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Rafael Romero Marchent

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Rafael Romero Marchent (May 3, 1926 – February 13, 2020) was a Spanish director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Madrid , the son of the author Joaquín Romero Marchent Gómez de Avellaneda, he started his career as an actor, mainly cast in character roles. In 1959 he became assistant director, and in 1965 he made his directorial debut with Hands of a Gunfighter. Specialized in the Spaghetti Western genre, from the late 1970s he was also active on television. His brother Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent was also a director and screenwriter. In the 2000s he taught film and interpretation classes. He was awarded in 1947 by the Medalla del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for his role in the film La mies es mucha. He married Maruja Tamayo. He died on 13 February 2020 at the age of 93.

03-05-1926

Birthday

Taurus

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

28

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Madrid, Spain

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

28 Works

producer

0 Works

director

57 Works

writer

18 Works

other

11 Works

Merry-Go-Round c. 1950

Merry-Go-Round c. 1950

This movie doesn't have any coherent plot. It's the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how they manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: La colmena or Roma (Fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
5.9

Year:

2004

To the Limit

To the Limit

Elena Hart is a distance runner in her twenties who is immersed in a terrible nightmare, suffering serious imbalances in her diet. Driven by her desire to lose weight and to please her demanding coach, Elena begins to suffer from anorexia.
6.2

Year:

1997

Pesadilla para un rico

Pesadilla para un rico

A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his ​​family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found dead in bed a girl who had spent the previous night with him. The first thing that comes to mind to solve the problem is to remove the body, but that's not easy. Still, the case is much worse when someone who seems to know what happened, begins to blackmail.
3.0

Year:

1996

Alone Together

Alone Together

A blind woman is the witness of a murder.
5.0

Year:

1990

Zorro the Avenger

Zorro the Avenger

Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people from the wrath of an evil military officer who is using his position to his own advantage.
7.0

Year:

1962

Fulano y Mengano

Fulano y Mengano

Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.
6.3

Year:

1957

La pecadora

La pecadora

2.0

Year:

1956

La espera

La espera

5.0

Year:

1956

El indiano

El indiano

Nouveau-riche industrialist returns to Spain after 20 years in Mexico and discovers that his adopted son wants to marry into an aristocratic family and is trying to disguise his family history. Meanwhile, the young man's birth mother also shows up, and....
5.8

Year:

1955

One Bullet Is Enough

One Bullet Is Enough

After leaving the prison where they have served their sentence, some criminals plan a new robbery.
0.0

Year:

1954

Sor Angélica

Sor Angélica

0.0

Year:

1954

Los gamberros

Los gamberros

0.0

Year:

1954

El mensaje

El mensaje

0.0

Year:

1954

Juzgado permanente

Juzgado permanente

0.0

Year:

1953

Cabaret

Cabaret

A news story in the newspapers announces the investigation by the police of a major scam. Precisely, following the steps of the author of that crime, we will know the cabaret where the whole action of this drama will take place. A place where the paths of a multitude of characters cross and where it is possible to find men and women of great humanity.
4.5

Year:

1953

The Seventh Page

The Seventh Page

Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.
8.0

Year:

1951

La Leona de Castilla

La Leona de Castilla

Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperial armies, his wife, María de Pacheco, rules the city of Toledo, capital of the rebels.
5.3

Year:

1951

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari

Yo no soy la Mata-Hari

After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
0.0

Year:

1950

Flor de lago

Flor de lago

0.0

Year:

1950

Paz

Paz

0.0

Year:

1949

La fiesta sigue

La fiesta sigue

4.3

Year:

1948

Mare nostrum

Mare nostrum

The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.
5.7

Year:

1948

Alhucemas

Alhucemas

In 1922, Infantry Captain Fernando Salas, arriving from Madrid, joins, without much enthusiasm, a battalion ruled by Commander Almendro, a tough veteran of the African war who soon notices a clear lack of military vocation in the new recruit.
0.0

Year:

1948

La mies es mucha

La mies es mucha

Father Santiago Hernández, a Spanish missionary, arrives in Kattinga, India, to replace Father Daniel, who is seriously ill.
3.7

Year:

1948

The Bullfighter's Suit

The Bullfighter's Suit

A young bullfighter full of illusions triumphs in Mexico and decides to get married there and forget about his old Spanish girlfriend, who by then has just given birth to his son.
0.0

Year:

1947

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
5.6

Year:

1947