# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antonio-mercero
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:48:18.892Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/antonio-mercero"
name: "Antonio Mercero"
slug: "antonio-mercero"
description: "Antonio Mercero Juldain was a Spanish director of the television series Verano azul and Farmacia de guardia. He is best known as the director of a 1972 surrealist short horror film titled La cabina, which won an Emmy Award. His 1998 film A Time for Defiance was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver St. George. In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Goya Award. He died on 12 May 2018 in Madrid at the age of 82 after a battle against Alzheimer's."
tagline: "Film director (1936-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Antonio_Mercero_(2007).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-03-07"
deathDate: "2018-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.066312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0580318"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump