Actor

José Luis Merino

Directing

Career Snapshot

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

2.5

Moderate attention

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Movies: 61Series: 0Crew credits: 54

TMDB ID: 106548

IMDb ID: nm0580829

Known for: Directing

Born: June 10, 1927

Died: July 2, 2019

Age: 92

Place of birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1951 - 2004

Years active: 54

Average TMDB rating: 6.4

Wikidata: Q1709345

Also known as

Louis M. Weaves • José Luis Merino Boves • J.L. Merino

Other jobs

Director (25)Unit Production Manager (6)Assistant Director (4)Property Master (4)Executive Producer (3)Producer (3)Writer (2)Assistant Production Manager (1)

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Biography

Jose Luis Merino (10 June 1927 – 2 July 2019) was a Spanish film writer and director who developed a cult following among horror film fans. He was born in 1927 in Madrid, Spain, as José Luis Merino Boves, and went on to direct around 30 films during his long and varied career as director and writer (1958–1990), most of them action/adventure films, crime dramas , spaghetti westerns, war movies and costume dramas involving Robin Hood, pirates, Zorro etc. He is known to horror film fans for the two horror movies he directed in the early 1970s: Orgy of the Dead ( aka The Hanging Woman ) and Scream of the Demon Lover (aka Ivanna ), which have both become cult classics over the years. Merino never considered himself a horror film director, he chose rather to favor his many action/adventure films. He died on July 2, 2019, at age 92.

Movies

Movie credits linked with José Luis Merino.