José Luis López Vázquez

Acting

José Luis López Vázquez

Born — Died

1922-03-12 — 2009-11-01

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

José Luis López Vázquez originally worked in theater as a costume designer, a scenic designer, and as an assistant director to Pío Ballesteros and Enrique Herreros. In 1946, he switched over to films, with a small role. Originally starring in comic roles, he made the move to drama films in the 1960s, demonstrating his profound aptitude for acting. During his life, he starred in more than 200 movies, filming several full-length films in a year. Although he usually appeared in Spanish films, he occasionally worked on international projects.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 9 titles

Mi general poster
5.3

A group of generals of the army meet for a course about NATO and new weapons. In the beginning everything is normal but as the time passes they behave more and more like school children.

Mi general

1987

Operation Mantis poster
3.5

A beautiful woman, apparently a sophisticated Miss, is killed while skiing in Candanchú, an accurate shot in the head. But she is more than a beautiful model. It is a secret service agent of the terrorist organization IAAT His death triggers the alarm at the headquarters of the organization and the supreme leader, the bold and elegant Mr. Alfa , decides to take matters into. Three super-they are called to investigate the case, it is the courageous Mayor Sam Stevenson (Paul Naschy), the shrewd Marcello Antonelli (JL Vazquez), and the beautiful and reckless Alferez Allyson Love (Anne Karin).

Operation Mantis

1984

Esquilache poster
5.8

In the 18th century in Madrid, the Marquess of Esquilache, King Charles III of Spain's former minister, bans on wearing the popular wide collar with a long coat and brimmed hat. Along with other measures provoke a massive riot in the city.

Esquilache

1989

The Court of the Pharaoh poster
5.6

In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out of their wretched lives taking advantage of the artistic caprices of the son of a rich man who supports the regime. They try to stage a Pre-war 'zarzuela' (a sort of Spanish operetta), 'La Corte Del Faraón', which ironically, thirty years later, is too obscene for the regime censorship. They finally manage to perform the 'zarzuela' but end up in the police station where they confirm that justice depends on which side are you on

The Court of the Pharaoh

1985

Airlift poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Airlift

1981

El fascista, doña Pura y el follón de la escultura poster
4.8

The consortium of the people approve a proposal from the Mayor; instruct Ramon, a ruined sculptor, an equestrian statue of Franco. Luis, one of the councilors, visit Ramon and proposes the commission, Ramon rejects for ideological grounds, but after thinking it accepts as there are no marble equestrian statues. When Ramon finally finished the statue, the whole consortium believes it is past time to inaugurate a statue of Franco. To satisfy Ramon approve the making of a new statue. This is dedicated to democracy.

El fascista, doña Pura y el follón de la escultura

1983

Profesor eróticus poster
6.1

A young professor of sexology advantage to spend the honeymoon at hotel in Mallorca where he has a congress. There he meets colleagues of different nationalities who also attended with their wives. A number of changes in the novel drugs that are causing a number of unexpected reactions ranging from professional envy jealousy. The situation causes wobble love affair honeymooners.

Profesor eróticus

1981

Akelarre poster
5.6

A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociously tortured and humiliated.

Akelarre

1984

Hay que deshacer la casa poster
6.6

Ana is a middle aged woman who many years ago decided to start a new life in Paris. Now she must return to her hometown after the death of her parents, since they have left her an inheritance. There she meets Laura, her only sister, with whom she has to share the money received and, especially, an old house located in the center of Guadalajara. Now, the two women will have to leave the differences and problems behind that have arisen in the past to catch up and recover the fraternal relationship. Written by lament

Hay que deshacer la casa

1986

1970s · 15 titles

Little Lips poster
4.9

A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.

Little Lips

1978

The Legend of Frenchie King poster
5.7

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

The Legend of Frenchie King

1971

The Fourth Victim poster
6.0

A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves in and becomes very interested in him.

The Fourth Victim

1971

The Telephone Box poster
7.3

A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.

The Telephone Box

1972

The Garden of Delights poster
6.1

The greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory.

The Garden of Delights

1970

Tigers in Lipstick poster
4.4

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

Tigers in Lipstick

1979

Travels with My Aunt poster
6.0

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.

