Born: 1934, Toro [Zamora], Spain, as Luís Enrique Cuadrado Encinar.

Died: 18 January 1980, Madrid, Spain [suicide].

Education: Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía [EOC], Madrid [1957-63].

Career: Abandoned his medical studies after 2 years to work at his father's glassworks. Went to film school. Started as c.op until 1965.

Ph commercials dir by Basilio Martín Patino, a.o.

He contracted an illness which caused him to become blind.

Was a member of the ATC.

Awards: Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos Award [1970] for 'El jardín de las delicias', a.o.; Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos 'Mejor Labor Fotográfica' Award [1973] for 'El espíritu de la colmena', 'Ana y los lobos' & 'Habla, mudita'; Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos Award [1974].

'El espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive': 'I once showed a dozen or so classic non-American films to students at the Royal College of Art. To my surprise, despite the fact that the list included the work of such world-renowned directors as Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray and Kenji Mizoguchi, the film they fell in love with was Victor Erice's 'El espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive'. They rightly thought it close to magic. It is one of the most beautiful and arresting films ever made in Spain, or anywhere in the past 25 years or so. […] The film is cloaked in quiet and sadness, through which its children move almost as if in a dream world of their own. It is brilliantly shot by the great Luís Cuadrado in atmospherically muted colors: the series of dissolves with which he denotes the passing of time outside the makeshift cinema where the children see 'Frankenstein' provides one stunning sequence, but there are many. Few know that Cuadrado was going blind at the time, which makes his work all the more remarkable.' [Derek Malcolm in 'The Guardian', September 16, 1999.]

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'El espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive': 'Part of the film's wistful air can be certainly laid down to the remarkable cinematography; Bergman-like interiors are bathed in light streaming through the hexagonal-patterned [beehive-like] windows, betraying a debt to Vermeer both compositionally and in terms of the rich golden hues. Exterior shots are similarly rich in color, the Castilian plains as full and golden as anything we would later see. Cinematographer Luís Cuadrado was slowly going blind around the time in which the picture was shot, and it is all the more remarkable that the subtle nuances of chiaroscuro indoors, as well as the more grandiose outdoor shots, are as superbly photographed as they are.'

1961        [Minas de] Río Tinto [Luis Enrique Torán] c; doc/38m

1962        Capital Madrid [José Luis Borau] c; doc/30m; cph: Luis Enrique Torán

1962        A través del fútbol [Antonio Eceiza & Elías Querejeta] b&w; doc/11m

1962        Playa insólita [Javier Aguirre] c; short/20m

1964        Los seis días [Jesús Yagüe] b&w; doc/14m; cph: Luis Enrique Torán

1964        Vitoria Stop [Javier Sagastizábal] c; doc/17m; cph: Luis Enrique Torán

1964        Potencia para el desarrollo [Manuel del Río] c; doc/90m; cph: Luis Enrique Torán, Fernando Arribas, Raúl Artigot,

                    Fernando Espiga & Lorenzo de Pablo

1964        Vizcaya 4 [Javier Aguirre] c; doc/14m; cph: Luis Enrique Torán

1964        España insólita [Javier Aguirre] c; doc/78m; cph: Manuel Rojas & Milton Stefani

1965        El memorial del agua [Luis Enrique Torán] c; doc/18m; cph: L.E. Torán & Fernando Arribas

1965        San Juan del Toro [Nadia Werba] c; doc/11m; cph: Diego Úbeda

1965        De cuerpo presente [Antonio Eceiza] b&w with 1 scene in color

1965        La caza/The Hunt [Carlos Saura] b&w

1965        Lejos de los árboles [Jacinto Esteva] b&w; doc/101m; cph: Juan Amorós, Milton Stefany, Juan Julio Baena & Francisco

