Calle de Edgar Neville

Son of an English engineer and a Spanish aristocrat, Edgar Neville was born in Madrid in 1899 and inherited the title of Count of Berlanga del Duero. He was a diplomat, cartoonist, writer of satires about high society and a film director, part of the group of humorists known as “the other Generation of '27”. His camera loved the street fairs, the barrel organs, the taverns and the crimes of penny serials. In La torre de los siete jorobados he imagined an underground city beneath the Madrid of the chulapos, and in El crimen de la calle de Bordadores he recreated a 19th-century murder. He portrayed a Madrid that was already beginning to vanish. A friend of bullfighters and film stars, he passed through Hollywood before returning to Spain. He died in Madrid in 1967. The street that names him lies in Cuatro Caminos, near Nuevos Ministerios.