
Luis Bayón Herrera
Directing
Biography
Luis Bayón Herrera (1889–1956) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter who worked in Argentine film of the 1940s and 1950s. In the last few years of his career he also worked on Cuban production.
Known For

A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.
El seductor

Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she mets a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
Cándida

Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
Una mujer sin importancia

Anselmo works as the patron of a ranch and he is dating Elvira. One day, a visiting businessman from the city hears her sing and offers her a contract to work in Buenos Aires. She accepts and Anselmo is heartbroken.
The Lights of Buenos Aires

Blanquita, a very superstitious Cuban young woman, visits a fortune teller on the eve of her wedding to Roberto. She predicts that her first husband is destined to die, as well as would not make her happy. Believing this and according to her uncle, Blanquita starts looking for a man about to die, with the intention to marry him, then become widower and take Roberto as her second husband, thus freeing him from the curse.
Una cubana en España

A woman forces a politician not to report a big scam.
An Ideal Husband

When a man agrees to join a gang of criminals, his life becomes a complicated labyrinth that he will have to leave in order to be saved.
La suerte llama tres veces

Unscrupulous businessman is plotting a hostile takeover, looking for ways to fix a horse-race, and scheming to force a failed businessman to marry his daughter to him to avoid financial ruin.
El caballo del pueblo

A rumor spreads about a man being bad luck. His superstitious friends believe it, but it's all part of an evil scheme to ruin the man's upcoming wedding. Adapted from the play of the same name by Gregorio de Laferrere.
Jettatore

After a 14 years old girl runs away from home, her family believes she's been kidnapped and a young man with good intentions is accused.
¡Secuestro sensacional!

Servant in a wealthy household and her employer unexpectedly get all romantical together. His daughter isn't so keen on the marriage when it happens.
Cándida millonaria

A wealthy woman pressures her son-in-law to give her a grandson until her daughter finally gets pregnant.
Mi fortuna por un nieto

Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.
A La Habana me voy

Various love and crime stories take place in the context of a theater, between tango singers, musicians and dancers.
Noches de Buenos Aires

A shy man marries the daughter of a local warlord, works as a municipal chief of staff, witnesses numerous injustices and rebels himself.
The Unhappiest Man in Town

A thief going to rob an unscrupulous industrialist falls in love with a young woman and turns himself in to the police to save a thief friend.
Tres millones... y el amor

An orchestra director had a son as a result of an affair in his youth and hides the fact from his wife. But the young man succeeds as a musician and the truth soon comes to light.
With music in the soul

A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.
The House of the Millions

A young man pretends to be ill to seduce a beautiful doctor, but his niece falls in love with him.
No salgas esta noche

An American producer arrives in Argentina searching for its most representative artists to film a movie. A group of imitators will try to convince him that they are the real artists he is looking for. The film was conceived as a showcase for the successful radio group "La Cruzada del Buen Humor", the precursor to what would later become "Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor", alongside the Cuban vedette Blanquita Amaro.