
Acting
Aníbal Vela
Born — Died
1896-06-06 — 1962-03-07
Place of birth
Madrid, España
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
6.01470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.
The Island Princess
1954
9.0Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme, a rich old clerk for the service of the mayor. Soon, the girl asks for help to the governor of Granada, a gentleman who has always had a great adoration for the girl.
Cuentos de la Alhambra
1950
5.6Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist.
Bello recuerdo
1961
6.2No synopsis available yet.
El hombre que perdió el tren
1960
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Honorables Sinvergüenzas
1961
5.7Comedy about the surreal holiday of two teenage Spanish girls, where they meet a bizarre assortment of villains and new friends.
We Are 18 Years Old
1959
Film credits
1960s · 12 titles
5.6Back from vacation, Lucy, a school's music teacher, misses a boy. People say he will not return because he recently lost his father. She is very affected by his favorite student, so she decides to go to see him, finding the house in utter ruin. But chance makes Lucy forced to take the child and immediately found in him the son that was kidnapped years ago in America when she was a famous artist.
Bello recuerdo
1961
6.2No synopsis available yet.
El hombre que perdió el tren
1960
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Honorables Sinvergüenzas
1961
5.3Margarita is a beautiful and explosive girl studying in the Faculty of Arts somewhere in Galicia. To the chagrin of the rest of the girls in the class, all the boys want to date her, to the point moniker of "the bride of the Faculty". However, who really steals the heart Margarita is another person ...
Margarita se llama mi amor
1961
7.5As there are still a lot of problems in the relationships of the Spanish couples Saint Valentine returns to earth and especially to Madrid in order to fix these problems.
Vuelve San Valentín
1962
7.0Carmen, Merche and Paula are three young singers living in the same pension. Every night are forced to dodge men arriving from Madrid in search of adventure. They are assisted by Don Narciso, a fellow board that has solutions for everything. What I really want is to get married and all three have found a boyfriend, but every couple has their problems.
¡Aquí están las vicetiples!
1961
6.4Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter obsessed with uncovering a major crime, finds his big opportunity.
Crimen para recién casados
1960
6.3The adventures of a young orphan, who is determined to explore the world no matter what.
Pachín
1961
6.5Pepe Rodríguez, an office worker who has been working while his family went on vacation, leaves Madrid to join them in the countryside.
El cálido verano del señor Rodríguez
1965
6.0After a few years, Víctor Morel comes back to the city. He has been a happy and Bohemian man who spent an authentic fortune. His first meeting with the past is with Laura, an extraordinary woman with he had intense relationships. She is now married with Daniel Romero, a man dedicated to the business that, precisely in the last days, has had a money problem. Due to this matter, Daniel will have to ask Víctor for help because it knows that he can extract it of the difficulty, in spite of the fact that he does not have any sharm.
Historia de una noche
1962
5.6Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way.
Martes y trece
1962
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La mentira tiene cabellos rojos
1962
1950s · 45 titles
6.01470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.
The Island Princess
1954
9.0Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme, a rich old clerk for the service of the mayor. Soon, the girl asks for help to the governor of Granada, a gentleman who has always had a great adoration for the girl.
Cuentos de la Alhambra
1950
5.7Comedy about the surreal holiday of two teenage Spanish girls, where they meet a bizarre assortment of villains and new friends.
We Are 18 Years Old
1959
7.0Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different.
Aquellos tiempos del cuplé
1958
6.5One unlucky day, a married couple with four children get an eviction notice: the building they live in is to be demolished. The family looks desperately for a new home, which is no easy task in Madrid in the fifties.
El inquilino
1958
6.7By chance, Miguel el Tarta becomes a potential boxing champion. Manipulated by Manolo, his opportunistic and cynical best friend, and several unscrupulous individuals, Miguel is thrown into the ring, where he tries to fight with more enthusiasm than technique.
K. O. Miguel
1958
6.1Joselito is a naughty boy that sings like the nightingales. He lives in a little town near Sevilla. He has a great success due to his magnificent voice and then he can practice charity with a girl from his town.
Nightingale Song
1957
5.9Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagonist, however, the paper turns to fall on the veteran Carmen. The businessman Charles Marquez offers Ana to be the star in the new play if she becomes his lover
Comedians
1954
8.0No synopsis available yet.
El final de una leyenda
1951
5.5It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed.
El pescador de coplas
1954
6.3Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...
The Eyes Leave a Trace
1952
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Ha desaparecido un pasajero
1953
6.0Serving the customers of a department store, the salesgirls in their blue uniform go out of their way to serve them. But in their young minds, one idea surpasses all: the hunt for a husband. Ana is in love with Juan, who seems to be very well in his condition of single. Olga has aspirations of the highest level, as her boyfriend must own a great car. Pilar aims to win a radio contest. And there is also Álvaro, the lawyer whose only cause capable of defending, and even with a resounding failure, is the freedom of the bachelor.
Las muchachas de azul
1957
6.8Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.
Fulano y Mengano
1957
5.5Coral is a girl who works in a Seville ceramics factory to raise her family, but her greatest illusion is to sing. She is chosen for her good voice and qualities to go to an art academy. That's the beginning of a great success in her career and an advantageous contract.
La Cruz de Mayo
1955
10.0This could be considered the inaugural film of the Jacobean fiction film. Its argument follows the adventures of a group of children of a Mexican Children's Choir, who travel as pilgrims to Compostela, coinciding with the Holy Year. On their journey, they meet a rich and elegant woman, with a sad and dark past, which will provide protection to them.
