Alfonso Paso
- Writing
- September 12, 1926 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- July 10, 1978
Biography
Alfonso Paso (12 September 1926 – 10 July 1978) was a Spanish dramatist. He wrote over a hundred plays, mainly light comedies, sometimes laced with black humour and tragedy. There were also police dramas and examples of what he called "social theatre". He was known for the well crafted complexity of his plots and for the originality of his situations and characters. Alfonso Paso Gil was born into a "theatre dynasty" in Madrid. His father was the Zarzuela playwright and librettist Antonio Paso y Cano (1878–1950). His mother was the actress Juana Gil. Early on he abandoned a career as an aeronautical engineer and turned to the study of Philosophy and Literature, graduating in 1952 and focusing on American History and Archeology. Later he studied Medicine and Psychiatry, then switching again, this time to journalism. He would continue to work as a journalist until the mid-1970s. He married Evangelina Jardiel, daughter of Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901–1952). Their children included the actress Paloma Paso Jardiel. Although he often worked as an actor, his more lasting notability results from his work as a writer.
Known for
Filmography
- Mingo y Aníbal en la mansión embrujada · Author
- Ohnsorg Theater - Oh, diese Eltern! · Writer
- Préstamela esta noche · Writer
- Usted puede ser un asesino · Writer
- Estoy hecho un chaval · Writer
- La mujer es un buen negocio · Screenplay
- Mauricio, mon amour · Enfermo en la clínica
- El señor está servido · Sotillo
- Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave? · Story, Screenplay
- Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar · Alfonso Paso, miembro del jurado (uncredited), Writer
- El primer paso... de la mujer · Novel
- Si Yo Fuera Rico · Writer
- Celos, amor y Mercado Común · Director, Writer
- El canto de la cigarra · Theatre Play
- El abuelo tiene un plan · Dr. Juan G. Bolt, Writer
- Me gusta esa chica · Idea
- Vamos a contar mentiras · Writer
- Ligue Story · Señor del anuncio (uncredited), Director
- Cómo casarse en siete días · Writer
- En un lugar de la Manga · Dialogue
- Enseñar a un sinvergüenza · Writer
- Alta comedia · Theatre Play
- The Other Residence · Director, Writer
- Los extremeños se tocan · Director, Screenplay
- Una señora estupenda · Story
- Españolear · Screenplay
- Cuatro noches de boda · Screenplay
- No somos ni Romeo ni Julieta · Director, Writer
- Vamos por la parejita · Director
- Los subdesarrollados · Writer
- Los que tocan el piano · Writer
- ¡Cómo está el servicio! · Story
- Este cura · Story
- 40 grados a la sombra · Writer
- Las que tienen que servir · Theatre Play
- Amor a la española · Van Criep, Writer
- Si quiero · Writer
- De profesión sospechosos · Theatre Play
- Lola, espejo oscuro · Dorigan
- Life is formidable · Theatre Play, Story
- Una tal Dulcinea · Writer
- Fiebre de primavera · Theatre Play
- Find Me That Girl · Writer, Story
- The Palomos · Story
- El pecador y la bruja · Story
- The New Cinderella · Writer, Story
- Marisol rumbo a Río · Writer
- Una tal Dulcinea · Writer
- Los derechos de la mujer · Writer
- Wedding Dinner · Novel
- Vamos a contar mentiras · Theatre Play
- Salto mortal · Writer
- Usted puede ser un asesino · Theatre Play
- ¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón! · Screenplay
- Cuidado con las personas formales · Writer
- Navidades en junio · Screenplay
- Crimen para recién casados · Dialogue
- There Is Someone Behind the Door · Screenplay
- De espaldas a la puerta · Screenplay
- La noche y el alba · Story
- Aquellos tiempos del cuplé · Writer
- Desert Warrior · Adaptation
- Un tesoro en el cielo · Additional Dialogue
- Susanna and Me · Writer
- La fierecilla domada · Additional Dialogue
- Blocked paths · Writer
- Cursed Mountains · Writer
- Merry Christmas · Writer
- El alcalde de Zalamea · Writer
- Conflicto inesperado · Writer