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Stunningly comely and slinky brunette Lina Romay rates highly as one of the boldest, most sensuous, and enticing actresses to have appeared with tremendous frequency in a large volume of European horror and exploitation features made from the early 1970s to the early 21st century.
Romay was born Rosa Maria Almirall on June 25, 1954, in Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain. Her cinematic pseudonym was taken from Lina Romay, a singer/actress in mambo king Xavier Cugat's band in the 1940s. Following graduation from high school, Romay studied the arts, married actor/photographer Raymond Hardy (they later divorced), and began acting in stage productions. Lina first met infamous and prolific maverick Spanish independent filmmaker Jesús Franco in the early 1970s. Romay and Franco eventually became a couple. Lina for a long time was Franco's common law wife until they officially wed on April 23, 2008.
Lina made her film debut as a gypsy girl in The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973). She had small parts in a few other Franco films before playing more substantial lead and co-starring roles (she acted in over 100 Franco films). Despite her lack of formal training, Lina nonetheless naturally projected an extremely brazen, earthy, and uninhibited screen presence that was both alluring and captivating in equal measure. In fact, her open, unabashed, and downright aggressive sexuality even led to her willing and enthusiastic participation in explicit scenes in hardcore porno fare. Lina's most memorable roles include the voracious Countess Irina Karlstein in Female Vampire (1973), brutalized innocent Maria in the sensationally sleazy Barbed Wire Dolls (1976), vicious top con Juana in the similarly scuzzy Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977), especially inspired in a dual part in Die Marquise von Sade (1976) and bawdy prostitute Marika in the gloomy Jack the Ripper (1976).
Moreover, Romay posed for nude pictorials in such men's magazines as "Cinema X" and "Sex Stars System." In addition to acting, Lina also worked on a handful of films as a writer, director, producer, and assistant editor. In real life Lina was the total radical opposite of her wild and outrageous screen persona: she was a very quiet, soft-spoken, and self-effacing woman who usually dressed in frumpy clothes. Romay died from cancer at age 57 on February 15, 2012 in Malaga, Spain.- Writer
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He was only six years old when he started composing music under the protection of his brother Enrique. After the Spanish Civil War he was able to continue his studies at the Real Conservatorio de Madrid, where he finished piano and harmony. Being a Bachelor of Law and an easy-read novel writer (under the pseudonym David Khume), he signed on to enter the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográicas (IIEC), where he stayed for only two years, while he worked simultaneously as a director and theater actor. Later he went to Paris to study directing techniques at the I.D.H.E.C. (University of Sorbonne), where he used to go into seclusion for hours to watch films at the film archive. Back in Spain he began rted his huge cinematographic work as a composer, with Cómicos (1954) and El hombre que viajaba despacito (1957), and later worked as an assistant director to Juan Antonio Bardem, León Klimovsky, Luis Saslavsky, Julio Bracho, Fernando Soler and Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent, among others. He also worked at Ágata Films S.A. as production manager and writer. His first works as a director were industrial and cultural short films. However, he soon applied all his knowledge and experience to his feature directorial debut, Tenemos 18 años (1959). From that moment on all his work was supported by co-production. His Succubus (1968) was nominated for the Festival of Berlin, and this event gave him an international reputation. His career got more and more consolidated in the following years, and his endless creativity enabled him to tackle films in all genres, from "B" horror films to pure hardcore sex films. His productions have always been low-budget, but he nevertheless managed to work extraordinarily quickly, often releasing several titles at the same time, using the same shots in more than one film. Some of his actors relate how they they were hired for one film and later saw their name in two or more different ones. As the Spanish cinema evolved, Jesús managed to adapt to the new circumstances and always maintained a constant activity, activity that gave a place in his films to a whole filming crew. Apart from his own production company, Manacoa Films, he also worked for companies like Auster Films S.L. (Paul Auster), Cinematográfica Fénix Films (Arturo Marcos), the French Comptoir Français du Film (Robert de Nesle), Eurociné (Daniel Lesoeur and Marius Lesoeur), Elite Films