Leon Ichaso (August 3, 1948 – May 20, 2023) was a Cuban-American film director and writer. El Super, Bitter Sugar, and other notable works are among his many.
Leon Ichaso was born on August 3, 1948, in Havana, Cuba. Ichaso moved to Mexico with his mother Antonia Ichaso and sister Mari Rodriguez Ichaso when he was 14 years old, and later to the United States.
Initially, his father remained in Cuba to support the Cuban Revolution. Ichaso’s father joined his family in New York five years later.
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Meanwhile, El Super (1979), based on an Off-Broadway play about an immigrant construction superintendent striving to make it in New York, was Leon Ichaso’s first film as a filmmaker.
When he first arrived in Hollywood, Ichaso told stories from the big city in TV action shows (e.g., Miami Vice, Crime Story, The Equaliser) and TV films like The Fear Inside, The Take, A Table at Ciro’s, and A Kiss to Die For.
Ichaso went on to helm Wesley Snipes’ Sugar Hill (1994), a character study married to a violent crime drama about a New York drug empire.
In 1996, Ichaso directed Azcar Amarga (Bitter Sugar), a Spanish-language film about a disillusioned Cuban Communist, in the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
