Luis Escobar y Kirkpatrick, 7th Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir (5 September 1908 – 16 February 1991), was a
Spanish nobleman and actor.
He was an
actor
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,
playwright
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Etymology
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, and
theatre director
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who advanced the interests of
Teatro María Guerrero
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,
Teatro Español
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, and
Teatro Eslava. A flamboyant aristocrat, he was particularly known to have played ''el marqués de Leguineche'' (the Marquess of Leguineche) in
Luis García Berlanga
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's
comedy
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trilogy
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:
La Escopeta Nacional
''La escopeta nacional'' (in English, ''The National Shotgun'') is a 1978 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. The first installment in a critically and commercially successful trilogy, the picture is an indictment of the legacy ...
(1978),
Patrimonio Nacional
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(1981) and
Nacional III
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(1982). In 1950, he directed ''
La honradez de la cerradura,'' being nominated at the
1951 Cannes Film Festival
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.
Escobar never married and was openly
homosexual
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, especially after
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
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* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
democracy
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was restored in 1975. His niece, María Victoria Escobar y Cancho, succeeded him in the
Marquessate of Marismas del Guadalquivir at his death in 1991.
Selected filmography
Film
* ''
La Escopeta Nacional
''La escopeta nacional'' (in English, ''The National Shotgun'') is a 1978 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. The first installment in a critically and commercially successful trilogy, the picture is an indictment of the legacy ...
'' (1978)
* ''
Patrimonio Nacional
Patrimonio Nacional ( en, National Heritage) is a Spanish autonomous agency, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Presidency, that administers the sites owned by the Spanish State and used by the Monarch and the Spanish Royal Fami ...
'' (1981)
* ''
Nacional III
Nacional III is a Spanish comedy film from 1982 directed by Luis García Berlanga and written by him together with Rafael Azcona, the third part of the trilogy about the Leguineche family after La escopeta nacional (1978) and Patrimonio nacional ...
'' (1982)
* ''
La Colmena'' (1982)
Director
* ''
Malibran's Song
''Malibran's Song'' (Spanish: ''La canción de La Malibrán'') is a 1951 Spanish historical film, historical musical film directed by Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick, Luis Escobar.de España p.320 It is based on the life of the nineteenth century singer M ...
'' (1951)
See also
*
Spanish nobility
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References
External links
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1908 births
1991 deaths
Spanish nobility
Spanish male dramatists and playwrights
Spanish male film actors
Spanish gay writers
Male actors from Madrid
20th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Spanish male actors
20th-century Spanish male writers
20th-century LGBT people
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