Productions (Erwin C. Dietrich), Spain's Fervi Films (Fernando Vidal Campos) or Golden Films Internacional S.A. He acted in almost all of his films, playing musicians, lawyers, porters and others, all of them sinister, manic and comic characters. Among the aliases he used--apart from Jesús Franco, Jess Franco or Franco Manera--were Jess Frank, Robert Zimmerman, Frank Hollman, Clifford Brown, David Khune, Frarik Hollman, Toni Falt, James P. Johnson, Charlie Christian, David Tough, Cady Coster, Lennie Hayden, Lulú Laverne and Betty Carter. Lina Romay has been almost a constant in his films, and it's very probable that in some of them she has been credited as the director instead of him. In many of the more than 180 films he's directed he has also worked as composer, writer, cinematographer and editor. His influence has been notable all over Europe (he even contacted producer Roger Corman in the US). From his huge body of work we can deduce that Jesús Franco is one of the most restless directors of Spanish cinema. Many of his films have had problems in getting released, and others have been made directly for video. His work is often a do-it-yourself effort. More than once his staunchest supporters have found his "new" films to contain much footage from one or more of his older ones. Jesús Franco is a survivor in a time when most of his colleagues tried to please the government censors. He broke with all that and got the independence he was seeking. He always went upstream in an ephemeral industry that fed opportunists and curbed the activity of many professionals. Jess Franco died in Malaga, Spain, on April 2, 2013, of a stroke.- Actor
- Producer
Stanley Baker was unusual star material to emerge during the Fifties - when impossibly handsome and engagingly romantic leading men were almost de rigueur. Baker was forged from a rougher mould. His was good-looking, but his features were angular, taut, austere and unwelcoming. His screen persona was taciturn, even surly, and the young actor displayed a predilection for introspection and blunt speaking, and was almost wilfully unromantic. For the times a potential leading actor cast heavily against the grain. Baker immediately proved a unique screen presence - tough, gritty, combustible - and possessing an aura of dark, even menacing power.
Stanley Baker came from rugged Welsh mining stock - and as a lad was unruly, quick to flare, and first to fight. But like his compatriot and friend Richard Burton, the young Baker was rescued from a gruelling life of coal mining by a local teacher, Glyn Morse, who recognized in the proud and self-willed lad a potent combination of a fine speaking voice, a smouldering intensity, and a strong spirit. And like Burton, Stanley Baker was specially and specifically tutored for theatrical success. In fact, early on, Burton and Baker appeared together on stage as juveniles in The Druid's Rest, in Cardiff, in Wales. But later, by way of Birmingham Repertory Theatre and then the London stage, Stanley Baker charted his inevitable course toward the Cinema.
Film welcomed the adult Baker as the embodiment of evil. Memorable early roles cast the actor in feisty unsympathetic parts - from the testy bosun in Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) to his modern-day counterpart in The Cruel Sea (1953), to the arch villains in Hell Below Zero (1954) and Campbell's Kingdom (1957) to the dastardly Mordred in Knights of the Round Table (1953) and the wily Achilles in Helen of Troy (1956). For a time there was a distillation of Baker's screen persona in a series of roles as stern and uncompromising policemen - in Violent Playground (1958), Chance Meeting (1959), and Hell Is a City (1960). But despite never having been cast as a romantic leading man, and being almost wholly associated with villainous roles, Stanley Baker nevertheless became a star by dint of his potent personality.
Although now enthroned by enthusiastic audiences Stanley Baker was obviously aware he need not desert unsympathetic parts - and his relish in playing the scheming Astaroth in Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) and the unscrupulous mobster Johnny Bannion in The Concrete Jungle (1960) was readily evident. But soon there were more principled, if still surly characters, in The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Games (1970), Eva (1962), and Accident (1967), the latter two films reuniting Baker with the American expatriot director of The Criminal, Joseph Losey. Stanley Baker also established a fruitful working relationship with the American director Cy Endfield, following their early collaboration on Hell Drivers (1957). When Baker inaugurated his own film production company - it was Endfield he commissioned to write and direct both Zulu (1964) and Sands of the Kalahari (1965), with Baker allotting himself the downbeat roles of the martinet officer John Chard in Zulu and the reluctant hero Mike Bain in The Sands Of The Kalahari.
