Emma Penella
Birthday: 1930-03-02
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Biography: Manuela Ruiz Penella known as Emma Penella (Madrid, March 2, 1931 - Ibidem, August 27, 2007) was a Spanish film, theater and television actress. Daughter of the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva, granddaughter of the composer Manuel Penella Moreno, great-granddaughter of the also musician Manuel Penella Raga, sister of the also actresses Elisa Montés (1934) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017). She married film producer Emiliano Piedra with whom she had three daughters: Emma, Lola and Emiliana. She was also the aunt of the actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa Montés and the actor Antonio Ozores). Actress of marked personality and prestige since the 1950s, she triumphed in cinema thanks to films such as Luis García Berlanga's El verdugo (The Executioner) and maintained intense theatrical activity. She renewed her popularity in her later years participating in the television series Aquí no hay quien viva (2003-2006) and La que se avecina (2007).
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FFG, el último gran conversador
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one ...
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The Executioner
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must c...
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Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
An aviator of a commercial line disappears in the Brazilian jungle. Two friends organize an expediti...
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El amor brujo
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years late...
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Carta a una mujer
Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined ...
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Alegre juventud
Luis, Julio, Miguel and Carlos are four young men who, moved by a strong religious vocation, have le...
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Comedians
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she ...
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Condemned to Hang
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. A...
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El amor de los amores
Felipe Crespo, because of their anarchist ideology, Barcelona fleeing persecution for justice. Starv...
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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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The Eyes Leave a Trace
Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow stude...
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El guardián del paraíso
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelt...
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La hora incógnita
A devastating atomic device is about to fall on a small town, which is evacuated. Only thirteen inha...
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Red Fish
Ivón, a chorus girl, Hugo, a failed writer, and Carlos, Hugo's young son, arrive at a seaside hotel ...
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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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The Regent's Wife
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to ...
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The Shadow Battalion
Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among the...
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Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female communi...
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Fortunata y Jacinta
Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. ...
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Our Father
The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return ...
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The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas dis...
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The Search
Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber ...
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El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel....
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La patrouille des sables
Three adventurers, Pierre, an engineer, Mailard, an escaped convict and Luis, a guitarist, are in se...
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De espaldas a la puerta
Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee....
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Viento de cólera
Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from ...
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Black Humor
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze ar...
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Un marido de ida y vuelta
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife die...
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Doña Francisquita
Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora....
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La cuarta ventana
Three young seamstresses who share a flat and their love for a night out find an injured girl none o...
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¡Che, qué loco!
A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstanding...
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Pídele cuentas al rey
Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid wi...
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El crimen de Don Benito
July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito...
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Bulgarian Lovers
Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's fav...
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The Adventurer of Seville
Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract traveler...
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The War Starts in Cuba
Year 1898. When war broke out in Cuba, Juanita, a beautiful variety singer without much luck, decide...
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