Director
Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
99 years · Madrid, Spain · 26 films
Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi Lasa (22 March 1927 – 28 September 2017) was a Spanish film director and producer. Isasi-Isasmendi began working in the production firm Emisora Films as an assistant manager, film editor, scriptwriter, lead producer, and finally director. In 1955 he founded his own production company, Producciones Isasi in Barcelona. He founded a second firm, Moon Films, in Madrid. In the mid-1960s he directed a series of action films designed for the wider European market including Scaramouche (The Adventures of Scaramouche) in 1963 and Estambul 65 (That Man in Istanbul) in 1965. He made some English-language films, most notably They Came to Rob Las Vegas. He abandoned directing for a decade after making El Perro (The Dog) in 1977 in favour of producing and distributing films before returning to the director's chair with El Aire de un Crimen (The Hint of a Crime) in 1987.
Best known for
Filmography 26
El bueno, la bomba y el malo
2000 · Self
Scent of a Crime
1988 · Director, Screenplay
A Dog Called... Vengeance
1977 · Director, Screenplay
On Mometu
Rafael en Raphael
1975 · Director
Summertime Killer
1972 · Director
En Baldiri de la costa
1968 · Screenplay, Producer
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
That Man in Istanbul
1965 · Director, Producer
The Adventures of Scaramouche
1963 · Director, Screenplay
Vamos a contar mentiras
1962 · Director, Producer
Tierra de todos
1962 · Director
La mentira tiene cabellos rojos
1962 · Director, Writer
Sentencia contra una mujer
1960 · Director
Diego Corrientes
1959 · Director, Writer
Rapsodia de sangre
1957 · Director, Producer
La huida
1956 · Director, Writer
Lo que nunca muere
1955 · Editor
Eleven Pairs of Boots
1954 · Editor
Relato policíaco
1954 · Director, Writer
Juzgado permanente
1953 · Editor
Doubt
1951 · Editor
On The Roku Channel
Post Office Box 1001
1950 · Editor, Screenplay
En un rincón de España
1949 · Editor
Pacto de silencio
1949 · Editor