Remembering Antonio de la Loma

José Antonio de la Loma Hernández was born on March 4, 1924 in Barcelona, Spain. The son of a military man he initially dedicated his life to teaching, and worked as a schoolteacher in Barcelona’s Chinatown in the 1940s, but since his college days, and through the TEU, he became interested in the world of interpretation and founded, with Juan Germán Shroeder, the Company El Corral.

 
He debuted in film in 1953, adapting “La hija del mar” by Angel Guimerá. After shooting some twelve spaghetti westerns in the 1960s including “$5,000 on the Ace” (1964), “100,000 for Ringo” (1965), “The Texican” (1966) and “Clint the Stranger” (1967), he turned into a style of social film critic, which he wanted to reflect on a way of understanding life and death to young offenders emerged within a new urban class, who had settled in neighborhoods on the fringe of large cities as a result of the emigration of the sixties and seventies. It was in this way that de la Loma started the film genre known as film quinqui.2
 
In those titles he became a professional interpreter of low-life teenagers in some cases but did not interpret their own lives. As was the case of Juan José Moreno CuencaJuan, actor "Yo, el Vaquilla Heifer" (1985) and Angel Fernandez Franco, star of “Perros callejeros” (1977) and”Los últimos golpes de «El Torete» (1980), three of his most emblematic films.
 
José also wrote literature, particularly novels such as Sin la sonrisa de Dios (1949), Estación de servicio, El undécimo mandamiento y El grito de la libertad (1976).
 
Antonio died in Barcelona, on April 4, 2004.
 
Today we remember Antonio de la Loma on what would have been his 90^th birthday.