Career

She is best known for appearing in films directed by Jean Rollin

Jean Rollin

Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...

, alongside her twin sister Marie-Pierre Castel. Catherine has appeared in sereral Rollin films with Marie-pierre including his vampire classics The Nude Vampire

La Vampire Nue

La Vampire Nue is a 1970 film directed by Jean Rollin and is his second vampire film, it concerns a suicide cult led by a mysterious man known as "The Master".-Plot:In a strange laboratory men in weird masks take the blood of a naked young woman...

and Lips of Blood

Lévres de Sang

Lèvres de Sang is a 1975 vampire film directed by Jean Rollin. The film tells the story of a man who begins to have visions of a young woman dressed in white who is locked behind the gates of a Château.-Synopsis:...

and his erotic films Bacchanales Sexuelles and Hard Penetrations. She has also appeared in several other Rollin films, such as, La comtesse Ixe, Sexual Vibrations and the Finacee of Dracula, which was her final film. Rollin originally wanted Catherine to play in his earlier films The Shiver of the Vampires

Le Frisson des Vampires

Le Frisson des Vampires is a 1971 film directed by Jean Rollin. It is his third vampire movie.-Plot:Two newlyweds, Isle and Antoine, are on their honeymoon, on their way to visit Isle's two cousins. When they arrive in the town they discover that her cousins died the day before. Isle and Antoine...

and Requiem for a Vampire

Requiem pour un Vampire

Requiem pour un Vampire is a 1971 erotic horror film directed by Jean Rollin, about two young woman who find themselves trapped with no escape in a haunted castle ruled by a hoard of sexually blood crazed vampires.-Plot:...

, but she became pregnant and the roles went to Marie-Pierre. Catherine has also worked with directors Serge Korber

Serge Korber

Serge Korber is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 45 films between 1962 and 2007.-Selected filmography:* L'homme orchestre * Perched on a Tree * Hearth Fires -External links:...

, Bernard Launois, Jean Desvilles, Jean-Marie Ghanassia, Alain Payet

Alain Payet

Alain Payet , also known under the pseudonyms John Love, John Pardaillan, John and Frederick Brasil Amor, James Gardner, James Gartner, Alain Garnier was a film director of French porn movies and erotica.- Biography :He began his career in 70s and for a decade served as an assistant director on...

, Francis Girod

Francis Girod

Francis Girod was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1974 and 2006. His film L'enfance de l'art was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival...

, Dominique Goult, Lucio Mazzeotti and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou is a French film critic, author, filmmaker and actor.-Career:He started his career as a writer in 1964 when his article was published in fanzines...

. In 2008, Castel directed the French film 48 Hours a Day. Catherine also served as make-up artist for La comtesse Ixe and Phantasmes. She has been credited in films as "Cathy Tricot", "Catherine Tricot" and "Cathy Castel".

Filmography

• 1969: La Vampire Nue
  La Vampire Nue
  La Vampire Nue is a 1970 film directed by Jean Rollin and is his second vampire film, it concerns a suicide cult led by a mysterious man known as "The Master".-Plot:In a strange laboratory men in weird masks take the blood of a naked young woman...
  
  (The Nude Vampire) - 'Georges' servant'
• 1974: Tout le mondeil en a deux (Bacchanales Sexuelles) - 'Une souris'
• 1975: Lévres de Sang
  Lévres de Sang
  Lèvres de Sang is a 1975 vampire film directed by Jean Rollin. The film tells the story of a man who begins to have visions of a young woman dressed in white who is locked behind the gates of a Château.-Synopsis:...
  
  (Lips of Blood) - 'Jumelle Vampire'
• 1975: Suce moi vampire (Suck Me Vampire) - 'Jumelle Vampire' (hard version of Lévres de Sang)
• 1975: À bout de sexe - 'La vendeuse'
• 1975: Les dépravées du plaisir
• 1976: Introductions
• 1976: Douces pénétraitions - 'Une soubrette'
• 1976: La comtesse - 'Une invitée
• 1976: Amours collectives - 'Cathy'
• 1976: Apothéose porno
• 1977: Coctail porno
• 1977: René la canne (Rene the Cane)
• 1977: Hard Penetration
• 1977: Vibrations Sexuelles (Sexual Vibrations)
• 1977: Les queutardes
• 1977: Désirs et perversions
• 1977: Phantasmes (Once Upon a Virgin)
• 1989: Impudeur lesbiennes (direct-to-video)
• 2002: La finacée de Dracula (The Fiancee of Dracula) - 'Soeur à la corde à sauter'

External links

• Catherine Castel at the internet movie database