Juan Antonio Bardem (1922), Mario Camus (1935), Luis García Berlanga (1921), Segundo de Chomón (1871), Víctor Erice (1940), Néstor Almendros (1930), and Vicente Aranda (1926).

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Filmography

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