José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 19474 February 2020) was a Spanish

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...

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and producer. He was born in

Albacete Albacete (, also , ; ar, ﭐَلبَسِيط, Al-Basīṭ) is a city and municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and capital of the province of Albacete. Lying in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, t ...

and died on 4 February 2020 at the age of 72 in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

from an

embolism An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. The embolus may be a blood clot (thrombus), a fat globule (fat embolism), a bubble of air or other gas ( gas embolism), amniotic fluid (am ...

. He won four

Goya Awards The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sci ...

: in

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

and

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; Protests ...

Filmography as director

* 1982 – '' Pares y nones'' * 1983 – '' Total (film for TV)'' * 1985 – '' Mala racha (film for TV)'' * 1987 – ''

El bosque animado ''The Enchanted Forest'' ( es, El bosque encantado, links=no) is a 1987 Spanish comedy-fantasy film directed by José Luis Cuerda and written by Rafael Azcona, based on the eponymous novel written by Wenceslao Fernández Flórez. The film has a ...

'' * 1989 – '' Amanece, que no es poco'' * 1991 – '' La viuda del capitán Estrada'' * 1992 – '' La marrana'' * 1993 – '' Tocando fondo'' * 1995 – ''

Así en el cielo como en la tierra ''Así en el cielo como en la tierra'' (In heaven as it is on earth, referencing the Our Father) is a 1995 Spanish comedy film directed by José Luis Cuerda. Plot Matacanes arrives at Heaven but it is not exactly as he imagined it, as it resembl ...

'' * 1999 – '' Butterfly's Tongue'' * 2000 – ''

Primer amor ''Primer amor, a mil por hora'' (English: ''First Love, A Thousand per Hour'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Pedro Damián for Televisa in 2000. It is a remake of another Televisa telenovela titled ''Quinceañera''. This teen-oriented soap ...

'' * 2004 – '' ¡Hay motivo!'' (episode: "Por el mar corre la liebre") * 2006 – '' The Education of Fairies'' * 2008 – '' The Blind Sunflowers'' * 2012 – '' Todo es silencio'' * 2018 – '' Tiempo después''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuerda, Jose Luis 1947 births 2020 deaths People from Albacete Spanish film directors Film directors from Castilla–La Mancha Spanish male screenwriters Spanish film producers Deaths from embolism 20th-century Spanish screenwriters 20th-century Spanish male writers 21st-century Spanish screenwriters