Antonio Momplet

Directing·Jan 1, 1899·Cádiz, Spain

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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.

Film	Credit
Two Against All1962 · Director	Director
The Invincible Gladiator1961 · Director	Director
Julia y el celacanto1961 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Las de Caín1959 · Director	Director
Buongiorno primo amore!1957 · Director	Director
Viento del norte1954 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
La hija del mar1953 · Director	Director
Singer Cafe1951 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Toscanito y los detectives1950 · Director	Director
Yo no elegí mi vida1949 · Director	Director
LLa otra y yo1949 · Director	Director
La cumparsita1947 · Director	Director
A media luz1947 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
El Buen Mozo1946 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Remolino de pasión1946 · Director	Director
Everybody's Woman1946 · Writer	Writer
He Who Died of Love1945 · Writer	Writer
Vertigo1945 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Amok1944 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
El corsario negro1944 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Los hijos artificiales1943 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
En el viejo Buenos Aires1942 · Director	Director
Napoleón1941 · Writer	Writer
El hermano José1941 · Director	Director
Novios para las muchachas1941 · Director	Director
Petróleo1940 · Writer	Writer
Turbión1938 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director