Baker must have felt more assured in disenchanted roles - as further films from Baker's own stable still promoted the actor in either criminal or villainous mode - as gangster Paul Clifton in Robbery (1967) and the corrupt thief-taker Jonathan Wild in Where's Jack? (1969). The success of Baker's own productions was timely and did much to enhance the prestige of what was then considered an ailing British film industry. Stanley Baker also took the opportunity to move into the realm of television, appearing in, among other productions, the dramas The Changeling (1974) and Robinson Crusoe (1974), and also in the series How Green Was My Valley (1975).
Knighted in 1976 it was evident that Stanley Baker may well have continued to greater heights, both as an actor and a producer, but he succumbed to lung cancer and died at the early age of forty-eight. But his legacy is unquestioned. He was a unique force on screen, championing characterizations that were not clichéd or compromised. He established his own niche as an actor content to be admired for peerlessly portraying the disreputable and the unsympathetic. In that he was a dark mirror, more accurately reflecting human frailty and the vagaries of life than many of his more romantically or heroically inclined contemporaries. There have forever been legions of seemingly interchangeable charming and virile leading men populating the movies - but Stanley Baker stood almost alone in his determination to be characterized and judged by portraying the bleaker aspects of the human condition. Consequently, more than twenty-five years after his death, his sombre, potent personality still illuminates the screen in a way few others have achieved.- Actress
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Madeleine Lebeau was born on 10 June 1923 in Antony, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She was an actress, known for Casablanca (1942), 8½ (1963) and Gentleman Jim (1942). She was married to Tullio Pinelli and Marcel Dalio. She died on 1 May 2016 in Estepona, Malaga, Spain.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
José Ramón Larraz was born on 7 February 1929 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Symptoms (1974), Whirlpool (1970) and Vampyres (1974). He died on 3 September 2013 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
A brilliant blues and rock guitarist and successful singer-songwriter, Gary Moore has nevertheless always been rather underrated, especially in the United States, where he was never a major artist and rarely gets ranked highly in the usual "best guitarist" lists. He was born and raised in Belfast and played in the line-ups of several local bands during his teenage years, before moving to Dublin, Ireland, after being asked to join Skid Row. Moore later played with Phil Lynott in Thin Lizzy and joined the British jazz-rock band Colosseum II. He also had a successful solo career with eleven UK Top 40 single releases, which included the top ten songs "Parisienne Walkways" and "Out in the Fields" (a collaboration with Lynott), and he peaked in popularity with his best-selling album "Still Got the Blues" in 1990, which was on the UK album chart for 26 weeks.
Moore tragically died aged just 58 in 2011. He was never one of the biggest rock stars in the world but he was revered by many British and Irish guitarists and guitar fans, frequently written about in the British guitar press and magazines such as Classic Rock, and left a tremendous legacy of music ranging from blues to hard rock to ballads.- Immediately after her victory in the world of beauty, the world of cinema took interest in her. In Wholesome Married Life, directed by Roberto Bodegas and written by José Luis Garci, she played the temptress of José Sacristán, a married man obsessed with publicity. In Tocata y fuga de Lolita, by Antonio Drove, she was the rebellious girl who displayed her beautiful bust, a big contributor to the movie's popularity. In the 70's, Spanish cinema was at the height of destape [double meaning: "liberalization" and "nudity"], and the splendid figure of Amparo Muñoz found 9 titles in which to reveal itself, including Sensualidad (Germán Lorente, 1975), Clara is the Price (Vicente Aranda, 1975), and The Other Bedchamber (Eloy de la Iglesia, 1976).
