Filmmaker Jaime de Armiñán, director of ‘Mi Querida Señorita’, dies at 97

Spanish cinema says goodbye to one of its historic names. The filmmaker Jaime de Armiñán (Madrid, 1927), director and screenwriter of films such as My Dear Miss (1972), The nest (1980), both nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category, or the TVE series Juncalhas died at the age of 97, the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) of which he was a part reported this Wednesday.

The entity of which he was a part wanted to say goodbye to the filmmaker with a warm message in honor of #SGAE. An immense filmmaker and firm defender of the copyright of creators, he joined the entity on September 16, 1954. The burning chapel will open this Thursday, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., in the Manuel de Falla Room of the SGAE itself, the association has informed EFE.

Armiñán was also a novelist and playwright. Writing was his passion since he was young. At the age of 20 he published his first book, circus biographyand his film career took off as a writer for other directors such as José María Forqué, for whom he scripted The heifer (1962) y I have seen death (1965). His work as a screenwriter in The lame pigeon (1996) earned him, in fact, his only Goya nomination, although he also received the honorary award for his career in 2014 from the then president of the Academy, Enrique González Macho.

After a decade dedicated to directing television, a medium from which he never separated thanks to series like Three were three (1972) and A National Glory (1999), his debut as a film director did not come until 1969 with Carola by day, Carola by night, starring Pepa Flores and Pepe Isbert, and continued until 2008 with 14, Fabian Roadwith Ana Torrent and Ángela Molina, although in his last years it was not as wordy.

[Información de última hora. Habrá ampliación en breve]