Chumy Chúmez

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Jose Maria González Castillo, (Chumy Chúmez) (May 8, 1927 - April 10, 2003) was a cartoon humorist, writer and director of Spanish cinema.

Born in San Sebastian, Spain, one formed as mercantile professor and later studied drawing and painting. Due to his passion by the painting it was transferred to Madrid, place in which it would be dedicated to humor, at the outset in newspapers of sporadic form and later of fixed form in the weekly the Quail and Triumph and in the Madrid newspaper, of that was habitual of the third page until it was suspended by governmental order in 1971. During the transition towards the Spanish democracy Brother collaborated with the humor weekly magazine Wolf, of which he was founding.

In the 1960's he directed several documentaries, a majority on localities Andalusian. He also collaborated writing up cinematographic scripts and he got to write some own ones. Also, he directed several films, among others, “God he blesses each corner of this house” (1977) and “ But you are not going to never change Daisy” (1978), produced by Manuel Summers.

It worked as tertuliano in radio (“Protagonists” and “the mornings of Radio1”) and television (“This country needs a review”).

Of his facet of writer, it is possible to honor “I I was happy in the war” (1986), an autobiography about his memories of the Spanish Civil War. Other titles are “Finally a honest man” (1994) and “you without calling Pass” (1995)

Also he was a recognized as lecturer and contributor.

Throughout his life he received a great number of prizes, the Prize Agromán Trowel (1977), the Mingote Prize (1985), the Prize of Journalism “Francisco Cerecedo” (1991) and the Latin American Prize of Graphical Humor Quevedos (2002).

On April 10, 2003 Chumy died of liver cancer. Part of his ashes remained in Spain, whereas the rest was scattered by Cascais.

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