After appearances in Volvoreta (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1976), Mauricio, mon amour (Juan Bosch, 1976), Acto de posesión (Javier Aguirre, 1977), and Del amor y de la muerte (Antonio Giménez Rico, 1977), among other films, her cinematic career took a notable turn when she began a relationship with the producer Elías Querejeta, facilitating her appearances in films as important as Mama's 100th Birthday (Carlos Saura, 1979) and Dedicatoria (Jaime Chávarri, 1980), which called her to the attention of other directors in both Spain and Mexico, such as Felipe Cazals (The Seven Cuckoos), Antonio Artero (Take That, Bitch), Pilar Miró (We Will Speak Tonight), Fernando Méndez-Leite (Summertime Sonata), Jaime Camino (The Open Balcony), Emilio Martínez Lázaro (Lulú of the Night), Imanol Uribe (The Black Moon), and Fernando León de Aranoa (Familia). - Writer
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Being the son of actor / theatre director Gösta Ekman, it was natural for him to start a career in the movie business. He was first noticed for playing against his father in Intermezzo (1936). He also showed a talent for writing, and his first script was filmed as Blixt och dunder (1938). Producer Lorens Marmstedt gave him the chance to make a successful directing debut with Med dej i mina armar (1940) at the age of 24. During the following years he could mix light comedies with drama. His Kungliga patrasket (1945) was a semi-biographical rendition of the life of an acting family. During the 1940s he kept up a high tempo making movies, with at least two movies every year. When Ingmar Bergman made his debut in the late 1940s, the critics began to compare the two young directors, a comparison who eventually became less and less favorable for Ekman. In 1950 he made the movie that he considered his best, Girl with Hyacinths (1950). From the middle of the 1950s, his directing and writing became more and more of a routine, more and more predictable, concentrating on light comedies with Sickan Carlsson. After his last movie in 1964 he went over to make revues with Karl Gerhard and Povel Ramel.- Dyanik Zurakowska was born on 22 March 1947 in Elisabethville, Congo. She was an actress, known for Cauldron of Blood (1968), La llamada (1966) and The Destructors (1974). She died on 24 January 2011 in Malaga, Spain.
- Richard Münch was born on 10 January 1916 in Giessen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Patton (1970), The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961) and The Longest Day (1962). He was married to Ella Büchi. He died on 6 June 1987 in Malaga, Spain.
- Actress
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Actress (b. Valladolid, Spain, Dec. 3, 1953). After having studied simultaneously Philosophy and Art and Speech (both careers remained unfinished), she became a household name overnight as one of the pretty and "bespectacled" hostesses of the top-rated TV contest "1, 2, 3, Responda Otra Vez", where she popularized what was going to be her early screen persona: platinum blonde-dyed hair, provocative ways and a sensuality always ready to break out. She made her film debut in 1972, at 19, and acquired an enormous popularity thanks to her tremendous sex-appeal and a clever promotion campaign that exploited a certain similarity between her looks and those of the late Marilyn Monroe to the extent of making a successful movie named precisely "The New Marilyn" (1976). She kept this image for a while (especially in her spectacular TV appearances in the mid-70s), but eventually got tired of it and decided to cut off her hair completely (she did it herself with a pair of scissors borrowed from a filming kit) and let it grow its natural dark colour again. Blonde or brunette, Lys grabbed a long string of femme fatale roles in films of each and every genre (thrillers, comedies, dramas, westerns, etc.) and turned into some kind of domestic myth at that time. (She also had the advantage of owning a fine diction that matched her thought-provoking voice perfectly, so, unlike