Tadeo Villalba

Born in 1935 into a family of set designers and painters, Tedy Villalba inherited his name from his father and his grandfather, and passed it on to his son and his eldest grandson; there are five generations of "Tedy Villalbas" in Spanish cinema. Although he began in the family tradition of painting and design with his elders, Tedy Villalba made his own mark in production, gradually working his way up the ranks from Production Assistant to Executive Producer, working with Orson Wells, Manuel Mur Oti, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray, David Lean, Stanley Kramer, Henry Hathaway, John Huston, Robert Rossen, Anthony Mann, Stanley Kubrik, Joshua Logan, Lawrence Olivier, Peter Collison and Pedro Almodovar. Establishing his own production company, Tedy Villalba produced seven films; he was the Director of Production of the state-run network Television Espanola; he served two terms as Vice President of the Spanish Academy of the Arts and Sciences of Film. On the Board of the Academy for twenty years, he also served for eleven as its director. From 1994 to 2005, he was the Director of the Film and Audiovisual School of the Community of Madrid, Spain's most prestigious film school, and until 2007, Villalba headed the Advisory Board of the school.