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list of the best Spanish comic artists of the twentieth century.
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- Salvador Videgain was one of the most famous theatrical comic actors of the first half of the 20th century in Spain, among his ranks were many well-known names from the theater and film scene, his successes on the scene were premieres, and even his reruns of Unsuccessful roles passed to repertoire with good success. Born in Madrid in February 1886, and a descendant of a well-known family from the scene, he devoted his whole life to the stage, working in all the genres and theaters of his country and many others around the world on his tours. Among his most important plays are The trust of the tenorios where he sang the jota that many tenors will sing later, Blood and sand the work of Blasco Ibañez taken so many times to the cinema, La suerte de Isabelita, Barbarroja, El chico del cafetín, Las corsarias , The perfect married, The trouble of pure, Night crazy, The rajah of Cochin, The beautiful women, The anxious, The black cat, The ugly queen, Divine rebellious ... He made some appearances in the cinema in the thirties and forties due to personal fame and worth.
- Casimiro Ortas hijo is known for Los apuros de un paleto (1916).
- Valeriano León was born on 15 December 1892 in Collote, Oviedo, Spain. He was an actor, known for Don Floripondio (1939), El piyayo (1956) and A los pies de usted (1945). He was married to Aurora Redondo Pérez. He died on 13 December 1955 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- Alady was born on 6 October 1902 in Valencia, Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. He was an actor, known for El amor solfeando (1930), Viva la vida (1934) and Boliche (1933). He died on 11 September 1968 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.
- Pedro Barreto was born in 1877 in Almería, Spain. He was an actor, known for Carmen (la de Triana) (1938), The Barber of Seville (1938) and La canción de Aixa (1939). He died in 1943 in Madrid, Spain.
- Luis Barbero was born in Madrid, Spain. He was the son of a musician and was a stage actor for half a century, participating as a comedian in musicals and magazines, with Salvador Videgain working in several companies in 1943, 1945 and 1946, more Later he worked at the Martín theater company and in the seventies he was part of the Calderón company in Madrid together with Andrés Pajares in De Coro al caño 1976, in his interventions in the cinde since the fifties onwards he was known as La Hive (1982), The Astonished King, Journalists (1998) and Family Doctor (1995). He died on August 3, 2005 in Madrid, Madrid.
- Ángel de Andrés was born on 25 May 1918 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982), Juana la Loca... de vez en cuando (1983) and Estudio 1 (1965). He was married to Conchita Juárez. He died on 6 August 2006 in Madrid, Spain.
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Andrés Pajares was born on 6 April 1940 in Madrid, Spain. He is an actor and writer, known for Oh, Carmela! (1990), Makinavaja, el último choriso (1992) and Bwana (1996). He was previously married to Chonchi Alonso.- Actor
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This actor started learning singing and dancing. Then he had very different occupations, including boxing, and even become to be the light weight amateur champion of Castilla, Spain. Later he entered the theatre in 40s, acting in the companies of Revista of Martín and and Celia Gámez, there coincided as a dancer with another dancer, Nati Mistral famous actress later. His entry in cinema was with little and secondary roles (Los últimos de Filipinas (1945) was his first film), many of them as what in spanish is said to be the 'chulo madrileño' (the typical classic Madrid city man, with his genuine verbal accent and special behaviour). With this type of roles he got great success in the 50's. Once he had become a known actor, he started his career as director and producer. He created his own production company and produced three films, but had no success at all with it and the company went to bankrupt. Finally, he decided to continue as an actor. In 1993 he was paid reverence in the Goya Awards Ceremony for his whole career. His wife Concha Paez dead in August 2017.- Actor
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Spanish actor. He started his career in theatre in 1939, when he was only 17, with the support of the director Modesto Higueras and the painter José Caballero. His first works were as actor, set decorator and costume designer in non-commercial amateur theatre plays, basically at the 'Teatro de las Organizaciones Juveniles (TOI)' and at the TEU. In cinema, he started as a costume designer in films mostly directed by José López Rubio and Rafael Gil and as an assistant director to Pío Ballesteros and Enrique Herreros.
His debut as a professional actor was in 1946 at the 'Teatro María Guerrero' theatre in Madrid, playing roles in plays like 'El Anticuario', 'El vergonzoso en palacio' or 'La dama boba'. Later he formed part of the companies owned by Conchita Montes and Alberto Closas. His debut as a cinema actor was also in 1946 with a little role in _María Fernanda la Jerezana (1946)_. In 1951, in the film _Esa pareja feliz (1951)_, he appeared in the credits together with two debutant key directors in Spanish cinema: Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga.
His first roles were comic roles in general, and increasingly important. In 1958 he started to have his first successes ('Una muchachita de Valladolid' in theatre together with 'Elisa Montes' and Alberto Closas, and The Little Apartment (1958) in cinema together with Mary Carrillo and Concha López Silva).
