Josep Maria Forn

1928-04-04 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 39 Credits

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...

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El somni català

El somni català

2015

Director, Writer, Producer

Directing Writing Producing
El coronel Macià

El coronel Macià

2007

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Subjúdice

1998

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

5.0
Directing Writing Producing
A Body in the Woods

A Body in the Woods

1996

Producer

6.1
Producing

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?

Ho sap el ministre?

1991

as Director

Acting
Ho sap el ministre?

Ho sap el ministre?

1991

Director

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

Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més

1985

4.0
Acting
Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més

Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més

1985

Producer

4.0
Producing
Como un adiós

Como un adiós

1983

Acting
The Victor of Olot

The Victor of Olot

1981

Executive Producer

4.8
Producing

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

La campanada

1980

as Empleado

2.0
Acting
Companys, procés a Catalunya

Companys, procés a Catalunya

1979

Director, Writer

3.8
Directing Writing

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

Alice in Spanish Wonderland

1979

as Himself

4.5
Acting

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

Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

1978

Producer

4.4
Producing

A sincere portrait, and in first person, of the multifaceted Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.

Rage

Rage

1978

Acting

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

Rage

Rage

1978

Producer

Producing

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

Death of the Scorpion

Death of the Scorpion

1976

Production Manager

5.0

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

Cake of Blood

1971

Production Manager

3.0

Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and ancient Christians battling Celtic vamp...

La respuesta

La respuesta

1969

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

Fierce portrait of a leftist student who betrays his girlfriend in order to kill a rich man with high political influence.

Burnt Skin

Burnt Skin

1967

Director, Screenplay

6.1
Directing Writing

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

El castigador

1965

Production Manager

La barca sin pescador

La barca sin pescador

1964

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing
La ruta de los narcóticos

La ruta de los narcóticos

1963

Director

Directing
José María

José María

1963

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Los culpables

Los culpables

1962

Director

6.0
Directing

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

La vida privada de Fulano de Tal

1961

Director, Writer, Producer

Directing Writing Producing
¿Pena de muerte?

¿Pena de muerte?

1961

Director

8.0
Directing

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

Death at Dawn

1960

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

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

La Rana Verde

1958

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Directing Producing Writing

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

Un tesoro en el cielo

1957

Writer

Writing
Yo maté

Yo maté

1955

Director, Writer

8.0
Directing Writing
Contraband Spain

Contraband Spain

1955

Assistant Director

5.7
Directing

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

¡¡Kubala!! Los ases buscan la paz

1954

Assistant Director

6.0
Directing
Eleven Pairs of Boots

Eleven Pairs of Boots

1954

Assistant Director

6.0
Directing

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

Doubt

Doubt

1951

Script Supervisor

8.0

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

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

Post Office Box 1001

1950

Production Secretary

6.9

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

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)

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

N/A

Acting