Ricardo Palacios
Birthday: 1940-03-03
Place of Birth: Reinosa, Cantabria, Spain
Biography: Ricardo López-Nuño Díez, better known as Ricardo Palacios, was a Spanish actor, film director and screenwriter. Born in Reinosa (Cantabria), Palacios graduated from the Official Film School in Madrid as an actor and director. He debuted in the 1961 TV series Poly. He participated in about 150 films and television series, being mainly active in the Spaghetti Western genre, and he was also a recurring presence in films directed by Jesús Franco. In 1987, Palacios made his directorial debut with the comedy film ¡Biba la Banda!, starring Alfredo Landa, and in 1997 he directed the TV-series La Banda de Pérez. After spending over a month in hospital with heart problems, Ricardo died on 11 February 2015 of heart failure.
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The Blood of Fu Manchu
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu and his sadistic daughter Lin Tang have discovered ...
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What Changed Charley Farthing?
Charley Farthing is on the run. Chased by an irate husband with murder on his mind, Charley finds hi...
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Attack of the Robots
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by rut...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
A 19th-century expedition to the Earth's core reveals primordial wonders, prehistoric monsters and a...
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Alone Against Terror
Melissa is a paralysed woman who is being taken care of by her two sisters. Their father was mysteri...
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The People Who Own the Dark
A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when ...
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Night of the Werewolf
An evil witch brings back to life the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, who was executed several hundred y...
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The Beasts' Carnival
A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds fro...
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Take a Hard Ride
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to som...
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Comin' at Ya!
A young couple's wedding ceremony is brutally interrupted when a pair of outlaw brothers arrive and ...
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Socrates
A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens...
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¡Biba la banda!
In 1938, at the height of the civil war, the musicians of the military band were very worried about ...
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El Condor
Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians ...
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Son of Superbug
El Guancho, a clever inventor and adventurer, leads a peaceful life on the island of Lanzarote. But ...
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The Ark of the Sun God
A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the...
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The Great Adventure
During the American Gold Rush era, an orphaned boy and his wild dog who must battle against the Yuko...
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USA, violación y venganza
John White, accounting for a large crime boss named Mancini is arrested and pressured by the prosecu...
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Ten Killers from Afar
Dallas tries to regain his father's farm which he lost in a card game with Kelly. But Kelly is now d...
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Antoñito vuelve a casa
In Spain, Antoñito, a child, is punished to remain standing doing the fascist salute. As an adult, t...
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The Vengeance of Pancho Villa
During the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa is wounded and left his large treasure in gold back in t...
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Fat Brothers of Trinity
The bizarre adventures of the three gunmen Western grosser, next to a delicate young....
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A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión
A lieutenant and four others are having a little party before entering combat. Ensign has his girlfr...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom....
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The Horsemen
In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg an...
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Car Crash
When successful racer Nick, with friend and business manager Paul are threatened off the racing circ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a rut...
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Spoiled Children
This satirical comedy follows the strict older generation pitting themselves against the pleasure-se...
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The Blues of Pop Street
Mary Ocky, a beautiful girl from Mondonedo, Ohio, comes to seek the help of the famous PI Philip Mar...
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Going Down in Morocco
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly tra...
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The House on Garibaldi Street
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they ...
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Ragan
A former mercenary who runs an air-transport service gets caught up in political intrigue....
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Sida, la peste del siglo XX
A finished, but never released drama directed by Jess Franco....
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Fury in the Tropics
Two prostitutes in a small corrupt South American town, falls in love with a freedom fighter, posing...
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Doctor Zhivago
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
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Del amor y de la muerte
Don Diego goes to war and his son Don Gonzalo is, in his absence, the new lord of the region. The mi...
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Chely
A gang of criminals, composed entirely of young people, bases its unique fun on stealing from rich e...
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Dirty Game in Casablanca
Dean, a failed American writer, receives some unexpected news: his wife, who belongs to a wealthy fa...
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Camino solitario
Private detective Alfredo Pereira is hired by eccentric couple Raden and Eve to find their missing s...
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Satan's Profile
A peculiar view of the history of mankind through different events and with characters who were a pa...
