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Filmmaker · Costa Rica

Alfonso Patiño Gómez

Died in 1977

Alfonso Patiño Gómez was born on 18 August 1910 in Mexico City. A journalist at the daily La Prensa, he founded the film magazine El Cine Gráfico in 1933 with Antonio J. Olea, and directed it until 1937. A screenwriter, producer and director from the late thirties, he founded the cooperative Alianza Cinematográfica in 1953, which produced a film by Luis Buñuel, then in exile in Mexico, and for a time headed the América studios. He died in Mexico City in 1977.

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