Pío Caro Baroja (5 April 1928 – 30 November 2015) was a Spanish film and television director, screenwriter, and author.
[1] Pío Caro Baroja was born on 5 April 1928 in Madrid, Spain.
His mother was Carmen Baroja Nessi, a Spanish writer and ethnologist who wrote under the pseudonym Vera Alzate.
[3] He later emigrated to Mexico, where he worked as a film critic and later as a documentary maker.
After the death of his uncle, Pío Baroja, Caro returned to Spain, and along with his brother Julio, he devoted himself to documenting Spanish folklore, initially collaborating with No-Do and later with Televisión Española.