José María Fernández Unsáin

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-08-10 (79 years old)

Deathday

1997-06-18

Place of Birth

Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina

José María Fernández Unsáin

Biography

José María Fernández Unsáin (10 August 1918 – 18 June 1997) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter, and playwright. He was exiled to Mexico after the 1955 Revolución Libertadora, because of his cultural relationship with Eva Perón[2] and The National Theatre or Comedy, Cervantes National Theatre (first director), and the Labour Worker Theatre of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT) (founder with others artists and directors). He migrated to Mexico in 1958 and worked on the screenplays of hundreds of films over the next several decades, including Sed de amor directed by Alfonso Corona Blake (1958); La diligencia de la muerte dire...

Production

1951

Tierra extraña

as Adaptation

1959

1966

Dr. Satan

as Screenplay

1964

1965

Amor de adolescente

as Screenplay

1960

Ship of the Monsters

as Screenstory

1964

Canción del alma

as Screenplay

1970

1970

1963

1967

1974

1970

1970

1962

1968

1967

1963

1965

1965

El padre diablo

as Screenplay

1966

1974

The Kidnapping

as Director

1967

Adios cuñado

as Adaptation

1965

1963

1961

1962

El Extra

as Story

1968

1960

Violent Summer

as Screenplay

1960

Calibre 44

as Story

1962

Las recién casadas

as Screenplay

1975

Cristo te ama

as Director

1964

1974

1974

1952

El baldío

as Screenplay

1964

1960

1967

1958

Upper Paraná

as Writer

1969

1968

1970

1970

1970

1964

1958

Dos basuras

as Script

1958

Dos basuras

as Author

1957

1957

Alfonsina

as Writer

1974

Pobre niño rico

as Director

1970

1959

1954

Río Turbio

as Writer

1964

Napoleoncito

as Writer

1964

Campeón del barrio

as Screenplay

1963

Heart of a Child

as Adaptation

1963

Un tipo a todo dar

as Screenplay

1963

1962

Los forajidos

as Screenplay

1962

Los forajidos

as Writer

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