Luis García Berlanga

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-07-12 (89 years old)

Deathday

2010-11-13

Place of Birth

Valencia, España

Luis García Berlanga

Biography

One of the best known filmmakers in the world and director of some of the most famous films of Spanish cinema, tender in his vision of the characters, but satirical to the point of biting in his social analysis, clearly critical despite the censorship of the Franco regime. He was born in 1921 into a wealthy Valencian family. After the Second World War, he studied at the Escuela Oficial de Cine (IIEC/EOC), where he would later become a professor. There he met Juan Antonio Bardem, and together they made their first film. His narrative ability, together with the sharpness of his satire, bordering on nonsense, made him a popular filmmaker, but al...

Acting

2022

El joven Berlanga

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

1980

Erotic Stories

as Hombre del metro

2005

Calle Bardem

as Interviewee

1959

Streetcar for Sale

as Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)

1967

Las pirañas

as Film Buff

2009

2011

Enrique Herreros

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

1968

Tuset Street

as Aparicio

1968

Días de viejo color

as Mr. Marshall

2025

Production

1963

The Executioner

as Director

1963

The Executioner

as Screenplay

1953

1953

1999

París-Tombuctú

as Director

1985

The Heifer

as Director

1962

Placido

as Director

1954

1954

Boyfriend in Sight

as Screenplay

1957

1957

1981

1982

National III

as Director

1993

1974

Life Size

as Director

1953

1987

1987

1978

1978

1962

The Four Truths

as Director

1967

Las pirañas

as Director

1964

1957

Miracles of Thursday

as Screenstory

1959

We Are 18 Years Old

as Associate Producer

1962

Placido

as Screenstory

1999

1985

The Heifer

as Screenplay

1985

The Heifer

as Story

1950

El circo

as Director

1953

That Happy Couple

as Screenplay

1959

1981

1982

National III

as Writer

1967

Las pirañas

as Screenplay

1974

Life Size

as Writer

1956

1962

Placido

as Screenplay

1958

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