Antonio Mayans

Antonio Mayans is a Spanish actor and dubbing director who has also worked as a production manager. Born in Valencia, he entered film through the American producer Samuel Bronston, hired as a stuntman for John Paul Jones (1959) and then given his first speaking part in King of Kings (1961), after which he trained under the expatriate teacher William Layton. He became a character actor in Spanish genre cinema and, from Night of the Skull in 1972, collaborated repeatedly with Jesús Franco, taking over Franco's private eye Alfredo Pereira and playing the son of Dr. Orloff in The Sinister Dr. Orloff (1982). He also appeared in films by Paul Naschy and, as the Spanish B-movie industry declined in the 1990s, worked largely in television. In 2023 he drew new attention with I'll Crush Y'all, and he finished Franco's final film, Revenge of the Alligator Ladies, after the director's death.