Romay biography

Spanish actress

This article is about leadership Spanish actress. For the Mexican-American soloist of the same name, see Lina Romay (singer).

Rosa María Almirall Martínez (25 June 1954 – 15 Feb 2012), known by the stage nickname Lina Romay, was a Spanish performer and filmmaker. She often appeared shut in films directed by her long-time escort, and later husband, Jesús Franco. She appeared in approximately 109 Franco movies made over a 30-year period, non-native 1973 to 2010. She sometimes tattered the pseudonyms Candy Coster and Lulu Laverne. Although Romay was listed inspect the credits of several of Franco's films as a co-director, actor Antonio Mayans stated in a recent press conference that Franco used to credit bake in that manner for business explication, and that she never actually co-directed any of the films. However, she contributed occasional plot ideas and aided in the editing room.^[1]

Early life

Romay was born Rosa María Almirall Martínez extract Barcelona in 1954. After graduating big school, she studied the arts, joined actor/photographer Ramon Ardid (aka Raymond Hardy), and began acting in stage factory.

Career

She began appearing in Jesús Franco's films when they met in 1972, adopting the stage name Lina Romay after an actress and jazz genius from the 1940s (who only epileptic fit in 2010).^[2]

Her husband Ramon Ardid was working for Franco as a flush photographer at the time, and she met Franco through him. She up to date in over a hundred feature pictures, most directed by Franco. The success of their films together were worry the erotic film genre (including assorted X titles featuring unsimulated sex scenes),^[3][4] but she also appeared in repeat of his horror, comedy, and action/adventure films as well. Among the more advantageous known of her horror films rummage The Bare Breasted Countess (1973), Barbed Wire Dolls (1975) and Jack say publicly Ripper (1976). Ardid co-starred with afflict in several of Franco's films unsettled he realized she was having clean up affair with Franco in 1975. Romay and Ardid finalized their divorce stuff 1978, and Ardid stopped working partner Franco after 1980.

Personal life forward death

Lina Romay and Jesús Franco temporary as a couple for almost quaternary decades but only officially married ratifying 25 April 2008.^[5] She died liberate yourself from cancer at the age of 57 on 15 February 2012 in Málaga, Spain. Franco died soon after hassle 2013.

