Luis Marquina Pichot (Barcelona, May 25, 1904-Madrid, June 26, 1980) was a Spanish sound engineer, screenwriter, producer and film director. Son of the playwright Eduardo Marquina and by maternal branch of the Pitxot family (whose surname he Spanishized to Pichot) in whose family he had three artist uncles: Ramón, painter; Ricardo, cellist and student of Pau Casals; Luis, violinist; and María, opera singer known as María Gay. The Pitxot family had a great friendship with the Dalí family of Figueras, so the young Luis met and befriended Salvador Dalí. Despite the literary and artistic environment in which he was educated, he decided to study a technical career, Industrial Engineering, specializing in the then pioneering techniques of sound recording, of great application with the advent of sound film. In 1933 he was appointed assistant technical sound director of the CEA studios in Ciudad Lineal, where he was in charge of such significant films as El agua en el suelo, Doña Francisquita, La traviesa molinera and La Dolorosa. In 1935, the Filmófono company, managed by Luis Buñuel, offered him his directorial debut in Don Quintín el amargao. The following year he made what has always been considered his best film, El bailarín y el trabajador, a musical comedy based on a comedy by Jacinto Benavente. During the Spanish Civil War he lived in Argentina, collaborating in two local productions, as co-director in La chismosa (1938) and as scriptwriter in Así es la vida (1939). In 1940 he worked in Rome within the framework of the Spanish-Italian Cinematographic Agreement. Between 1941 and 1944 he continuously made a series of films that were received coldly by the critics (and in some cases in a frankly negative way, such as Santander, la ciudad en llamas), so he interrupted his directing work for a few years, which he did not resume until 1948.
Birthday: May 25, 1904
Death: June 26, 1980
September 06, 1943
September 16, 1968
May 06, 1954
September 21, 1953
March 21, 1936
April 03, 1972
July 18, 1939
October 25, 1957
September 25, 1958
February 21, 1961
March 05, 1962
September 14, 1942
April 01, 1949
September 02, 1963
December 22, 1941
October 07, 1952
January 08, 1938
April 04, 1967
June 02, 1960
September 17, 1970
April 01, 1935
September 18, 1944
May 28, 1937
October 02, 1935
March 25, 1935
October 08, 1940
October 12, 1950
June 16, 1958
March 30, 1952
Invalid Date
April 06, 1960
January 01, 1961
November 17, 1972
September 22, 1941
September 10, 1959
May 12, 1947
April 19, 1956
April 16, 1934
December 07, 1960
July 15, 1957
December 21, 1942
January 29, 1959
April 17, 1960
January 21, 1952
November 12, 1945
May 13, 1934