Efrain "Carlos" Tobalina (1925 – March 31, 1989),^[1][2] also known as Carlos Tobalina and often credited as Troy Benny,^[3][4] 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.

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Tobalina was born in 1925 in Peru, and emigrated to Brazil and then to the United States in the early 1950s.^[1] 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.^[1]

In 1964, Tobalina founded C. Tobalina Productions, Inc., his film company.^[1] He made his debut as a film director and actor with the 1969 film Infrasexum. By the autumn of 1971, Tobalina had become the owner of the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles, California after purchasing it for around $300,000.^[1][2] Throughout the decade, Tobalina and his wife Maria Pia Palfrader took ownership of a small number of adult theaters, including the X Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and the Star Theater in La Puente.^[1]

Tobalina married a bookkeeper named Maria Pia Palfrader in 1964, becoming a stepfather to her young daughter Gloria.^[1] Two years later, in 1966, he and Maria had a daughter named Linda.^[1]

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.^[1] 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.^[1] He had written a suicide note which explained that he was suffering from terminal liver cancer.^[1]