Personal Info

Birth date

1934-09-07 (90 Years)

Day of death

2009-11-30

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Also known as

Jacinto Molina Alvarez

Jacinto Molina

Paul Nash

Jacinto Molina Álvarez

Paul Naschy

Biography

Paul Naschy (born Jacinto Molina) was a Spanish movie actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films. His portrayals of numerous classic horror figures have earned him recognition as the Spanish Lon Chaney. He was also known as the Boris Karloff of Spain and he had one of the most recognizable faces in Spanish horror film.

Filmography

King of Kings

7.123

Overview:

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.

El Cid

6.8

Overview:

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.

55 Days at Peking

6.958

Overview:

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Antivicio

NYR

Overview:

La Máscara Negra

8

Overview:

Eurotika!

8

Overview:

Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman

5.5

Overview:

Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?

The Apostle

7.342

Overview:

A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.

The Traveller

5.3

Overview:

The devil, following in the footsteps of Christ, decides to become flesh and take a stroll around Earth to see how humans have progressed, and have a little fun creating havoc and mayhem in the process.

Heartbeat

5.3

Overview:

Paul Marnac and his infirm wife Geneviève move to his childhood estate in the French countryside. The estate is also the site of the castle inhabited by Paul's ancestor Alaric de Marnac, who was known for brutally slaughtering anyone whom he suspected of infidelity. There is a legend that Alaric rises from the grave to continue his deeds. The estate is currently inhabited by Paul's aunt Maville and cousin Julie. Right after Paul and Geneviève arrive, mysterious things begin to happen. Geneviève begins to wonder if the legend about Alaric is true.

Horror Rises from the Tomb

5.6

Overview:

In Medieval France a warlock is beheaded and his wife is tortured and executed. Hundreds of years later, an isolated group of people discover his head buried on their property. Soon it comes back to life, possessing people and using them to commit sacrifices and to search for the rest of his body.

The Beasts' Carnival

6.1

Overview:

A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese assassins in hot pursuit, he takes refuge in the home of a local doctor and his two daughters who nurse him back to health and hide him from his pursuers, taking drastic and murderous measures to protect him... for they have plans of their own in store for their current guest.

Exorcismo

4.7

Overview:

A young woman participates (unknowingly) in a satanic ceremony and gets possessed by the spirit of her late father.

Inquisition

5.882

Overview:

Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan's servants.

Hunchback of the Morgue

5.987

Overview:

A hunchback working in a morgue falls in love with a sick woman. He goes berserk when she dies and seeks help from a scientist to bring her back from the dead.

Night of the Werewolf

6.4

Overview:

An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred years previously for murdering young women and bathing in their blood.

Night of the Howling Beast

5

Overview:

Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.

Rottweiler

3.333

Overview:

Dante travels across a desolate, futuristic Spain in search of his girlfriend, Ula. He is pursued by a bloodthirsty, cybernetic Rottweiler.

The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow

5.333

Overview:

A group of friends discover an ancient book, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Deads. They discover that the book is a link between our world and the world of ancients creatures, older than our civilizations.

The People Who Own the Dark

4.8

Overview:

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.

Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood

5.2

Overview:

Southern California 1897: While Dumas is in the parlor cleaning his gun, his sister Roxanne is in the bedroom being seduced by the lusty vampiress...

Count Dracula's Great Love

4.8

Overview:

Four women spend the night in an old deserted sanitarium on a mountain. They each in turn fall into the the evil hands of a doctor…

Curse of the Devil

5.5

Overview:

An ancient curse causes the ancestor of a witch hunter to turn into a bloodthirsty werewolf.

The Hanging Woman

5.3

Overview:

Upon his uncle's death, Serge Chekov journeys to a spooky Scottish village for the reading of the will. But when he inherits the estate, Serge runs afoul of his uncle's jealous wife , his business partner , his maid and others. It's not long before zombies join the fun in this Italian supernatural thriller, also starring Paul Naschy as a nutso gravedigger.

The Valdemar Legacy

5.928

Overview:

Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion!

Rojo sangre

5.1

Overview:

Frankenstein's Bloody Terror

6.48

Overview:

A man suffers from the curse of lycanthrope and seeks help from doctor and wife team. They both turn out to be vampires and end up dueling it out with the werewolf star.

