José Bénazéraf

Actor · Director · Producer · Writer

Casablanca, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]

January 8, 1922

Biography

José Bénazéraf (8 January 1922 – 1 December 2012) was a French filmmaker and producer who specialised in erotic films. Bénazéraf was born in Casablanca, French Morocco on 8 January 1922. After completing his studies in political sciences, he started his film career in 1958 producing Les lavandières du Portugal, a film by Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and went on to direct and write numerous erotic films in the 1960s. He started to direct erotic feature films in 1961 with L'éternité pour nous. At the end of the 1970s, he moved his attention to the direct-to-video market. He died in Chiclana de la Frontera. Source: Article "José Bénazéraf" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.