José María Elorrieta (1921–1974) was a Spanish

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

and

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. He wrote or directed a number of Spaghetti Westerns.Weisser p.168

Selected filmography

Director

* '' María Dolores'' (1953) * '' Flame Over Vietnam'' (1957) * '' The Fan'' (1958) * '' The Showgirl'' (1960) * '' Today's Melodies'' (1960) * '' The University Chorus'' (1960) * '' You Have the Eyes of a Deadly Woman'' (1962) * '' Apache Fury'' (1964) * '' Fuerte perdido'' (1965) * '' The Treasure of Makuba'' (1967) - as Joe Lacy * '' A Witch Without a Broom'' (1967) - as Joe Lacy * '' The Vengeance of Pancho Villa'' (1967) * '' The Emerald of Artatama'' (1969)

Screenwriter

* ''

Devil's Roundup ''Devil's Roundup'' (Spanish: ''El cerco del diablo'') is a 1952 Spanish drama film directed by Antonio del Amo, Enrique Gómez, Edgar Neville, José Antonio Nieves Conde and Arturo Ruiz Castillo.Betz p.248 Cast * Fernando Aguirre as Pescad ...

'' (1952) * '' Curra Veleta'' (1956)

References

Bibliography

* Thomas Weisser. ''Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977''. McFarland, 2005.

External links

* 1921 births 1974 deaths Spanish film directors Spanish male screenwriters Mass media people from Madrid 20th-century Spanish screenwriters 20th-century Spanish male writers {{Spain-film-bio-stub