Amando de Ossorio
Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez (born April 6, 1918 in A Coruña , † January 13, 2001 in Madrid ) was a Spanish film director who specialized in fantastic horror films.
Life
Ossorio - the year of his birth is also incorrectly given as 1925 - after completing his studies, initially worked as a journalist for the newspaper and a radio station before he began writing screenplays in Madrid and working as an assistant on documentaries. He finished his work at the radio station when he directed his first feature film in 1963 , a Spaghetti Western .
After various attempts in various genres - and prices for documentaries that he continued to shoot - he turned towards the end of the decade to the horror film, which he made with the Riding Corpses (in the original Los muertos sin ojos , "The Dead Without Eyes") enriched a now classic film series. Due to his success, he stayed true to this genre until the end of his career.
Ossorio died as a result of a heart attack.
Filmography (selection)
- 1956: La bandera negra
- 1964: La tumba del pistolero
- 1965: The irreconcilable (Rebeldes en Canadá)
- 1969: Malenka
- 1971: The Night of the Riding Corpses (La noche del terror ciego)
- 1973: The return of the corpses on horseback (El ataque de los muertos sin ojos)
- 1973: Woodoo - Inferno of horror (La noche de los brujos)
- 1974: The ghost ship of floating corpses (El buque maldito)
- 1974: La pazienza ha un limit… noi no! (Script)
- 1975: The blood court of the riding corpses (La noche de las gaviotas)
- 1975: The Exorcist and the Child Witch (La endemoniada)
- 1984: Hydra - The Spawn of Hell (Serpiente de mar)
Web links
- Amando de Ossorio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ossorio, Amando de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ossorio Rodríguez, Amando de (full name); Greens, Gregory (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | A Coruña |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2001 |
| Place of death | Madrid |