
Antonio Momplet
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-01-01
Day of Death
1974-08-10 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Cádiz, Spain
Antonio Momplet
Biography
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.
Crew
(1965)
Jandro
Story
(1962)
Two Against All
Director
(1961)
Julia y el celacanto
Director, Screenplay
(1961)
The Invincible Gladiator
Director
(1959)
Las de Caín
Director
(1957)
Buongiorno primo amore!
Director
(1954)
Viento del norte
Writer, Director
(1953)
La hija del mar
Director
(1951)
Singer Cafe
Director, Writer
(1950)
Toscanito y los detectives
Director
(1949)
Yo no elegí mi vida
Director
(1949)
La otra y yo
Director
(1947)
La cumparsita
Director
(1947)
A media luz
Director, Writer
(1946)
Remolino de pasión
Director
(1946)
El Buen Mozo
Producer, Director
(1946)
Everybody’s Woman
Writer
(1945)
Vertigo
Director, Writer
(1944)
Amok
Director, Writer
(1944)
El corsario negro
Screenplay
(1943)
Los hijos artificiales
Writer, Director
(1942)
En el viejo Buenos Aires
Director
(1941)
Napoleón
Writer
(1941)
Novios para las muchachas
Director
(1941)
El hermano José
Director
(1940)
Petróleo
Writer
(1938)
Turbión
Writer, Director