Paul Naschy

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Paul Naschy (born Jacinto Molina on September 6, 1934 in Madrid) is a Spanish movie actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films. His portrayal of numerous classic horror figures--the wolfman, a hunchback, Count Dracula, a mummy--have earned him recognition as a Spanish Lon Chaney. The King of Spain presented Naschy with that country's Gold Medal Award for Fine Arts in 2001^{[citation needed]} in honor of his work, which still continues to this day.

1 Werewolf characters
- 1.1 The Waldemar Daninsky series
- 1.2 Other werewolf films
2 References
3 External link

[edit] Werewolf characters

The werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky is Paul Naschy's most famous character. In addition, Paul Naschy also played some other werewolves who were not named Waldemar Daninsky, but were obviously based on the character.

[edit] The Waldemar Daninsky series

This overall unrelated series of 11 films is notorious for its retroactive continuity, comic book deaths and other continuity mismatches, with most of the films using new origin stories or recycling large pieces of plot from earlier films in the series. In addition, some films seem to be prequels to others, but without any firm evidence that this is so. In order of release, the films are:

[edit] Other werewolf films

Paul Naschy portrayed a werewolf known simply as El Hombre Lobo (translated as "The Werewolf") in a 1982 children's musical horror comedy. Later he played an actor portraying a werewolf and other monsters in a horror film for adults.