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Luis Marquina

Luis Marquina

Director · Born 1904-05-25 · Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Biography

Luis Marquina Pichot (Barcelona, May 25, 1904-Madrid, June 26, 1980) was a Spanish sound engineer, screenwriter, producer and film director. Son of the playwright Eduardo Marquina and by maternal branch of the Pitxot family (whose surname he Spanishized to Pichot) in whose family he had three artist uncles: Ramón, painter; Ricardo, cellist and student of Pau Casals; Luis, violinist; and María, opera singer known as María Gay. The Pitxot family had a great friendship with the Dalí family of Figueras, so the young Luis met and befriended Salvador Dalí. Despite the literary and artistic environment in which he was educated, he decided to study a technical career, Industrial Engineering, specializing in the then pioneering techniques of sound recording, of great application with the advent of sound film. In 1933 he was appointed assistant technical sound director of the CEA studios in Ciudad Lineal, where he was in charge of such significant films as El agua en el suelo, Doña Francisquita, La traviesa molinera and La Dolorosa. In 1935, the Filmófono company, managed by Luis Buñuel, offered him his directorial debut in Don Quintín el amargao. The following year he made what has alway…

Directed

  1. The Dancer and the Worker (1936) — Director
  2. Siege of Terror (1972) — Director
  3. This is Madrid (1953) — Director
  4. Malvaloca (1942) — Director
  5. Don Quintin the Bitter (1935) — Director
  6. El capitán Veneno (1950) — Director
  7. Haute Couture (1954) — Director
  8. Spanish Affair (1957) — Director
  9. La batalla del domingo (1963) — Director
  10. Un anuncio y cinco cartas (1937) — Director
  11. Tuset Street (1968) — Director
  12. ¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón! (1961) — Director
  13. Ventolera (1962) — Director
  14. Filigrana (1949) — Director
  15. Amaya (1952) — Director
  16. Santander, la ciudad en llamas (1944) — Director
  17. Manchas de sangre en la luna (1952) — Director
  18. Vidas cruzadas (1942) — Director
  19. Noche fantástica (1943) — Director
  20. Torbellino (1941) — Director
  21. Amore di ussaro (1940) — Director
  22. Las últimas banderas (1954) — Director
  23. La viudita naviera (1961) — Director
  24. Su hermano y él (1941) — Director
  25. Quema el suelo (1951) — Director