Rafael Romero Marchent

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Rafael Romero Marchent Hernández (born May 3, 1926 in Madrid ; † February 13, 2020 there ) was a Spanish actor , film director and screenwriter .

Life

Romero Marchent, son of the filmmaker Joaquín Romero Marchent Gómez de Avellaneda and member of a film family, appeared as an actor during his school days and began as a professional actor with small film roles in the mid-1940s. At the same time he took courses in dance and drama; In 1947 he played for the first time in El traje de luces by Edgar Neville .

At the beginning of the 1960s he switched to behind the camera; he wrote scripts and assisted various directors; He began directing films in the middle of the decade. He should bring it to over 30 titles, including 19 Spaghettiwestern . Often in collaboration with his brother Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent , he was mostly his own producer of his films, including comedies, thrillers and musicals.

With the end of the 1970s Romero Marchent turned more and more to television; so he shot the Spanish television series Curro Jiménez . He was also active as a dubbing and theater director and as a poet. One of his pseudonyms was Ralph March .

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director

script

  • 1963: Settlement in Veracruz (El sabor de la venganza) - Director: Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent
  • 1970: Viva Cangaceiro (O'Cangaçeiro) - Director: Giovanni Fago
  • 1970: Paranoia - Director: Umberto Lenzi
  • 1974: Dormir y ligar: todo es empezar - Director: Mariano Ozores
  • 1974: Cinco almohadas para una noche - Director: Pedro Lazaga
  • 1975: L'uomo che sfidò l'organizzazione - Director: Sergio Grieco

producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Muere Rafael Romero Marchent, el cineasta español pionero en westerns. In: LaVanguardia.com . February 13, 2020, accessed February 14, 2020 (Spanish). The actor and director Rafael Romero Marchent, pioneer of “spaguetti western” in España. In: europapress.es . February 13, 2020, accessed February 14, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Romero Marchent, Rafael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romero Marchent Hernández, Rafael (full name); March, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish actor, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2020
Place of death Madrid