Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Birthday: Born in 1935-07-04 in Montevideo, Uruguay
Deathday: 2019-06-07
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.
TV Credits
Historias para no dormir
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts....
Historias para no dormir
Character: Self - Host (uncredited)
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts....
Historias para no dormir
Character:
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts....
Lo + plus
Character: Self - Guest
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Movie Credits
Cult of Terror
Character: Self - Filmmaker
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
Character:
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....
Masterworks of Terror
Character: Sidney
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?
Character: Man Next to the Bus (uncredited)
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
Character:
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....
El pionero. El cine parapsicológico de Sebastià D'Arbó
Character: Self
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Dying of Laughter
Character: Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
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
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador: historias para recordar
Character: Self - Filmmaker
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
Character: Self
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.
Character: Actores invitados
A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist....
Legend of Horror
Character: The Young Man (uncredited)
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
Character: Self - Filmmaker
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
Character: Hombre con prismáticos en Chez Nous
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 runnin...
Todo el año es Navidad
Character: Carmelo
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....