some other actresses of that era, she didn't need to be dubbed.) Anyway, after leading her bold image one step further in the late 70s, she decided to stop making films and concentrate on her theatrical work, that she had started in 1973 playing Dª Inés de Ulloa in Zorrilla's "Don Juan Tenorio" with her own company. In the 1980s she focused her activity on recording music (which she did with real gusto and vocal dexterity), performing in both musical shows and dramatic or comic plays in which she displayed an image far removed from the one that shot her to fame and even making more sporadic appearances on TV (playing, for example, a splendid Portia on a small-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Merchant Of Venice"). The late 80s saw her returning to the movies and scoring some films of uneven success and quality, although she has always risen to the occasion. In any case, she is still an underestimated actress, though she has proved capable of giving such amusing characterizations as that of "Avisa A Curro Jiménez" (1978), where she seemed almost unrecognizable. Now she leads a rather reclusive life when not working (in contrast to the antics and eccentricities of her early career) and, although she has never married, she enjoys a very stable relationship with Fernando, her partner of some 20 years. Hers is really one of those examples of body-with-a-brain-on-top-to-match, and hopefully she will still be around for a large number of years.- Carlos Larrañaga was born on 11 March 1937 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Farmacia de guardia (1991), Sunday Light (2007) and Las verdes praderas (1979). He was married to Ana Escribano, María Teresa Ortiz-Bau, Ana Diosdado and María Luisa Merlo. He died on 30 August 2012 in Benalmádena, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
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Pamela Matthews was born on 6 August 1922 in Caterham, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Sound of Music (1965), Ragazze da marito (1952) and The Buccaneer (1958). She was married to Michael Francis Guarini and Cesare Danova. She died on 24 September 2002 in Mijas, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Sammy was born in Gateshead and played in several local bands including 'Pigmeat'. In 1973 he and other local actors setup the 'Live Theatre Company' in Newcastle.
However, Sammy was best known as the lovable Stick in the Hit BBC series Spender (1991). - Actor
- Producer
Julio Peña was born on 18 June 1912 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and producer, known for Horror Express (1972), Solomon and Sheba (1959) and The Castilian (1963). He was married to Susana Canales. He died on 27 July 1972 in Marbella, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Ivor Emmanuel was born on 7 November 1927 in Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Zulu (1964), Plain and Fancy (1956) and Secombe and Friends (1959). He was married to Malinee Oppenborn, Patricia Bredin and Jean Beazleigh. He died on 19 July 2007 in Malaga, Spain.
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- Producer
- Writer
Espartaco Santoni was born on 14 June 1932 in Carúpano, Venezuela. He was an actor and producer, known for The Castilian (1963), The Feast of Satan (1971) and Death Will Have Your Eyes (1974). He was married to Eva Medina, Carolina Zapata, Natividad de las Casas, Carmen Cervera, Analía Gadé, Tere Velázquez, Marujita Díaz, Maruja Valdez and María de los Ángeles. He died on 3 September 1998 in Marbella, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- David Oxley was born on 7 November 1920 in Wellington, Somerset, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Saint Joan (1957) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 30 October 1985 in Malaga, Spain.
- Allen Carr was born on 2 September 1934 in Putney, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for La Page 99 de Gontran H (2021), Horizon (1964) and Menschen der Woche (2000). He died on 29 November 2006 in Malaga, Spain.
