Juan de Orduña

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1900-12-26 (74 years old)

Deathday

1974-02-02

Place of Birth

Madrid, Spain

Juan de Orduña

Biography

Juan de Orduña y Fernández-Shaw (Madrid, December 27, 1900-id., February 3, 1974) was a Spanish film director and actor. Born into a family of aristocrats, he studied law. His artistic career as an actor began in the twenties, joining Emilio Thuiller's theater company. In the following years he took part in numerous silent plays. He participated as a leading actor in the first sound film of Spanish cinema, El misterio de la Puerta del Sol (1929). After the arrival of sound films, his presence in front of the camera became less frequent, although he would still participate in films of certain renown such as Nobleza baturra (1935), by Florián ...

Acting

1930

1926

Pilar Guerra

as Luciano

1935

Nobleza baturra

as Sebastián

1936

El cura de aldea

as Diego Núñez

2022

La Antorcha de los Éxitos: Cifesa (1932-1961)

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

1925

1924

1942

Flora y Mariana

as Gerardo

1972

To the Devil, with Love

as Vigilante del faro

1943

Fin de curso

as Self (uncredited)

1940

Leyenda rota

as José María

1955

Zalacaín el aventurero

as (no acreditado)

1939

Ya viene el cortejo…

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Production

1943

1958

La Tirana

as Director

1955

El Padre Pitillo

as Director

1962

1947

1941

1970

1951

Dawn of America

as Director

1969

Bohemians

as Director

1969

Bohemians

as Writer

1948

Locura de amor

as Director

1942

1950

Pequeñeces

as Director

1968

1946

Un drama nuevo

as Director

1946

1965

Rustic Chivalry

as Director

1957

The Last Couplet

as Director

1951

1944

Tuvo la culpa Adán

as Screenplay

1944

1946

White Mission

as Director

1946

White Mission

as Screenplay

1966

Delitto d'amore

as Director

1954

Reeds and Mud

as Director

1954

Reeds and Mud

as Producer

1950

1963

Bochorno

as Director

1969

La revoltosa

as Director

1972

El caserío

as Director

1961

Teresa de Jesús

as Director

1950

1958

Música de ayer

as Director

1951

1963

Bochorno

as Writer

1963

Bochorno

as Producer

1969

1969

Maruxa

as Director

1968

Las golondrinas

as Director

1968

1947

1965

1943

Autumn Roses

as Director

1941

1941

1944

Yo no me caso

as Director

1944

Yo no me caso

as Writer

1958

La Tirana

as Producer

1951

Dawn of America

as Screenplay

1957

The Last Couplet

as Producer

1955

El Padre Pitillo

as Producer

1939

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