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name: "Luis Alcoriza"
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roles: ["Screenwriter"]
born: "5 September 1918"
died: "3 December 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T12:28:30.687396+00:00"
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# Luis Alcoriza

Screenwriter. Born 5 September 1918 in Badajoz, Spain. Died 3 December 1992.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter
- **Born:** 5 September 1918, Badajoz, Spain
- **Died:** 3 December 1992
- **Also known as:** Луис Алькориса

## Biography

Luis Alcoriza was a Spanish-born Mexican screenwriter, film director and actor. Born in Badajoz, Spain, on 5 September 1918, he left Spain during the Civil War and settled in Mexico from 1940, later becoming a naturalised Mexican citizen. He died in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on 3 December 1992.

Alcoriza collaborated frequently with Luis Buñuel on screenplays, including *The Young and the Damned* (1950), *Él* (1953), *Death in the Garden* (1956) and *The Exterminating Angel* (1962). He also wrote for other directors and directed his own films, among them *Tlayucan* (1962), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. He was married to Janet Alcoriza.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Young and the Damned* (1950), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-young-and-the-damned.md)

## Also known for

- *The Exterminating Angel* (1962), Story
- *Él* (1953), Adaptation, Screenplay
- *El Siete Machos* (1951), Story
- *Robinson Crusoe* (1954), Screenplay
- *The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales* (1960), Writer
- *Death in the Garden* (1956), Screenplay
- *The Brute* (1953), Writer
- *Departamento de soltero* (1971), Story

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