A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Betty Carter
Candice Coster
Candy Coster
Jane Morgan
Jean Collins
Lennie Hayden
Lola Falana
Lulu Laverne
Rosa Almirall
Rosa María Almirall
Sonia Colbert
Birthplace:
Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Born:
June 25, 1954
Died:
February 15, 2012
Romay was born in Barcelona in 1954. Following graduation from high school, she studied the arts, married actor/photographer Ramon Ardid/ Raymond Hardy (they later divorced in 1978), and began acting in stage productions. She began appearing in Jesús Franco's films from the time that they met in 1972. She appeared in more than a hundred feature films, most of them directed by Franco. The majority of their films together were in the erotic film genre, but she was also featured in many horror, comedy and action/adventure films as well. Among the better known of her horror films are The Bare Breasted Countess (a.k.a. Female Vampire) (1973), Barbed Wire Dolls (1975) and Jack the Ripper (1976). She took the name Lina Romay from the actress and jazz artist from the 1940s. Although Romay was listed in the credits of several of Franco's films as a co-director, actor Antonio Mayans stated in a recent interview that Franco used to credit her in that manner for business reasons, although she never actually co-directed any of their films together. She did however contribute occasional story ideas and assist in the editing of some films and trailers. Lina Romay and Jesús Franco lived as a couple for close to four decades, but only officially married on April 25, 2008. She died from cancer at the age of 57 on 15 February 2012, in Málaga, Spain. Franco died soon after in 2013.
Art Direction:
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Assistant Director:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Assistant Editor:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Camera Operator:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Director:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1987 Thong Girls
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Editor:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1984 The Sexual Story of O
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1987 Thong Girls
1989 Esmeralda Bay
1992 Don Quixote
1996 Vampire Killer Barbys
1998 Lust for Frankenstein
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Makeup Artist:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1984 The Sexual Story of O
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1987 Thong Girls
1989 Esmeralda Bay
1992 Don Quixote
1996 Vampire Killer Barbys
1998 Lust for Frankenstein
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2010 Paula-Paula
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Production Manager:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1984 The Sexual Story of O
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1987 Thong Girls
1989 Esmeralda Bay
1992 Don Quixote
1996 Vampire Killer Barbys
1998 Lust for Frankenstein
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2009 Take-Away Spirit
2010 Paula-Paula
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Screenplay:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1984 The Sexual Story of O
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1987 Thong Girls
1989 Esmeralda Bay
1992 Don Quixote
1996 Vampire Killer Barbys
1998 Lust for Frankenstein
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2002 Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
2009 Take-Away Spirit
2010 Paula-Paula
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Second Unit:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1984 The Sexual Story of O
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1987 Thong Girls
1989 Esmeralda Bay
1992 Don Quixote
1996 Vampire Killer Barbys
1998 Lust for Frankenstein
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2002 Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
2009 Take-Away Spirit
2010 Paula-Paula
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Set Decoration:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1984 The Sexual Story of O
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1987 Thong Girls
1989 Esmeralda Bay
1992 Don Quixote
1996 Vampire Killer Barbys
1998 Lust for Frankenstein
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2002 Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
2009 Take-Away Spirit
2010 Paula-Paula
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Wardrobe Supervisor:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1984 The Sexual Story of O
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1987 Thong Girls
1989 Esmeralda Bay
1992 Don Quixote
1996 Vampire Killer Barbys
1998 Lust for Frankenstein
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2002 Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
2009 Take-Away Spirit
2010 Paula-Paula
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Writer:
1980 Devil Hunter
1981 Bloody Moon
1981 Sadomania
1981 The Story of Linda
1982 El huésped de la niebla
1982 Emmanuelle Exposed
1982 Express Train
1983 Cries of Pleasure
1983 Macumba Sexual
1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs
1984 Bahia Blanca
1984 Camino solitario
1984 The Sexual Story of O
1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
1985 White Jungle Slave
1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1987 Thong Girls
1989 Esmeralda Bay
1992 Don Quixote
1996 Vampire Killer Barbys
1998 Lust for Frankenstein
1999 Broken Dolls
2000 Blind Target
2001 Vampire Junction
2002 Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2002 Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
2005 Snakewoman
2009 Take-Away Spirit
2010 Paula-Paula
2012 La cripta de las condenadas
2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.