Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish filmmaker who worked mainly in Mexico and France, but also in his native country and the United States. He is considered one of the most important directors in the history of cinema. Wikipedia
Luis Buuel's filmmaking spanned five decades, from An Andalusian Dog in 1928 (according to most sources, although the usually reliable Internet Movie Database says 1929) to That Obscure Object of Desire in 1977. www.peanut.org/mike/text/bunuel.htm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Luis Buñuel. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bu%c3%b1uel
Luis Bunuel has long been recognized in European critical circles as a great and prolific filmmaker on a par with Eisenstein, Chaplin, and Fellini. zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/interviews/luis_bunuel_03.htm
His working relationship with Luis Buuel produced six film classics and he went on to write The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Valmont, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Tin Drum and many other films, over 75 in all. zakka.dk/euroscreenwriters/screenwriters/jean-claude_carr...
The religious affiliation (religion) of Luis Bunuel, raised a devout Catholic but atheist as an adult, and director of many classic films. www.adherents.com/people/pb/Luis_Bunuel.html