CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Ramón Quadreny

film director

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ18638552 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ramón Quadreny (1892–1961) was a Spanish film director and actor. He directed the 1942 smuggling thriller Blood in the Snow.

Selected filmography

Director

Blood in the Snow (1942)

The Big Show (1960)

Actor

Juan José (1917)

Closed Exit (1955)

Editor

Under the Skies of the Asturias (1951)

The Dance of the Heart (1953)

One Bullet Is Enough (1954)

The Louts (1954)

References

Bibliography

Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ramón Quadreny” as film director. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ramón, Quadreny and film.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892, 1961, 1942, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1892-04-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ramón, Quadreny and film providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ramón Quadreny”, the useful work is to connect “film director” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18638552. VIAF identifies the subject as 107013894. The Library of Congress control number is no2006065568. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1892, 1961, 1942 and 1960.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ramón Quadreny”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ramón Quadreny primary sources, Ramón Quadreny archive and Ramón research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ramón Quadreny”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ramón Quadreny” 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.