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Spanish actress. Parents: Antonio Nile (guitar player) and Rosario del Río. She was born during an artistic tournee of her parents in Argentina. She lived in Málaga till she the age of 12. There she studied dance. When she was 12 years old, she debuted in the comedy theatre of Buenos Aires with the help of Pastora Imperio who calls her Petite Imperio. That was her artistic name during the next years, when she had a great success in several countries in southAmerica. In 1926 she came back to Spain and adopted the artistic name of Imperio Argentina, singing in the main theaters of the country. The film director Florián Rey discovered her in the Romea theater in Madrid and then she played La hermana San Sulpicio (1927).- Actor
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Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón was born on 19 July 1925 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Los extremeños se tocan (1970), Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973) and Carola de día, Carola de noche (1969). He was married to Margit Ohlson and Rosita Arenas. He died on 26 July 1995 in Marbella, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Director
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ramón Fernández was born on 26 September 1930 in San Esteban de Pravia, Asturias, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Los ladrones van a la oficina (1993), De hombre a hombre (1985) and El Cristo del Océano (1971). He died on 9 September 2006 in Ronda, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Chete Lera was born in 1949 in A Estrada, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. He was an actor, known for Open Your Eyes (1997), El niño de barro (2007) and Lost in Galicia (2009). He was married to Miriam Montilla. He died on 19 May 2022 in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
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- Special Effects
Slavko Vorkapich was born on 17 March 1894 in Dobrinci near Sremska Mitrovica, Austria-Hungary [now Serbia]. He was a director, known for Hanka (1955), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and The Past of Mary Holmes (1933). He died on 20 October 1976 in Mijas, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Actor
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Michael Miles was born on 1 June 1919 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was an actor and writer, known for Take Your Pick (1992), Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow (2020) and Dentist on the Job (1961). He was married to Joan ?. He died on 18 February 1971 in Malaga, Spain.- Composer
- Music Department
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Although reference books wildly stab at Reg Owen's year of birth anywhere from 1900 to 1929, and the location as far north as Lancashire, he was in fact born George Owen Smith on 3 February 1921 at the Lower Clapton end of Hackney, east London. His father Albert Edward Smith was a silk salesman, but young "Reg," as he liked to be called, preferred a musical career. He took up the saxophone at fifteen and played in youth bands such as Teddy Joyce's Juveniles and the Royal Kiltie Juniors before forming his own group. After saxophone studies with Benny Glassman, Reg completed his education at the Royal College of Music in London. Following RAF service, in which he played for the Bomber Command Band, he became arranger for the Ted Heath orchestra from 1945, then arranged for other conductors including Cyril Stapleton. When he joined the PRS in 1954 he decided to change his name legally to "Reginald Owen." Regarded as one of England's leading orchestrators, Reg published his book "The Reg Owen Arranging Method" in 1956. His own film scores date from 1957 and were at first confined to B-movies, but gradually he progressed to main features such as Very Important Person (1961). He moved to Brussels in 1961, though he continued to arrange, compose and conduct albums all over Europe, including France, Germany and Italy. Moving finally to Spain, Reg's untimely death at 57 occurred at the Clinica Limonar, Malaga, on 23 May 1978, and was notified to the British Consul in Madrid by his widow Maria Luisa.- Francisco Marsó was born on 4 April 1948 in Macael, Almería, Andalucía, Spain. He was an actor, known for Captain Apache (1971), Las ibéricas F.C. (1971) and Curro Jiménez (1976). He was married to Diosi Ledesma (unmarried), Concha Velasco and Unnamed. He died on 5 November 2010 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
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Chiquito was born as Gregorio Sánchez Fernández in Málaga en 1932, starting to job as dancer at 8 years old in several flamenco venues with important singers of the time, working in the chorus line along several decades. He was nicknamed as Chiquito ("little boy") by the early age that he started to work, fulfilling after he born in the street of Calzada de la Trinidad in the neighborhood of La Trinidad, hence his artistic name as Chiquito de la Calzada. His reputation as flamenco dancer caused that Chiquito moved along Spain acting in several theaters, and even he lived two years in Japan in the middle 80's, where he traveled to teach dance flamenco to the Japanese. In 1950 he married Josefa "Pepita" García Gómez, who was his long-time love.
In the early 90's, with 62 years old and after 54 years as flamenco dancer, Chiquito was discovered by the great audience appearing in the TV show Genio y figura (1994), a contest with a brand new stand up comedians where he excelled by his particular and special sense of humor. His surrealistic way to tell a joke caused an incredible quick fame along the country due to words and expressions what eventually were turned in language of popular culture, being one of the most famous and dearest humorists in the 90's in Spain. After the cancellation of the TV-show the next year, he continued appearing in different movies and other TV shows throughout the years, using the same style in his performances. With time Chiquito would be recognized as one of the greatest humorists of all time, winning love and affection of all Spanish. He retired from the scene in 2012 after the pass away of Pepita, missing from the public eye and making very little appearances or interviews.
