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Blanca Estrada
Blanca Estrada (born 1950) is a Spanish retired actress and presenter best known for her roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s in 20 films classified as . Biography Sister of the actress Gloria Estrada and cousin of Susana Estrada, Blanca became known in 1972 as the "hostess" or "secretary" of the first season of the Televisión Española contest '' Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'', along with such popular faces as ' and Yolanda Ríos. The next year she went to work as a presenter of the Valerio Lazarov variety show ' Her subsequent cinematic career focused on a series of films of high erotic content, among which stand out ''Una vela para el diablo'' (1973), ''El libro de buen amor'' (1975, with Patxi Andión, considered by '' Ya'' newspaper film critic Pascual Cebollada as "a broad sample of masculine and feminine nudity, in front and behind, and a constant tension or demonstration of eroticism illustrated with obscenities"), ''Metralleta Stein'' (1975), ''Dios bendiga cada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Felguera
La Felguera is a parish of Langreo, and the most important district in the municipality of Langreo (Principality of Asturias) in northern Spain, with 21.000 inhabitants. It is located 18 minutes by car to Oviedo, the capital of Asturias. La Felguera is close to the Nalón River. History In the 19th and first half of the 20th century, La Felguera was one of the most important iron and steelworks centers in Spain, located inside the mining region of Asturias. In 1858, Pedro Duro founded the Felguera Factory (currently '' DF Group'') one of the most influential coal and iron-work enterprises in Spain. The town was the first production site in Spain for: sheet steel for shipbuilding (1887), refractory bricks (1896), railways (1868), chemical products derived from ethylene (1957) and synthetic ammonia (1925). It also had the largest blast furnace in Spain in 1943. It was also an important point at workers' struggle. In addition La Felguera was declared the greatest cultural point of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historias Para No Dormir
''Historias para no dormir'' () is a Spanish horror anthology television series written and directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, produced by Televisión Española and broadcast on its flagship Primera Cadena network from 1966 to 1982. History This series marked Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's rise to fame. He had already been working with TVE since 1963, directing several previous series like ''Estudio 3'' and ''Mañana puede ser verdad'', but the success of this series made him a household name in Spain, as it covered a genre almost entirely unexplored in Spanish cinema and television at the time. The first season was started with the chapter titled ''El cumpleaños'' (''The birthday'') on February 4, 1966. It was the only chapter shot on 16mm film; the rest of the series was produced on videotape. It was an adaptation of a tale by Fredric Brown. The rest of the series saw original stories written by Serrador, like ''La alarma'' (''The Alarm''), or adapted screenplays from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Cami's Wedding
''Father Cami's Wedding'' (Spanish: ''La boda del señor cura'') is a 1979 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring José Sancho José Asunción Martínez (11 November 1944 – 3 March 2013) better known as José Sancho or Pepe Sancho, was a Spanish actor. Over a period of fifty years he appeared extensively in Spanish television and films. He was perhaps best known ..., José Bódalo and Manuel Tejada.Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer, 2008. p. 239. . Cast References External links * 1979 drama films Spanish drama films Films directed by Rafael Gil 1970s Spanish-language films 1970s Spanish films Films scored by Antón García Abril {{1970s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Naschy
Paul Naschy (born Jacinto Molina Álvarez, September 6, 1934 – November 30, 2009) was a Spanish film actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films. His portrayals of numerous classic horror figures—The Wolfman, Frankenstein's monster, Count Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Fu Manchu and a mummy—earned him recognition as the Spanish Lon Chaney. Naschy also starred in dozens of action films, historical dramas, crime films, TV shows and documentaries. He also wrote the screenplays for most of his films and directed a number of them as well, signing many of them "Jacinto Molina". King Juan Carlos I presented Naschy with Spain's Gold Medal Award for Fine Arts in 2001 in honor of his work, the Spanish equivalent of being knighted. Biography Naschy was born as Jacinto Molina Alvarez in Madrid in 1934, and grew up during the Spanish Civil War, a period of great turmoil in Spanish history. His father Enrique Molina was a successful furrier, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chumy Chúmez
Jose María González Castrillo, more known as Chumy Chúmez, (May 8, 1927 - April 10, 2003) was a Spanish cartoon humorist, writer and film director. Biography Born in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, received training as mercantile professor and later studied drawing and painting. Due to his passion for painting he travelled to Madrid, where he would be devoted to humor, with sporadic collaborations in newspapers and later regularly in the weekly magazines '' La Codorniz'' and '' Triunfo'' and also in the newspaper ''Madrid'', in which he used to write on the third page until it was suspended by government order in 1971. He also contributed ''Mundo Hispánico'' magazine. During the transition towards democracy in Spain he collaborated with the humor weekly magazine ''Hermano Lobo'', of which he was a founder. In the 1960s he directed several documentaries, a majority on Andalusian localities. He also collaborated writing up cinematographic scripts and he got to write some of his own. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Bergonzelli
Sergio Bergonzelli (25 August 1924 – 24 September 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Life and career Born in Alba, Cuneo, Bergonzelli graduated in Philosophy, then he started working as an actor with the stage name Siro Carme. After being assistant and second unit director in a number of genre films, in 1960 he made his debut as director and screenwriter with ''Seven in the Sun''. Also a film producer, Bergonzelli was the first to produce Spaghetti Western films entirely shot in Italy. In the 1970s he specialized in the erotic genre. Selected filmography ;Director * ''Seven in the Sun'' (1960)* * ''The Last Gun'' (1964) * ''Stranger in Sacramento'' (1965)* * '' The Sea Pirate'' (1966) * ''M.M.M. 83'' (1966)* * '' Colt in the Hand of the Devil'' (1967)* * ''In the Folds of the Flesh'' (1970) * ''Blood Delirium'' (N/A)* * '*' denotes he wrote the screenplay ;Actor * '' Messalina'' (1951) * ''The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo'' (1952) * ''La s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Merino
