Antonio Momplet (1899 – 10 August 1974) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He worked in Spain, France, Argentina and Mexico.
Life and career
Antonio Momplet was born in
Cádiz
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Cádiz, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe, ...
,
Andalusia
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. He worked as a journalist and translator of foreign films in Barcelona until 1927, when he moved to Paris and began to work for
Gaumont. In the mid 1930s he moved back to Spain where he directed four feature films and founded the film journal ''Cine Art'', which quickly became influential. To avoid the
Spanish Civil War
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, he moved to Argentina in 1937, and made eight feature films the following years. In 1943 he moved to Mexico to join the film industry there, and made a number of Mexican films both as director and writer for others, before he moved back to Buenos Aires in 1946. In 1952 he returned to Spain. During his final Spanish period he made films such as the
Spaghetti Western parody ''Due contro tutti'', before he retired in 1964. He settled in
Cadaqués where he died in 1974.
Filmography
;Director
* ''
La farándula'' (1935)
* ''
Hombres contra hombres'' (1937)
* ''
La millona'' (1937)
* ''
Turbión'' (1938)
* ''
El hermano José'' (1941)
* ''
Novios para las muchachas
''Sweethearts for the Girls'' ( es, Novios para las muchachas) is a 1941 Argentine comedy film directed by Antonio Momplet and starring Santiago Arrieta.
Cast
* Tito Lusiardo
* Amelia Bence
* Felisa Mary
* Nélida Bilbao
* Paquita Vehil
* Silv ...
'' (1941)
* ''
En el viejo Buenos Aires'' (1942)
* ''
Los hijos artificiales'' (1943)
* ''
Amok'' (1944)
* ''
Remolino de pasión'' (1945)
* ''
Dizziness
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Dizziness is a common medical c ...
'' (''Vértigo'') (1946)
* ''
Bel Ami
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The story chronicles journalist ...
'' (1947)
* ''
La cumparsita'' (1947)
* ''
A media luz'' (1947)
* ''
La otra y yo
''La otra y yo'' is a 1949 Argentine comedy film directed by Antonio Momplet and starring Amelia Bence, Enrique Alvarez Diosdado, Fernando Lamas and Mercedes Simone
Mercedes Simone (April 21, 1904, Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires - October 2, 1990) w ...
'' (1949)
* ''
Yo no elegí mi vida'' (1949)
* ''
Toscanito y los detectives'' (1950)
* ''
Café Cantante'' (1951)
* ''
La mujer sin lágrimas'' (1951)
* ''
La hija del mar'' (1953)
* ''
Viento del norte'' (1954)
* ''
Buongiorno primo amore!'' (1957)
* ''
Las de Caín'' (1959)
* ''
Julia y el celacanto'' (1961)
* ''
The Invincible Gladiator'' (''El gladiador invencible'') (1962)
* ''
Due contro tutti'' (1962)
;Writer
* ''
Petróleo'' (1936)
* ''Hombres contra hombres'' (1937)
* ''La millona'' (1937)
* ''Turbión'' (1939)
* ''
Napoleón'' (1941)
* ''Los hijos artificiales'' (1943)
* ''Amok'' (1944)
* ''
El corsario negro'' (1944)
* ''
He Who Died of Love'' (1945)
* ''Lágrimas de sangre'' (1946)
* ''
La mujer de todos
''La mujer de todos'' is a 1946 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring María Félix, Armando Calvo and Gloria Lynch.Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures p.555 It is an adaptation of the 1848 novel ...
'' (1946)
* ''Vértigo'' (1947)
* ''A media luz'' (1947)
* ''Café Cantante'' (1951)
* ''Viento del norte'' (1954)
* ''Julia y el celacanto'' (1961)
* ''Jandro'' (1965)
* ''The Invincible Gladiator'' (''El gladiador invencible'') (1962)
References
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1899 births
1974 deaths
People from Cádiz
Spanish expatriates in Argentina
Spanish expatriates in France
Spanish expatriates in Mexico
Film directors from Andalusia
Spanish male writers
Male screenwriters
20th-century Spanish screenwriters
20th-century Spanish male writers