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Son of Mariano Ozores Francés and Luisa Puchol.

Brother of José Luis Ozores and Antonio Ozores.

Uncle of Adriana Ozores and Emma Ozores.

Former brother in law of Elisa Montés.

Political uncle of Joaquín Climent.

Great uncle of Adrián Climent.

He received the 2016 Goya Honor Award.

He joined forces with two comedy phenomena of the time: Paco Martínez Soria and Lina Morgan , and in each film he put together select casts that have made up the history of Spanish commercial popular cinema. He also took advantage of the fame of famous singers of the time such as Manolo Escobar or Peret to shoot several films. Among his best titles from this period are the trilogy Operación Secretaria - Operación cabaretera - Mata Hari (1966-67-68), starring Gracita Morales , Crónica de 9 meses (1967), 40 grados a la sombra (1967), Objetivo Bi-ki-ni (1968), ¡Cómo está el servicio! (1968), The Taxi of Conflicts (1969), a film made up of several stories that take place inside a taxi and which had a cast composed of dozens of well-known actors and singers and whose profits were destined for charities.

His parents ( Mariano Ozores Francés and Luisa Puchol Butier ) were actors and had their own theater company, where young Mariano began working in 1940 performing various jobs. As an actor he was poor and nothing comparable to the stature of his brothers, so he decided to look for other artistic positions in his parents' company, stopping acting around 1948. His first humorous writings were for his parents and for the satirical magazine La Codorniz with his two brothers.

Mariano Ozores published in 2002 an autobiography entitled Respectable público , with the subtitle How I made almost a hundred films.

In 1952, he took his first steps in cinema, working for Benito Perojo in the film Ché, qué loco . Until the end of the 1950s, he worked with Perojo and Alfonso Paso, and from the start of TVE broadcasts in 1956, he directed or presented several programs, such as Aeropuerto Telefunken (1958-1959).

His last works for the cinema were produced in the late 1980s and early 1990s with titles such as Capullito de alhelí (1986), Esto es un atraco (1987), Hacienda somos casi todos (1988), Disparate nacional (1990), Jet Marbella Set (1991) and Pelotazo nacional (1993), where he recovered the current political situation (rich, famous and corrupt politicians) as a theme to parody.

His greatest source of commercial success came from the duo Fernando Esteso - Andrés Pajares , with whom he would shoot ten films (many more with both actors separately), alongside his inseparable brother Antonio and other figures such as Juanito Navarro , África Pratt , Alfonso del Real or Marcia Bell .

In 1964 he directed Morir en España and was the 2nd unit director of Franco, ese hombre . After working on these two films glorifying the Franco regime, Ozores subsequently became less politically involved publicly and his cinematic interests focused on entertainment films.

Mariano Ozoreswas a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He was a prolific specialist in the sex comedy and Francoist comedy.

Ozores became an expert in making Spaniards laugh, with a total of 96 films seen by around 90 million people.

He joined the cinema of the destape (uncovering ), but also used his films as a basis for criticism and parody of the society and politics of the time and placed his characters within the great changes that were taking place.

In 1963, his production company La Hispánica went bankrupt after the failure of "La hora incógnita .

Despite the success of his films, he has always lived surrounded by numerous critics who considered his products as a worthless subgenre of Spanish cinematography. Titles such as Nosotros los decentes (1976), Alcalde por elige (Mayor by Election ) (1976) or El apolítico (The Apolitical ) (1977) with Carmen Sevilla are the first of this period.