Carlos Tobalina
Biography
Efrain "Carlos" Tobalina was born on April 5, 1925 in Peru. Tobalina emigrated to Brazil prior to moving to America in the early 1950's and eventually settling in California in 1956. Carlos worked as a used car salesman at various automobile dealerships and had a second moonlight gig as an announcer on a Spanish language radio station. Tobalina started his own film business C. Tobalina Productions, Inc. as well as married bookkeeper Maria Pia in 1964. Tobalina was a stepfather to Maria's daughter Gloria. Maria gave birth to another daughter named Linda in 1966. Carlos made his first adult movie with the softcore feature Infrasexum (1969). Tobalina became the owner of the Mayan Theater on Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles two years later (the Mayan Theater was the primary theatrical venue that Tobalina's films were shown at). Moreover, Carlos not only owned two homes in Corona Del Mar, but also owned both the Star Theater in La Puente and the X Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. A lot of Tobalina's explicit hardcore pictures were made at his house on 14930 Corona Del Mar. Carlos made well over forty X-rated movies starting from the early 1970's up until 1987. In addition, Carlos had several run-ins with the law about his constitutional right to make and distribute explicit hardcore fare and even went as far as to fight for his First Amendment rights in court. Tobalina committed suicide at age 63 on March 31, 1989. He explained in a suicide note that the reason he took his own life was because he was suffering from terminal liver cancer.
Known For & Full Filmography29 Titles
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Carlos
A middle-aged man is having problems trying to regain his sexual drive. He leaves behind his old life and tries to discover a simpler happiness through painting and meeting new friends. Wanting to save him from a sexless fate, his friend (director Carlos Tobalina in a supporting role) attempts to solve the mystery of his sexual shortcomings, through any means possible. Filled with incredible footage of Las Vegas, the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere, as well as subplots involving kidnapping, and even a bit of unexpected gore, filmmaker Carlos Tobalina’s debut feature is a totally unique sexploitation experiment that showcases many of the stylistic touches that would become his trademarks, along with a cast of beautiful starlets, including Sharon Matt and Marsha Jordan.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Marco
Bill Westland is a wealthy industrialist who now only intends to devote himself to his pleasures. He barely manages to make a few decisions about his myriad businesses or sign a few checks every week. He spends most of his time in a magnificent Hollywood villa in the company of his young wife and her many friends living a life of love that is as inventive and renewed as possible.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Previously lost reconceptualization of Bill Cable's unfinished early 70s epic titled "What is Love," which deals with themes of romantic obsession and Christian blasphemy.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A pair of tough guys hole up in an inn in the slums of Hong Kong. One of them is murdered and the other narrowly avoids several attempts on his life. He goes into hiding in the room of the working girl Yen. Yen uses her secret lovemaking technique on the assassin Wang.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Claude Mattel
Claude, a wealthy man in his 30s, arrives in Rio de Janeiro to check out the plush and expensive brothels he's heard about. At one of them he meets Sonia, and the two are soon engaged in a hot and heavy relationship, making the rounds of Rio's fabulous night life. Claude is shocked, however, when he discovers that Sonia isn't just a beautiful prostitute he's patronizing--she's his long-lost daughter. He brings her back to his mansion in the United States, which he shares with his jealous girlfriend Silvia. Complications ensue.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Professor
Two friends have decided to take their lusty passions on the road, and to help them on their journey, purchase a big rig truck. They're soon inundated with more beautiful women than they can handle, including Seka, Brook West, and Juliet Anderson, and find themselves going from one sex filled adventure to the next, along the Carnal Highways.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Self
A fake documentary about the early adult film industry.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Impresario Carlos
A young woman drifts into a life of prostitution after being sexually assaulted by her father. On a trip to Acapulco, she falls in love with a handsome bullfighter.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Everyone is invited to the sex party to end all sex parties!
