
Birthday:
07-04-1935
Deathday:
06-07-2019 (83 years)
Birthplace:
Montevideo, Uruguay
Biography
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, known as Chicho Ibáñez Serrador or Luis Peñafiel — the pseudonym with which he signed his scripts — was a Spanish film and television director, stage director, actor and screenwriter. Throughout his life he stood out for his contribution to fantasy and horror films, as well as for the numerous programs he directed for Televisión Española.
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Cult of Terror
Act like Self - Filmmaker
event2017 star_border 6.3
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A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.
Los bulbos
event1974 star_border 6
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Gianfranco, a peddler, and Lina, his young assistant, arrive in Montepulciano, a small Italian village, where they lure the local children by performing fascinating conjuring tricks.
Berenice
event1959
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Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina
Masterworks of Terror
Act like Sidney
event1960 star_border 5.2
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Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of wine and a meditated revenge; and a heart that refuses to stop beating.
Who Can Kill a Child?
Act like Man Next to the Bus (uncredited)
event1976 star_border 7
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A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
El guión
event1970
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A lonely writer one day meets a prostitute to whom he offers his money in exchange for her time and friendship. However, she begins to tire of him when his economy declines, so he must get money at all costs. Pilot episode of a series that was not broadcast at the time by TVE.
Dying of Laughter
Act like Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
event1999 star_border 6.5
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Nino and Bruno are two comedians who reach the heights of success with their duo act, turning them into huge TV celebrities. However, the hate between them grows fast, as much as their fame.
El televisor
Act like Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
event1974 star_border 7.4
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Enrique buys a color television set just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction.
Coffins of Light
Act like himself
event2009
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In December 1974, a Spanish filmmaker named Sergio del Monte died under strange circumstances while shooting his debut film. Only a few people were able to see the footage that had been captured, and they all allegedly went blind or suffered the same fate as the director. The producers made the negatives disappear, however some cans filed in an Italian laboratory appear to have survived...
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador: historias para recordar
Act like Self - Filmmaker
event2017 star_border 8.2
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How the Uruguayan-Spanish actor, writer, producer and director Narciso «Chicho» Ibáñez Serrador changed forever the way of producing programs for Spanish television.
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Act like Self
event2012 star_border 8
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Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1920s to the Belgian lesbian vampires in the 1970s, from the black-gloved killers of Italian bloody giallo cinema to the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War, and finally reveals how Europe's turbulent 20th century forged its ground-breaking horror tradition.
País S. A.
Act like Actores invitados
event1975 star_border 5
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A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
Legend of Horror
Act like The Young Man (uncredited)
event1972 star_border 5
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Legend Of Horror was cobbled together from an Argentinian Edgar Allan Poe adaptation called Obras Maestras del Terror (the flashback sequence transforms into “The Tell-Tale Heart”) and some American wrap-around footage from 1966.
Nadie inquietó más
Act like Self - Filmmaker
event2008 star_border 7
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A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master of horror, star of Argentinean theater, cinema and television for decades.
Carola de día, Carola de noche
Act like Hombre con prismáticos en Chez Nous
event1969 star_border 4.7
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Carola is a princess in a land far far away that had to run away after revolution in her country. She goes to Spain and has to disguise herself to save her life, because the revolution wants her to die. But Carola doesn't like to be imprisoned and secretly goes out by night to find out how spaniards live. What she didn't expect, was that she would fall in love with a man she meets in a restaurant, a man who works in a cabaret where she decides to start working as a singer because money is running out.
Todo el año es Navidad
Act like Carmelo
event1960 star_border 5
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Film composed of different short stories, in which an envoy of God to the Earth (Raul Rossi) must help solving some small conflicts referring to human attitudes and relationships, such as solidarity, love and companionship.
Tales to Keep You Awake
Act like Narrator (voice) (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 7
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Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.
Ligeia
Adaptation (1 ep.)
event1959
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Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina.
The House That Screamed
Director (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 6.6
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Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.
Historia de la frivolidad
Director (1 ep.)
event1967 star_border 7
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The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
The Baby's Room
Editorial Coordinator (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.7
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Juan and Sonia arrive at a large old house, an ideal place to raise their newborn son. When, one night before going to bed, they check the operation of the monitoring device installed in the baby's room, they discover that someone is sitting next to the crib.
To Let
Editorial Coordinator (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 5.9
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Mario and Clara, his pregnant girlfriend, try to find a new apartment to settle in as soon as possible, so they go to visit one in a distant neighborhood that seems abandoned. Once there, things are not as they expected.
A Christmas Tale
Editorial Coordinator (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6.3
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Cubelles, Tarragona, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a deep hole dug in the middle of nowhere.
