RIP José Ulloa

 

Spanish writer, assistant director and director José Ulloa died in Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, Spain on April 5^th he was 92. Born José Ulloa Blancas in Madrid on January 18, 1934, Ulloa is known for directing “The Refuge of Fear” (1974), starring Patty Shepard, a science fiction film in which a matrimony exists in a fallout shelter. With Manuel Vázquez Montalbán he penned “Tatuaje” (1978). He also directed “Juventud sin freno” (1978), “La amante ingenua” (1977), “Juventud sin freno” (1978), and “Andalucía chica” (1989). Ulloa worked as an assistant director for Leon Klimovsky, José María Elorrieta, Mariano Ozores but most of all for Ignacio F. Iquino, It’s not commonly known that Ulloa directed much of the 1970 Spaghetti western “Twenty Paces of Death” because director Manuel Esteba had problems with the production company and there were many days when he disappeared from filming, He’s only credited as the assistant director. Jose Ulloa was an assistant director on fourteen Spaghetti westerns: “Joe Dexter” in 1965, “$5.00 for Ringo”, “Seven Pistols for a Gringo” both in 1966, “Death Knows No Time” in 1968, “El Puro” in 1969, “Stagecoach of the Condemned” and “Twenty Paces to Death” both in 1970, “And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave”, “Dig Your Grave Friend... Sabata's Coming” and “Four Candles for Garringo” in 1971, “Too Much Gold for One Gringo”, “God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth” and “My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow” in 1972 and “Dallas” in 1974.