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Filmmaker · Mexico

Luis Alcoriza

Died in 1992

Luis Alcoriza was born in Badajoz on 5 September 1918 (1921 according to other sources), into a family that ran a travelling theatre company. Exiled by the civil war, he made his way to South America and then to Mexico in 1940, where he was naturalised. An actor, then a screenwriter with around ninety scripts to his name, often with his wife Janet, he wrote for Luis Buñuel, turned to directing in 1960 and made twenty-two Mexican films. He died in Cuernavaca on 3 December 1992.

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