Luis García Berlanga

Director, Escritor, Actor, Productor

12 de julio de 1921 — 13 de noviembre de 2010 (89 años)
One of the best known filmmakers in the world and director of some of the most famous films of Spanish cinema, tender in his vision of the characters, but satirical to the point of biting in his social analysis, clearly critical despite the censorship of the Franco regime. He was born in 1921 into a wealthy Valencian family. After the Second World War, he studied at the Escuela Oficial de Cine (IIEC/EOC), where he would later become a professor. There he met Juan Antonio Bardem, and together they made their first film. His narrative ability, together with the sharpness of his satire, bordering on nonsense, made him a popular filmmaker, but also valued by critics. Nevertheless, within his comic line he oscillates between tenderness and the grotesqueness of his choral comedies. Between both extremes are his first films, written in collaboration with Rafael Azcona, in which he develops a black humor, characteristic of both, corrosive denunciations of social hypocrisy and the death penalty. In recent years he was president of the Filmoteca Nacional de España and director of a collection of erotic novels and short stories.

Conocido por

  • ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!
    ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!1953
  • Plácido
    Plácido1961
  • La escopeta nacional
    La escopeta nacional1978
  • La vaquilla
    La vaquilla1985
  • Calabuch
    Calabuch1956
  • Todos a la cárcel
    Todos a la cárcel1993
  • Patrimonio nacional
    Patrimonio nacional1981
  • Los jueves, milagro
    Los jueves, milagro1957
  • París-Tombuctú
    París-Tombuctú1999
  • El extraño viaje
    El extraño viaje1964
  • Nacional III
    Nacional III1982
  • Moros y cristianos
    Moros y cristianos1987
  • Tamaño natural
    Tamaño natural1974
  • ¡Vivan los novios!
    ¡Vivan los novios!1970
  • Novio a la vista
    Novio a la vista1954
  • Esa pareja feliz
    Esa pareja feliz1985
  • Las pirañas
    Las pirañas1967
  • Tenemos 18 años
    Tenemos 18 años1959
  • Las cuatro verdades
    Las cuatro verdades1962
  • El sueño de la maestra
    El sueño de la maestra2002

Filmography

2001
Corazón de bombón · as Berlanga
2000
1998
1982
1981
Trágala, perro · as Cast
1980
Erotic Stories · as Hombre Del Metro
1977
Tigres de papel · as Matón Ultraderechista
1968
Tuset Street · as Aparicio
1968
Días de viejo color · as Mr. Marshall
1968
1967
Las pirañas · as Film Buff
1967
1959
Se vende un tranvía · as Comprador De La Baliza Aerostática (uncredited)

2022
2010
2009
Por la gracia de Luis · as Himself
2006
XX premios Goya · as Self
2005
2000
1988
Juego de niños · as Self - Contestant
1985
1984
1976
A Fondo · as Self

1959
We Are 18 Years Old · as Associate Producer

1994
1964
Strange Voyage · as Idea
1963
La muerte y el leñador · as Story & Dialogue
1961
Placido · as Screenstory
1954