Angelino Fons Fernandez, was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.
15 Facts About Angelino Fons
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Angelino Fons is known for his debut film La busca.
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Angelino Fons's career was closely linked to literature, adapting classic Spanish novels to the big screen.
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Angelino Fons was born on 6 March 1936 in Madrid, just months before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
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Angelino Fons grew up in Murcia and Orihuela, where he moved with his family in 1940.
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Angelino Fons studied at the Jesuit school of Santo Domingo in Orihuela, Alicante.
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Angelino Fons entered the University of Murcia to study Philosophy and Literature.
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Angelino Fons began his professional career with his graduation short film A este lado del muro based on the novel Las Afueras written by Luis Goytisolo.
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Angelino Fons's following project was the short Garabato Sketches based on poems by Rafael Alberti.
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Angelino Fons worked as assistant director to Marco Ferreri in the classical comedy El cochecito.
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Closely associated with Carlos Saura during that director first decade as a professional filmmaker, Angelino Fons collaborated on a number of Saura's scripts during the early 1960s, receiving screen credits for The Hunt, Peppermint Frappe and Stress Is Three, as well as Francisco Requeiros' Amador.
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Angelino Fons made his own directorial debut in 1966 with La Busca, a modern-day adaptation of a novel written by Pio Baroja, marked by a sense of critical realism reminiscent of Miguel Picazo's La Tia Tula.
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The film was extremely well received and, as a result, Angelino Fons basked in critical adulation for a number of years as one of the most promising of the young filmmakers of the generation of film directors of the second half of the 1960s.
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In 1969, Angelino Fons began a collaboration with the producer, Emiliano Piedra, directing a weak adaptation of the Perez Galdos novel Fortunata y Jacinta with the producer's wife Emma Penella, in the lead.
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Angelino Fons directed another Perez Galdos adaptation the following year, Marianella, but it was becoming increasingly apparent to critics and audiences that the promise shown in his first film had largely dissipated.