Edgar Neville Romrée, Count

Count

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 of Berlanga de Duero

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 (28 December 1899, Madrid

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 – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish

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 playwright

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 and film director, a member of the Generation of '27

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.

Neville lived in Hollywood in the 1930s, in the period of the dubbed Spanish

Spanish language

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 versions of the studios' English-language films. There he became a close friend of Charles Chaplin. The films he directed in the 1940s and 1950s mixed realism

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 and romanticism

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, but did not perform particularly well at the box-office.

Filmography

• El presidio (1930)
• Yo quiero que me lleven a Hollywood (1931)
• Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si, o La vida privada de un tenor (1934)
• El malvado Carabel (1935)
• La señorita de Trévelez (1936)
• Juventudes de España (1938)
• La Ciudad Universitaria (1938)
• Vivan los hombres libres (1939)
• Carmen fra i rossi / Frente de Madrid (1939)
• Santa Rogelia (1939)
• Verbena (1941)
• Sancta Maria (1942)
• La parrala (1942)
• Correo de Indias (1942)
• Café de París (1943)
• La torre de los siete jorobados
  La Torre de los Siete Jorobados
  La Torre de los Siete Jorobados is a 1944 Spanish mystery film directed by Edgar Neville. It is based on a novel by Emilio Carrere.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1944)
• Domingo de carnaval
  Domingo de carnaval
  Domingo de carnaval is a 1945 Spanish crime film written, directed and produced by Edgar Neville.-Cast:*Conchita Montes ... Nieves*Guillermo Marín ... Gonzalo Fonseca*Fernando Aguirre *Carlos Álvarez Segura *Manuel Arbó...
  
  (1945)
• La vida en un hilo
  La vida en un hilo
  La vida en un hilo is a 1945 Spanish comedy film written, directed and produced by Edgar Neville. Neville later modified the film for the stage, with an adaptation of the same name....
  
  (1945)
• El crimen de la calle Bordadores
  El crimen de la calle Bordadores
  El crimen de la calle Bordadores is a 1946 Spanish crime film written and directed by Edgar Neville.-Cast:*Manuel Luna ... Miguel Campos*Mary Delgado ... Lola, "la billetera"*Antonia Plana ... Petra*Julia Lajos ... doña Mariana*Rafael Calvo...
  
  (1946)
• El traje de luces (1946)
• Nada (film)
  Nada (film)
  Nada is a 1947 Spanish drama film directed by Edgar Neville. It is based on Carmen Laforet's famous novel Nada which won the Premio Nadal. It was written by Carmen Laforet....
  
  (1947)
• El marqués de Salamanca (1948)
• El señor Esteve (1948)
• El último caballo
  El último caballo
  El último caballo is a 1950 Spanish comedy film directed by Edgar Neville starring Fernando Fernán Gómez.-Cast:*Fernando Fernán Gómez as Fernando*Conchita Montes as Isabel*José Luis Ozores as Simón, el Bombero*Mary Lamar*Julia Lajos...
  
  (1950)
• Cuento de Hadas (1951)
• El cerco del diablo (1951)
• Duende y misterio del flamenco (1952)
• La ironía del dinero (1955)
• El baile
  El baile
  El baile is a 1959 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Edgar Neville. It is based on his own theatrical play, El baile, released in , which won the Spanish Premio Nacional de Literatura award....
  
  (1959)
• Mi calle
  Mi calle
  Mi calle is a 1960 Spanish drama film written and directed by Edgar Neville.-Cast: *Tota Alba*Rafael Alonso as Pablo López*Ángel Álvarez*Mariano Azaña*Rafael Bardem*Héctor Bianciotti*Roberto Camardiel*Susana Campos*Lina Canalejas...
  
  (1960)

External links

• Página oficial de Edgar Neville