                    Marín; filmed 1965-70; released in 1972

1965        Algo de amor [Gabriel Blanco] b&w; doc/22m; cph: Fernando Arribas & José Miguel López Sáez

1965        Cualquier mañana [Gabriel Blanco] b&w; doc/22m; cph: Fernando Arribas & Jesús Jiménez

1965        Juguetes rotos/Broken Toys [Manuel Summers] b&w; cph: Francisco Fraile

1966        Maestros del duende [Nadia Werba] b&w; doc/12m

1966        Unos chicos, unas chicas [Nadia Werba] b&w; doc/13m

1966        Último encuentro/The Last Meeting [Antonio Eceiza] b&w

1966        Mañana será otro día [Jaime Camino] ts/c

1966        Ama Lur - Tierra Madre [Néstor Basterretxea & Fernando Larruquert] ts/c; doc/103m; cph: Julio Amóstegui

1967        Catch [Nadia Werba] b&w; doc/14m

1967        La Costa Brava [José Luis Font] c; doc/20m; cph: Luis Enrique Torán

1967        No conteu amb els oits/No contéis con los dedos/Carmen [Pere = Pedro Portabella] b&w-c; exp short/33m

1967        Peppermint frappé [Carlos Saura] c

1967        Si volvemos a vernos/Smashing Up [Francisco Regueiro] ts/c

1967        Sábado en la playa [Esteban Farré] b&w

1968        Nocturno 29 [Pedro Portabella] b&w-c

1968        El Baldiri de la costa [José María Font Espina] ts/c

1968        Stress-es tres-tres/Stress Is Three [Carlos Saura] b&w

1968        Los desafíos/The Challenges [Claudio Guerín, José Luis Egea & Víctor Erice] c; 3 seg

1968        España otra vez/Spain Again [Jaime Camino] c

1968        Cantando a la vida [Angelino Fons] c; 2uc: Julio Ortas

1968        La madriguera/Honeycomb [Carlos Saura] c

1969        Del amor y otras soledades/Love and Other Solitudes [Basilio Martín Patino] ts/c

1969        Alcántara, un millón de kilowatios [Luciano González Egido] c; doc/553mtr; cph: Antonio Pérez Olea, José Luis

                    Alcaine, José Miguel López Sáez & Miguel Angel Martín

1969        Deseoconsumo [Miguel Cañones] b&w-c; doc/15m; cph: José Luis Alcaine, Roberto Gómez & Gilberto Azevedo

1969        Jurtzenka [Un invierno en Mallorca, ó George Sand y Federico Chopin] [Jaime Camino] c

1969        Las secretas intenciones/Secret Intentions [Antonio Eceiza] c

1969        Un, dos, tres... al escondite inglés [Iván Zulueta] c

1969        Urtain, el rey de la selva... o así/Urtain, King of the Mountains [Manuel Summers] c

1970        Las sepulcrales [Tomás Aznar] c; short/14m

1970        El jardín de las delicias/The Garden of Delights [Carlos Saura] scope/c

1970        Goya. Historia de una soledad [Nino Quevedo] ts/c; cph: José F. Aguayo

1970        Los jóvenes amantes/Adoro [Benito Alazraki] c

1971        Consejos a los rumiantes [Jesús García de Dueñas] c; short/11m

1971        Permanencia del arabesco [Jaime Chávarri] c; doc/8m

1971        Adiós, cigüeña, adiós [Manuel Summers] c

1971        Condenados a viver/Bronson's Revenge/Cut-Throats Nine [Joaquín Luis Romero-Marchent] c

1971        Mi querida señorita/My Dearest Senorita [Jaime de Armiñán] c

1971        Diabólica malicia/Child of the Night/Night Hair Child/What the Peeper Saw [James Kelley & Andrea Bianchi] c; cph:

                    Harry Waxman

1971        Pastel de sangre/Blood Pie/Cake of Blood [José María Vallés, Emilio Martínez Lázaro, Francisco Bellmunt & Jaime

                    Chávarri] ts/c

1972        La casa sin fronteras [Pedro Olea] c

1972        La banda J. & S. Cronaca criminale del far-west/Los hijos del día y de la noche/Sonny & Jed/Bandera Bandits/

                    Far West Story [Sergio Corbucci] ts/c; cph: Alejandro Ulloa; + small part

1972        Ciento treinta y ocho [José Luis Alexanco] ?; short/50m

1972        Mi profesora particular [Jaime Camino] c

1972        Carta de amor de un asesino [Francisco Regueiro] c

1972        Ana y los lobos/Anna and the Wolves [Carlos Saura] c

1973        Proceso a Jesús [José Luis Sáenz de Heredia] c

1973        Habla, mudita/Don Ramiro [Manuel Gutíerrez Aragón] c

1973        El espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive [Víctor Erice] c

1973        La prima Angélica/Cousin Angelica [Carlos Saura] c

1973        Verflucht, dies Amerika/La banda de Jaider/Yankee Dudler [Volker Vogeler] c

1973        El amor del capitán Brando [Jaime de Armiñán] c

1974        Hay que matar a B./B Must Die [José Luis Borau] c

1974        Il bianco, il giallo, il nero/El blanco, el amarillo, el negro/White, the Yellow, and the Black/Samurai/Shoot

                    First... Ask Questions Later [Sergio Corbucci] ts/c

1974        La regenta/The Regent's Wife [Gonzalo Suárez] scope/c

1974        Las cosas bien hechas [Pedro Vidal] c; doc/14m

1974        Memoria/Las bestias no se mirán al espejo [Francisco Macián] c; sfx ph: Gilberto Soriano

1974        El clan de los Nazarenos [Joaquín Luis Romero-Marchent] c

1975        Furtivos [José Luis Borau] c

1975        La muerte del escorpión [Gonzalo Herralde] ts/c

1975        Pascual Duarte/La familia de Pascual Duarte [Ricardo Franco] c

1976        Emilia... parada y fonda [Angelino Fons] c

1976        Mi primer pecado/Charlie and the Hooker [Manuel Summers] c