Ricardo Blasco

{{Infobox person

| name = Ricardo Blasco

| birth_name = Ricardo Blasco Laguna

| birth_date= {{birth date|1921|04|30}}

| birth_place = Valencia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|02|08|1921|04|30}}

| death_place = Madrid

| occupation = Screenwriter, film and television director, and essayist

}}

Ricardo Blasco Laguna (30 April 1921 – 8 February 1994) was a Spanish writer, screenwriter and film director.{{cite web |url=https://datos.bne.es/persona/XX859022.html |title=Ricardo Blasco Laguna |access-date=15 October 2022 |work=Biblioteca Nacional de España |language=es}}

He began his career as screenwriter for Cifesa and then under the direction of Luis Lucia Mingarro.{{cite book |last=Torres |first=Augusto M. |title=Diccionario Espasa del cine español |url=https://archive.org/details/diccionarioespas0000torr_n1b4 |access-date=15 October 2022 |language=es |year=1999 |publisher=Espasa |isbn=9788423994519}} He co-directed Nuits andalouses (1953), by Maurice Cloche, Amor bajo cero (1960), Armas contra la ley (1961), Autopsia de un criminal (1962), Destino: Barajas (1962), Las tres espadas del Zorro (1963) and El Zorro cabalga otra vez (1965).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5tfi_72BcDEC&pg=PA65 |title=Directores españoles malditos |access-date=15 October 2022 |last=Torres |first=Augusto M. |publisher=Huerga Y Fierro Editores |year=2004 |isbn=9788483744802}} He also worked as screenwriter and television director for Televisión Española in Escuela de matrimonios (1964), Diego de Acevedo (1966), España siglo XX (1973), Sombras del ayer (1979) and Memorias de España (1982).{{cite web |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/peliculas-series/personas/ricardo-blasco-1023647 |title=Ricardo Blasco |access-date=15 October 2022 |newspaper=La Vanguardia |date=21 April 2022 |language=es}}

In his last days he worked as historian and essayist.{{cite web |url=http://diccionarioaudiovisualvalenciano.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ricardo-blasco.pdf |title=Ricardo Blasco |access-date=6 October 2024 |last=Nieto Ferrando |first=Jorge |work=Diccionario Audiovisual Valenciano |language=es}}

In 1973 he edited the Gran Enciclopedia de la Región Valenciana.{{cite journal |url=https://raco.cat/index.php/Analisi/article/download/41249/89205/0 |title=Evolució dels estudis històrics de premsa del País Valencià |first1=Frances Andreu |last1=Martínez Gallego |first2=Antoni |last2=Laguna Platero |first3=Antonio |last3=Vallés Copeiro del Villar |language=ca |date=June 1994 |page=111 |access-date=6 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019111114/https://raco.cat/index.php/Analisi/article/download/41249/89205/0 |archive-date=19 October 2022 |journal=Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert}}