The Most Illustrious

Luis Escobar
Born
Luis Escobar y Kirkpatrick

(1908-09-05)5 September 1908
Madrid, Spain
Died16 February 1991(1991-02-16) (aged 82)
Madrid, Spain

Luis Escobar y Kirkpatrick, 7th Marquess of Marismas del Guadalquivir (5 September 1908 – 16 February 1991), was a Spanish nobleman and actor.

He was an actor, playwright, and theatre director who advanced the interests of Teatro María Guerrero, Teatro Español, and Teatro Eslava. A flamboyant aristocrat, he was particularly known to have played el marqués de Leguineche (the Marquess of Leguineche) in Luis García Berlanga's comedy trilogy: La Escopeta Nacional (1978), Patrimonio Nacional (1981) and Nacional III (1982). In 1950, he directed La honradez de la cerradura, which was nominated at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Escobar never married and was openly homosexual, especially after Spanish democracy was restored in 1975. His niece, María Victoria Escobar y Cancho, succeeded him in the Marquessate of Marismas del Guadalquivir upon his death in 1991.

Selected filmography

Film

Director

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: La honradez de la cerradura". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved January 11, 2009.


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