The Spanish director was born in 1900 in the town of Teruel Calanda. He studied in the capital Madrid, where he met Garcia Lorca and Dali Salvadro. At the end of the career of Arts, has settled in Paris and entered the Film Academy. By the year 1927, working on his first screenplay by reason of the centennial of Goya although ultimately not be held due to lack of economic resources.

An Andalusian dog is rolled in 1929, in the film speaking his colleague Dali. Both artists produce The Golden Age, whose premiere was in 1931 in London. Since then, Buñuel is abandoning the line that marked his surrealistic style and is approaching the communist movement. Las Hurdes, born of this new power but fails to come to light by censorship.

In 1935 along with Ricardo creates Urgoiti, Filmófono, whose production company produces two titles; Don Quintin and the AMARGA The daughter of St. John Simon. The civil war erupted in Spain and Buñuel was transferred to the neighbouring country to support the French voice and coordinate operations communist propaganda. Installed there, wheel with Malraux and Sierra de Teruel, Spain Earth with Joris Ivens.

He collaborated on the documentary showing images of war that left the proceedings, Spain fair weapons, which oversaw the contents. Later, in 1941, is involved in the creation of documentary Museum of Modern Art. He received the appointment of supervisor documentary, but soon had to abandon him by the publication of a scandalous information about the screenwriter.

Gets U.S. citizenship and once installed in Hollywood works in Los dumps Los Angeles and The Bride of the astonished eyes. Another new change in the lives of Buñuel in 1946 lived in Mexico and wheel together with Jorge Negrete Grand Casino, whose film does not get reception among the public or critics. We still 'Denied and Susana, both without success.

Other creations are cinematographic The daughter of deception, A woman without love and Los forgotten, the latter being the spear it again for consideration by the critics, achieving an award at Cannes. Also part of his filmography, The, abyss of passion, illusion travels by tram, river and death. Testing of a crime, gets a remarkable resonance in the French film industry and Nazarín, 1958, gives the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Vidriana the wheel to return to Spain in 1961 and, in addition to give it another Palme d'Or at Cannes, causing the full disapproval and controversy in the Vatican, so the film is officially destroyed. The image of his friend and colleague Dali, is suggested in The Exterminating Angel, 1962. A year later, Diary of a chambermaid is headed by him with the intervention of product Serge Silberman and Jean-Claude Carrière, which deals with the script.

It interprets the characters of crying by a bandit, creation of Carlos Saura and, in this village there are no thieves. In 1966, Belle wheel Tour, film that fascinated the public. It achieves an Oscar as best foreign film The Discreet Charm of the bourgeoisie. In his latest work 77 wheel That Obscure Object of Desire.