Salvador Dali Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Age d'Or (1930) with Luis Buñuel. The latter may have marked the beginning of a long-lasting quarrel with the surrealists when Dalí did not agree on Buñuel's anti-clericalism. While ...
Full Name
Salvador Dali
Net Worth
$13 Million
Date Of Birth
May 11, 1904
Died
January 23, 1989, Figueres, Spain
Place Of Birth
Figueres, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Height
1.72 m
Profession
Painter, Actor, Photographer, Sculptor, Screenwriter, Scenographer, Engraver, Visual Artist
Education
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Nationality
Spanish
Spouse
Gala Dalí
Parents
Felipa Domenech Ferrés, Salvador Dalí i Cusí
Siblings
Anna Maria Dali, Salvador Dalí
IMDB
Movies
Destino, Babaouo, Impressions de la Haute Mongolie, Age of Gold, An Andalusian Dog, As Far as Love Can Go, Fun and Games for Everyone, Improvisation sur un dimanche après-midi
TV Shows
V.I.P. Schaukel
Star Sign
Taurus
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Trademark
1
Ornate walking stick
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Surrealist paintings often featuring things such as melting clocks
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His moustache
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Quote
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Everything leads me to think that, in the near future, reality will be considered exclusively as a mere state of depression and inactivity of the mind.
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Take me, I am the drug. Take me, I am the hallucinogenic.
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Beauty is but the conscious sum of all our perversions.
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I'm in a permanent state of intellectual erection.
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[when asked what was his destiny] To become classic!
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I do not understand why man should be capable of so little fantasy.
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Do you know . . . ? Every day, I see new things in the shape of stones.
10
The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.
11
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
12
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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[when asked if he took drugs] I do not DO drugs. I AM drugs!
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Fact
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Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2015 (inaugural class) in the category Music & Arts.
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Was involved with Jadorowsky's unsuccessful attempt to adapt the novel "Dune" to the screen. Dali would have played Emperor Shaddam IV. Another surreal artist, H. R. Giger, was also involved in the project.
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In a relatively recent retrospective at the Tate Modern in Britain, a panel declared that Salvador Dali had designed the Tarot Cards in "Let Live and Let Die".
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In 1923, in Madrid, at the Residencia de Estudiantes, Dalí met the poet Federico García Lorca who promptly fell in love with him. A close and passionate friendship developed in the following years. In the summer of 1927 Lorca twice tried physical intimacy with a somewhat complacent Dalí. He, nevertheless, became fearful of the homo-erotic aspects of the friendship and distanced himself of Lorca in 1928.
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He had an older brother also named Salvador Dalí (October 12, 1901-August 1, 1903)that died at the young age of 1 year and 9 months, from gastroenteritis. Consumed with pain, Dalí's parents wasted no time in begetting another child. He was born nine months later and was named after his brother. This deceased brother was a ghost rival of Dalí's throughout his childhood and was a disturbing influence in his psychological make-up. He grew up under the feeling that the first Salvador Dalí was the real one and he a mere forgery.
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He included his wife, Gala Dalí, as a central character in many of his paintings.
Was a student and later collaborator with Luis Buñuel. Met at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid.
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In 1945, he signed on with Walt Disney to assist in the development of a film to be entitled "Destino". The film project was cancelled with only 15 seconds of animation completed. The film was finally completed and released in 2003.
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He is mentioned in the song "Big Wedge" by former Marillion singer Fish, a UK Top 40 single from 1990. He is also mentioned in the song "Was It All Worth It?" by Queen, a track from their 1989 album "The Miracle".
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Early in his life, Dalí was an admirer of the painter Pablo Picasso and based several of his early paintings on Picasso's cubist style.
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A business developer, in total seriousness, approached Dalí with the intention to start a chain of lunch shops decorated with his artwork, and call the chain "Dalícatessen". Dalí responded by calling the business developer a "madman", and refused to accept any further offers.
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Born at 8:45am-UT
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Destino
2003
Short story
Babaouo
2000
novel
Improvisation sur un dimanche après-midi
1968
TV Movie
L'Age d'Or
1930
scenario - as Dali
Un Chien Andalou
1929
Short scenario - as Salvador Dali
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2003
art: The Persistence of Memory
Father of the Bride
1950
designer: dream sequence - uncredited
Spellbound
1945
dream sequence based on designs by - as Salvador Dali
Moontide
1942
nightmare sequence designer / set designer
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Aussi loin que l'amour
1971
Fun and Games for Everyone
1968
Un Chien Andalou
1929
Short
Seminarist (uncredited)
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Impressions de la haute Mongolie
1975
Documentary
Costume Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Don Juan Tenorio
1952
Set Decorator
Title
Year
Status
Character
Don Juan Tenorio
1952
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Zaratozom
2014
Short special thanks
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk
2014
special thanks
The Disintegration of Sleep
2013
Short special thanks
El sueño Doppler
2007
Short in memory of
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980
Documentary special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
50 y más
2005
TV Movie
Himself
The Shock of the New
1980
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Catalans universals
1980
Documentary
Himself
Imágenes
1979
TV Series
Himself
V.I.P.-Schaukel
1971-1979
TV Series documentary
Himself - Guest
Dalí en Avignon
1978
Documentary short
Himself
A fondo
1977
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Impressions de la haute Mongolie
1975
Documentary
Himself
Aquarius
1973
TV Series
Himself
Le grand échiquier
1972
TV Series
Himself
The Dick Cavett Show
1971
TV Series
Himself - Impressionist Artist / Himself - Guest
Manitas de Plata, príncipe de Camargue
1971
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
1970
Documentary
Himself
Night-Club
1970
TV Series
Himself
À bout portant
1970
TV Series
Himself
Improvisation sur un dimanche après-midi
1968
TV Movie
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1963-1967
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Tel quel
1967
TV Series documentary
Himself
Screen Test #3
1966
Short
Himself (uncredited)
Screen Test #4
1966
Short
Himself (uncredited)
Salvador Dalí
1966
Documentary short
Himself
Dim Dam Dom
1965
TV Series
Himself
Screen Test #2
1965
Short
Himself (uncredited)
Screen Test #1
1965
Short
Himself (uncredited)
Salvador Dali at Work
1964
Short
Himself
I've Got a Secret
1963
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
1961
TV Series
Himself
The Ben Hecht Show
1959
TV Series
Himself - Artist
The Jack Paar Tonight Show
1958-1959
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself
The Mike Wallace Interview
1958
TV Series
Himself - Guest
What's My Line?
1952-1957
TV Series
Himself - Mystery Guest
Panorama
1955
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Name's the Same
1954-1955
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Moires: Dali/Oster Newsreel
1954
Short
Himself (as Dali)
Person to Person
1954
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Faye Emerson Show
1950
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Noticiario de cine club
1930
Short documentary
Archive Footage
Known for movies
Impressions de la haute Mongolie (1975) as Director
Improvisation sur un dimanche après-midi (1968) as Writer