The multi-talented actor/writer/director, known for his scary films, passed away on Tuesday (01Dec09) in Madrid, Spain, reports Variety.
Naschy – born Jacinto Molina Alvarez – began his career writing Western novels before landing his first starring role in 1968’s Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror. He went on to play the monster in a dozen other films, including The Curse of the Beast.
He later stepped behind the camera as a director, and made one of the first ever Spanish-Japanese co-productions with his wolfman thriller The Beast and the Magic Sword.
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Naschy is survived by wife Elvira and two children.
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