Person
Pemartín, Julián (1901-1966)Other forms
Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz, España) 1901-07-13 - 1966-04-30
Spanish writer, screenwriter and politician.
Born in Jerez de la Frontera in 1902, son of the winemakers Julián Pemartín Carrera and Dolores Sanjuán Toro; brother of José Pemartín Sanjuán and cousin of José María and César Pemán Pemartín.
He studied at home with particular teachers and a governess. He also went to the Jesuits School of the Puerto de Santa María, and subsequently moved to Madrid in order to study three courses of Agronomus Engineer; he did not finish them, and got back to Jerez de la Frontera to did the career of Expert and the Commercial Faculty.
Childhood friend of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, was one of the founders of the Spanish Falange, and National Trade Union Training Advisor. During the Civil War he was provincial head of the Falange of Cádiz, and in 1938, he became general assistant secretary of FET and the JONS, collaborating with the general assistant secretary, Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta. He was also friends with Eugenio d'Ors.
Author of Aventuras de Garbancito, which he used to do the script for the film Garbancito de la Mancha (1945), directed by Arturo Moreno, first animation feature film in Spain and the first on with colour in Europe.
As an author he got to be president of the National Institute of the Book, and participated in the gestation of the Book Fair of Madrid.
He was decorated with the Order of Alfonso X the Wise.
He passed away in Madrid in 1966.
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
Date of the event: 1939 - 1959