José Calvo
Birthday: 1916-03-03
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Biography: José Calvo (March 3, 1916 – May 16, 1980) was a Spanish film actor best known for his roles in western films or historical dramas. He made around 150 appearances mostly in films between 1952 and his death in 1980. He entered film in 1952 and was prolific as an actor throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He made many appearances in crime dramas, often with a historical theme and appeared in a high number of western films. In 1964 he starred as the innkeeper Silvanito in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western production A Fistful of Dollars as one of Clint Eastwood's few "amigos" in the town of San Miguel. He later appeared in westerns such as I Giorni dell'ira (1967) opposite Lee Van Cleef, Anda muchacho, spara! (1971) and Dust in the Sun (1973) etc. However, after the Spaghetti western era of the late 1960s, in the 1970s he returned to appearing in primarily Spanish films and in contrast to the roles which dominated much of his career did appear in several Spanish comedy films often with slapstick humor as that genre grew popular in Latin cinema during this period. He died in Gran Canaria on May 16, 1980 aged 64. Description above from the Wikipedia article José Calvo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Viridiana
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit h...
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Gioventù disperata
A doctor whose wife has been accidentally killed by a young man who lives in an impoverished zone of...
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Tristana
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected mem...
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Las delicias de los verdes años
In the Middle Age, a farmer named Mauro is heading to Madrid following the last will of his father....
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At the End of the Rainbow
Roy runs away from the labor camp of Santa Lucia with Emiliano, a New Mexico rancher, both imprisone...
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Tragic Ceremony
After a peaceful sailboat ride, four young people, including rich kid Bill, Joe, Fred and Jane, knoc...
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Day of Anger
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Weekend, Italian Style
Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many fr...
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Crimen para recién casados
Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter...
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Twice a Judas
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La primera aventura
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The Woman from Beirut
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2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
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Alma aragonesa
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El sol en el espejo
A paltry pension is the scenario in which love is forged between a mysterious woman and a frustrated...
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Scheherazade
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Sucedió en Sevilla
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Platero y yo
After a long period of absence, living in large and anonymous cities, a poet, Juan, returns to the v...
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One Man Against the Organization
An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile th...
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A Stranger in Paso Bravo
After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killin...
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The Man from Oklahoma
Edward, a powerful rancher, serves as a real chief of a town near the Mexican border. The arrival of...
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Love Letter of a Murderer
A man (José Luis López Vázquez) walks into a bar and shoots four people dead. Next day everybody is ...
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The Desert Renegades
In the deserts of the Middle East, circa 1930s, a half-Arab-half-French adventurer named Aldar woos ...
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Run, Run, Joe!
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must ...
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Blanca's Weddings
A divorced woman is abandoned by her betrothed on the eve of her second marriage, and resigns hersel...
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Two Against All
Two brothers, Bull and Jonathan Bullivan, witness the murder of bandit Black Boy who had been terro...
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In a Colt's Shadow
A story about two gunfighters, Duke and Steve. Steve is in love with Duke's daughter but Duke disapp...
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Appointment in Beirut
When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino...
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Fort Yuma Gold
Near the end of the Civil War, an imprisoned Confederate raider is sent under guard to warn both his...
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For One Thousand Dollars Per Day
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The Price of Power
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Six Days a Week
Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at ...
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Marinai, donne e guai
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Make Love, Not War
Twenty years after the end of the war, a German submarine has not yet surrendered and continues to w...
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Main Street
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because ...
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Dust in the Sun
In the dry, dusty western hamlet of San Angelo, landowner Joe Bradford kills his brother and then ma...
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The Frenchman's Garden
"The Frenchman" was what locals called the man who ran the bar and restaurant in the small town of P...
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En mil pedazos
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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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La espada negra
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La quiniela
Don Cándido is a modest old office clerk who makes his first pool coming off of a bad streak at work...
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Life Goes On
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Little Funny Guy
Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown...
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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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El amor que yo te dí
Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences....
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At Five in the Afternoon
A critical view of the world of bullfighting based on the antagonism between two bullfighters who ta...
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Mi Mujer no es mi señora
Juan Carlos, a businessman, falls in love with a woman much younger than him, and ends up marrying h...
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Soldados
Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odys...
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Funny Money
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Che notte, ragazzi!
Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two-million-dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy bu...
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A Fistful of Dollars
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among...
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El hincha
A passionate football player complicates the life of his family driven by his passion. Enthusiastic,...
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Extraconiugale
Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy....
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Uncle Hyacynth
Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding h...
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La Cruz de Mayo
Coral is a girl who works in a Seville ceramics factory to raise her family, but her greatest illusi...
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Aquellos tiempos del cuplé
Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different....
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El Litri y su sombra
Biopic about Miguel Báez "El Litri", a descendant of two generations of bullfighters: his older brot...
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The Edge of Fear
One by one, the Urdaz family is plagued by a series of mysterious disappearances, starting with the ...
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Noi siamo 2 evasi
Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the fin...
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Hector the Mighty
A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal com...
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Una gran señora
Charo is a fashion model, in love with enigmatic Adolfo. The fashion house where she works is ruine...
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El sistema Pelegrín
Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a g...
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Parque de Madrid
In the Madrid of the fifties, during any day, whether by chance or fate, a series of characters live...
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Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigi...
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Messengers of Peace
Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men....
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Red Cross Girls
Paloma, Isabel, Marion and Julia Madrid are four girls belonging to different social strata, who are...
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Valentine's Day
Several independent histories in the St Valentine's Day, which they have jointly that a celestial em...
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El indulto
Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the...
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Historias de la televisión
Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna...
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The Swindlers
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, tw...
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The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decid...
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Júrame
Alberto wants to conquer the artist Laura Céspedes and invites her to a student party at the Faculty...
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Nuevo en esta plaza
Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the ve...
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Fantasmas en la casa
A young playwright meets a girl he was once in love with. The young woman lives in terror in a suppo...
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The Coyote
California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become...
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The Castilian
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual m...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue ...
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Legacy of the Incas
During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but ...
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Night Is Made for Stealing
A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumpt...
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The Running Man
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death ...
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Why Go On Killing?
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of ...
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Babes in Bagdad
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer....
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El indiano
Nouveau-riche industrialist returns to Spain after 20 years in Mexico and discovers that his adopted...
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También hay cielo sobre el mar
During the absence of her husband, who is fishing at sea, a woman is persecuted by the owner and unj...
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Buongiorno primo amore!
Michele and Valentina are about to get married despite the financial problems that threaten to make ...
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El fenómeno
A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at...
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