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Antonio Iranzo

Actor
Died July 7, 2003 (73 years)
Antonio Iranzo (4 May 1930 – 7 July 2003) was a Spanish film actor in 77 feature films. He gained popularity for his acting in Island of the Damned and Cut - Throats Nine.

Iranzo began his artistic career in the theater, while working as a radio announcer. Later he joined the Nuria Espert Company and made his film debut in 1963 with La chica del auto-stop directed by Miguel Lluch.

His physique and hoarse voice helped him get the chance to play the supporting character in various films including Mario Camus's The Legend of Mayor of Zalamea (1973), Gonzalo Suárez's The Regent (1974), Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child? (1975), Hidden Pleasures (1977), The tobacconist of Vallecas (1986) (the latter two by Eloy de la Iglesia), the TV miniseries Riders of the Dawn (1990) and Vicente Aranda's Libertarias (1996).

Iranzo had a well known career on stage, which particularly excelled in his interpretations of classics from the Golden Age. Some of the works featuring him were Adolfo Marsillach and Molière's Tartuffe (1969), Felix Lope de Vega's The Star of Seville (1958), Max Frisch's Andorra (1971), Adolfo Marsillach's Flower of Holiness (1973), Arnold Wesker and Irene Gutiérrez Caba's Chicken Soup with Oats (1978), Martín Recuerda's The Arrecogías the Beguinage of St. Mary of Egypt (1977), José María Rodríguez Méndez's Weddings that were famous in the Rag and Fandanga (1978), Miguel de Cervantes's The Baths of Algiers (1979) and The Roll Lavapies (1979), Woody Allen's Aspirin for Two (1980), Santiago Moncada's Ears of the Wolf (1980), Martin Recuerda's The Deceiting (1981), Miguel Mihura's Peach in Syrup (1982), Ibsen's Mallard (1982), Euripides's Fedra (1984), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1988), Alejandro Casona's The Third Word (1992).

Iranzo also had a prolific career in television; he played several characters in dramas TVE as Study 1 or Novel, Time Eleven or Fictions.

His deep voice helped him in standing out as a voice actor, remembered for being among other characters as BA Baracus in the television series El equipo A.

He was the winner of the 1966's Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin (La piel quemada). The film was directed by Josep Maria Forn and depicted the social problems of Spain during the decade. In the film Iranzo played the character of an Andalusian worker named Jose who works in Costa Brava and falls in love with a Belgian tourist while his family including wife and two children struggle to reach him.

In 2014 the film Who can Kill a Child? was shown at Denver Film Society's Stanley Film Festival.

Source: Article "Antonio Iranzo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Cut-Throats Nine
  • Adiós gringo
Known For
  • Who Can Kill a Child?
  • Cut-Throats Nine
  • La estanquera de Vallecas
  • Burnt Skin
  • Inquisition
  • Lorca: Death of a Poet
  • Gentleman Killer
  • The Days of the Past
  • Los Jinetes del Alba
  • Hate for Hate
  • Secret Intentions
  • Historias de amor y masacre
  • María Rosa
  • Proceso a Mariana Pineda
  • El fin de la inocencia
  • The Cantabrians
  • Sunscorched
  • Del amor y de la muerte

Filmography

1996
Freedomfighters · as Miliciano
1994
¡Ay Señor, Señor! (TV Series) · as Entrenador
1993
Tocando fondo · as Remigio
1993
Los ladrones van a la oficina (TV Series) · as Eladio
1990
Los Jinetes del Alba (TV Series) · as El Santero
1988
El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free · as Padre De Frasquita
1987
Lorca: Death of a Poet (TV Series) · as Joaquín Arcollas
1987
La estanquera de Vallecas · as Don Julián
1985
1984
Proceso a Mariana Pineda (TV Series) · as Matías
1984
Memorias del general Escobar · as Buenaventura Durruti
1983
Los desastres de la guerra (TV Series) · as Villacampa
1983
The Girls (TV Series) · as Cast
1980
The Cantabrians · as Sonanso
1979
1977
1977
El fin de la inocencia · as El Capataz / Foreman
1977
1977
Hidden Pleasures · as Carmen's Father
1977
Inquisition · as Rénover
1976
Curro Jimenez (TV Series) · as Moñudo
1976
The Man Who Knew Love · as Criado De Antón
1976
Who Can Kill a Child? · as Crying Child Father
1975
1974
La regenta · as Párroco De Contracalles
1973
Los Camioneros (TV Series)
1973
Flower of Holiness · as Soldado Veterano
1972
Cut-Throats Nine · as Ray "torch" Brewster
1971
Delusions of Grandeur · as L'aubergiste (uncredited)
1970
Secret Intentions · as Camionero
1967
Hate for Hate · as Fulton
1967
Gentleman Killer · as Pedro
1967
1966
The Ugly Ones · as Antonio
1966
The Search · as Cast
1966
Seven Guns for the MacGregors · as Bandido (uncredited)
1965
Sunscorched · as Charlie
1965
1965
Adiós gringo · as Ranchester Cowboy
1965
María Rosa · as Pueblerino
1965
1965
Estudio 1 (TV Series) · as Caballero De Negro
1965
Guns of Nevada · as Mulligan
1965
Totò d'Arabia · as Ivan
1964

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