Elvira Quintillá

Acting

Elvira Quintillá

Born 1928-09-19 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Elvira Quintillá (19 September 1928 – 27 December 2013) was a Spanish actress, whose career spanned over six decades. Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Quintillá began her acting career in 1941, appearing on stage. She married actor José María Rodero in 1947, and the couple remained together until Rodero's death in May 1991. She died on 27 December 2013, aged 85, in Madrid, Community of Madrid. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elvira Quintillá, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Spanish Round poster
8.0

Over a hundred members of the chorus girls and dance groups from the Spanish "Sección Femenina" embark to America to show the richness of their national folklore. The girls have left parked their daily tasks to enjoy this great adventure aboard "Mount Albertia". During the trip, the relationship between the girls and the crew is very lively and in all scenarios where they perform, success always accompanies them.

Spanish Round

1951

Asylum poster
5.6

Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.

Asylum

1954

La hermana alegría poster
5.6

Soledad enters a women reformatory led by modest nuns who look constantly for the welfare of their girls. These include the Sister Consolación, a humorous and cheerful nun who uses a little disconcerting methods to teach but very useful for the girls, to try to forget their past and prepare for a better future. Soledad takes confidence quickly and said she hopes a son of Fernando, a womanizing Andalusian young gentleman very attractive, which coincidentally, the Sister knows.

La hermana alegría

1955

The Executioner poster
7.6

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

The Executioner

1963

Welcome Mr. Marshall! poster
7.4

A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

1953

Un día perdido poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Un día perdido

1955

Juzgado permanente poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Juzgado permanente

1953

A la pálida luz de la luna poster
4.2

Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover Carmen.

A la pálida luz de la luna

1985

Magic concert poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Magic concert

1952

Placido poster
7.7

In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.

Placido

1962

Operación Plus Ultra poster
8.0

Nine children, awarded for their exemplary or heroic conduct by the radio program 'Operación Plus Ultra' in association with the Iberia Airline, meet in Madrid,. Chaperoned by Juan Aguilera, radio announcer, they start a journey together to different places from the Vatican, where they meet the Pope, to Sitges

Operación Plus Ultra

1966

The Beehive poster
6.4

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

The Beehive

1982

No artwork available
8.0

Don Luis is the owner of an industry and all his family work in it, allowing he to become a staunch patriarch.

With Lots of Love

1977

For Men Only poster
6.0

Spain, late 19th century. When, in a time of great political instability, Flora, a beautiful young woman, starts working in a ministry doing a job that supposedly only a man can do, a great scandal breaks out.

For Men Only

1960

Viaje de novios poster
5.0

Specialized in arranging weddings, Federico arranges marriage by proxy between Ana and Juan, two friends of his who do not know each other. Juan arrives by plane to Spain after spending ten years of safari in Africa, hoping to meet his wife, who arrives the same day from Buenos Aires. At the airport, Fernando receives him and they go to the bar to wait for Ana. But everything starts badly, because during the wait Juan drinks too much and gets drunk. When Ana arrives, she is displeased to meet her husband in such condition. Then Fernando takes them to a hotel for newlyweds where they meet other happy couples and where a peculiar honeymoon begins.

Viaje de novios

1956

La patrulla poster
6.7

Madrid, 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

Las autonosuyas poster
10.0

The Eternal Spain, birthplace of the Cid, Hammer of Heretics... and other deserved historical appellations, is suddenly transformed, through democratic elections, in a chaotic Tower of Babel where every province, every town, each village wants to have its own opinion. Comedy about the rise of nacionalism in the different Spanish regions with the arrival of democracy.

Las autonosuyas

1983

The Island Princess poster
6.0

1470. 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

That Happy Couple poster
6.6

Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.

That Happy Couple

1953

Eva 63 poster
6.3

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

El abuelo tiene un plan poster
5.9

Leandro Cano, grandfather of many grandchildren, coincides in the clinic of Dr. Bolt with Elena, a lady already advanced in years. The doctor makes every effort to make them meet, and thus overcome their feelings of loneliness.

El abuelo tiene un plan

1973

Learning to Die poster
8.0

Despite the advice that friends have given, Manuel wanders tentaderos and squares to see if they let him fight. After many calamities and thanks to Rafael, get a bullfight in Cordoba. From here, it rains contracts and get a series of victories, winning his first money.

Learning to Die

1962

Fin de semana poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fin de semana

1964

Airport poster
6.0

Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.

Airport

1953