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Sancho Gracia is a Actor Espagnol born on 27 september 1936 at Madrid (Espagne)
Sancho Gracia (September 27, 1936 – August 8, 2012) was a Spanish motion picture and television actor.
Gracia was born and died in Madrid. He started his acting career in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he lived from 1947 until 1961. In Montevideo he was a student of Margarita Xirgu. He made his movie acting debut in France in the 1963 film L'Autre femme opposite Annie Girardot. Since then he has appeared in more than eighty motion pictures including several Hollywood productions during the 1970s and in 1999's Outlaw Justice with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. As well, Gracia has worked in Australia, performing as a regular cast member in the 1982 television series, Runaway Island and in the 1991 made-for-TV film, Pirates Island. He also participated in the Oscar-nominated Mexican film El Crimen del Padre Amaro in 2002.
In 2003, he was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2002 film, 800 balas.
In addition to motion pictures, Sancho Gracia made more than sixty guest appearances on Spanish television shows. He became famous in Spain for interpreting the role of Curro Jiménez, in the TV show of the same name, that was broadcast by TVE from 1976 to 1979, being rebroadcast several times since then.
He died of lung cancer on August 8, 2012.
En 2003, il est nommé pour le Prix Goya du meilleur acteur pour sa performance dans le film 800 balles (2002). Il succombe le 8 août 2012 à un cancer du poumon.
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Birth name Félix Ángel Sancho Gracia
Nationality Espagne
Birth 27 september 1936 at Madrid (Espagne)
Death 8 august 2012 (at 75 years) at Madrid (Espagne)
Nationality Espagne
Birth 27 september 1936 at Madrid (Espagne)
Death 8 august 2012 (at 75 years) at Madrid (Espagne)
Sancho Gracia (September 27, 1936 – August 8, 2012) was a Spanish motion picture and television actor.
Gracia was born and died in Madrid. He started his acting career in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he lived from 1947 until 1961. In Montevideo he was a student of Margarita Xirgu. He made his movie acting debut in France in the 1963 film L'Autre femme opposite Annie Girardot. Since then he has appeared in more than eighty motion pictures including several Hollywood productions during the 1970s and in 1999's Outlaw Justice with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. As well, Gracia has worked in Australia, performing as a regular cast member in the 1982 television series, Runaway Island and in the 1991 made-for-TV film, Pirates Island. He also participated in the Oscar-nominated Mexican film El Crimen del Padre Amaro in 2002.
In 2003, he was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2002 film, 800 balas.
In addition to motion pictures, Sancho Gracia made more than sixty guest appearances on Spanish television shows. He became famous in Spain for interpreting the role of Curro Jiménez, in the TV show of the same name, that was broadcast by TVE from 1976 to 1979, being rebroadcast several times since then.
He died of lung cancer on August 8, 2012.
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Gracia est né et décédé à Madrid, en Espagne. Il commence sa carrière d'acteur à Montevideo, Uruguay, endroit dans lequel il aura vécu entre 1947 jusqu'en 1961. À Montevideo, il était étudiant à Margarita Xirgu. Il fait ses débuts en tant qu'acteur en France dans un film tourné en 1963 intitulé L'Autre femme avec Annie Girardot. Depuis, il est apparu dans plus de quatre-vingt films notamment dans des films tournés à Hollywood dont L'Appel de la forêt durant les années 1970 et dans le film de 1999 intitulé Outlaw Justice avec Willie Nelson et Kris Kristofferson. Gracia a également tourné en Australie dans une émission télévisée intitulée Runaway Island (1982) et dans le téléfilm Pirates Island (1991). En plus du cinéma et de la télévision, Sancho Gracia a été invité dans de nombreuses séries télévisées espagnoles. Il devient célèbre en Espagne pour avoir interprété le rôle de Curro Jiménez, dans l'émission de télévision du même nom, diffusée sur TVE entre 1976 et 1979. Il a également participé à la nomination aux oscars du film Le Crime du père Amaro en 2002.En 2003, il est nommé pour le Prix Goya du meilleur acteur pour sa performance dans le film 800 balles (2002). Il succombe le 8 août 2012 à un cancer du poumon.