El pórtico de la gloria
1953
6.0Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his cooperation to make it sink, and thus be able to lift a twelve-story modern building. But the inhabitants of the block have also implored the Saint to prevent this from happening.
Historias de Madrid
1958
6.3Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both families do not maintain good relationships, young people marry when Alfonso became king of Spain.
¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?
1959
8.5Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which of the children was injured calls the parents of the three to attend the health center. In parallel, we know the story of the three families. In the upper-class family, the father will leave his mother for another woman, in the middle class one, one sister invites her boyfriend to lunch and family revolutionizes and, finally, in that of lower class, the boy's father is about to be complicit in a crime
Tres huchas para Oriente
1954
7.7Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him dead. Under the fear that the crime is attributed to her and also because she will soon marry Ramon, a rich young man of good family, she says nothing and goes to work as usual to show models. Meanwhile, the police opens an investigation.
Haute Couture
1954
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Dos novias para un torero
1956
5.9Year 1898. When war broke out in Cuba, Juanita, a beautiful variety singer without much luck, decides to return to Spain when she discovers that her twin sister Adelaide has married the governor of Badajoz. Adelaide is capricious, vain and embarrassing, the opposite of Juanita. However, as the girls are physically identical, the singer intends to take full advantage of this situation.
The War Starts in Cuba
1957
9.0An outsider seduces and deceives a small-town girl, taking advantage of her innocence, in order to kill her mother.
Noche de tormenta
1955
5.7After the death of her father, María returns to her hometown with Maria, her mother. Lupo and Beto fall in love with her, two brothers whose family is at odds with hers. While Beto tries to rape her, Lupo becomes the girl's protector.
The Two of Us
1955
6.5Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life together, but they will face enormous difficulties throughout the process.
Life Ahead
1958
10.0A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters the final round. Being among the finalists he meets at the radio station a famous singer and falls in love with her.
Love on Wheels
1954
8.0During archaeological excavations in the crypt of Santo Tomé (Toledo, Spain), a sarcophagus is discovered containing the incorrupt body of Captain Contreras, a man in a state of suspended animation since 1650, due to a potion someone forced him to ingest to prevent further illness. The audacious journalist Cornejo intends to exploit this discovery, with the help of Paca Revilla, a careless woman, and an unscrupulous doctor. The controversy surrounding the authenticity of Contreras's body reaches the ears of several American universities, which purchase the Captain's remains.
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
1955
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Catherine of England
1951
7.0Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.
Messengers of Peace
1957
9.0A young Cuban man and his uncle find a beautiful white woman in the heart of Africa and take her with them to Cuba.
Bella, la salvaje
1953
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Vuelo 971
1953
10.0Shortly after moving to Madrid, a dancer is killed. His condition as a womanizer, in addition to his arrogance, makes us suspect that it is a crime of passion. As the investigation progresses, the doubts and jealousy of one of his neighbors threatens to ruin his family life.
La puerta abierta
1957
6.8No synopsis available yet.
El gafe
1959
3.3Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and strong-willed countess Curra de Albornoz makes her own way in spite of her son and husband, considering her indiscretions as merely trifles ("pequeñeces") until tragedy strikes her. Period drama with a luxurious production design.
Pequeñeces
1950
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El aprendiz de malo
1958
5.51808. During the Spanish Independence war the city of Zaragoza is besieged by French troops. Spanish forces under General Palafox are scarce. Brave Agustina doesn't hesitate to lead the battle and even fire a cannon to stop the invaders when others run away. Based on historical facts.
Agustina of Aragon
1950
9.0No synopsis available yet.
María Antonia "La Caramba"
1951
5.6Joselito is a child whose mother left town when he was just a baby and whose father has died. He lives with his grandfather, the bellringer of the town, and his best friend is the sexton. He enjoys singing and has not lost hope of someday meeting her mother.
The Little Nightingale
1957
9.0Doña Maria de Guzman, a beautiful lady of Ronda has seen as Don Diego slapped his elderly father, disguised as a man pretending to be his brother (the expected return from Flanders) duels with him and kills him. Forced to flee, traveling in company with Don Juan, one of his fans, still hiding her gender. Unable to bear the intimacy with a soldier who believes him, leaving Don Juan and arrives in Madrid. Based on the play by Lope de Vega. The Adventures of Dona Maria de Guzman, a seventeenth-century noblewoman: served in a hostel, dressed as a man, dueled ... A life rich in experiences.
La moza de cántaro
1954
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Maldición gitana
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Los maridos no cenan en casa
1956
10.0During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain
Sangre en Castilla
1950
6.5A passionate football player complicates the life of his family driven by his passion. Enthusiastic, fanatic, and passionate, the fervor of football runs through the blood of the main character as if it were a matter of life and death. Raised in an atmosphere of football art supporters, the young man organizes his life around this sport. The comedy is understood as a portrait of the world of football, from the point of view of day to day that passes the protagonist fan.
El hincha
1958
10.0No synopsis available yet.
El sol sale todos los días
1958
6.7Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defeated city, promising to meet again ten years later at the same place.
La patrulla
1954
1940s · 3 titles
6.6In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive prince ends up giving in to his love for Inés de Castro, his wife's lady-in-waiting.
Inés de Castro
1944
6.7The story of the Countess d'Orsini, French noblewoman and courtesan at the court of the Spanish king, who acted as an agent for the King of France and was one of the most powerful people at the Spanish court.
La princesa de los Ursinos
1947
9.0No synopsis available yet.
En un rincón de España
1949
