Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés was born on February 22, 1900 in the small town of Calanda, in the Aragon region of northeast Spain. His father was a businessman who had earlier made a fortune in Cuba; his father was 43 and his mother was 18 when they married. When Buñuel was four years old his family moved to Zaragoza (sometimes spelled Saragossa), also in Aragon, where Buñuel studied at the Jesuit Colegio del Salvador. When he was seventeen he enrolled at the Universidad de Madrid, initially studying...