Las viudas

5

Overview:

Comedy consists of three stories about the sudden death of three husbands: a newly married man dies as a result of the excessive enthusiasm of his wife ("Honeymoon"), another because of a fling with a girl too fiery ("The Anniversary" ), and finally, a husband dies because of his greed and stinginess ("Portrait of Regino").

Crimson, the Color of Blood

4

Overview:

A mad doctor performs a head transplant on an injured criminal, which results in him being even more dangerous and murderous than before.

Mystery on Monster Island

4.414

Overview:

A young European boy living in San Francisco is reluctant to marry his long-term girlfriend because he wants to travel around the world first. His wealthy uncle agrees to send him on a global expedition aboard his ship, but en route the boy and his travelling companion are shipwrecked on a remote island, populated by countless prehistoric creatures as well as gold-hunting bandits.

Acting

2021Las Confisiones de un Hombre Lobo as Self

2020Ivan, the TerrirBle as Self (archive footage)

2019Relatos del fantástico as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2017Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker

2017Los resucitados as Unknown

2014Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror as Various Roles / Self (voice)

2014Wax as Automaton (voice)

2012The Apostle as Arcipreste (voice)

2012Lentejuelas de sangre as Himself (voice)

2011Naschy of the Full Moon as Self / Various Roles

2010Los árboles as Abuelo

2010The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow as Jervás

2010The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry as Self / Various Characters (archive footage)

2010Empusa as Abel

2010The Valdemar Legacy as Jervás

2009Lost Images: The Other Eye of Juan Pinzás as Paul

2009Coffins of Light as himself

2008Paul Naschy: la sonrisa del lobo as Self - Filmmaker

2008Nadie inquietó más as Self - Filmmaker

2008Lágrimas de papel as Pablo

2007The Twelfth Hour as Expert

2007The Vampyre by John W. Polidori: Images of a Nightmare as Lord Ruthven

2005A Werewolf in the Amazon as Dr. Moreau / Lobisomem / Werewolf

2004Rottweiler as Kufard

2004Necrophagia - Nightmare Scenarios as Himself

2004Tomb of the Werewolf as Waldemar Daninsky

2004Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood as Padre Jacinto

2004Rojo sangre as Pablo Thevenet

2003Noin as Paul Naschy

2003Mucha Sangre as Vicuña

2002Octavia as Inspector

2002Paul Naschy: Interview with the Werewolf as Unknown

2001The Tell-Tale Heart as Loco

2001School Killer as El Vigilante / The Watcher

2000Érase otra vez as Jardinero

2000Antivicio (1 Episode) as Unknown

1999Night Prowlers 2 as The Redeeming Spirit

1999Eurotika! (1 Episode) as Self

1998Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando as Paul Naschy

1998Ánimas as Fernando Luciano

1997El Ojo de la Medusa as Carlos Oliarte

1996Lycantropus: The Moonlight Murders as Waldemar Daninsky

1996Scientifically Perfect as Comisario

1992Night of the Executioner as Doctor Hugo Arranz

1992State Of Mind as The Warden

1990It Smells Like Someone Died Here... But It Wasn't Me! as Comisario

1990Horror in the Wax Museum as The Professor of Psychology

1990La hija de Fu Manchú '72 as Dr. Fu-Manchú

1988El último guateque II as Editor de periódicos

1988Howl of the Devil as Hector Doriani / Alex Doriani / Frankenstein's Monster / Mr. Hyde / Phantom of the Opera / Waldemar Daninsky the Werewolf / Quasimodo / The Devil

1988Shadows of Blood as Pancho Aguila

1987The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil' as Self

1987Biting Life as Murciano

1984My Friend the Vagabond as Enrique

1984The Last Kamikaze as Sergio 'El Kamikaze'

1984Operation Mantis as Sam Stevenson

1983The Beast and the Magic Sword as Count Waldemar Daninsky / Irineus Daninsky

1983Heartbeat as Paul / Alaric de Marnac

1982Good Night, Mr. Monster as El Hombre Lobo

1982La Máscara Negra (11 Episodes) as Sandro Coltini

1981The Battle of Reefer as Capitán Matarraña

1981Night of the Werewolf as Waldemar Daninsky