Friday, June 6, 2025

RIP José Luis Galicia

 


Spanish production designer, art director, film actor José Luis Galicia died in Madrid on June 5, 2025, at the age of 95. Born in Madrid as José Luis Galicia Gonzalo on May 31, 1930, he was an indispensable figure of art and cinema. A painter with works at the Queen Sofia Museum, he decorated Golden City and the Confederate fort in Colmenar Viejo for “The Legend of Frenchie King”. He was a close friend of Pablo Picasso, sculptor, poet and, above all, a master of production design. He worked in art direction and on sets of nearly 200 films, including some of the best European westerns ever shot. The older brother of actress María Luz Galicia Gonzalo [1940- ], he acted in 1962’s “The Terrible Sheriff and as himself in the 2023 documentary “The Magnificent Stranger”.

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