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Antonio Momplet
Cádiz, Spain
Antonio Momplet (1899 – August 10, 1974) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He worked in Spain, France, Argentina and Mexico. Antonio Momplet was born in Cádiz , Andal…
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Antonio Momplet (1899 – August 10, 1974) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He worked in Spain, France, Argentina and Mexico. 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.
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1965
Jandro
Movie Story
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1962
Two Against All
Movie Director
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1961
The Invincible Gladiator
Movie Director
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1961
Julia y el celacanto
Movie Director
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1959
Las de Caín
Movie Director
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1957
Buongiorno primo amore!
Movie Director
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1954
Viento del norte
Movie Director
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1953
La hija del mar
Movie Director
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1951
Singer Cafe
Movie Director
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1950
Toscanito y los detectives
Movie Director
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1949
Yo no elegí mi vida
Movie Director
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1949
La otra y yo
Movie Director
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1947
La cumparsita
Movie Director
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1947
A media luz
Movie Director
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1946
El Buen Mozo
Movie Producer
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1946
Remolino de pasión
Movie Director
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1946
Everybody's Woman
Movie Writer
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1945
He Who Died of Love
Movie Writer
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1945
Vertigo
Movie Director
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1944
Amok
Movie Director
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1944
El corsario negro
Movie Screenplay
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1943
Los hijos artificiales
Movie Director
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1942
En el viejo Buenos Aires
Movie Director
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1941
Napoleón
Movie Writer
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1941
El hermano José
Movie Director
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1941
Novios para las muchachas
Movie Director
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1940
Petróleo
Movie Writer
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1938
Turbión
Movie Writer
