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Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent

Spanish film director and producer (1921-2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ728391 ↗
Source-derived summary

Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent (26 August 1921 – 16 August 2012) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He directed several Spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s.

He died on 16 August 2012 at the age of 91 in Madrid.

Filmography

References

Bibliography

de España, Rafael. Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films. Greenwood Press, 1994.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent” as spanish film director and producer (1921-2012). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2012, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-08-26. The account is most persuasive where Joaquín, Luis and Romero can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as spanish film director and producer (1921-2012). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q728391. VIAF identifies the subject as 87296239. The Library of Congress control number is no00082878. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2012 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.