Javier Aguirre Fernández (13 June 1935 – 4 December 2019)[1] was a Spanish film director, writer and producer.
When he was a teenager, he started collaborating for entertainment magazines like Radiocinema, Film Ideal, and others.
During those years, he also studied at the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas (IIEC).
He started his work as a director in 1961, directing a documentary short titled Pasajes tres, which received the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Spanish horror movie fans know him as the director of three popular Paul Naschy horror films, El jorobado de la Morgue (1973, aka Hunchback of the Morgue), El gran amor del conde Drácula (1973, aka Count Dracula's Great Love) and El asesino esta entre los trece (aka The Killer is One of the Thirteen).