Antonio Momplet

Antonio Momplet 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.

Filmography

;DirectorLa farándula Hombres contra hombres La millona Turbión El hermano José Novios para las muchachas En el viejo Buenos Aires Los hijos artificiales Amok Remolino de pasión Dizziness Bel Ami La cumparsita A media luz La otra y yo Yo no elegí mi vida Toscanito y los detectives Café Cantante La mujer sin lágrimas La hija del mar Viento del norte Buongiorno primo amore! Las de Caín Julia y el celacanto The Invincible Gladiator Due contro tutti
;WriterPetróleo Hombres contra hombres La millona Turbión Napoleón Los hijos artificiales Amok El corsario negro He Who Died of Love Lágrimas de sangre La mujer de todos Vértigo A media luz Café Cantante Viento del norte Julia y el celacanto Jandro

''The Invincible Gladiator''