José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

José Luis Sáenz de Heredia y Osio ( born April 10, 1911 in Madrid, † November 4, 1992 ) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.

Life

Against the wishes of his aristocratic family, would love to see him as an architect or navy officer is Sáenz de Heredia the young studio of Serafin Ballesteros, turned right at after his military service and turned the age of 23 his first two films as a director after selbstgeschriebenem script.

After two comedies and an appearance as an actor in a monitored by Luis Buñuel film (with whom he has been a lifetime friend, despite very different political view ) he was arrested by the Communists at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, almost lost his life and fought for franquistischer troops. In 1939, he directed documentaries; he was the " house director " of General Franco.

In 1941, he returned with a comedy back into the game film bearings and began a long series of hugely successful films, the times lighter nature, times were politically much as the value written by Francisco Franco himself race. In the 1950s, he was the Director of the National Film Institute. He also found time for documentaries about Real Madrid and General Franco. By 1975, he turned so 40 films in which he himself often had a cameo appearance. With the end of the Franco regime he retired.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

External links and sources

• José Luis Sáenz de Heredia at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography (in French )

• Screenwriter
• Film Director
• Spaniard
• Born in 1911
• Died in 1992
• Man