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Lopez
Two detectives are hired to go to Las Vegas and find a millionaire's missing daughter. On their way, they go through many erotic adventures.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Skinflick director (uncredited)
A history of the pornography industry as it developed in New York City.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Dr. Carlos
Lecherous old Harry is dying in the hospital. Uncertain as to how he should will his massive fortune, he makes a wager with his four children to challenge them to engage in the wildest and most erotic sexual escapades they can think of, with the winner being the sole beneficiary of the inheritance. However, if all four fail to impress, the money will be given over to charity. Eager to make a bid for the cash, each of the siblings indulge their most orgiastic fantasies as Harry watches the action on a closed circuit TV set from the confines of his hospital bed. But even in his sickly state, Harry cant keep his own libido at bay and soon begins to indulge his own sexual appetite with his doctors, nurses, and other members of the hospital staff.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Self
Superstars Mai Lin and Serena enter a sexual battle while vying for the starring role in Carlos Tobalina’s next film.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Father Carlos
A man lusts after his nubile stepdaughter, knowing the sinful nature of his desires. Can he satisfy his lust with others or will his secret fantasies send him over the edge?
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Dr. Carlos
A sex therapy camp where unsatisfied couples live out their fantasies in a non-stop orgy of carnal delights.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Gino (uncredited)
Luscious Danielle learns the sensual arts early from her adopted parents, she goes to live with her Aunt to start college. She quickly meets the hottest girl on campus and gains employment in a brothel where she learns things that she could never have imagined.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Doctor
When an exploitative doctor reveals a woman's husband gave her gonorrhea, she separates from her husband and immediately mounts a lover. She then heads from a yacht-owning friend to a women-only sex party. Can makeup sex fix everything?
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Doctor
Bumbling, desperate, and libidinous foreign exchange student Fernando isn't having any luck scoring with the ladies until his best friend Dave hooks him up with a used book on how to seduce women through using hypnotism.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as El Conde de la Riva
Set in the renaissance era, this prequel finds the great lover battling villains and saving maidens in a variety of hilarious experiences.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as TV Producer (uncredited)
This is the story of a guy who's sperm was so potent he could get any woman pregnant, and he goes on the Joanna Carson show to tell his story.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After a long day's shoot, Carlos Tobalina invites his friends over for a champagne party, only to find them engaged in the most extensive orgy ever photographed.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Dr. Carlos
Continues the escapades of the naughty, hospital bedridden Harry as he continues to use closed-circuit TV to spy on his adopted children's sexpots as well as getting it on with various nurses.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Rancher
Two men escape from a county jail and hold a group of beautiful swingers hostage in a remote brothel. As sexual chaos ensues, can anyone stop the orgies before it's too late?
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Doctor
The comings and goings of doctors and nurses at a wacky hospital, and an equally wacky boarding house where a number of the staff members live.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Purchaser in Leather Coat
A man happens to buy a very special accordion. Its music makes any woman incredibly horny and lustful, makes her forget about everything and just yield to temptation, no matter what. Maybe this is hard to believe, but as soon as the new accordion owner tried it out he knew it was true. His fiancee was the first to lose her mind, then her friends experienced the magic of the accordion, and that was only the beginning.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Daddy
With their marriage on the rocks, Jo Ann and Bruce split and become born again sexual thrillseekers. You won't believe what goes on inside the house of forbidden dreams. Where depraved Madame Zolia provides Jo Ann with many an electrifying sexual fantasy that make sparks fly. But don't count Bruce out either. He goes to Vegas where Mai Lin works on his chopsticks till there ain't no more. Banzai! Needless to say, after this wild interlude of Lust the horny couple gets back together and lives hotly ever after.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Dr. Karloff
A man takes his gay son Rick to a world-famous therapist known for curing homosexuality. Using hypnosis and sexy women, the Dr. introduces Ricky to some rod-raising heterosexual treatments to convert him from a gay man to a straight stud.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Capt. Torres
Private eye Johnny Wadd travels down to Mexico at the request of his old army friend, Sam, to help bust up a drug smuggling operation led by a ruthless gangster named Tyler Elliott in which Sam's ex-wife Doreen is now the wife of the gangster. However, Johnny soon finds plenty of time in between the shootouts and fistfights with various goons get some action with the local women.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young woman inherits a lot of money and decides to fulfill her dream--go to San Francisco, make porn movies and have sex with John Holmes.