Carlos F. Borcosque
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Carlos F. Borcosque
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Borcosque as a young director
Carlos Francisco Borcosque Sánchez (9 September 1894 – 5 September 1965) was a Chilean film director and screenwriter involved in the production of the Cinema of Argentina.[1]
Borcosque was born in Valparaíso. He established in Santiago in 1922 and directed several Chilean silent movies before he moved to Hollywood in 1926 where he worked as a consultant on Latin-based movies, and had a spell working for Paramount Pictures.[2] Between 1922 and his death in 1965 Borcosque was responsible for directing and screenwriting mostly simultaneously some 45 different feature films including the 1951 film El alma de los niños.[3] He died in Buenos Aires.
Filmography as director[]
- Hombres de esta tierra (1922)
- Traición (1923)
- Vida y milagros de Don Fausto (1924)
- Martín Rivas (1925)
- Diablo fuerte (1925)
- El huérfano (1926)
- (1930)
- En cada puerto un amor (1931)
- (1931)
- (1931)
- (1931)
- (1933)
- Fighting Lady (1935)
- Alas de mi patria (1939)
- (1939)
- (1940)
- Flecha de oro (1940)
- (1941)
- La casa de los cuervos (1941)
- (1942)
- Yo conocí a esa mujer (1942)
- Incertidumbre (1942)
- (1942)
- (1943)
- Valle negro (1943)
- La verdadera victoria (1944)
- Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer (1944)
- (1945)
- (1945)
- Cuando en el cielo pasen lista (1945)
- Corazón (1947)
- (1947)
- El tambor de Tacuarí (1948)
- Las aventuras de Jack (1949)
- La muerte está mintiendo (1950)
- Volver a la vida (1951)
- El alma de los niños (1951)
- Facundo, el tigre de los llanos (1952) (co-director)
- (1952) (documentary)
- El Calavera (1954)
- (1956)
- Pobres habrá siempre (1958)
- Mientras haya un circo (1958)
- Voy a hablar de la esperanza (1966)
References[]
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- ^ Gubern, Román; Hammond, Paul (4 January 2012). Luis Buñuel: The Red Years, 1929–1939. University of Wisconsin Pres. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-299-28474-9.
- ^ Plazaola, Luis Trelles (1 January 1989). South American Cinema/ Cine De America Del Sur: Dictionary of Film Makers/ Diccionario De Los Productores De Peliculas. La Editorial, UPR. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8477-2011-8.
- ^ Aguilar, Gonzalo Moisés; Manetti, Ricardo (2005). Cine argentino: modernidad y vanguardias, 1957/1983 (in Spanish). Fondo Nacional de las Artes. p. 765. ISBN 9789509807891.
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Categories:
- 1894 births
- 1965 deaths
- People from Valparaíso
- Chilean film directors
- Chilean screenwriters
- Argentine film directors
- Argentine screenwriters
- Male screenwriters
- Argentine male writers
- 20th-century screenwriters
- Chilean artist stubs
- South American film director stubs