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Mariano Ozores Film Director Dies at 98 – Pledge Times

  • Mariano Ozores, a Spanish film director born in Madrid in 1923, has died at the age of 98.
  • He came from a family of theater actors and built a career spanning over 50 years in cinema and television.
  • Ozores directed 96 films and worked with prominent actors such as José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Landa, and Concha Velasco.
  • He won a Goya award in 2016 and held positions including TVE programming director during his highly requested and profitable career.
  • His death marks the end of a significant era in Spanish film, reflecting decades of cultural contribution and influence.
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Although the works of the Ozores family — and in particular of Mariano, who died yesterday — are framed in a very concrete physical and political geography, the facts are what they are. And the truth is that the greatest success of the late director, Los bingueros, was shot in Barcelona. In the film it is easy to recognize views and locals of the Paral·lel, and also corners of the Eixample. The bingueros, by the way, says more about what Spain w…

·Granada, Spain
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Family members and friends have fired the filmmaker Mariano Ozores in Madrid. Her daughter Teresa has remembered how he was loved by the public even if the criticism did not treat him well.

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On the occasion of the death of Mariano Ozores, who died on Wednesday May 21 to...

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Mariano Ozores, the highest-grossing Spanish film director, has died in Madrid at the age of 98. He was one of a family of actors, his parents, Mariano Ozores Francés and Luisa Puchol, who had been active in the entertainment world since the beginning of the 20th century. Mariano's siblings, José Luis and Antonio, dedicated themselves to acting. Mariano preferred to work behind the scenes. From adolescence, he became accustomed to writing short …

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Mariano Ozores never had the support of criticism, but he did have the support of the public. Spanish director, Goya de Honor 2016, has passed away this Wednesday at the age of 98, leaving behind an impossible prolific career. Ozores managed 96 films throughout his life, reaching about 90 million spectators who paved the way for a historic box office and subject to numerous historical changes. Ozores was thus the one who made the phenomenon of “…

·Madrid, Spain
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His films did not like criticism, but filled the cinemas. Film director and screenwriter Mariano Ozores died this Wednesday at the age of 98 at his home in Madrid, reported the Academy of Cinema. The filmmaker, one of the top exponents of the Spanish popular comedy of the second half of the 20th century, made 96 films that saw about 90 million people. His films were often branded “caspouses” for looking for easy laughter, but, as the Academy rec…

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abc broke the news in Spain on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
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