Celebrity Biographies
Jesus Garcia de Duenas
He wrote outstanding film books and worked as a critic and director. Jesús García de Dueñas died on May 17, 2020, at the San Rafael Clinic in Madrid, at the age of 80, after a long illness.
Born in Cáceres on August 18, 1939, after graduating in Economics and Philosophy and Letters, he studied at the Official School of Cinematography. There he met Charo López , a teacher, whom he convinced to dedicate herself to acting, and who would later become his wife. The docudrama Philippe de Monte (1986), the series Manuel de Falla, seven songs of Spain, and the feature film El asesino no está solo stand out .
Among his books are “The Bronston Empire, We’re Going to Hollywood!” or “Spanish cinema: a visual chronicle from 1896 to the present day” . Director of the Institute of Image Studies of the University of Alcalá de Henares, Jesús García de Dueñas received the Muñoz Suay prize on two occasions, awarded by the Film Academy, for volumes on the Seventh Art.