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Antonio Momplet

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
0

Gender
Male

Birthday
January 1, 1899 (127 years old)

Place of Birth
Cádiz, Spain

Antonio Momplet

Biography

Antonio Momplet (1899 – August 10, 1974) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He worked in Spain, France, Argentina and Mexico.

Antonio Momplet was born in Cádiz , Andalusia . He worked as a journalist and translator of foreign films in Barcelona until 1927, when he moved to Paris and began to work for Gaumont . In the mid-1930s he moved back to Spain where he directed four feature films and founded the film journal Cine Art , which quickly became influential. To avoid the Spanish Civil War , he moved to Argentina in 1937, and made eight feature films the following years. In 1943 he moved to Mexico to join the film industry there, and made a number of Mexican films both as director and writer for others, before he moved back to Buenos Aires in 1946. In 1952 he returned to Spain. During his final Spanish period he made films such as the Spaghetti Western parody Due contro tutti , before he retired in 1964. He settled in Cadaqués where he died in 1974.

Known For

Writing

1965Jandro...Story
1961Julia y el celacanto...Screenplay
1954Viento del norte...Writer
1951Singer Cafe...Writer
1947A media luz...Writer
1946Everybody's Woman...Writer
1945He Who Died of Love...Writer
1945Vertigo...Writer
1944Amok...Writer
1944El corsario negro...Screenplay
1943Los hijos artificiales...Writer
1941Napoleón...Writer
1940Petróleo...Writer
1938Turbión...Writer

Directing

1962Two Against All...Director
1961The Invincible Gladiator...Director
1961Julia y el celacanto...Director
1959Las de Caín...Director
1957Buongiorno primo amore!...Director
1954Viento del norte...Director
1953La hija del mar...Director
1951Singer Cafe...Director
1950Toscanito y los detectives...Director
1949Yo no elegí mi vida...Director
1949La otra y yo...Director
1947La cumparsita...Director
1947A media luz...Director
1946El Buen Mozo...Director
1946Remolino de pasión...Director
1945Vertigo...Director
1944Amok...Director
1943Los hijos artificiales...Director
1942En el viejo Buenos Aires...Director
1941El hermano José...Director
1941Novios para las muchachas...Director
1938Turbión...Director

Production

1946El Buen Mozo...Producer

Acting