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Antonio Iranzo

Antonio Iranzo

Actor · 1930 – 2003 · València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

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.

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  • Movie7.0

    ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?

    Who Can Kill a Child?

    1976 · 298 votes

  • Movie7.4

    La Folie des grandeurs

    Delusions of Grandeur

    1971 · 755 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Durchs wilde Kurdistan

    The Wild Men of Kurdistan

    1965 · 42 votes

  • Movie5.9

    El precio de un hombre

    The Ugly Ones

    1966 · 34 votes

  • Movie10.0
  • Movie5.4

    Sette pistole per i MacGregor

    Seven Guns for the MacGregors

    1966 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Gentleman Jo... uccidi

    Gentleman Killer

    1967 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.3

    La estanquera de Vallecas

    The Tobacconist of Vallecas

    1987 · 60 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Condenados a vivir

    Cut-Throats Nine

    1971 · 47 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Golpe de mano (Explosión)

    Surprise Attack

    1970 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.4
  • Movie5.7

    Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen

    Kingdom of the Silver Lion

    1965 · 24 votes

  • Movie6.3

    El buscón

    1979 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Historias de amor y masacre

    Stories of Love and Slaughter

    1979 · 7 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie4.2

    Al diablo, con amor

    To the Devil, with Love

    1972 · 6 votes

  • Movie3.8
  • Movie6.0

    Los pájaros de Baden-Baden

    The Birds of Baden-Baden

    1975 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Libertarias

    Freedomfighters

    1996 · 72 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Tocando fondo

    1993 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.5

    La boda era a las doce

    1964 · 2 votes

  • Movie8.5
  • Movie5.5

    Inquisición

    Inquisition

    1977 · 26 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Los placeres ocultos

    Hidden Pleasures

    1977 · 20 votes

Series4

  • TV7.3

    Curro Jiménez

    1976 · 9 votes

  • TV6.5

    Los camioneros

    1973 · 2 votes

  • TV5.5

    Lorca, muerte de un poeta

    Lorca: Death of a Poet

    1987 · 10 votes

  • TV5.8