Manuel Gas

Acting

Manuel Gas

Born — Died

1905-09-05 — 1995-12-03

Place of birth

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Known for

El niño de las monjas poster
6.0

When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows, manifest a decided vocation for bullfighting and, although his adoptive father did not endorse, struggle to achieve his dream.

El niño de las monjas

1959

The Killer Wore Gloves poster
5.2

At Heathrow Airport, a man is razored to death in a toilet cubicle. A young woman, Peggy Foster, is concerned about the disappearance of Michael, her photographer boyfriend, who has been in Vietnam for months. In order to pay the rent, she reluctantly sub-lets her garret flat to a man called John Kirk Lawford. The new tenant wears sunglasses indoors and acts suspiciously. Peggy is lured to an abandoned airfield by a call from Michael but is shot at by a sniper. Back at her apartment block she is shocked to find that a man has apparently committed suicide by jumping from her balcony. While the police question Peggy, a stranger turns up and announces himself as John Kirk Lawford! Shirley, secretary to Peggy's lascivious publisher, is killed by a black-gloved intruder and the mystery deepens...

The Killer Wore Gloves

1974

Sucedió en mi aldea poster
10.0

Two young and innocent altar boys leave in search of money to buy a new bell for the tower of the village church.

Sucedió en mi aldea

1956

Fantasía española poster
8.0

Two adventurers without economic resources create an amateur theater company and want to succeed, posing as aristocrats. The project aims to fill the theater with their performances and, thus, to satisfy their debts.

Fantasía española

1953

El señorito y las seductoras poster
9.0

Antonio is a millionaire who spends his time conquering beautiful women aided by his faithful butler, Pablol. He tries to seduce the beautiful Marta, but when he realizes that she prepares a trap to force him to marry, Antonio disappears.

El señorito y las seductoras

1970

Horror Story poster
9.0

Spies are trapped in a castle with a variety of monsters.

Horror Story

1972

Film credits

1970s · 14 titles

The Killer Wore Gloves poster
5.2

At Heathrow Airport, a man is razored to death in a toilet cubicle. A young woman, Peggy Foster, is concerned about the disappearance of Michael, her photographer boyfriend, who has been in Vietnam for months. In order to pay the rent, she reluctantly sub-lets her garret flat to a man called John Kirk Lawford. The new tenant wears sunglasses indoors and acts suspiciously. Peggy is lured to an abandoned airfield by a call from Michael but is shot at by a sniper. Back at her apartment block she is shocked to find that a man has apparently committed suicide by jumping from her balcony. While the police question Peggy, a stranger turns up and announces himself as John Kirk Lawford! Shirley, secretary to Peggy's lascivious publisher, is killed by a black-gloved intruder and the mystery deepens...

The Killer Wore Gloves

1974

El señorito y las seductoras poster
9.0

Antonio is a millionaire who spends his time conquering beautiful women aided by his faithful butler, Pablol. He tries to seduce the beautiful Marta, but when he realizes that she prepares a trap to force him to marry, Antonio disappears.

El señorito y las seductoras

1970

Horror Story poster
9.0

Spies are trapped in a castle with a variety of monsters.

Horror Story

1972

Companys, procés a Catalunya poster
4.0

1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of the Basque Government. After the invasion of France by Nazi troops, Companys will be arrested by the Gestapo and handed over to the Francoist authorities. Led by the Count of Mayalde, he is transferred to Madrid and later to Barcelona. After a summary trial, Companys is condemned to death and shot.

Companys, procés a Catalunya

1979

Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return poster
7.2

An army officer, after killing his own men, steals a chest with a hundred thousand dollars in gold.

Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return

1972

The Long Vacations of '36 poster
6.3

Spain, 1936. The Civil War breaks out. In a village near Barcelona, several families decide to continue living in their summer houses until the violence ends.

The Long Vacations of '36

1976

Mortal Spring poster
6.4

An adaptation of a well-known novel by Hungarian writer Lajos Zilahy.

Mortal Spring

1973

Fight to the Death poster
4.7

The parallel stories of a police commissioner and a bank robber whose lives eventually come together.

Fight to the Death

1975

Change of Sex poster
5.8

Young José María goes through a painful journey until he discovers that he is a transsexual.

Change of Sex

1977

El último viaje poster
6.4

Commissioner Mendoza must join forces with the honorable civil guard, to stop the activities of a network of drug traffickers with international contacts that intend to act in Spain.

El último viaje

1974

Let's Go, Barbara poster
4.4

Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her husband and takes a vacation with her daughter Barbara, of 12 years, in order to leave behind all the past and start a freer life, with fewer ties, less conventional.

Let's Go, Barbara

1978

La oscura historia de la prima Montse poster
4.5

Paco, a middle-class young man, tells his lover the shady story of his cousin Montse, a social worker.

La oscura historia de la prima Montse

1977

La banda de los tres crisantemos poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

La banda de los tres crisantemos

1970

¿Quién soy yo? poster
6.5

Mario Colomer, prime minister, is burdened by overwork. His problems seem solved when his assistants tell him about Juan Brandel, a possible substitute, just like him physically, but with a funnier and more adventurous personality. At first the plan seems to work and the politician begins to gain popularity. The plot thickens when the 'original' becomes jealous of the 'copy' and the substitute exceeds his functions.

