The day on which ‘Cuéntame how happened’ broadcasts its final episode, Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, who was one of its creators along with Miguel Ángel Bernardeau and Patrick Buckley, died at the age of 80. Since 2001, he developed the format, wrote and coordinated a large part of its scripts for seventeen seasons, which he abandoned in 2017. As RTVE explained, he died due to ischemia.
We say goodbye to Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara (Madrid 1943-2023), who died today. He was one of the creators of ‘Cuéntame’, a series that ends its broadcast tonight. We appreciate his talent and his work in a long career as #screenwriter. Rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/MpEdoHEeLs
— ALMA GUIONISTAS (@almaguionistas) November 29, 2023
From the official account of He was one of the creators of ‘Cuéntame’, a series that ends its broadcast tonight. We appreciate his talent and his work in a long career as a #screenwriter. May he rest in peace. »
He began his working life as a journalist in the newspapers ‘Informaciones’ and ‘El Pueblo’. He also collaborated with Colpisa and Fax-Press. This facet helped him inspire some of the plots of Toni Alcántara’s character in ‘Cuéntame’. RTVE defines him as an “excellent dialogue writer” who “especially enjoyed comedy, and the plots he wrote for the children’s characters, Carlitos, Josete and Luisito, are proof of this.”
He has written more than twenty plays and on television titles such as Pharmacy on Duty, Thieves Go to the Office, Uncle Willy, Eva and Adán Marriage Agency, Dear Teacher, Seven Days of Love, Manolito Gafotas and Charming People.
As a screenwriter, he was awarded various national and international awards: New York Festival, Ondas, Fotogramas, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the National Television Award in its first edition and a finalist in 2003 for the Emmys.
Recently, he participated in a colloquium organized by ALMA, the Spanish Writers’ Union, where they assessed the evolution of the series. There, he took the opportunity to defend his colleagues against some of the comments that some of the actors such as María Galiana had made: «I read, not long ago, some statements by some actor speaking negatively about the new scriptwriters that left me perplexed by the disrespect. “I imagine they must have felt very affected because it is very unfair.”
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