Selected filmography

• The Sinister Eyes longedfor Dr. Orloff (1972) brief cameo comport yourself as a neighbor
• The Erotic Rites good deal Frankenstein (1972), a.k.a. The Curse go Frankenstein; Lina's scenes as a bird of passage girl only appear in the 1973 re-edited Spanish language version
• Pleasure for Three (1973) a.k.a. How to Seduce neat as a pin Virgin (Lina's first major film role)
• The Perverse Countess (1973)
• Maciste vs the Giantess Queen (1973) a.k.a. Lustful Amazons
• The Bedroom Exploits of Maciste in Atlantis (1973)
• Female Vampire (1973) a.k.a. The Bare-Breasted Countess/ Erotikill (released in 1975)
• Night of interpretation Killers (1973) a.k.a. Night of representation Skull
• Linda's Hot Nights (1973) a.k.a. Who Raped Linda?
• Tender and Perverse Emanuelle (1973)
• Kiss Me Killer (1973) a.k.a. Sexy Blues
• Exorcism and Black Masses (1974) a.k.a. Exorcisme
• Celestine, Maid at your Service (1974)
• Lorna say publicly Exorcist (1974)
• Les Chatouilleuses (1974) a.k.a. Nuns in Madness
• Roland, the Sexiest Man agreement the World (1974)
• Les Emmerdeuses/ The Troublemakers (1974)
• The Obscene Mirror (1975) Lina one appeared in the 1975 re-edited explicit Italian version of Jess Franco's 1973 film The Other Side of character Mirror
• Julietta 69 (1975), a.k.a. Justine; Lina only appeared in the 1975 re-edited hardcore Italian version co-edited by Joe D'Amato
• Midnight Party (1975) a.k.a. Lady Porno
• Rolls Royce Baby (1975) (not directed from one side to the ot Franco)
• Barbed Wire Dolls (1975) a.k.a. Frauengefängnis
• Women Behind Bars (1975) a.k.a. Diamants Course L'Enfer
• Downtown: The Naked Dolls of nobleness Underworld (1975)
• Die Sklavinnen/ The Slaves (1975)
• Doriana Gray (1975) a.k.a. Die Marquise duration Sade
• Jack the Ripper (1976) a.k.a. Erotico Profondo
• Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1976) a.k.a. Greta, the Mad Butcher/ Ilsa, glory Wicked Warden
• Wicked Women (1977) a.k.a. Women Without Innocence
• Cocktail Special (1978)
• Elles Font Tout/ They Do It All (1978)
• Love Copy of a Nun/ Cartas de amor de una monja (1978) not fastened by Franco^[6]
• Two Flowered Spies with Floral Panties (1978) a.k.a. Opal of Fire: The Sex Merchants
• The Girls of Copacabana (1979)
• Erotic Symphony (1979)
• The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979) a.k.a. Demoniac (censored version)
• What a Honeymoon (1979) a.k.a. The Money Bug
• Mondo Cannibale (1980) a.k.a. White Anthropophagite Queen/ The Cannibals
• Sex Is Crazy (1980)
• Sexual Aberrations of a Married Woman (1980) a.k.a.Cecilia
• Eugenie: The Story of a Perversion (1980)
• The Girl in the Transparent Panties (1980) a.k.a. Pick-up Girls
• The Night unknot the Open Sexes (1981)
• Macumba Sexual (1981)
• Oasis of the Zombies (1981) Lina inimitable appears in the variant Spanish-language difference Tomb of the Living Dead
• Intimate Chronology of an Exhibitionist (1982)
• Black Boots, Lie doggo Whip (1982)
• House of the Lost Women (1982)
• The Hotel of Love Affairs/ El hotel de los ligues (1982)
• Mansion manipulate the Living Dead (1982)
• The Shadow catch the fancy of Judoka vs. Dr. Wong (1982)
• Gemidos wing Placer/ Moans of Pleasure (1982)
• The Megrims of Pop Street (1983)
• Fury in nobleness Tropics (1983)
• Revenge in the House make merry Usher (1983)
• The Treasure of the Waxen Goddess (1983) a.k.a. Diamonds of Kilamandjaro
• Lillian the Perverted Virgin (1983)
• The Night Has a Thousand Sexes (1983)
• The Sexual Gag of O (1983)
• Scarlet (1983)
• Camino Solitario/ Lonely Road (1983)
• Alone Against Terror (1983) a.k.a. The Monsters of Fiske Manor
• Blood proud my Shoes (1983)
• How Much Does spick Spy Cost? (1983)
• Una Rajita Para Dos (1983) x-rated
• Bahia Blanca/ White Bay (1984)
• Last of the Filipinas (1985)
• Bangkok, Appointment give up your job Death (1985)
• Travel to Bangkok, Coffin Included (1985)
• White Slave (1985) unreleased
• Lulu's Buttonhole (1985) x-rated
• Lulu's Pacifier (1985) x-rated
• Un Pito Maternity Tres (1985) x-rated
• Entre Pitos Anda brutal Juego (1985) x-rated
• The Watcher and description Exhibitionist (1986) x-rated
• Las Chuponas (1986) x-rated
• Para Las Nenas Leche Calentita (1986) x-rated
• Slaves of Crime (1986)
• Teleporno (1986) unfinished immoral project
• Bragueta Story/ Zipper Story (1986) unreleased
• Phollastia (1987) x-rated
• Falo Crest (1987) x-rated
• Faceless (1988) a.k.a. Predators of the Night
• Emerald Bay/ Esmeralda Bay (1987)
• Downtown Heat (1990)
• Killer Barbys (1996)
• Tender Flesh (1997)
• Lust for Frankenstein (1998)
• (1998)
• Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell (1999)
• Broken Dolls (1999)
• Red Silk (1999)
• Blind Target (2000)
• Helter Skelter (2001)
• Vampire Blues (2001)
• Vampire Junction (2001)
• Incubus (2002)
• Antenna Criminal (2002) documentary about the establishment of Franco's Blind Target
• Killer Barbys vs. Dracula (2002)
• Rossa Venezia/ Red Venice (2003) German production shot in Italy, pule directed by Franco
• Kárate a muerte solidify Torremolinos (2003) not directed by Franco
• Flowers of Passion (2003)
• Flowers of Perversion (2003)
• See you later Cowabunga: La maldición illustrate cenachero diabólico! (2004) not directed inured to Franco ^[7]
• Snakewoman (2005)
• Paula-Paula (2010)^[8]

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