Director and director Luis Calvo Teixeira dies

Comenzó a trabajar en Televisión Española de la mano de Pedro Amalio López. Unas breves ayudantías de realización con Manuel Ripoll y con Narciso Ibañez Serrador le sirvieron de escuela.

El director, guionista y realizador Luis Calvo Teixeira (Ceuta, 1936) ha fallecido en Marbella (Málaga). Aunque sus inicios tuvieron más relación con la literatura, tras ver un programa de Adolfo Marsillach, se dio cuenta de que con un poco de talento se podía hacer mucas cosas en la recién nacida televisión.

Comenzó a trabajar en Televisión Española de la mano de Pedro Amalio López. Unas breves ayudantías de realización con Manuel Ripoll y con Narciso Ibañez Serrador le sirvieron de escuela.

In his long career at TVE, he was in charge of original television comedies such as those titled Pablo and Virginia, Twelve lessons in marital happiness y Travel around a couple.

He also directed many episodes of the D seriesichoso world, Loose pages, Eleventh hour, Twelve stories and a nightmare y Always theater, series that constituted the best part of the programming on TVE's Second Network during the first years of its creation.

golden hours, a musical series in co-production with the United States and Canada; the special program Glory and death by Joaquín Murieta, finalist for the Italia Television Award; all children's programs titled Fiesta y Today is also a holiday and, above all, the series of cultural documentaries The art of living The almost five hundred titles in which Calvo Teixeira has participated have been part of the activity.

On the occasion of Expo 92 in Seville he wrote and directed the documentary series Universal Expositions, the world in Seville that was broadcast by TVE. Pilar Miró also entrusted this professional from Ceuta with the direction of TVE programs for the Fifth Centenary.