He died on November 11, 2017 in the hospital of Málaga by heart complications after a fall happened in his home, caused by an angina pectoris. He was incinerated, at the same that Pepita, and their ashes rest together in the columbarium of the Saint Paul's church of Malaga.- Actress
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Francesca Braggiotti was born on 17 October 1902 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for Stasera alle undici (1938), Scipione l'africano (1937) and The Igor Cassini Show (1953). She was married to John Lodge. She died on 25 February 1998 in Marbella, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Soundtrack
Alvin Lee is still played regularly on Radio shows. He is highly regarded as a Jazz player, A rock and Roll player and a superb blues guitarist. His records are still in demand, both with Ten Years After and Solo Albums. He was an immense player and was one of the fastest full note players in British music. He was near impossible to copy as his style was his own, His performance at Woodstock playing I'm going home with.the quip, by helicopter, is still a high spot of the festival, Live, On Film and On Record. It excites listeners now as it did then. He toured the world but played slightly more in the USA and headlined right up to the 80's. when he slowed down the big tours in favor of the smaller venues and Blues and Jazz clubs. He had 4 top 50 albums and 2 UK top ten singles, Love like a man being the highest placed. Alvin Lee was a great performer and a giant of Rock and Roll music. He was a modest man and a true Gentleman who would help anyone he could, especially when I was support to him on 2 European tours, Letting us use his full PA and Lights and as many encores as you got he never looked at his watch. When Thanked his reply was, Lads, the better you go with the crowd means I have to lift us up to get over you, He did just that. Died before his time of a Pulmonary Embolism on Holiday in Spain. He is sadly missed by the numbers of fans and fellow musicians at his funeral. God bless Dear old Pal, we still try to play better thanks to you. A True Great of the Worlds Guitar Players.- Writer
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Víctor Andrés Catena was born in 1925 in Spain. He was a writer and director, known for A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Sandokan the Great (1963) and Three Sergeants of Bengal (1964). He died on 2 May 2009 in Malaga, Spain.- Actor
- Composer
- Music Department
Manzanita was born on 7 February 1956 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and composer, known for Miami Vice (2006), Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001) and La mujer del ministro (1981). He died on 5 December 2004 in Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Tamara Tchinarova Finch was born on 18 July 1919 in Cetatea Alba, Romania. She was married to Peter Finch. She died on 31 August 2017 in Malaga, Spain.
- Araceli Campos was born in 1957 in Málaga, Spain. She was an actress, known for Hospital Central (2000), Obsesión (2005) and Policías, en el corazón de la calle (2000). She died on 27 August 2015 in Málaga, Spain.
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- Production Manager
John Dark was born on 7 April 1927 in London, England, UK. He was a producer and assistant director, known for Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Casino Royale (1967) and At the Earth's Core (1976). He died on 29 June 2015 in Mijas, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Composer
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The biography has confused 2 people with the name Don Cherry. One is the jazz trumpeter (who played other small ethnic instruments), who played with Ornette Coleman and composed some of the Holy Mountain soundtrack. There is another Don Cherry, a Caucasian singer born much earlier, who had a hit with Band of Gold in 1955 (not to be confused with the Freda Payne song of the same name), was a singer, was in the big band hall of fame, and collaborated with Willie Nelson. It would be nice if someone could delete those entries; see Wikipedia (for instance) for a disambiguation of these names.- Muhammad Asad was born on 2 July 1900 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was married to Munira Asad and Pola 'Hamida' Asad. He died on 20 February 1992 in Mijas, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
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Augusto Algueró was born on 23 February 1934 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a composer, known for Roma (2018), Superintelligence (2020) and The Ministry of Time (2015). He was married to Carmen Sevilla. He died on 16 January 2011 in Torremolinos, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Antonio Martelo was an actor, known for La revoltosa (1969), El Séneca (1964) and La niña de fuego (1952). He died on 5 January 1970 in Malaga, Spain.
