Manuel Esteba (17 April 1941 – 4 February 2010) was a Spanish director and screenwriter, [1] notable for writing a spoof of Steven Spielberg's E.T.
[2] Manuel Esteba was active as a director and a screenwriter for 30 years beginning in the 1960s.
Credits include Saranda in the 1970s, also known as Twenty Paces to Death, starring Dean Reed, and A Cry of Death, starring Pierre Brice and Steven Tedd.
In 1992, he wrote and directed a documentary called Un jardinero en tu casa, with Julian Silvestre as host.
Manuel Esteba died on 4 February 2010 at the age of 68 in Barcelona, Spain.