Enrique Alarcón

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alarcón and the second or maternal family name is Sánchez-Manjavacas.
Enrique Alarcón
Born
Enrique Alarcón Sánchez-Manjavacas

13 June 1917
Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Spain
Died13 June 1995(1995-06-13) (aged 78)
Madrid, Spain
OccupationArt director
Years active1943-1985 (film)

Enrique Alarcón Sánchez-Manjavacas (1917–1995) was a Spanish film art director and set decorator.[1] He worked on over two hundred films, mostly Spanish, but also in foreign films shot in Spain, such as King of Kings (1961).[2]

Alarcón received the Honorary Goya Award presented by the Spanish Film Academy in 1991.[3]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Faulkner p.106
  2. ^ Lizcano, Domingo (30 October 2013). "Matte Paintings and Miniatures at the Epic flms of Samuel Bronston".
  3. ^ "Y el Goya de Honor es para… Enrique Alarcón". Goya Awards (in Spanish).

Bibliography

  • Sally Faulkner. A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film in the 1960s. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
  • Fernando Diéguez Rodríguez-Montero (2008). "Enrique Alarcón: testigo de nuestra historia, artífice de nuestro cine". El cine: una mirada interdisciplinar. Vol. 17. pp. 89–117. ISBN 978-84-95964-56-4.


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