Blame
Director (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 4.5
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When nurse Gloria has financial difficulties, her friend Dr. Ana Torres invites her to move with her six year-old daughter Vicky to her old big house where she runs a gynecologic clinic. In return, Gloria will assist Ana in her clinic in the afternoons.
Freddy
Original Concept (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 4.9
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Madrid, Spain, 1982. TV director Chicho Ibáñez Serrador asks André, a lousy actor playing a ventriloquist, to work with Charlie, a disturbing dummy.
El trasplante
Writer (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7
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El Transplante focuses on the story of "a mature couple" who "sees the need to renew their bodies to avoid being fired from their jobs", but who only have enough money for one of them. That limiting circumstance will force them to make decisions.
La pesadilla
Writer (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 5.2
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The nightmare tells how in 1880 in a village in mountainous Galicia a series of mysterious deaths devastate the region. All the victims are young women, and murdered under mysterious circumstances. And the townspeople begin to suspect that the person responsible is Naim, a strange neighbor who lives apart, never leaving during the day. But Lúa, a young woman from the village who sees through her prejudices, will do everything possible to protect her most hidden secrets.
El televisor
Writer (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.5
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El Televisor narrates how Marcos, the only neighbor without an alarm, finally ends up installing a protection system in his chalet. Far from feeling safer, he soon becomes obsessed with the idea that someone is stalking him, and he connects the signal from the surveillance cameras to the TV in the living room. Progressively, the images of the closed circuit supplant the programs and the movies, until becoming the only thing that is reproduced on the screen. His wife and his children helplessly witness the man's madness... but maybe "something" out there is really threatening the family. Something visible only between the pixels of the TV.
The Alarm
Writer (1 ep.)
event2022
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In a near and dystopian future, for reasons unknown, it is impossible to go outside. A couple is forced to live with an unknown family while the world beyond the windows of their house seems to disintegrate forever. But the biggest threat of all might be inside, in the exact center of the dining room table. Or at the bottom of the nightstand drawer. Or in the past.
La broma
Original Concept (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 4.8
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Elena and her lover Javier set in motion a plan to assassinate her husband Alberto, a successful businessman.
El asfalto
Original Concept (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 5.8
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Between astonishment and despair, Baldo, a courier, sees how, slowly and inexorably, he sinks into the asphalt.
El doble
Original Concept (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 5.6
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Year 2045. In an attempt to save his relationship with Eva, Dani acquires a double to cover his absence when she needs him.
El último reloj
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 6
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In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide him with a home and a job.
The Man Who Returned From Death
Story (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6.2
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A gold digger kills her rich old husband and then is driven to the brink of madness when her late hubby starts haunting her. Is he really dead or a vengeful ghost?
The Ragman
Director (1 ep.)
event1965
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Several profaned tombs are discovered in the cemetery of a great city. Edmund, a poor ragman that lives in the suburbs with his wife Berenice, suspects that his alcoholic son is the culprit of the crimes.
The Return
Director (1 ep.)
event1974
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A married couple with severe problems economic visit to an uncle, a solitary man with a great fortune. They plan to murder him and to keep their money. But they ignore that this man has diabolical powers.
The Ragman
Director (1 ep.)
event1974
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Edmund, a ragman that lives in the suburbs of the city with his wife, Berenice, suspects that their son, Bernard, an incurable alcoholic, is the responsible for the profanation of several tombs discovered in the local cemetery.
La pesadilla
Director (1 ep.)
event1974
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The people of a village think that the man that lives alone in a remote castle is a vampire and the responsible for the death of several young women. They plan to lynch him.
La zarpa
Director (1 ep.)
event1974
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A man returns of India to visit his sick brother. From that place he brings a monkey's paw with supernatural powers. Soon, the monkey's paw makes feel its effects.
Spectre
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 5.2
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After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small village where he grew up.
A Real Friend
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 4.6
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Estrella, an intelligent teen student, spends most of her time alone at school or home, enjoying horror books and movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and a vampire.
Insania
Producer (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 9
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Tono is continuously harassed by her mother, who is uncannily cruel and authoritarian. His obsession with a woman's voice recorded on cassette and his favorite doll will help him fight out of his mother's control.
The Cage of Death
Story (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 5
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An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece.
Master of Horror
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 6
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An anthology film of two classic tales from Edgar Allan Poe. A re-edited and dubbed version of Masterworks of Terror (1960) for American cinemas.
Un, dos, tres
Creator (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 1.3
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Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez, often shortened as Un, dos, tres, and named Un, dos, tres... a leer esta vez in the last season, was a Spanish game show created by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The show, which ran from 1972 to 2004 spanning ten seasons, became the most famous game show in the history of Spanish television. It also was the first television show exported outside of Spain, with versions aired in the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
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