Since that moment on, he acted in the best theatre companies and also became an almost indispensable figure in Spanish cinema in the following two decades. Some of his best films from this stage are El cochecito (1960), Placido (1961), Robbery at 3 O'clock (1962) and The Executioner (1963). He met film-makers like Marco Ferreri, Juan Antonio Bardem, José María Forqué and Luis García Berlanga, who were able to extract from his funniness amazing nuances like tenderness, dirtiness, meanness, absurd and even nonsense. His popularity raised dramatically after he worked together with Gracita Morales in several films of less importance under the direction of Mariano Ozores and also performed the main role in the TV series "Tercero izquierda".
In the early 70s he surprisingly started to do good dramatic performances in films like _Peppermint frappé (1967)_, The Garden of Delights (1970), _Bosque del lobo, El (1970)_ (Best Actor Award in the 1971 Chicago Film Festival), _Mi querida señorita (1971)_ (Best Actor Award in the 1972 Chicago Film Festival), _Cabina, La (1970) (TV)_ (winner of an Emmy Award), or Habla, mudita (1973). He made a great success with these films which even got stronger after the international effects caused by his TV film 'La cabina' and his contribution to George Cukor's Travels with My Aunt (1972). And this success set the rest of his career, full of successful films both dramatic and comic (_Escopeta nacional, La (1978)_, _Verdad sobre el caso Savolta, La (1979)_, La colmena (1982), _Corte del faraón, La (1985)_, Mi general (1987), _Largo invierno, El (1991)_...
In 1985 he received the 'Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes' (Arts Gold Medal).- Actor
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Juanjo Menéndez was born on 15 May 1929 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and director, known for Ninette y un señor de Murcia (1984), Verde doncella (1968) and Historias de Juan Español (1972). He was married to Noelle. He died on 7 November 2003 in Madrid, Spain.- Actor
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Antonio Ozores was born on 24 August 1928 in Burjassot, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for Los caraduros (1983), Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982) and The Crazy Story of the Three Musketeers (1983). He was married to Elisa Montés. He died on 12 May 2010 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.- Actor
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Juanito Navarro was born on 8 July 1926 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for Esta noche contigo (1988), Juana la Loca... de vez en cuando (1983) and Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella (2001). He died on 10 January 2011 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.- Actor
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Miguel Ligero was born on 21 October 1890 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for The Barber of Seville (1938), La verbena de la Paloma (1935) and Malvaloca (1954). He was married to Blanca Pozas. He died on 26 January 1968 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.- Luis Heredia was a small-figure comedian who was known for his flute-like voice of comic tenor that served to make him love by the public of Madrid at first and then the rest of Spain from the decade of 1910 until his death. In his early days he made zarzuela but soon entered into what was called the genre Infimo, the operetta and the magazine, coming to enjoy great success in the Martin theater since the premiere of the great success of Las corsarias embodying one of the three male protagonists under Directed by Salvador Videgain and accompanied by Faustino Bretaño, after leaving the company, Videgain entrusted many papers to Heredia who enjoys his best artistic stage between 1919-1925 getting to continue in the company of that director enjoying continued success, on his return Martin theater after leaving that the public had not forgotten, will be in the coliseum as part of his legend, as well as his gender until his death.
- Tomás Zori was born in 1925 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Maestros (2000), Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982) and Estudio 1 (1965). He died on 2 September 2002 in Madrid, Spain.
- Manuel Codeso hijo is known for Eva, limpia como los chorros del oro (1977).
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Raúl Sender was born in Farasdués, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. He is known for La masajista vocacional (1981), El quinto jinete (1975) and Historias para no dormir (1966).- Actor
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Quique Camoiras was born on 7 November 1928 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and director, known for La corte de Faraón (1985), Juana la Loca... de vez en cuando (1983) and Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982). He died on 2 March 2012 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.- Paquito Cano is known for La revoltosa (1950), La revoltosa (1963) and Los Chiripitifláuticos (1966).
- Manolo Gómez Bur was born on 21 April 1917 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Juana la Loca... de vez en cuando (1983), Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982) and Todo es posible en Granada (1982). He died on 30 May 1991 in Bailén, Jaén, Andalucía, Spain.
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Pepe Da Rosa was born on 1 May 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor and writer, known for J.R. contraataca (1983), Le llamaban J.R. (1982) and Los alegres bribones (1982). He died on 22 April 1986 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain.- Actor
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Luis Varela was born on 11 January 1943 in Madrid, Spain. He is an actor, known for Camera café (2005), Ferpect Crime (2004) and Todo es posible en Granada (1982). He was previously married to Magdalena Durán.- Actor
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He abandoned his studies of law for the universitary theater. His debut in cinema was in 1962. During the 60's and 70's he participates mainly in not very good comedies. But in the 80's he has revealed as one of the best spanish actors with films like The Holy Innocents (1984) or The Enchanted Forest (1987).- Actor
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Paco Martínez Soria was born on 18 December 1902 in Tarazona, Zaragoza, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for ¿Qué hacemos con los hijos? (1967), La ciudad no es para mí (1966) and El difunto es un vivo (1956). He was married to Consuelo Ramos. He died on 26 February 1982 in Madrid, Spain.