Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (also known as Chicho Ibáñez Serrador or Luis Peñafiel; 4 July 1935 – 7 June 2019) was a Spanish film, television and theater director, actor and screenwriter.

Biography

Serrador was born in 1935 in

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and from an early age was influenced by the world of acting: his father was the Spanish theater director

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, while his mother was Argentinian actress

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. He spent his childhood in Latin America accompanying his parents during their tour performances. In 1947 he moved to Spain, where he attended high school in the city of

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. He began to work with a theater company and made his theater director debut with ''

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'' by

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. In 1963 he began to work in Spanish television and later transitioned to feature films and directed such films as '' The House That Screamed'' and '' Who Can Kill a Child?'' The two works that gave him fame in Spain were on television, they were the game show '' Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'' and the horror series ''

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''. In 2001, Ibáñez Serrador received the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. He died on 7 June 2019 from a

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at the age of 83.

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, ''La Residencia: An Analysis'', in ''Filmfax'' (1999)

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* Spanish film directors Spanish film producers Spanish male screenwriters Horror film directors Spanish people of Uruguayan descent Spanish people of Asturian descent Spanish people of Argentine descent Uruguayan people of Spanish descent Uruguayan people of Asturian descent Uruguayan people of Argentine descent People from Montevideo Uruguayan expatriates in Spain Infectious disease deaths in Spain Deaths from urinary tract infection 1935 births 2019 deaths {{Spain-film-director-stub