José Luis Borau
Moradell was born on August 8, 1929 in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. He was the only
son of a middle class couple, old enough to be his grandparents. During the
Spanish civil war he was not sent to school by his overprotecting parents. From
an early age, Borau had great love for literature and films. Following family
pressure, he studied law in his native Zaragoza and worked at Madrid's Ministry
of Housing in 1957. He began his career working for the regional newspaper Heraldo de Aragón as film critic. He
pursued his interest in filmmaking by moving to Madrid and enrolling in the
national film school IIEC (Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias de
Cinematografia) where he specialized in film direction. He graduated with the
short film “En el Río” (1960).
Borau followed this
with a series of shorts and commercials for Spanish television. His first
feature film was his only Euro-western: “Ride and Kill” (1963), a low
low-budget Western starring Alex Nicol and Robert Hundar. He was credited as
J.L. Boraw for director and Joe Baker for screenwriter.
He was president of
the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1994–1998), and member
of the jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival in 1991. In February
2008 he was elected to the B seat of the Real Academia Española.
Borau died on
November 23, 2012 in Madrid, Spain at the age of 83.
Today we remember José
Luis Borau on what would have been his 85th birthday.
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