Luis Buñuel
Gender: Male
Born: 22nd February 1900
Died: 29th July 1983
Nationality: Mexico, Spain
Movies: Un chien andalou, Llanto por un bandido
Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwiz βuˈɲwel]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who also acquired Mexican citizenship and worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the United States. He is considered one of the finest directors in the history of cinema.
Buñuel was born in Calanda, a small town in the province of Teruel, in Aragon, Spain, to Leonardo Buñuel and María Portolés. He would later describe his birthplace by saying that in Calanda, "the Middle Ages lasted until World War I." The oldest of seven children, Luis had two brothers, Alfonso and Leonardo, and four sisters, Alicia, Concepción, Margarita and María.
When Buñuel was just four months old, the family moved to Zaragoza, where they were one of the wealthiest families in town. In Zaragoza, Buñuel received a strict Jesuit education at the Colegio del Salvador, from which he was later expelled. Buñuel finished the last two years of his high school education at the local public school.
In 1917, he went to university in Madrid. While studying at the University of Madrid (current-day Universidad Complutense de Madrid), he became a very close friend of painter Salvador Dalí and poet Federico
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