Alfredo Mayo
Birthday: 1911-05-17
Place of Birth: Barcelona - Catalonia - Spain
Biography: Abandonó los estudios de Medicina para ingresar a los 18 años en la compañía teatral de Ernesto Vilches. Tras finalizar la Guerra Civil Española, donde llegó a ser teniente de Aviación. Inicia su carrera profesional siendo uno de los galanes favoritos de los directores del régimen franquista. Alcanzó una gran fama en la posguerra por encarnar el prototipo de galán militar y heroico y del franquismo. Debutó en 1935, pero su consagración llegó en 1941 con Raza, de José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. Tras ésta llegó A mí la legión (1942), de Juan de Orduña, con el que protagonizó también La leona de Castilla (1951), junto a Amparo Rivelles. Otras de sus películas son la extraordinaria La caza (1965), de Carlos Saura, Peppermint Frappé (1967), también de Saura, o Los desafíos (1969), dirigida por Víctor Erice. Participó en más de 250 películas.
Movies
Attack of the Robots
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by rut...
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Mission in Morocco
During a trip to Morocco, an American oil tycoon is involved in a murder and other intrigues. To sol...
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Teresa de Jesús
The life and tribulations of Carmelist nun Teresa de Jesús, who had transcendental experiences. She ...
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My Dear Killer
Following the mysterious decapitation of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put ...
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Bell from Hell
When John is released from a psychiatric center where he has been hospitalized for a long time, he d...
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In the Folds of the Flesh
Police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes ref...
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Deliciosamente tontos
A young couple who doesn´t know each other prepare their wedding in order to receive an inheritance....
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Voodoo Black Exorcist
The mummy of long dormant, but powerful Caribbean voodoo priest Gatanebo gets revived on a luxury So...
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No le busques tres pies...
The lieutenant Miguel Aguirre's dream is to become a military pilot, but a dispute with a superior i...
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Sabata the Killer
After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his b...
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Alerta en el cielo
A child suffering from leukemia craves getting on a plane, so at a U.S. base located in Zaragoza wil...
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Peppermint Frappé
Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married...
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Audiencia pública
Two women claim the custody of a child, a son of single mother. They have very different social posi...
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The Seventh Page
Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the ...
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Hombre acosado
Javier is crazy in love for Bibiana, a beautifull acctress who is foing out with a wicked buisiness ...
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Bullet in the Flesh
The Masters and the Cherokees living in relative peace until a key member of this tribe falls in lov...
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Fail in Communism
The story of two students in a school of terrorism installed in the south of France and considered a...
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La virgen gitana
Through a pictoric play, this movie tells the story about the painter Eduardo Miranda who, one night...
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The Perfect Lover
A movie actress is being raped by an admirer in the night of the release of her last movie. But inst...
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El camino de Babel
On the day that they receive their university diplomas, three young men make a bet: they will marry ...
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Un paso al frente
Rafael, Miguel and Gabriel are three boys of different social status, who come to the call of the Fl...
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Those Dirty Dogs!
Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagu...
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Una muchachita de Valladolid
Mercedes is a very simple girl from Valladolid who marries a plenipotentiary minister. They are in A...
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El frente de los suspiros
Servando, a young Galician who acts as judge in Seville, discovers while snooping old files, a case ...
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Proceso a Jesús
A group of Sephardic perform the "Trial of Jesus" in an ancient temple and before a baffled audience...
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The Apolitical Man
Enrique Tolosa is a boss administrator of a small company which employs 50 workers. There never has ...
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The Hunt
Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up....
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Espionage in Lisbon
An international gang pretends to have the means to destroy a small country in 30 seconds. The autho...
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Este cura
A village priest protects a young mother rejected by the people and the mayor....
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Badmen of the West
I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of ...
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Un día con Sergio
Sergio, a film heartthrob in the decline of his career, agrees to spend 24 hours with the winner of ...
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¿Quién soy yo?
Mario Colomer, prime minister, is burdened by overwork. His problems seem solved when his assistants...
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Volveré a nacer
Mónica, the manager and wife of singer Álex, plans a publicity stunt that goes awry. When her husban...
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Revolt of the Mercenaries
Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince S...
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Karate, Fist and Beans
Sam and Buddy, two highway robbers, join with Colonel Quint, a big crook, who sold his services to M...
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Obsesión
A Spanish engineer working in the Guinea jungle marries a woman whom he has been corresponding, only...
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Raza
The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Dam...
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Legions of the Nile
Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the ci...
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Follow the Legion!
In North Africa, in a detachment of the Spanish Legion, el Grajo, a brave veteran, and Mauro, who ha...
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Malvaloca
Malvaloca is a good girl who goes wrong until she finds a good man that really loves her, yet her pa...
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The Roosters of Dawn
Only a few months after arriving in a fishing village, Lola, a beautiful woman, is found murdered by...
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Estoy hecho un chaval
Juan, a 65-year-old accountant, is going to be a father. At the same time, he's going to retire. Nee...
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55 Days at Peking
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the Internati...
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Smashing Up
Matilde is a former prostitute who gets married to an american soldier with an uncertain future, due...
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Ypotron: Final Countdown
Agent Lemmy Logan is investigating the case of a missing NASA scientist and discovers that an ex naz...
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Avisa a Curro Jiménez
Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum...