- Actor
- Transportation Department
Jonathan Williams was born on 26 October 1942 in Cairo, Egypt. He was an actor, known for Le Mans (1971), Crops (2006) and Formula 1 (1950). He died on 31 August 2014 in Malaga, Spain.- Carl Bernadotte was born on 10 January 1911 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was married to Kristine Bernadotte, Ann Margareta Larsson and Elsa von Rosen. He died on 27 June 2003 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
- Director
- Animation Department
- Writer
Romano Scarpa was born in Venice in 1927 and growing up there he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the "Topolino Giornale" which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories. In the Forties he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short named _E poi venne il diluvio_ and another very good short, named _La piccola fiammiferaia (1953)_, distributed in Italy together with Robert Aldrich's Attack (1956). Right after that he stopped working in animation for a while and dedicated wholly to creating Disney comics. In the late Fifties and up to about 1963 he wrote and penciled some of the best-known comic masterpieces of all time: stories like "Topolino e la collana Chirikawa" (1960) or "Paperino e la leggenda dello Scozzese volante" (1957) that have, later, been translated in lots of different languages throughout the world. Many of these stories have their backgrounds in movies, for example "Topolino nel favoloso regno di Shan Grillà" (1961) is based upon Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937); not to talk about all the stories starring Snow White or the Seven Dwarfs, obviously based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Sometimes the exact opposite happens; Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968) is based on Scarpa's story "Topolino e il Pippotarzan" (1957). Around 1963 he relaxed a bit and practically stopped writing his stories for 6 or 7 years, while still penciling stories written by other people, generally not up to the same high standards of his. Then, in the Seventies he went back to writing too, and he's still doing it now, though he has moved to Spain and is working for a different publisher. Among the last things he made while he was still in Italy, at the beginning of the Nineties, there are some wonderful strip stories, the same kind of stories that he loved when he was a child. One of these, "Topolino e l'enigma di Brigaboom" (1989) was partially based on Brigadoon (1954). In the meanwhile he has had time enough for some more animation, so we have _Aihnoo degli Icebergs (1972)_, The Fourth King (1977) and a new TV series, _The Adventures of Marco and Gina (Sopra i tetti di Venezia) (2001)_. In his career Scarpa created many characters that are now widely accepted by everybody to be part of the Disney Universe, characters like Brigitta McBridge, Dickie Duck and Ellsworth's adoptive son, Bruto. Since 1988 some of his comic stories have been published in the USA by Gladstone (a publisher); it was the first time that this happened to an Italian Disney author.- Graciela Zavatti was born on 14 March 1972 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for My Lucky Day (1998), Petra Delicado (1999) and Aquí no hay quien viva (2003). She died on 15 February 2023 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
- Michael Robinson was born on 12 May 1958. He was an actor, known for Matías, juez de línea (1996), Menudo es mi padre (1996) and 7 vidas (1999). He died on 28 April 2020 in Marbella, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
- Sam Ramplin was an actress, known for Raspberry Ripple (2007), Harry, Henry and the Prostitute (2008) and Hell's Kitchen (2004). She died on 12 January 2021 in Málaga, Spain.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Marifé de Triana was born on 13 September 1936 in Burguillos, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress, known for Bajo el cielo andaluz (1960), Canto para ti (1959) and The Days of the Past (1977). She was married to José María Alonso Calvo. She died on 16 January 2013 in Benalmádena, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.- Mercedes Formica was born on 9 August 1913 in Cadiz, Spain. She was a writer, known for Terroristi a Madrid (1955). She died on 22 April 2002 in Malaga, Spain.
- Gerald Brenan was born on 7 April 1894 in Sliema, Malta. He was a writer, known for Al sur de Granada (2003). He was married to Elizabeth Gamel Woolsey. He died on 19 January 1987 in Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga, Spain.
- Fernando García Rimada was born on 1 December 1944 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), Airbag (1997) and La Lola se va a los puertos (1993). He died on 14 October 2012 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.
- Mona Månsson Ivarson was born on 30 September 1944 in Flen, Södermanlands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for The Lustful Vicar (1970), Sensuous Sorceress (1970) and Vita nejlikan (1974). She died in 2002 in Malaga, Spain.