¿Quién soy yo?

1970

1960s · 9 titles

The Law of Violence poster
4.0

After spending five years in jail for a crime he did not commit, Jack Sparrow returns to the town of Red Rock seeking revenge.

The Law of Violence

1969

Pacto de silencio poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Pacto de silencio

1963

De picos pardos a la ciudad poster
10.0

The mayor and the secretary of the City Council of a small Spanish village go to the city to change the old municipal bus for a brand new one..., and spend a few nights out in town looking for women... They will run into trouble very fast.

De picos pardos a la ciudad

1969

Rififi in the City poster
5.5

In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well.

Rififi in the City

1964

El primer cuartel poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El primer cuartel

1966

José María poster
6.5

Biography of the famous bandit El Tempranillo, acting with impunity in Sierra Morena during the reign of Ferdinand VII.

José María

1963

Los chicos del Preu poster
5.6

A group of pre-university boys and girls experience all kinds of problems and joys that arise in their lives. Among other worries, they have to deal with the pressure of their studies, difficulties with their families and, of course, their first loves.

Los chicos del Preu

1967

El amor empieza en sábado poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

El amor empieza en sábado

1961

Eva 63 poster
6.2

Elena is a writer and is in a relationship with a painter, Fernando. Charo works as a waitress in a hotel and continues to dream of John Sargent, her platonic love, although when she discovers that the actor is gay she returns to her boyfriend Luis. Mara, a model, and Miguel is dating a sick man much older than them. Eugenia is a haute couture dressmaker and cares for her niece Soledad, who wants to be a singer. All of them have ambitions of love, but none is happy with their current situation.

Eva 63

1963

1950s · 23 titles

El niño de las monjas poster
6.0

When a newborn baby is abandoned in a convent Andalusian Mother Superior decides to be the gardener who takes over from him. As the boy grows, manifest a decided vocation for bullfighting and, although his adoptive father did not endorse, struggle to achieve his dream.

El niño de las monjas

1959

Sucedió en mi aldea poster
10.0

Two young and innocent altar boys leave in search of money to buy a new bell for the tower of the village church.

Sucedió en mi aldea

1956

Fantasía española poster
8.0

Two adventurers without economic resources create an amateur theater company and want to succeed, posing as aristocrats. The project aims to fill the theater with their performances and, thus, to satisfy their debts.

Fantasía española

1953

Judas poster
6.8

A guy with bad feelings and worst methods, willing to do anything to satisfy his greed and vanity, is unhappy with the role of Judas in the Passion a play that is traditionally represented in his town because he prefers the role of Jesus.

Judas

1952

The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent poster
6.8

An old violin maker has been killed and the investigators have only one clue: on the night of the crime, a blind street musician heard a melody playing in the house. As they do not know the title of the song, they present the music to the famous radio contest known as “The Mysterious Melody”. Little by little the two inspectors will surround the killer after checking that there are several suspects.

The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent

1956

One Bullet Is Enough poster
10.0

After leaving the prison where they have served their sentence, some criminals plan a new robbery.

One Bullet Is Enough

1954

Los agentes del 5º grupo poster
6.2

Duran and his team of the fifth group are secret agents missioned by Inspector Peña to find and capture a gang of dangerous criminals who are planning a major hit.

Los agentes del 5º grupo

1955

El fugitivo de Amberes poster
6.3

A thief steals a Jewel in France and travels to Barcelona to try to sell it. Both the Police and a former associate try to catch him.

El fugitivo de Amberes

1955

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los ojos en las manos

1956

El azar se divierte poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

El azar se divierte

1958

Escuela de periodismo poster
10.0

Report on the activities of the Spanish journalists. Series of separate episodes of various kinds, including almost all the areas normally covered by the national journalism, from sports to chronicle events.

Escuela de periodismo

1956

Pleito de sangre poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Pleito de sangre

1956

La pecadora poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La pecadora

1956

Persecución en Madrid poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Persecución en Madrid

1952

Los cobardes poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los cobardes

1959

Criminal Brigade poster
6.3

A young policemen witnesses a bank robbery which will become his first case. To catch the thieves he will infiltrate himself as one of the gang members. At first it works, but it won't be so easy afterwards.

Criminal Brigade

1950

Souls in Danger poster
9.0

Two boys are sent to reform school under the guidance of Father Fernando, a young and dedicated priest.

Souls in Danger

1952

El sistema Pelegrín poster
6.6

Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he completely lacks the necessary skills for the job. He organizes a game between the football team at his school and another center, a historic rival, resulting in a surprise full of humorous criticism to our society. Pelegrin tries to convince everyone that football is just a sport

El sistema Pelegrín

1952

El presidio poster
6.5

After being fired from his company, Pablo meets his friend Ana, who introduce him to Pedro Ramírez, an undesirable lawyer, who offers him 15,000 pesetas for reports about his ex-company with the intention of doing a rob. When the lawyer's gang goes to give the coup, Ana reports them to the police, with the idea of taking the loot and fleeing with Pablo. But all of them are arrested and end up together in prison, where the intrigues and skirmishes between them will continue.

El presidio

1954

Sor Angélica poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sor Angélica

1954

Bronce y luna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bronce y luna

1953

Mercado prohibido poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mercado prohibido

1952

Yo maté poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Yo maté

1955