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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

21

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-01-01

Day of Death

1995-08-02 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Also Known As

胡安·洛佩兹·莫克特祖马

Juan López Moctezuma

Biography

Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican film director and actor. He was born in Mexico City in 1929.[1] During his career he directed five films, all in the genres of Gothic horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1972), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1974), To Kill a Stranger (1983), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and his most recognized and controversial work, Alucarda (1978), which tells the story of a satanic possession in a Catholic convent. In 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.

Known For

Acting

Alucardos: Portrait of a Vampire

2011

Alucardos: Portrait of a Vampire

as

Self (Archive footage)

To Kill a Stranger

1986

To Kill a Stranger

as

Albert Morell

The Food of Fear

1994

The Food of Fear

as

Don Ramón

Production

Crew

Directing