Alfonso Paso

Writing

Alfonso Paso

Born 1926-09-12 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Los extremeños se tocan poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Los extremeños se tocan

1970

Los extremeños se tocan poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Los extremeños se tocan

1970

Préstamela esta noche poster
5.4

Manolo is the trusted servant of a famous tenor, Riccardi, an international opera singer. Although his life is overshadowed by the fame of his master, one day his luck changes. In a short time, two unusual events occur: he falls in love and an eccentric inventor offers him the deal of a lifetime...

Préstamela esta noche

1978

¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón! poster
7.5

The famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother.

¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!

1961

Amor a la española poster
4.0

The adventures of a group of Spaniards to win the favors of the numerous young foreigners who spend the summer in the city.

Amor a la española

1967

Blocked paths poster
6.5

After committing a crime, four fugitives intend to cross the border just to find the roads are blocked.

Blocked paths

1955

Cursed Mountains poster
6.4

A small Spanish town is divided between the upper and lower parts. In the wealthy upper part, all the women are barren. Juan from the poor lower part falls in love with Luz, a pretty girl from the upper side: a girl who must of course be barren.

Cursed Mountains

1955

Si quiero poster
6.0

Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.

Si quiero

1967

Una tal Dulcinea poster
5.3

A history professor is married with a beautiful woman but she is intellectually not able to follow her husband. Therefore she seeks her own pleasures and amusements without him.

Una tal Dulcinea

1963

Celos, amor y Mercado Común poster
7.7

The film follows the adventures of several couples in Spain in the early 70s, whose stories intermingle: Luis is an unfaithful husband to his wife Juana, Felipe is a plumber who seeks extra-spousal adventures to hidden from his wife, Rosario, who works as an assistant. Ramón is a pathological jealous whose obsession is that his girlfriend Charity confess the hypothetical adventures he had with other men before meeting him, Irene is a jealous wife of her husband, Carlos, whose professional life gives him numerous opportunities for infidelity, Domin he is a pimp who frequents the brothels of Madrid .

Celos, amor y Mercado Común

1973

Celos, amor y Mercado Común poster
7.7

The film follows the adventures of several couples in Spain in the early 70s, whose stories intermingle: Luis is an unfaithful husband to his wife Juana, Felipe is a plumber who seeks extra-spousal adventures to hidden from his wife, Rosario, who works as an assistant. Ramón is a pathological jealous whose obsession is that his girlfriend Charity confess the hypothetical adventures he had with other men before meeting him, Irene is a jealous wife of her husband, Carlos, whose professional life gives him numerous opportunities for infidelity, Domin he is a pimp who frequents the brothels of Madrid .

Celos, amor y Mercado Común

1973

No somos ni Romeo ni Julieta poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

No somos ni Romeo ni Julieta

1969

No somos ni Romeo ni Julieta poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

No somos ni Romeo ni Julieta

1969

Susanna and Me poster
7.0

An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who turns himself into a cabaret comedian in his sparetime.

Susanna and Me

1957

Los que tocan el piano poster
7.6

Cayetana, her boyfriend Paco and Venancio, her foster brother, commit small thefts and, from time to time, spend a few days in jail. Until they meet with Federico, a thief who has traveled abroad and convince them that using European methods success is guaranteed. Paco then decides to act scientifically and seizes a hospital surgical equipment. When they want to realize, poor Venancio is forced to give an injection to a dentistry patient and, even worse, Paco has to pull out a tooth. And all that, before entering the operating room

Los que tocan el piano

1968

Find Me That Girl poster
5.2

Sixteen-year-old Marisol sings her way across Spain with her father, chasing dreams and survival. On a sunlit campsite in Mallorca, she meets two students and dares to perform at a bullfighting event—hoping to be discovered. When talent scout Mr. Morrison sees her spark, he whisks her into a new world of ambition and refinement, determined to transform her into “a lady with great talent.” But as Marisol rises, she must decide what she's willing to leave behind to become the star she’s always dreamed of being.

Find Me That Girl

1964

Ohnsorg Theater - Oh, diese Eltern! poster
NR

The perfectly healthy widow Lieselotte Ölkers and the widower Walter Johannsen meet in Dr. Bolt's waiting room. While chatting about incurable diseases, incompetent doctors and ineffective medication, they become closer. Their children think this late love is silly childishness. Sex and love in old age? Impossible. A vehement argument between young and old begins.

Ohnsorg Theater - Oh, diese Eltern!

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vamos a contar mentiras

1972

El alcalde de Zalamea poster
7.8

Film version of the historic piece of Calderon de la Barca. An army officer faces the local authority that intends to judge him for having stained the honor of a young girl

El alcalde de Zalamea

1954

Ligue Story poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ligue Story

1972

Ligue Story poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ligue Story

1972

La mujer es un buen negocio poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

La mujer es un buen negocio

1977

El abuelo tiene un plan poster
5.9

Leandro Cano, grandfather of many grandchildren, coincides in the clinic of Dr. Bolt with Elena, a lady already advanced in years. The doctor makes every effort to make them meet, and thus overcome their feelings of loneliness.

El abuelo tiene un plan

1973

Merry Christmas poster
5.3

A marriage without great financial resources and bad luck wins a little lamb in a raffle. Once they have decided to have it for dinner on Christmas Eve, the couple warn that their children have grown too fond of the animal, now christened as Bolita.

Merry Christmas

1954