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The Last Circus (2010)
, 1h47Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Circus films, Political films
Actors Carolina Bang, Antonio de la Torre, Carlos Areces, Javier Botet, Santiago Segura, Fernando Guillén Cuervo
Roles Coronel Salcedo
Rating65%
In 1937, Republican Militia force a circus troupe to fight on their side in the Spanish Civil War. The Funny Clown (Santiago Segura) slaughters dozens of Nationalist troops, armed only with a machete, before being shot and disarmed. While his fellow troupe members are executed, the Funny Clown is sentenced to work as a slave laborer, at the monument of the Valle de los Caídos. His son, Javier (Sasha Di Bendetto) tries to free him by setting off dynamite where he was working. But Colonel Salcedo (Sancho Gracia) tramples the Funny Clown to death with his horse. Javier knocks him down, gouging out his eye in the process. Salcedo vows to remember Javier for this insult.
Among Wolves (2010)
, 1h53Directed by Gerardo Olivares
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Wolves in film, L'enfance marginalisée, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Juan José Ballesta, Carlos Bardem, Sancho Gracia, Dafne Fernández, Àlex Brendemühl
Roles Atanasio
Rating65%
Marcos, âgé de 7 ans, et son grand frère sont bergers pour aider leurs parents, métayers d'un riche propriétaire dans la région des montagnes espagnoles de la Sierra Morena. Une attaque de loups provoque la mort de 5 chèvres. Déjà très endetté, le père de Marcos craint d'être chassé de son emploi et de sa maison, il résout le problème en donnant son jeune fils au patron, ce dernier l'envoie comme aide berger dans une partie très reculée de la montagne où Atanasio, un vieux berger solitaire vivant dans une grotte s'occupe d'un troupeau.
Donkey X (2007)
, 1h30Origin Espagne
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Buddy films
Actors Sonia Ferrer González, José Luis Gil, Sancho Gracia
Roles Sansón Carrasco
Rating45%
The film begins with a narration of the story as told by Cervantes, but the narrator is interrupted by the donkey Rucio (Luis Posada) who insists on telling the "true" story of the adventure: Don Quixote (José Luis Gil) was not crazy, but in fact an intelligent and passionate person. In Rucio's re-telling of his adventure with Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho Panza (Andreu Buenafuente), we learn that Rucio wishes he were Quixote's horse, and that that the horse, Rocinante (David Fernández), hates leaving his stable.
The Baby's Room (2006)
, 1h17Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Leonor Watling, Sancho Gracia, María Asquerino, F. Javier Gutiérrez, Terele Pávez, Asunción Balaguer
Roles Domingo
Rating67%
Fraîchement emménagés dans une vieille bâtisse en cours de rénovation, située au cœur d'un quartier bourgeois de Barcelone, Juan (F. Javier Gutiérrez), journaliste sportif, Sonia (Leonor Watling) et leur bébé comptent bien y couler une vie de famille heureuse. Avant de se coucher, l'homme vérifie le moniteur dans la chambre de l'enfant, un modèle dernier cri qui permet d'écouter quand le petit dort, mais aussi de le voir... Ce couple va alors découvrir qu'il n'est pas seul dans cette maison, quelqu'un est assis tous les soirs près du berceau du bébé.
Blame (2006)
, 1h12Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors Leonor Watling, F. Javier Gutiérrez, Montse Mostaza, Sancho Gracia, María Asquerino
Rating50%
Espagne, 1970. Ana (Nieve de Medina), gynécologue réputée, accueille Gloria (Montse Mostaza) et sa fille, Vicky (Alejandra Lorenzo), dans sa vieille bâtisse. En échange de son hospitalité, Gloria la secondera dans ses opérations médicales. Elle ignore toutefois que son amie pratique d'étranges avortements. Lorsque Gloria tombe enceinte, la situation bascule et Ana la supplie d'avorter. Mais la jeune femme refuse et de mystérieux phénomènes se produisent...
El Cid: The Legend (2003)
, 1h30Origin Espagne
Genres Biography, Adventure, Historical, Animation
Actors Sancho Gracia, Loles León, Natalia Verbeke, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
Rating54%
Rodrigo's life as a child was a noble and happy one, he entered school at a young age. Often he went on adventures with his best friend Sancho and often visited his beloved one Jimena, the daughter of the count of Gormaz. His happiness did not last forever, after the death of the king Fernando, Rodrigo is seen wrapped in a world of plots and conspiracies that to will put an end to the life of Sancho and the consequent coronation of the infant Alfonso. All of a sudden, Rodrigo loses all that he has acquired, his best friend and the love of its beloved one, and is unjustly exiled to Castile without honor.
