José Benavides (director)
{{Short description|Mexican film director}}
{{Infobox person
| name = José Benavides Pérez
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| birth_date = 1911
| birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico
| death_date = 17 September 1945
| death_place = Jojutla, Morelos, Mexico
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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter,
| yearsactive = 1935–1945 (film)
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José Benavides hijo (1911–1945) was a Mexican screenwriter and film director.Sadlier p.35Paranaguá p.299 He directed fourteen feature films during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema before his career was cut short by his early death.
Selected filmography
- The Adventurous Captain (1939)
- Three Peasants on a Donkey (1939)
- Poor Devil (1940)
- El Zorro de Jalisco (1941)
- Alejandra (1942)
- Land of Passions (1943)
- A Woman's Diary (1944)
- The Two Orphans (1944)
- Caribbean Rose (1946)
- The Operetta Queen (1946)
References
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Bibliography
- Irwin, Robert & Ricalde, Maricruz. Global Mexican Cinema: Its Golden Age. British Film Institute, 2013.
- Paulo Antonio Paranaguá. Mexican Cinema. British Film Institute, 1995.
- Sadlier, Darlene Joy (ed.) Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment. University of Illinois Press, 2009.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0070262}}
- {{cite web |title=BENAVIDES Pérez, José (hijo), |url=http://escritores.cinemexicano.unam.mx/biografias/B/BENAVIDES_perez_jose_j_benny/biografia.html |website=Escritores del Cine Mexicano Sonoro |publisher=UNAM}}
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Category:Mexican screenwriters
Category:Mexican film directors
Category:People from Mexico City
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