Pío Caro Baroja

Pío Caro Baroja
Born (1928-04-05)5 April 1928
Madrid, Spain
Died 30 November 2015(2015-11-30) (aged 87)
Málaga, Spain
Occupation Film and television director, screenwriter
For the Spanish novelist, see Pío Baroja.

Pío Caro Baroja (5 April 1928 – 30 November 2015) was a Spanish film and television director, screenwriter, and author.[1]

Biography

Pío Caro Baroja was born on 5 April 1928 in Madrid, Spain. He was the fourth son of the editor Rafael Caro Raggio, who founded the publishing house Editorial Caro Raggio Madrid in 1917. His mother was Carmen Baroja Nessi, a Spanish writer and ethnologist who wrote under the pseudonym Vera Alzate. He was a nephew of the novelist Pío Baroja[2] and brother of the Basque anthropologist Julio Caro Baroja. He earned a law degree at the University of Madrid.[3] He later emigrated to Mexico, where he worked as a film critic and later as a documentary maker.

After the death of his uncle, Pío Baroja, Caro returned to Spain, and along with his brother Julio, he devoted himself to documenting Spanish folklore, initially collaborating with No-Do and later with Televisión Española.

Pio Caro also turned to writing. Among his works are El gachupín ("The Spaniard"), En busca de la juventud perdida ("In Search of Lost Youth"), El águila y la serpiente ("The Eagle and the Snake"), and La barca de Caronte ("Charon's Boat").

Filmography

As director

As writer

References

  1. "Fallece el documentalista Pío Caro Baroja, sobrino del escritor Pío Baroja". telecinco.es.
  2. Nuria Azancot (12 October 2006). "Pío Caro Baroja: 'Lo de la memoria histórica me parece un error'". El Cultural. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  3. JLG de Paz (28 December 1999). "Pío Caro Baroja en Tendilla (Guadalajara)". Retrieved 1 November 2015.

External links

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