Biography
José Antonio de la Loma was born on 4 March 1924 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Manos sucias (1957), Jugando con la muerte (1982) and Feuer frei auf Frankie (1967). He died on 6 April 2004 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Blood In The Streets: The Quinqui Film Phenomenon
2021
Quinqui cinema encompassed a series of Spanish crime films with a unique national sensibility, as they reflected the times of the Franco dictatorship ...

Tres días de libertad
1996
Producer, Director, Writer

Deadly Deception
1991
Director, Writer
After receiving numerous death threats, the millionaire father of a young woman hires a private detective.

A Man of Passion
1989
Director, Writer
A coming of age story of a young boy who is left to live with his grandfather, a famous painter. With his grandfather's fame comes a grand lifestyle w...

Counterforce
1988
Director
A team of specialists is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator who has designs on his country.

I, 'The Heifer'
1985
Director, Adaptation, Executive Producer
Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender ha...

Female Street Dogs
1985
Writer, Director
Crista, Berta and Sole, are three young people who feel exploited and discriminated by society.

Killing Machine
1984
Director, Editor, Writer
After a gang of thugs brands a hard working truck driver a traitor and murders his bride, He retaliates by being even more violent than his attackers...

Conquest
1983
Screenplay
A young man, armed with a magical bow and arrows, embarks on a mystical journey through a mystical land to rid it of all evil and joins forces with an...

Target Eagle
1982
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a ...

The Latest Scams of El Torete
1980
Writer, Director
While the Torete rob banks, the Heifer, another delinquent who has not noticed it, enters the same place to rob him. After failing the coup, both deci...

Street Warriors II
1979
Writer, Director
A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses ...

Nunca en horas de clase
1978
Director, Writer

Street Warriors
1977
Director, Writer
Perros Callejeros is based on the juvenile delinquency of the 1970s and 80s in Spain. The story is set in Barrio de la Mina in Barcelona one of the mo...

Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino'
1977
Director, Writer
Barcelona in the seventies. Piper, comedian at the theater El Molino has specialized in effeminate roles, but in reality is a conqueror. His wife, Nit...

La nueva Marilyn
1976
Director, Writer

Fight to the Death
1975
Director, Writer
The parallel stories of a police commissioner and a bank robber whose lives eventually come together.

El último viaje
1974
Director, Writer
Commissioner Mendoza must join forces with the honorable civil guard, to stop the activities of a network of drug traffickers with international conta...

Barcelona Kill
1973
Director, Writer

Forbidden Love
1972
Director, Writer
In the Canary Islands there is a love story between a young and attractive woman, dissatisfied in her marriage to a man older than her, and a handsome...

The Boldest Job in the West
1972
Director, Writer
A bandit gang successfully executes a complicated bank heist but disagreements arise in the aftermath.

Surprise Attack
1970
Writer, Director
1938 at the battlefront along the river Ebro, Spain. It is the Spanish Civil War, and this movie depicts the attack of a group of commandos whose job ...

The Magnificent Tony Carrera
1969
Director, Story
Tony Carrera is a successful race car driver who was also a great safe-cracker. He gets roped into doing one more big job but finds out too late he's ...

Professionals for a Massacre
1967
Screenplay, Story
Caught selling stolen guns, three Confederate soldiers get a reprieve from the firing squad, provided they go into Mexico on a mission to recover stol...

An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth
1967
Screenplay
A flood of counterfeit dollars flooded the global market and is creating alarm in governments around the world. Jeff, a dynamic young journalist is co...

Grand Slam
1967
Screenplay
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to p...

Target Frankie
1967
Director, Writer
Frankie Bargher is hired by the government to pose as his own brother who became a target for two groups of evil agents.

Electra One
1967
Screenplay, Story
A jewel thief crosses paths with a woman carrying a briefcase that the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese all want desperately, so he goes on the...

Fistful of Diamonds
1967
Story
Tough guy Callahan steals a case of diamonds in this Euro action film

Dynamite Jim
1966
Story, Screenplay
During the Civil War, a Union officer tries to move a gold shipment out of Mexico despite the threat of raiders.

