
José Luis Merino
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Directing · Born 1927-06-10 · age 92 at death · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Jose Luis Merino (10 June 1927 – 2 July 2019) was a Spanish film writer and director who developed a cult following among horror film fans. He was born in 1927 in Madrid, Spain, as José Luis Merino Boves, and went on to direct around 30 films during his long and varied career as director and writer (1958–1990), most of them action/adventure films, crime dramas , spaghetti westerns, war movies and costume dramas involving Robin Hood, pirates, Zorro etc. He is known to horror film fans for the two horror movies he directed in the early 1970s: Orgy of the Dead ( aka The Hanging Woman ) and Scream of the Demon Lover (aka Ivanna ), which have both become cult classics over the years. Merino never considered himself a horror film director, he chose rather to favor his many action/adventure films. He died on July 2, 2019, at age 92.
Titles

El crack

The Grandfather

Begin the Beguine

El crack dos

The Hanging Woman

Tobi

Scream of the Demon Lover

Asignatura pendiente

Merry-Go-Round c. 1950

Beatriz

Requiem for a Gringo

Donde hay patrón...

Las verdes praderas

Alone in the Small Hours

Double Feature

El Lazarillo de Tormes

The Desire in Autumn

Course Completed

Andalusia Express

Gatling Gun

Pirates of Blood Island

A Bullet for Rommel

Earthquake in Chile

Viva la clase media

USA, violación y venganza

The Battle of the Last Panzer

For One Thousand Dollars Per Day

Till Divorce Us Do Part

Los nuevos españoles

Más fina que las gallinas

Habitación para tres

La herida luminosa

Las chicas del bingo

Mi mujer es muy decente, dentro de lo que cabe

¡Qué verde era mi duque!

La avispita Ruinasa

Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North

When Heroes Die

Sábado, chica, motel ¡qué lío aquel!

Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines

Cabaret

7 cabalgan hacia la muerte

Zorro's Latest Adventure

Zorro, Rider of Vengeance

Hell Commandos

Aquellos tiempos del cuplé

More Dollars for the MacGregors

Slaughter on the Khyber Pass

Satan's Five Warnings

Europa canta

Zorro the Invincible

Alféreces provisionales

Marked by Men

Robin Hood, l'invincibile arciere

El rayo desintegrador

Colpo sensazionale al servizio del Sifar

Juegos de sociedad

Diálogos de la paz

Quema el suelo

La puerta abierta