Valentina Cortese, sometimes credited as Valentina Cortesa, was an Italian film and theatre actress. In her 50 years spanning career, she appeared in films of Italian and international directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, François Truffaut, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and others.
Jesús Franco Manera was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies. In a career spanning from 1959 to 2013, he wrote, directed, produced, acted in, and scored approximately 173 feature films, working both in his native Spain and in France, West Germany, Switzerland and Portugal. Additionally, during the 1960s, he made several films in Rio de Janeiro and Istanbul.
Walerian Borowczyk was an internationally known Polish film director described by film critics as a 'genius who also happened to be a pornographer'. He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. As a film director, he worked mainly in France.
Soledad Rendón Bueno, better known by her stage names Soledad Miranda or Susann Korda, was an actress and pop singer who was born in Seville, Spain. She starred in several erotic thriller films directed by Jess Franco in 1969 and 1970, such as Count Dracula (1970) and Vampyros Lesbos (1970).
Paul Konrad Müller was a Swiss actor who appeared mostly in Italian films. His motion picture acting career in Europe spanned a period of 51 years.
William Berger, also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger, born Wilhelm Thomas Berger was an American actor, mostly associated with Euro and spaghetti Westerns, as well as travel documentaries.
Lina Romay, a.k.a. Candy Coster and Lulu Laverne, was a Spanish actress who often appeared in films directed by her long-time companion Jesús Franco. She appeared in approximately 109 Jesus Franco films made over a 30-year period.
Vernon Dobtcheff is a British actor, best known for his roles on television and film, he has acted in numerous stage productions.
Rosalba Neri is a retired Italian actress.
The Awful Dr. Orloff is a 1962 horror film written and directed by Jesús Franco. It stars Howard Vernon as the mad Dr. Orloff who wants to repair his disfigured daughter's face with skin grafts from other women with the aid of a slavish, blind henchman named Morpho. A co-production between Spain and France, filmed in Madrid, the film is considered to be the earliest Spanish horror film.
Jean d'Yd was the stage name of Jean Paul Félix Didier Perret. He was a French actor and comedian, and was born in Paris on 17 May 1880. He died in Vernon, Eure, France on 14 May 1964.
A Virgin Among the Living Dead is a 1973 European erotic horror film directed by Jesús Franco. Franco shot the film in 1971, but it was only released in 1973 after some additional erotic footage was added to the film without Franco's involvement. It was later re-cut with some extra zombie footage and redistributed to theaters again in 1981 as a zombie film. It has since been restored on DVD to Franco's original director's cut.
Robert Le Vigan, was a French actor.
Pierre Chevalier was a French film director and screenwriter. His films included mainstream, erotic and pornographic films. Horror film buffs know him for his 1971 opus Orloff and the Invisible Man.
Jericho is a 1946 French war film directed by Henri Calef based on Operation Jericho. During the Second World War the Royal Air Force and the French Resistance take part in a joint operation known as "Jericho" to free fifty civilians being held as hostages by the occupying German Army in Amiens.
Alberto Dalbés was an Argentine film and television actor. who appeared in Argentinian and Spanish films, including horror films, giallo/ crime dramas and spaghetti westerns. He was known for his roles in eleven films directed by Jesus Franco including The Devil Came from Akasava (1971), Daughter of Dracula (1972), Tender and Perverse Emanuelle (1973), The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973), Les Demons (1973), Un capitán de quince años (1974), Un Silencio de Tumba (1976), and Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972). He also starred in Hunchback of the Morgue (1973) co-starring Paul Naschy and Maniac Mansion (1972). He died in Madrid in 1983, at age 61.
Dennis Price (1915–1973) was an English actor. He made his professional debut at the Queen's Theatre in September 1937 alongside John Gielgud in Richard II. He appeared in several films produced by Ealing Studios and the Boulting brothers. Between 1965 and 1967, he appeared in the BBC television series The World of Wooster, where his performance as Jeeves was described in The Times as "an outstanding success". He also appeared in The Invisible Man , in the 1958 episode, 'Behind the Mask'.
Luis Barboo was a Spanish actor.
Drácula contra Frankenstein, also known as Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein is 1972 horror film co-written and directed by Jesús Franco. It stars Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, Paca Gabaldón, Alberto Dalbés, Luis Barboo, and Fernando Bilbao. It was a Spanish-French-Liechtensteinian-Portuguese co-production.
