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José Luis Merino

Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Additional Credits
Born June 10, 1927Died July 2, 2019 (92 years)
Jose Luis Merino (10 June 1927 – 2 July 2019) was a Spanish film writer and director who developed a cult following among horror film fans.

He was born in 1927 in Madrid, Spain, as José Luis Merino Boves, and went on to direct around 30 films during his long and varied career as director and writer (1958–1990), most of them action/adventure films, crime dramas , spaghetti westerns, war movies and costume dramas involving Robin Hood, pirates, Zorro etc. He is known to horror film fans for the two horror movies he directed in the early 1970s: Orgy of the Dead ( aka The Hanging Woman ) and Scream of the Demon Lover (aka Ivanna ), which have both become cult classics over the years. Merino never considered himself a horror film director, he chose rather to favor his many action/adventure films. He died on July 2, 2019, at age 92.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Requiem for a Gringo
  • For One Thousand Dollars Per Day
  • More Dollars for the MacGregors
Known For
  • The Hanging Woman
  • Gatling Gun
  • Begin the Beguine
  • Requiem for a Gringo
  • El crack dos
  • Double Feature
  • Hell Commandos
  • Alone in the Dark
  • Unfinished Business
  • For One Thousand Dollars Per Day
  • When Heroes Die
  • The Battle of the Last Panzer
  • Course Completed
  • Lazarillo
  • More Dollars for the MacGregors
  • Express Train from Andalucía
  • Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North
  • Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines
  • Zorro, Rider of Vengeance
  • Slaughter on the Khyber Pass
  • La rebelión de los bucaneros
  • Robin Hood: the Invincible Archer
  • Europa canta
  • A Bullet for Rommel

Filmography

2004
2000
You're the One · as Aldeano 1
1998
The Grandfather · as Camarero Casino
1997
1985
La huella del crimen (TV Series) · as Policía
1983
El crack dos · as Meri
1981
El crack · as Meri
1980
Viva la clase media · as Camarero
1979

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