Luis Bayón Herrera

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

Behind the camera

Cuidado con las imitaciones poster
7.0

An 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

Jettatore poster
7.0

A 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

A La Habana me voy poster
9.0

Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.

A La Habana me voy

1950

Pasión imposible poster
NR

A 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

El astro del tango poster
7.5

Accidental 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

El astro del tango poster
7.5

Accidental 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

Amor poster
9.0

A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.

Amor

1940

Amor poster
9.0

A woman destroys her life, her marriage and her husband due to her obsessive jealousy.

Amor

1940

Una mujer sin importancia poster
8.0

Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.

Una mujer sin importancia

1945

Una mujer sin importancia poster
8.0

Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.

Una mujer sin importancia

1945

With music in the soul poster
7.0

An 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

Buenos Aires a la vista poster
7.0

A group of young people is torn between the established order of the professional world and their rebellion.

Buenos Aires a la vista

1950

Buenos Aires a la vista poster
7.0

A group of young people is torn between the established order of the professional world and their rebellion.

Buenos Aires a la vista

1950

The House of the Millions poster
7.0

A 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

The House of the Millions poster
7.0

A 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

Joven, viuda y estanciera poster
9.0

Elena 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

Joven, viuda y estanciera poster
9.0

Elena 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

La piel de zapa poster
8.0

A 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

Una cubana en España poster
7.0

Blanquita, 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

Una cubana en España poster
7.0

Blanquita, 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

An Ideal Husband poster
8.0

A woman forces a politician not to report a big scam.

An Ideal Husband

1947

Tres millones... y el amor poster
9.0

A 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

No artwork available
NR

Lucrecia Borgia's brothers seek power by marrying and divorcing her with various suitors.

Lucrecia Borgia

1947

No artwork available
10.0

A series of confusions involve an unfaithful woman and a man on his wedding day.

Un modelo de París

1946

La novela de un joven pobre poster
7.5

After 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

Los celos de Cándida poster
9.0

Cándida 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

Los celos de Cándida poster
9.0

Cándida 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

No salgas esta noche poster
7.0

A young man pretends to be ill to seduce a beautiful doctor, but his niece falls in love with him.

No salgas esta noche

1946

The Unhappiest Man in Town poster
8.0

A 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

The Unhappiest Man in Town poster
8.0

A 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

Mi fortuna por un nieto poster
10.0

A wealthy woman pressures her son-in-law to give her a grandson until her daughter finally gets pregnant.

Mi fortuna por un nieto

1940

Mi suegra es una fiera poster
8.0

A 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

La suerte llama tres veces poster
7.0

When 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

La danza de la fortuna poster
6.0

A 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

La danza de la fortuna poster
6.0

A 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

El caballo del pueblo poster
7.5

Unscrupulous 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

The Two Rivals poster
8.5

Two reporters from rival newspapers compete to win over women and investigate a gang of criminals.

The Two Rivals

1944

The Immovable Loved One poster
5.0

The loves of Ana Cecilia Luisa Deillez with the Mexican poet Amado Nervo.

The Immovable Loved One

1945

Fúlmine poster
8.0

A married man usually has very bad luck until he wins the lottery.

Fúlmine

1949

Oro entre barro poster
7.0

A humble bartender wants his minister brother to recognize the son of the woman he abandoned years ago.

Oro entre barro

1939