Ramón Peón (1887–1971) was a Cuban
actor
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,
screenwriter
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and
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 also produced and edited some of his films.
[Hershfield & Maciel, p. 41]
Selected filmography
* ''
El veneno de un beso'' (1929)
* ''
Road of Hell'' (1931)
* ''
Sanctuary
A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into human sanctuary, a saf ...
'' (1933)
* ''
La Llorona
''La Llorona'' (; "The Weeping Woman" or "The Wailer") is a Hispanic-American mythical vengeful ghost who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned.
Origins
Early colonial times provided evidence that the lore ...
'' (1933)
* ''
Heroic Silence'' (1935)
* ''
Women of Today'' (1936)
* ''
A Dangerous Adventure'' (1939)
* ''
Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: ''Lachryma papaveris'') is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which i ...
'' (1949)
References
Bibliography
* Joanne Hershfield & David R. Maciel. ''Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers''. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
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1887 births
1971 deaths
Cuban film editors
Cuban film producers
Cuban screenwriters
Cuban male writers
Male screenwriters
Cuban male film actors
Cuban film directors
People from Havana
20th-century screenwriters
Cuban emigrants to Puerto Rico
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