Antonio del Amo explained

Antonio del Amo
Birth Date:	9 September 1911
Birth Place:	Madrid, Spain
Death Date:	19 June 1991
Death Place:	Madrid, Spain
Othername:	Antonio del Amo Algara
Occupation:	Writer, Director
Yearsactive:	1937-1975 (film)

Antonio del Amo (1911–1991) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.^[1] He enjoyed great commercial success in 1956 with The Little Nightingale starring the child star Joselito. This allowed him to found his own production company Apolo Films, based outside Madrid.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Four Women (1947)
• Guest of Darkness (1948)
• Ninety Minutes (1949)
• Wings of Youth (1949)
• Day by Day (1951)
• A Tale of Two Villages (1951)
• Devil's Roundup (1952)
• Women's Town (1953)
• Cursed Mountain (1954)
• The Fisher of Songs (1954)
• The Little Nightingale (1956)
• Return to the Truth (1956)
• The Sun Comes Out Every Day (1958)
• The Nightingale in the Mountains (1958)
• The Song of the Nightingale (1959)
• Listen To My Song (1959)
• Nothing Less Than an Archangel (1960)
• Peaches in Syrup (1960)
• The Little Colonel (1960)
• The Two Little Rascals (1961)
• Lovely Memory (1961)
• Boy or Girl? (1962)
• The Twin Girls (1963)
• Tomy's Secret (1963)
• Three Sparrows and a Bit (1964)
• Our Man in Jamaica (1965)
• Jesse James' Kid (1965)
• A Dog in Space (1966)
• Requiem for a Secret Agent (1966)
• I Must Abandon You (1969)
• Unmarried Mothers (1975)

Bibliography

• Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.
• D'Lugo, Marvin. Guide to the Cinema of Spain. Greenwood Publishing, 1997.

Notes and References

1. Bentley p.127
2. D'Lugo p.118