Carlos Velo (15 November 1909 – 10 March 1988) was a Spanish

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. He directed 45 films between 1934 and 1983. His 1956 film '' Torero!'' was nominated for an

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

for Best Documentary Feature.

Selected filmography

* '' Torero!'' (1956) * ''

Sonatas Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''canta ...

'' (1959) * ''

Pedro Páramo ''Pedro Páramo'' is a novel written by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo about a man named Juan Preciado, who promises his mother on her deathbed to meet Preciado's father for the first time in the town of Comala, only to come across a literal ghost t ...

'' (1967)

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* * 1909 births 1988 deaths People from the Province of Ourense Mexican film directors Mexican film producers Spanish film directors Spanish film producers Spanish screenwriters Spanish male writers Male screenwriters 20th-century Mexican screenwriters 20th-century Mexican male writers {{Spain-film-bio-stub