Jean Rollin

Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 1938, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - 15 December 2010, Paris, France) was a French film director, actor and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre. His first feature, Le viol du vampire (The Rape of the Vampire, 1968), made when he was 29, launched a series of surreal vampire classics including La vampire nue (1970) and Fascination (1979). From the mid-1970s he turned out primarily exploitation and pornographic films, and he discovered porn star Brigitte Lahaie, who starred in many of his films. He died of cancer in 2010 at the age of 72.