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I want to dream
A boy lives with the last man his mother loved before she died, but a well-matched couple wants to s...
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Robinson et le triporteur
A modern re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story. But, this time, our hero is a macguivering expert....
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Encounters in the Deep
An oceanographer diving in the Bermuda Triangle discovers an undersea world....
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Vera, a Cruel Tale
South of France, XIX century. Alfredo de Quiroga, a Spanish gentleman in exile, is reluctant to admi...
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Tooth and Nail
The second feature length movie of Paulino Viota, this is a disillusioned and biting look at the yea...
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The Challenges
Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the...
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Mar brava
Mingo, a kid whose father and brother have disappeared in shipwrecks, finds an amnesic man lying on ...
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Poppers
A guy named Santos is released from prison after having killed his best friend. The dead friends fat...
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Vida conyugal sana
Enrique is a thirty-year-old lawyer who is married to Ana. Apparently he is a normal man who has onl...
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The Remains from the Shipwreck
Whatever his reasons or intent, when the young man carrying a cello begins working at the old-folks ...
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¡Harka!
In North Africa, Captain Valcázar and Lieutenant Herrera's harka, great friends, stands out for its ...
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The Cantabrians
In this film Paul Naschy embodies the Roman general Agrippa Vipsanio in a fierce battle against the ...
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Mission Bloody Mary
An American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies....
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Chicas de alquiler
The world of prostitution, where women meet men of all kinds. These young women who have often left ...
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The Ancines Woods
Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rum...
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The Teacher and the Miracle
Don Juan, a widowed teacher, asks to be transferred to the capital to create a painting school and i...
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The Angry Cid
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, chall...
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El mejor del mundo
A professional runner can't run anymore since he has a heart condition....
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The Scarlet Letter
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a chil...
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El caso del procurador enamorado
Salamanca, 1973. A congressman in love with his daughter's teacher hires an assassin to kill his wif...
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Raza, el espíritu de Franco
Documentary made immediately after Franco's death, which includes interviews with the dictator's sis...
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Red Gold
A boatswain finds himself stranded on an island. Though surrounded by starving, and poor islanders, ...
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Hen Pecked
Don Juan Alcántara is ruined. He does not dare to confess it to the family, since the unanimous opi...
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Don Lucio and Brother Pío
Brother Pío, intending to collect charity for a group of nuns who run an orphanage, travels to Madri...
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Special Mission Lady Chaplin
Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan...
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Eagles Over London
The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they h...
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Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave?
Carlos, a university professor, is admired and praised above all by people who see in him the ideal ...
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El límite del amor
Manuela and Juan, a young couple who has been married for four years, likes to practice sexual games...
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El tahúr
Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romanci...
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The Marquis of Salamanca
José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films ...
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The Amazing Doctor G
Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme t...
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La Leona de Castilla
Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and empe...
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The Call of the Wild
John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton w...
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Place Your Bets, Ladies
A famous American secret service agent tries to rescue a German 17-year-old prodigy scientist who ha...
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Great Treasure Hunt
This dark, dusty western concerns a wealthy criminal, a blind man, and four mercenaries. The blind m...
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Commando
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. H...
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La leyenda del tambor
In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains...
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El taxi de los conflictos
Taxi driver Tadeo is about to encounter a busy shift. Throughout the day heterogeneous characters ge...
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Queen of the Tabarin Club
In 1913 a family of traveling musicians goes to the house of a rich marquise. Lolita, daughter of on...
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El señor de La Salle
Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the n...
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Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the ...
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La llamaban la madrina
Trini is the daughter and granddaughter of thieves. Before it was a specialist in the art of opening...
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Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien
A girl enters the service of the owner of a brothel who will initiate her into the profession....
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National Heritage
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, wher...
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Hablamos esta noche
Victor is the engineer who has set up the Nuclear Power Plant Zapater. Alongside his professional pr...
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Larga noche de julio
Tony wants to carry out a perfect robbery and get a lot of money during the celebration of the 24 Ho...
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Haute Couture
Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him ...
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Bearn
Mallorca, 1865. Mr Bearns' funerals, "better to dye thant to mix blood". Juan Mayol, orphan unknow h...
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Casi un caballero
An inexperienced and naive thief, Susan, associated with two other thieves of the same character mee...
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As très graças
Bocage was a former naval officer, a cultured gentleman, a passionate man, and a poet. He lived in t...
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Historia de una noche
After a few years, Víctor Morel comes back to the city. He has been a happy and Bohemian man who spe...
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El secreto de Tomy
The racing stables of Gandia family go to auction. Tomy, son of the owner, manages to save his favor...
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Sucedió en Sevilla
Don Fernando is a senior engineer of Sevilla for years as a partner had a friend working. But his pa...
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Prey of Vultures
Thanks to his ability, Danny can draw each of the bandits who robbed the stage coach in which he was...
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The Last Couplet
A musical drama featuring a tragic love story. Relates a singer's rise to fame and her subsequent do...
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Playa prohibida
After her father has been murdered, the beautiful but allegedly insane Isabella lives in the house o...
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El alcalde de Zalamea
Film version of the historic piece of Calderon de la Barca. An army officer faces the local authorit...
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Madigan's Millions
When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one m...
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Songs for After a War
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of th...
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