The Big Hit of Surcouf
1966
Screenplay
The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.

The Texican
1966
Screenplay
Wanted north of the border, Jess Carlin resides safely in Mexico. Then he hears his brother was killed in a gunfight with another man. Knowning his br...

Lightning Bolt
1966
Screenplay
A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.

Seven Guns for Timothy
1966
Screenplay
The greenhorn Timothy Benson is the heir of a mine, in which also the bandit Rodriguez is interested. Timothy's foreman Corky and his 5 friends are hi...

The Sea Pirate
1966
Screenplay
A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.

Five for Revenge
1966
Writer
Jim Latimore's ranch is a thorn in the side of the ruthless Gonzales brothers and his marriage to their cousin Rosaria rankles even more. Bandit chief...

El primer cuartel
1966
Writer

Kingdom of the Silver Lion
1965
Screenplay
Kara Ben-Nemsi, friends and rescuers set out to free a young relative of the guardian of the treasure of the Chaldaeans (Christian sect), who is captu...

Operation Counterspy
1965
Dialogue
A secret agent is sent to infiltrate the heavily guarded fortress of a madman bent on taking over the world.

Doc, Hands of Steel
1965
Screenplay
Doc McGregor, former surgeon become player, is wrongly accused of murder and pursued by Slade, a bounty hunter. In his escape he finds Larry Kitchener...

Why Go On Killing?
1965
Director, Dialogue
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is ...

The Woman from Beirut
1965
Story
Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison s...

Man from Canyon City
1965
Dialogue
Red and Carraucho, after escaping from jail, reach the border to Mexico and are hired by Morgan, a rich silvermine owner. Disgusted by the latter's cr...

Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace
1965
Writer
Jeff Clayton, who has already won $5,000 at poker when the game’s big loser returns, asking for one last hand. This time, the stranger will wager his...

Totò d'Arabia
1965
Director, Screenplay
Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent...

Vivir un largo invierno
1964
Director

Un demonio con ángel
1963
Writer

Casablanca, Nest of Spies
1963
Story
Casablanca 1942. While French Police Chief Maurice Desjardins is busy having careless fun with some loose girls, members of the French Resistance kill...

La ruta de los narcóticos
1963
Screenplay

José María
1963
Dialogue
Biography of the famous bandit El Tempranillo, acting with impunity in Sierra Morena during the reign of Ferdinand VII.

Las travesuras de Morucha
1962
Writer
At eleven, Juan Jose and Morucha are determined to turn his small band into an orchestra and raise funds. The reason is to help a classmate who is ser...

Desperate Flight
1961
Director, Dialogue
Larsen and Marina, a shady couple of motorists on the Côte d'Azur, pick up a man named Morlaix. A police roadblock, which he escapes by hiding in the ...

Soft Skin on Black Silk
1959
Director, Story, Screenplay
Everything you need to know is telegraphed by the title of this Spanish-language drama. The story takes place in a hothouse Mediterranean setting and ...

Cita imposible
1958
Screenplay
Rosario was unjustly condemned for a robbery committed in the theater where she worked as secretary of producer Gaston Leducq. When she leaves prison,...

Cuatro en la frontera
1958
Writer
A French National Treasury van is assaulted and they steal the gold bullion it was carrying. According to confidences received by the Police Headquart...

Manos sucias
1957
Screenplay, Story, Director
Miguel is a truck driver who dreams of owning a service station. To raise money he agrees to sabotage a truck of his boss' rival, which results in the...

Hospital de urgencia
1956
Writer

La legión del silencio
1956
Story
Los ojos en las manos
1956
Writer

Sin la sonrisa de Dios
1955
Novel, Adaptation

Los agentes del 5º grupo
1955
Idea, Writer
Duran and his team of the fifth group are secret agents missioned by Inspector Peña to find and capture a gang of dangerous criminals who are planning...

Lo que nunca muere
1955
Writer

El presidio
1954
Writer
After being fired from his company, Pablo meets his friend Ana, who introduce him to Pedro Ramírez, an undesirable lawyer, who offers him 15,000 peset...

La hija del mar
1953
Adaptation