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Beyond Desire
Mónica has just died in a traffic accident. Along with her was another man. Pedro Bernáldez, painter...
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La fierecilla domada
The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine....
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Tex and the Lord of the Deep
Based on the adventures of the hero Tex from the comic strip by Bonelli. An interesting spaghetti-we...
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Crystalstone
Deserted by their father and with their mother dead, nine-year-old Pablo and his little sister Maria...
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Hot Blood
After two bank robbers take hostages, one of them rapes the bank cashier and then tries raping Sylvi...
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Jarabo
July 21, 1958. Madrid wakes up to the news that a pawnbroker has been murdered in his shop. Soon, po...
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The Man Called Noon
Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he ...
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The adventures of Pinín and his friends
Pinín and his small group of friends discover that the river they frequent is being polluted, affect...
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Soy leyenda
First the atomic war broke out, new machines were made, dead birds appeared. In 1999, a bacteriologi...
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The Black Pearl
The young Ramon Salazar, son of a village owner, dreams of becoming a pearl fisherman. His father ag...
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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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Monster Dog
Victor Raven, a famous rock star, returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video. Believing hi...
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Historia de la frivolidad
The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and ce...
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Captain Apache
The title character is a US army Captain of Native American descent who is asked to investigate the ...
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Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and po...
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Dynamite Joe
In order to put an end to the numerous ambushes on the gold transports which are a real menace to th...
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For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on h...
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Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North
A former Canadian Mountie escorts a group of women and coffins to Fort Eagle, but finds it destroyed...
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Who Is That Splashing in the Mediterranean?
Two half-brothers have to go on a road trip to find their half-sister and receive a huge inheritance...
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Bad Man's River
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collabo...
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Whisky and Ghosts
A snake-oil salesman is chased across the desert by a gang of Mexican bandits. He finds out, however...
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Soldier of Fortune
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight...
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Red Sun
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a ...
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Tú estás loco Briones
Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting s...
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Return of the Seven
Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The S...
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Run, Man, Run
The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandi...
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Las autonosuyas
The Eternal Spain, birthplace of the Cid, Hammer of Heretics... and other deserved historical appell...
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The Impeccable Sinner
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mothe...
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Contra el tiempo
The young actor Antonio Mora wants to meet veteran actors, possibly unfamiliar, to learn from their ...
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Spanish Western
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, ...
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Seven Days in January
After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order....
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El gran amante
A young woman, fan of a leading actor, sneaks into a film set and pretends to be the main actress....
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Delusions of Grandeur
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and colle...
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The Ugly Ones
Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns ...
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Diálogos de la paz
In the Spain of 1939 during the Civil War, a woman searches for her husband who has disappeared, a s...
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Fabulous Trinity
In a Wild West town, Miss Nora, a beautiful smuggler, meets Scott, a bounty hunter that goes to Mexi...
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Widows' Nest
The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Ca...
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Lulú de noche
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was...
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Lute: Forge On or Die
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as...
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Las secretas intenciones
Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted sui...
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Valley of the Dancing Widows
A group of retired soldiers return from the Civil War to Texas, where they are no longer tolerated b...
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Black Venus
Spanish actor Jose Antonio Ceinos stars as a down-and-out sculptor, whose inspiration returns with t...
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Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
Pasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of his...
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The Return of the Musketeers
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has over...
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Star Knight
A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flyi...
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The Desperate Ones
In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossibl...
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Tengo 17 años
A young girl decide to escape from home because her stepmother doesn´t like her. She finds a modest ...
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1001 Nights
Omar and his friend, Ali, returning to Moorish Granada after several years in the Middle East, disco...
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El sobre verde
In the Apollo Theater during the performance of "green envelope", a child is born, son of the actres...
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The Things of Love
In 1940's Madrid. Juan plays piano for Pepita and her on-stage partner Mario. Although Mario really ...
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I'm the One You're Looking For
Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She deci...
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The Stranger and the Gunfighter
During a hold-up in the Wild West, Dakota kills a rich old Chinese man, Wang. Later, he is captured,...
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Conquest
La Araucana is a Chilean film based on an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, ...
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Day of Anger
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation i...
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