Antonio del Amo
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| Born | (1911-09-09)9 September 1911 |
| Died | 19 June 1991(1991-06-19) (aged 79) Madrid, Spain |
| Other names | Antonio del Amo Algara |
| Occupations | Writer, Director |
| Years active | 1937-1975 (film) |
Antonio del Amo Algara (1911–1991) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.[1] He enjoyed great commercial success in 1956 with The Little Nightingale starring the child star Joselito. This allowed him to found his own production company Apolo Films, based outside Madrid.[2]
Selected filmography
- Four Women (1947)
- Guest of Darkness (1948)
- Ninety Minutes (1949)
- Wings of Youth (1949)
- Day by Day (1951)
- A Tale of Two Villages (1951)
- Devil's Roundup (1952)
- Women's Town (1953)
- Cursed Mountain (1954)
- The Fisher of Songs (1954)
- The Little Nightingale (1956)
- Return to the Truth (1956)
- The Sun Comes Out Every Day (1958)
- The Nightingale in the Mountains (1958)
- The Song of the Nightingale (1959)
- Listen To My Song (1959)
- Nothing Less Than an Archangel (1960)
- Peaches in Syrup (1960)
- The Little Colonel (1960)
- The Two Little Rascals (1961)
- Lovely Memory (1961)
- Boy or Girl? (1962)
- The Twin Girls (1963)
- Tomy's Secret (1963)
- Three Sparrows and a Bit (1964)
- Our Man in Jamaica (1965)
- Jesse James' Kid (1965)
- A Dog in Space (1966)
- Requiem for a Secret Agent (1966)
- I Must Abandon You (1969)
- Unmarried Mothers (1975)
References
Bibliography
- Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.
- D'Lugo, Marvin. Guide to the Cinema of Spain. Greenwood Publishing, 1997.
External links
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