800 Bullets (2002)
, 2h4Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Origin Espagne
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Sancho Gracia, Carmen Maura, Luciano Federico, Terele Pávez, Ane Gabarain
Roles Julián Torralba, le grand-père de Carlos
Rating62%
Julián Torralba is a former film stuntman in Almeria, Spain. He and several of his colleagues, who once made a living in American Westerns shot in Spain, now are reduced to doing stunt shows for minuscule audiences on the decaying set built for those old Westerns. Julián wrestles with dark memories of the death of his son, also a stuntman, and with estrangement from his daughter-in-law Laura and her son Carlos. Carlos, a young boy, becomes intrigued with his late father's life and runs away to join Julián and his band of has-beens. There Carlos is initiated into the rambunctious life of these hard-drinking faux cowboys. But when Laura, a powerful executive looking for a new site for a tourist resort, learns that Carlos has joined the hated Julián, she moves to destroy even this remnant of Julián's once-proud career. Julián and the cowboys decide to fight back the only way they know how.
The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
, 1h58Directed by Carlos Carrera
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality
Actors Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia, Angélica Aragón, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Roles Père Benito Díaz
Rating66%
Newly ordained Padre Amaro arrives in Los Reyes, a small town in the fictional state of Aldama, to start his life serving the church. He is a protégé of a ruthless political bishop, while the local priest, Father Benito, is having a long ongoing affair with a local restaurant owner. Benito is building a large hospital and recuperation center, which is partially funded by a drug lord. Meanwhile, another priest in the area, Father Natalio, is under investigation for supporting left-wing insurgents in his secluded rural church area.
, 1h54Genres Comedy
Actors Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Sancho Gracia, Jimmy Barnatan, Javivi, José Lifante
Roles Fernando Baeza "Garganta Profunda" (Deep Throat)
Rating55%
Lucas Santos, alias The Saint (Antonio Resines), is fed up with going in and out of prison. He doesn't want to go on being a small-time thief all his life. Lucía (Neus Asensi), his wife, who's a singer and dancer by profession. One day, The Saint decides to plan the robbery of one of the most representative works of modern art: Pablo Picaso's Gernika from the Reina Sofía Museum.
Common Wealth (2000)
, 1h45Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Origin Espagne
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Carmen Maura, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, María Asquerino, Sancho Gracia, Ane Gabarain, Terele Pávez
Roles Castro
Rating71%
Carmen Maura plays a real estate agent who discovers a fortune in the apartment of a dead man. Unfortunately, a group of neighbors have been waiting for the man to die so that they can seize the money for themselves.
The Naked Eye (1998)
, 1h44Directed by Vicente Aranda
Genres Drama
Actors Laura Morante, José Coronado, Ana Obregón, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Miguel Bosé, Sancho Gracia
Rating47%
Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper-middle-class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters using a palm-sized video gadget called "The Owl".
Martin (Hache) (1997)
, 2h5Directed by Adolfo Aristarain
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama
Actors Federico Luppi, Cecilia Roth, Sancho Gracia, Ana María Picchio, Enrique Liporace, Adolfo Aristarain
Roles José María Navarro
Rating75%
Martín, known as Hache, is a 19-year-old Argentinian boy who after his girlfriend leaves him has a nearly fatal drug overdose, thought by many to be an attempted suicide. Afterwards, his mother sends him to Madrid to live with his father, Martin.
Marbella (1985)
Directed by Miguel Hermoso
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Rod Taylor, Britt Ekland, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Francisco Rabal, Emma Suárez, Sancho Gracia
Rating46%
The Witching Hour (1985)
, 1h45Directed by Jaime de Armiñán
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Francisco Rabal, Concha Velasco, Victoria Abril, Sancho Gracia, Asunción Balaguer, Juan Echanove
Roles Rubén Blázquez y Delgado de Aguilera
Rating63%
The Call of the Wild (1972)
, 1h40Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf, George Eastman, Maria Rohm, Juan Luis Galiardo
Roles Taglish Charlie
Rating59%
John Thornton (Charlton Heston) a prospector in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush is trying to eke out a living in the harsh conditions of the bitterly cold Yukon region of Canada, with Buck the German Shepherd dog he befriends. Thornton struggles against unscrupulous rivals and natural hazards in the extreme conditions and is greatly helped by Buck who has his own story to tell: he was abducted from a family home and taken north to become a working sled dog. Man and dog forge a true bond of friendship, working together to survive life in the treacherous frozen North. Thornton is killed by Yeehat Indians, but Buck kills the men to avenge John Thornton. At the end of the film, Buck comes to the White River to mourn the place where he died.