Antonio Momplet

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Momplet and the second or maternal family name is Guerra.
Antonio Momplet
Born Antonio Momplet Guerra
1899
Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain
Died 19 August 1974
Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Occupation Filmmaker
Years active 1935-1964

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

Life and career

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.[1]

Filmography

Director
Writer

References

  1. ↑ "Momplet Guerra, Antonio". escritores.cinemexicano.unam.mx (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
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