Carlos Tobalina (filmmaker)

Efrain "Carlos" Tobalina, also known as Carlos Tobalina and often credited as Troy Benny, was a Peruvian-born filmmaker and actor known for his work on pornographic films. He directed such films as Infrasexum (1969), Jungle Blue (1978), Three Ripening Cherries (1979), Sensual Fire (1980), and Flesh and Bullets (1985). He became the owner of several adult theaters, and was involved in court cases related to obscenity laws. In 1989, he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head at one of his houses in Los Angeles.

Early life

Tobalina was born in 1925 in Peru, and immigrated to Brazil and then to the United States in the early 1950s. He arrived in California in 1956, and over the next few years, he worked as both a car salesman at a number of car dealerships and a Spanish-language announcer. ==Career==

Career

In 1964, Tobalina founded C. Tobalina Productions, Inc., his film company. In September 1971, the Los Angeles County Superior Court declared Tobalina guilty of violating a California Penal Code regarding the exhibition of obscene material for screening the 1971 film Januarius. ==Personal life==

Personal life

Tobalina married a bookkeeper named Maria Pia Palfrader in 1964, becoming a stepfather to her young daughter Gloria. Two years later, in 1966, he and Maria had a daughter named Linda. ==Death==

Death

On March 31, 1989, Tobalina's wife Maria found him lying unresponsive in the enclosed back patio of one of his houses in the neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. He was discovered with a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver in his right hand, and was declared dead from a gunshot wound to the head. He had written a suicide note which explained that he was suffering from terminal liver cancer. ==Partial filmography==

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