Josep Maria Forn i Costa (April 4, 1928 – October 3, 2021) was a Spanish actor , film producer and film director . He was born in Barcelona , and began making movies in the 1950s with the short-film Gaudí (1954) and some commercial movies. His film, Burnt Skin (1967), dealt with the migration to Catalonia from other parts of Spain , and was very successful besides the Franco 's censorship. In