
Directing
Luis Bayón Herrera
Born — Died
1889-09-23 — 1956-03-30
Place of birth
Bilbao, Spain
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Luis Bayón Herrera (1889–1956) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter who worked in Argentine film of the 1940s and 1950s. In the last few years of his career he also worked on Cuban production.
Known for
7.0An American producer arrives in Argentina searching for its most representative artists to film a movie. A group of imitators will try to convince him that they are the real artists he is looking for. The film was conceived as a showcase for the successful radio group "La Cruzada del Buen Humor", the precursor to what would later become "Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor", alongside the Cuban vedette Blanquita Amaro.
Cuidado con las imitaciones
1948
7.0A rumor spreads about a man being bad luck. His superstitious friends believe it, but it's all part of an evil scheme to ruin the man's upcoming wedding. Adapted from the play of the same name by Gregorio de Laferrere.
Jettatore
1938
9.0Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.
A La Habana me voy
1950
NRA girl marries a writer, with whom her older sister is also in love; and when she gets sick, her sister takes care of her family.
Pasión imposible
1943
7.5Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.
El astro del tango
1940
9.0A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.
Amor
1940
Behind the camera
7.0An American producer arrives in Argentina searching for its most representative artists to film a movie. A group of imitators will try to convince him that they are the real artists he is looking for. The film was conceived as a showcase for the successful radio group "La Cruzada del Buen Humor", the precursor to what would later become "Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor", alongside the Cuban vedette Blanquita Amaro.
Cuidado con las imitaciones
1948
7.0A rumor spreads about a man being bad luck. His superstitious friends believe it, but it's all part of an evil scheme to ruin the man's upcoming wedding. Adapted from the play of the same name by Gregorio de Laferrere.
Jettatore
1938
9.0Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.
A La Habana me voy
1950
NRA girl marries a writer, with whom her older sister is also in love; and when she gets sick, her sister takes care of her family.
Pasión imposible
1943
7.5Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.
El astro del tango
1940
7.5Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.
El astro del tango
1940
9.0A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.
Amor
1940
9.0A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.
Amor
1940
8.0Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
Una mujer sin importancia
1945
8.0Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
Una mujer sin importancia
1945
7.0An orchestra director had a son as a result of an affair in his youth and hides the fact from his wife. But the young man succeeds as a musician and the truth soon comes to light.
With music in the soul
1951
7.0A group of young people is torn between the established order of the professional world and their rebellion.
Buenos Aires a la vista
1950
7.0A group of young people is torn between the established order of the professional world and their rebellion.
Buenos Aires a la vista
1950
7.0A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.
The House of the Millions
1942
7.0A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.
The House of the Millions
1942
9.0Elena is coming back to her country house while León and the person in charge of the estate fight to gain her love.
Joven, viuda y estanciera
1941
9.0Elena is coming back to her country house while León and the person in charge of the estate fight to gain her love.
Joven, viuda y estanciera
1941
8.0A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.
La piel de zapa
1943
7.0Blanquita, a very superstitious Cuban young woman, visits a fortune teller on the eve of her wedding to Roberto. She predicts that her first husband is destined to die, as well as would not make her happy. Believing this and according to her uncle, Blanquita starts looking for a man about to die, with the intention to marry him, then become widower and take Roberto as her second husband, thus freeing him from the curse.
Una cubana en España
1951
7.0Blanquita, a very superstitious Cuban young woman, visits a fortune teller on the eve of her wedding to Roberto. She predicts that her first husband is destined to die, as well as would not make her happy. Believing this and according to her uncle, Blanquita starts looking for a man about to die, with the intention to marry him, then become widower and take Roberto as her second husband, thus freeing him from the curse.
Una cubana en España
1951
8.0A woman forces a politician not to report a big scam.
An Ideal Husband
1947
9.0A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend.
Tres millones... y el amor
1946
Lucrecia Borgia's brothers seek power by marrying and divorcing her with various suitors.
Lucrecia Borgia
1947
A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day.
Un modelo de París
1946
7.5After losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and perseverance make him succeed and be happy with the woman he loves.
La novela de un joven pobre
1942
9.0Cándida and Jesús decide to purchase a Bed and Breakfast in Buenos Aires. But in the hostel already lived an Italian opera singer that provokes the jealousy of Cándida.
Los celos de Cándida
1940
9.0Cándida and Jesús decide to purchase a Bed and Breakfast in Buenos Aires. But in the hostel already lived an Italian opera singer that provokes the jealousy of Cándida.
Los celos de Cándida
1940
7.0A young man pretends to be ill to seduce a beautiful doctor, but his niece falls in love with him.
No salgas esta noche
1946
8.0A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.
The Unhappiest Man in Town
1941
8.0A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.
The Unhappiest Man in Town
1941
10.0A wealthy woman pressures her son-in-law to give her a grandson until her daughter finally gets pregnant.
Mi fortuna por un nieto
1940
8.0A woman tries to annul her daughter's marriage by making her boyfriend believe that he is the real father of her daughter.
Mi suegra es una fiera
1939
7.0When a man agrees to join a gang of criminals, his life becomes a complicated labyrinth that he will have to leave in order to be saved.
La suerte llama tres veces
1943
6.0A millionaire woman marries her young butler in articulo mortis and he wastes the whole fortune but she ends up recovering. The marriage will experience certain vicissitudes until they reach their dance of fortune.
La danza de la fortuna
1944
6.0A millionaire woman marries her young butler in articulo mortis and he wastes the whole fortune but she ends up recovering. The marriage will experience certain vicissitudes until they reach their dance of fortune.
La danza de la fortuna
1944
7.5Unscrupulous businessman is plotting a hostile takeover, looking for ways to fix a horse-race, and scheming to force a failed businessman to marry his daughter to him to avoid financial ruin.
El caballo del pueblo
1935
8.5Two reporters from rival newspapers compete to win over women and investigate a gang of criminals.
The Two Rivals
1944
5.0The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.
The Immovable Loved One
1945
8.0A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.
Fúlmine
1949
7.0A humble bartender wants his minister brother to recognize the son of the woman he abandoned years ago.
Oro entre barro
1939
