Florián Rey

Antonio Martínez del Castillo, who signed himself Florián Rey, was born in 1894 at La Almunia de Doña Godina, in Aragon. A journalist in Zaragoza and Madrid, where he took his pseudonym, he became a stage and then film actor, and moved into directing in 1924 with an adaptation of a zarzuela. He discovered Imperio Argentina, whom he married, and made with her the great popular successes of the thirties. For a time he directed the Spanish dubbing at the Paramount studios in Joinville, worked in Germany during the civil war, then returned to Spain. He died in 1962.

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• CinemaThe Cursed VillageLa aldea malditaFlorián Rey · 1930Cinema