Madrid, May 6 (EFE) .- ‘The universe of José Luis Ozores’ is a new book that pays tribute to José Luis Ozores (Madrid, 1923-1968), a “polyhedral actor” who built his film career giving life to clumsy, but sentimental and endearing characters.
The foundation of artists Interpreters Management Society (AISGE) and Notorious Editions have presented the new volume that has also had the participation of their daughter, actress Adriana Ozores, who signs the epilogue, and actor Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, president of the Aisge and signing the prologue.
“It is almost a reasoned catalog, a compilation of many data that is also for us an emotional download,” said his daughter in the presentation the book, which is a choral creation of about twenty authors, including Juan Luis Álvarez, Gregorio Belinchón or Lucía Tello.
The book is divided into two parts, a first that collects and analyzes the 44 films in which the interpreter appeared in less than two decades, and a second that includes a biographical dictionary prepared by the cultural journalist Jaime Iglesias.
The repertoire that covers the book highlights comedies such as ‘recruits with a child’ (1955), a film that catapulted him to fame, or ‘The last horse’ (1950), directed by Edgard Nevile and his first work with Fernando Fernán Gómez.
The book also presents its last appearance on the screen, in “Today as yesterday” (1965), directed by his brother Mariano Ozores, a piece in which the honoree already used a wheelchair due to the multiple sclerosis he suffered since 1963.
-The presentation act has begun with the reflection of Adriana Ozores on his father, who together with the representative of the Notorious publishing house, Guillermo Balmori, have indicated the multiple facets of the late actor, who was also a painter of clowns, architect, writer, and inventor of the blown football game ‘Exin Basket’.
His film career revolved around the interpretation of comic and mundane characters, hence films such as ‘El Tigre de Chamberí’ (1958) or ‘El Gafe’ (1959) reinforced their image of “daily antihero”, although their dedication to this type of paper revealed its ability to be vulnerable.
“He worked in very different records (…), and in his characters there is always a projection of his own personality,” Churches said.
However, his daughter has claimed the versatile figure of his father, an affable personality man who lived in his meats “flavors and flavors of comedy.”
The tribute volume is included within the Aisge Foundation Books cycle, an initiative that in the past brought to light works that recall figures such as Fernando Fernán Gómez, and whose next presentation will honor actress Amparo Rivelles. EFE
