Overview
- The Academia de Cine, which announced his death Tuesday on social media, said the Oregon-born actor died in Madrid at age 99.
- Officials have not disclosed a cause of death, and coverage from Spanish and Latin American outlets described the news as developing.
- Born George Brown Randall in 1926, he spent time in Mexico before settling in Spain in the 1960s, where he became a cult figure in horror and fantasy cinema.
- He worked often with director Jesús Franco on films such as Necronomicon, La isla de la muerte, and El conde Drácula.
- International audiences saw him in Conan the Barbarian with Arnold Schwarzenegger and in Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate, and a Madrid wax figure honors his role in Wax (2014).