The journalist and film critic Carlos Pumares has died at 80 years old, as reported on social networks by those close to the screenwriter and occasional actor who achieved fame as the presenter of the radio program ‘Stardust’.

Pumares was born in Portugalete (Vizcaya) on September 29, 1943 and although he graduated in Physical Sciences, his Professional career focused on journalismspecializing in film criticism. “Rest in peace,” the acting Minister of Culture and Sports said this Friday, Michael Icetathrough a message on the social network X, former Twitter.

Pumares earned recognition as one of the best-known experts in the seventh art since he presented the radio program ‘Stardust’, which began to be broadcast, at dawn, in the early 1980s on Radio Antena 3, then on Radio Voz and later on Onda Cero. After the disappearance of the program, it had a space on the Terra portal called ‘The monolith of Pumares’, where he answered questions from Internet users about cinema. He also collaborated as a guest on the program ‘Martian Chronicles’in addition to directing and participating in other television projects.

The Basque journalist reviewed films in the newspaper The reason and presented on Radio Voz ‘Natural health’, a daily space dedicated to natural medicine. In addition, he had a blog to comment on film news.

As an actor, Pumares appeared in ‘FBI: Frikis Seek to Inconvenience’ (Javier Cárdenas, 2004) and in ‘Torrente 3, the protector’ (Santiago Segura, 2005). And he signed the scripts for the films ‘La casa de las chivas’ (León Klimovsky, 1972), ‘Marriage separation’ (Angelino Fons, 1973), ‘A forbidden woman’ (José Luis Ruiz Marcos, 1974), ‘The strange love of the Vampires’ (Klimovsky, 1977) and that of the television series ‘The Hotel of the Thousand and One Stars’ (Yagüe, 1978).

He also had a professional career as an author with books published as ‘A perfect marriage’ (1973), ‘So Near and So Far’ (1973), ‘The colonizers: cinematographic plot’ (1974). In addition, he signed with Manuel Villegas López, Jaime Salom and José Luis Garci ‘La casa de las chivas’ (1971); with Hugo Pratt ‘The Secret of Tristán Bantam: Appointment in Bahia’ (1971); with Alberto Solsona, Garci and Adolfo Castaño ‘The Tales of Popeye’ (1973) and ‘The Tales of Rosario’ (1974); with Dick Fulton and Castaño ‘Mandrake: The X Dimension’ (1974); with Lázaro Irazábal ‘One of many’ (1974); with Juan José Daza del Castillo and Abelardo Empecinado ‘At Dawn’ (1975); with Enrique Herreros, Daza del Castillo and Empecinado ‘El chalet de los geranios’ (1975); with Daza del Castillo ‘The Night of the Vampires’ and in (1975) collaboration with Domingo López ‘Wild Wild East’ (2015).