Jose Luis Merino (10 June 1927 – 2 July 2019) was a Spanish film writer and director who developed a cult following among horror film fans. Biography He was born in 1927 in Madrid, Spain, as José Luis Merino Boves, and went on to direct around 30 films during his long and varied career as director and writer (1958–1990), most of them action/adventure films, crime dramas, spaghetti westerns, war movies and costume dramas involving Robin Hood, pirates, Zorro etc. He is known to horror film fans for the two horror movies he directed in the early 1970s: ''Orgy of the Dead'' ( ''The Hanging Woman'') and ''Scream of the Demon Lover'' (a.k.a. ''Ivanna''), which have both become cult classics over the years. Merino never considered himself a horror film director, he chose rather to favor his many action/adventure films. He died on July 2, 2019, at age 92."Fallece José Luis Merino". Academia de cine (in Spanish). Retrieved July 6, 2019. Films Director *1958: ''Aquellos tiempos del cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Collinson (film Director)
Peter Collinson (1 April 1936 – 16 December 1980) was a British film director probably best remembered for directing ''The Italian Job'' (1969). Early life Peter Collinson was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire in 1936. His parents, an actress and a musician, separated when he was two years old; he was raised by his grandparents. From the age of eight until 14 he attended the Actor's Orphanage in Chertsey, Surrey, where he had the chance to write and act in many plays. Noël Coward, who was president of the orphanage at the time, became his godfather and helped him to obtain jobs in the entertainment industry, which was dramatized in the radio play '' Mr Bridger's Orphan'' by Marcy Kahan in 2013. (Collinson later directed Coward in his best-known film, ''The Italian Job'' (1969)). He auditioned for RADA but was rejected, so went to work for the New Cross Empire theatre when aged 14. He did a variety of theatrical jobs until 1954, when he was called up for national service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Season (1974 Film)
''Open Season'' is a 1974 film directed by Peter Collinson. It stars Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law, William Holden and Cornelia Sharpe. The film was shot in both Spain and England, with parts of those countries used to portray the American backwoods. The screenplay was by David Osborn and Liz Charles Williams, based on Osborn's novel. Plot The film follows three Vietnam veterans who are stimulated by violence, and by the subjugation and debasement of those they victimize. Every year they go on vacation in the wilderness, where they engage in a spree of brutality and violence. They choose unsuspecting pairs of victims and hunt them down like wild animals. This year, they decide to kidnap a middle-aged man and his young mistress. After enduring an intense period of sexual manipulation, beatings, and humiliation, the two victims are eventually given time to try and escape after which they will be tracked down and killed. Both make a break, separately, but are found and killed by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amando De Ossorio
Amando de Ossorio (6 April 1918 – 13 January 2001) was one of the foremost Spanish horror film directors during the European horror film surge in the 1970s, known especially for his "Blind Dead" tetralogy. Biography De Ossorio directed a short political film in 1956 called ''The Black Flag'', then spent the next few years doing documentaries and commercials. He was also a talented painter and artist. In 1964, he was hired to direct a few innocuous westerns and comedies, then he moved into horror in 1969 where he made his mark with '' Malenka, The Vampire's Niece''. Amando de Ossorio complained in interviews that right from the start of his directing career, his producers were always tampering with his projects. His first horror film, '' Malenka, The Vampire's Niece'' (1969), was written to be a psychological thriller about a young woman who inherits a castle in Europe and is summarily driven crazy by her uncle who tries to convince her that he and she are both vampires. At t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ghost Galleon
''The Ghost Galleon'' also known as ''El buque maldito'', is a 1974 Spanish horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio and starring Jack Taylor. It has numerous alternate titles, including ''The Blind Dead 3'', ''Horror of the Zombies'' and ''Ship of Zombies''. In Germany it was released as ''The Ghost Ship of the Swimming Corpses'' (German: ''Das Geisterschiff der schwimmenden Leichen''), though the German theatrical poster also has the title ''The Ghost Ship of the Blind Dead'' on it. The film is the third in Ossorio's "Blind Dead" series, and the sequel to '' Tombs of the Blind Dead'' (1972) and '' Return of the Blind Dead'' (1973). It was followed by the final entry, '' Night of the Seagulls'' (1975). Plot A pair of swimsuit models are out in a boat to stage a publicity stunt by appearing to be stranded. They discover a mysterious galleon shrouded in mist and board it. One of the models' roommates, a fellow model who has a lesbian crush on her friend confronts the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
León Klimovsky
León Klimovsky (16 October 1906 – 8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer. Biography A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show ''art movies''. He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929. After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's ''Se abre el abismo'', he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's ''The Player''. He also worked on adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' and Ernesto Sabato's ''The Tunnel''. During the 1950s, Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he became a full-time "professional" director. He directed many Spaghetti Westerns, Euro War and ''exploitation films'', filming in Mexico, Italy, Spain and Egypt. Horror film fans best remember him for his contributions to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
