Call Him Jess - Cast

Call Him Jess (2000)
PG-13
82 min | Documentary

Call Him Jess (2000)

PG-13

82 min | Documentary

Jesus (or Jess) Franco is one of the great names in B movies. With a number of pseudonyms (Clifford Brown, David Khunne, etc...) and a filmography including over 170 titles, it is extremely difficult to catalogue and categorize his work, ...See moreJesus (or Jess) Franco is one of the great names in B movies. With a number of pseudonyms (Clifford Brown, David Khunne, etc...) and a filmography including over 170 titles, it is extremely difficult to catalogue and categorize his work, despite the existence of many retrospectives and studies in both Europe and the United States. Jess began his career as an assistant director, the high point of which was working with Orson Welles whom he admired greatly. Jess himself became well known in 1961 with The Awful Doctor Orloff, a horror film which instantly became a classic. Working with Jess on the same project was Howard Vernon, an actor whose name was synonymous with Eurocine (the production company at the time most closely associated with genre cinema) and who later became one of Jess Franco's key actors. From that moment his international career took off, his credits include The Diabolical Dr Z, Lucky the Inscrutable, Count Dracula, Vampyros Lesbos and Succubus. Working with the most famous producers in B movies, Harry Allan Towers and Arthur Brauner, Jess Franco adapted classic horror and adventure films such as Fu Manchu, Doctor Mabuse and Frankenstein. In this documentary, arguably the most significant work about this director, Jess Franco speaks openly about his films, himself and his understanding of the world of cinema. He is, essentially, a director who defies conventional categorization; a director who, while working with internationally acclaimed stars such as Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, developed his own particular style of directing, with the aid of stars such as Soldedad Miranda, Howard Vernon and Lina Romay Written by Anonymous See less

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Name	Known for
Jesús Franco Self (as Jess Franco) Self (as Jess Franco) See fewer	The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
Lina Romay Self Self See fewer	Female Vampire (1973)
Fernando Bilbao Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
Ray Danton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Longest Day (1962)
Dorit Dom Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Two Undercover Angels (1969)
Teresa Gimpera Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lucky, el intrépido (1967)
Valentina Godoy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Na Onda do Iê-Iê-Iê (1966)
Adrian Hoven Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal (1966)
Klaus Kinski Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Christopher Lee Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Antonio Mayans Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Revenge of the Alligator Ladies (2013)
Mercedes McCambridge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Giant (1956)
Soledad Miranda Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Eugenie de Sade (1973)
Elisa Montés Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Las últimas banderas (1957)
Rosalba Neri Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Esther and the King (1960)
Janine Reynaud Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Les petites saintes y touchent (1974)
Maria Rohm Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Ten Little Indians (1974)
Aldo Sambrell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Maria Schell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Superman (1978)
Santiago Segura Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law (1998)
Ewa Strömberg Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
Jack Taylor Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Ricardo Valle Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Alexander the Great (1956)
Howard Vernon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Rosanna Yanni Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Amazons (1973)