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Filmmaker · Spain

Manuel Mur Oti

Died in 2003

Manuel Mur Oti was born in Vigo in 1908 and spent some ten years of his youth in Cuba, where he published poems and had his first comedies staged. Back in Spain, he wrote in the socialist press and fought on the Republican side alongside Antonio del Amo; after internment in France, he settled in Madrid. A screenwriter for Del Amo, he moved into directing in 1949 and had his most productive period in the early fifties. He also wrote for television, received an honorary Goya in 1993 and died in Madrid in 2003.

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