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Juan López Moctezuma (1929 – August 2, 1995) was a Mexican filmmaker, television and radio presenter, and actor. He is best known for his controversial supernatural horror film, Alucarda (1977), which tells the story of a Satanic possession in a Catholic convent. He also collaborated with Alejandro Jodorowsky on Fando y Lis (1968) and later as producer on El Topo (1970). Moctezuma is also recognized as a nascent promoter of jazz in Mexico, when he broadcasted the genre for the first time on Mexican radio as a presenter for Radio UNAM, and later created Panorama de Jazz, the first radio program dedicated entirely to jazz in Latin America.

Prior to his filmmaking career, he worked in theater as a stage actor and assistant to Seki Sano. Moctezuma was also a presenter of cultural programs on Mexican television before being appointed by Emilio Azcárraga Milmo as director of Televisa Europa for 8 years. After being fired from Televisa and a divorce, he moved to Los Angeles. Later he returned to Mexico City at the behest of his relatives, and in 1993 he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because of Alzheimer's disease. He died on August 2, 1995.

Biography
He was born in Mexico City in 1929.

Moctezuma produced two of Alejandro Jodorowsky's early films, Fando y Lis (1968) and El Topo (1970). He moved on to work as a director, producing films all in the genres of supernatural horror and suspense: The Mansion of Madness (1973), Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975), To Kill a Stranger (1984), El Alimento del Miedo (1994), and Alucarda (1977).