Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish pronunciation: [lwis buˈɲwel]) (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-born filmmaker who acquired Mexican citizenship and worked in Mexico, France, and also in his native Spain and the United States. He is considered one of Mexico's finest directors, and also a significant director in the history of cinema.
Buñuel was born in Calanda, province of Teruel in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. His paren...
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Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish pronunciation: [lwis buˈɲwel]) (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-born filmmaker who acquired Mexican citizenship and worked in Mexico, France, and also in his native Spain and the United States. He is considered one of Mexico's finest directors, and also a significant director in the history of cinema.
Buñuel was born in Calanda, province of Teruel in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. His parents were Leonardo Buñuel and María Portolés; he had two brothers, Alfonso and Leonardo, and four sisters, Alicia, Concepción, Margarita and María. He married Jeanne Rucar in 1934 and they remained married throughout his life. His sons are Rafael and the director Juan Luis; Diego Buñuel, filmmaker and host of the National Geographic Channel's Don't Tell my Mother I am in... series, is his grandson.
Buñuel had a strict Jesuit education at the Colegio del Salvador in Zaragoza from which he was expelled. Later he went to university in Madrid. While...
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