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Luis Marquina

Luis Marquina

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Luis Marquina Pichot (Barcelona, May 25, 1904-Madrid, June 26, 1980) was a Spanish sound engineer, screenwriter, producer and film director. Son of the playwright Eduardo Marquina and by maternal branch of the Pitxot family (whose surname he Spanishized to Pichot) in whose family he had three artist uncles: Ramón, painter; Ricardo, cellist and student of Pau Casals; Luis, violinist; and María, opera singer known as María Gay. The Pitxot family had a great friendship with the Dalí family of Figueras, so the young Luis met and befriended Salvador Dalí. Despite the literary and artistic environment in which he was educated, he decided to study a technical career, Industrial Engineering, specializing in the then pioneering techniques of sound recording, of great application with the advent of sound film. In 1933 he was appointed assistant technical sound director of the CEA studios in Ciudad Lineal, where he was in charge of such significant films as El agua en el suelo, Doña Francisquita, La traviesa molinera and La Dolorosa. In 1935, the Filmófono company, managed by Luis Buñuel, offered him his directorial debut in Don Quintín el amargao. The following year he made what has always been considered his best film, El bailarín y el trabajador, a musical comedy based on a comedy by Jacinto Benavente. During the Spanish Civil War he lived in Argentina, collaborating in two local productions, as co-director in La chismosa (1938) and as scriptwriter in Así es la vida (1939). In 1940 he worked in Rome within the framework of the Spanish-Italian Cinematographic Agreement. Between 1941 and 1944 he continuously made a series of films that were received coldly by the critics (and in some cases in a frankly negative way, such as Santander, la ciudad en llamas), so he interrupted his directing work for a few years, which he did not resume until 1948.

Born: May 25, 1904 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Died: June 26, 1980 (Age 76)

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Luis Marquina  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.4
DirectingDirector1935
Movie
6.4
WritingWriter1960
Movie
4.1
WritingScreenplay1970
Movie
5.3
WritingWriter1959
Movie
5.3
WritingScreenplay1958
Movie
4
WritingWriter1959
Movie
5.9
ProductionProducer1958
Movie
7.4
WritingAdaptation1939
Movie
DirectingDirector1940
Movie
6.5
ProductionProducer, Writer1957
Movie
4.4
DirectingDirector, Screenplay, Story1972
Movie
5.8
WritingWriter1960
Movie
4.4
DirectingDirector, Writer1963
Movie
5.3
DirectingDirector, Writer1952
Movie
5.8
DirectingDirector, Writer1949
Movie
6
DirectingDirector1942
Movie
6.8
DirectingDirector, Writer1936
Movie
5.7
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1943
Movie
4.2
DirectingDirector, Writer1944
Movie
5.5
DirectingDirector, Writer1952
Movie
5.2
DirectingDirector1957
Movie
5.3
DirectingDirector, Writer1962
Movie
5.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1961
Movie
SoundSound1935
Movie
4.8
WritingWriter1967
Movie
6.2
ProductionUnit Production Manager1972
Movie
WritingScreenplay, Dialogue1938
Movie
5.4
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1941
Movie
6.1
WritingAdaptation, Story1945
Movie
5.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1954
Movie
6
DirectingDirector1953
Movie
5.4
WritingStory1947
Movie
5.6
WritingAdaptation1960
Movie
5
DirectingDirector1968
Movie
4.5
SoundSound Engineer1934
Movie
5.1
SoundSound1934
Movie
6.3
DirectingDirector, Writer1950
Movie
DirectingDirector, Writer1941
Movie
DirectingDirector1942
Movie
3.9
DirectingDirector, Writer1952
Movie
4.3
WritingScreenplay1960
Movie
DirectingDirector1957
Short Film
6.3
DirectingDirector1937
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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