Biography
Josep Maria Forn i Costa (April 4, 1928 – October 3, 2021) was a Spanish actor , film producer and film director . He was born in Barcelona , and began making movies in the 1950s with the short-film Gaudí (1954) and some commercial movies. His film, Burnt Skin (1967), dealt with the migration to Catalonia from other parts of Spain , and was very successful besides the Franco 's censorship. In 1975, he became the founder and president of Institut de Cinema Català. From 1987 to 1991, he was th...
Known For
Complete Filmography

El somni català
2015
Director, Writer, Producer

El coronel Macià
2007
Director
Elisabeth Joyce, a young Irish historian, comes to Barcelona in November 1905, just to assist the assault of 200 soldiers with axes to press the weekl...

Subjúdice
1998
Director, Writer, Executive Producer

A Body in the Woods
1996
Producer
A hard-hitting police investigation with Rossy de Palma taking the lead as the police officer responsible for solving the murder of a young woman whos...

Ho sap el ministre?
1991
as Director

Ho sap el ministre?
1991
Director

Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més
1985

Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més
1985
Producer

Como un adiós
1983

The Victor of Olot
1981
Executive Producer
In a small Catalan village take advantage of the visit of an ecclesiastical authority of Rome, during vacations, to organize a conference on the topic...

La campanada
1980
as Empleado

Companys, procés a Catalunya
1979
Director, Writer
1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catal...

Alice in Spanish Wonderland
1979
as Himself
Four different Alices wander through mazes constructed from 40 years of Spanish history in this post-Franco meditation. Loosely related to the "Alice"...

Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait
1978
Producer
A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.

Rage
1978
In this docudrama, life in a Catalan village in the early years of the Franco era (1939-1975) is chronicled.

Rage
1978
Producer
In this docudrama, life in a Catalan village in the early years of the Franco era (1939-1975) is chronicled.

Death of the Scorpion
1976
Production Manager
The film plunges into the intrigue of a love triangle in which is involved a former actress who has a relationship with her husband, a film producer, ...

Cake of Blood
1971
Production Manager
Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and ancient Christians battling Celtic vamp...

La respuesta
1969
Director, Writer
Fierce portrait of a leftist student who betrays his girlfriend in order to kill a rich man with high political influence.

Burnt Skin
1967
Director, Screenplay
Catalonia, Spain. In a village on the Costa Brava, José, an Andalusian emigrant, works as a bricklayer while waiting for his wife Juana and his two ch...

El castigador
1965
Production Manager

La barca sin pescador
1964
Director, Writer

La ruta de los narcóticos
1963
Director

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

Los culpables
1962
Director
A businessman whose company is bankrupt decides to fake his own death with the complicity of his wife and her lover, a doctor who will be responsible ...

La vida privada de Fulano de Tal
1961
Director, Writer, Producer

¿Pena de muerte?
1961
Director
Pedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous lawyer has to give up his defense because he is serious...

Death at Dawn
1960
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather, unexpectedly runs away. Doria, an ambitious insu...

La Rana Verde
1958
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Cimera de los Infantes, Castile, Spain. The young men who meet every day in the bar La Rana Verde are bored because they barely have fun, so they deci...

Un tesoro en el cielo
1957
Writer

Yo maté
1955
Director, Writer

Contraband Spain
1955
Assistant Director
An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.

¡¡Kubala!! Los ases buscan la paz
1954
Assistant Director

Eleven Pairs of Boots
1954
Assistant Director
Ignacio, a professional footballer, has sentimental and labor problems. His girlfriend is about to abandon him because of the constant displays of aff...

Doubt
1951
Script Supervisor
A newly remarried widow is accused of having murdered her first husband, who died from arsenical poisoning. Being her present husband a lawyer he take...

La fuente enterrada
1950
Script Supervisor
A woman returns home from a mental hospital, to find his husband has used her case to write a play.

Post Office Box 1001
1950
Production Secretary
Barcelona, Spain. A young man is murdered in the middle of the street in front of the police headquarters. Miguel and Marcial, two agents of the Crimi...

El señorito Octavio
1950
Script Supervisor
Octavio falls in love with a married woman, the Countess of Trevia, who is on the brink of ruin...

Triomfarem! - José María Caparrós Lera (1943 - 2018)
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