Travels with My Aunt

1972

Venta por pisos poster
7.2

Four families intend to buy a flat. In one of them, Margarita wants to marry Ernesto, despite his reluctance. The purchase of the flat is a great inconvenience and he uses this to delay the wedding as much as possible.

Venta por pisos

1972

La familia bien, gracias poster
6.0

Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.

La familia bien, gracias

1979

Las señoritas de mala compañía poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las señoritas de mala compañía

1973

It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone poster
6.1

Martín is a tormented and solitary man who hides a shameful and unspeakable secret: he lives with a life-size doll which he treats as if it were his wife. This idyliic, loving existence will be gravely threatened when a prostitute, her daughter, and a pimp enter his life.

It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone

1973

Dele color al difunto poster
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

Dele color al difunto

1970

Mi profesora particular poster
4.0

Loris is a young man who begins a romance with Francisca, his piano teacher, a forty-year-old who lives dominated by her mother, who was a successful soprano in her youth. Loris goes to live at Francisca's house. They will have as neighbor a sexual obsessive, fan of carnivorous plants and spying on people with binoculars. When they are preparing a trip, Francisca's mother shows up at the house. Her initial indignation soon gives way to a great interest for the young man, which will provoke the terrible jealousy of Francisca.

Mi profesora particular

1973

Nosotros, los decentes poster
5.0

A businessman's sex life is null because of his sick wife. So he hires a young widow to take care of her. He finds her very attractive and falls in love, so he seeks the consent of his children to be able to marry again.

Nosotros, los decentes

1976

The Apolitical Man poster
4.3

Enrique Tolosa is a boss administrator of a small company which employs 50 workers. There never has gotten into politics, has made ​​himself stood professionally and created a family and no one has asked opinion on how would be the destiny of their country. The story begins whenheI first asked to give their vote at the polls for the election of political parties. With the decision to vote is faced with doubt and decides to investigate on their own to know which political trends that are managed as possible, is the one he goes to his temperament.

The Apolitical Man

1977

1960s · 23 titles

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

Sabían demasiado poster
5.0

A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...

Sabían demasiado

1962

Operation Delilah poster
7.5

A couple try to help the residents of a small Caribbean island overthrow a dictator.

Operation Delilah

1967

¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón! poster
7.5

The famous couplet singer Mimi Pompon leaves everything to marry Heriberto Promenade, a wealthy merchant of Limoges with five marriages behind her. Of course Mimi has also been widowed five times. Saintpaul, an astute police, suspicious of so many accidental deaths and closely monitor both the mansion. Gradually, we discover that Heriberto, fearing that their wives may betray him, the killer, always with the complicity of her mother.

¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!

1961

Mi marido y sus complejos poster
6.2

A married man with mother expected every day and especially forward to the arrival of the night to let off steam in a nightclub and escape from the daily drudgery family.

Mi marido y sus complejos

1969

Vuelve San Valentín poster
7.5

As 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

Police Calling 091 poster
6.3

A police inspector makes his service in a patrol car attenging emergency calls. A memory hauns him, the death of her daughter, who was killed hit by a car that fled. The car is located and the inspector goes there and confrontation will be violent.

Police Calling 091

1960

Operación cabaretera poster
4.3

Your job as a hostess in Malaga allows Hippolyta meet many men. One of them is a Chinese traveler, just in time to take her to her room, is killed. So, the blame falls on another Hippolyta customers.

Operación cabaretera

1967

Algunas lecciones de amor poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Algunas lecciones de amor

1966

40 grados a la sombra poster
5.5

Three men, one scorching Madrid summer, and wildly different escape plans. Evaristo braves the beach chaos with his wife Filomena, dreaming of peace amid tortilla brawls and crowded sands. Máximo retreats to the mountains with his entire clan—mother-in-law included—hoping nature will soothe the family storm. Meanwhile, Jacinto, a gym owner turned solo “rodríguez,” stays behind in the city, savoring his freedom while the family suns in Benidorm.

40 grados a la sombra

1967

Peppermint Frappé poster
6.6

Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman.

Peppermint Frappé

1967

Operación: Embajada poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Operación: Embajada

1963

The Big Family poster
6.6

Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages.

The Big Family

1962

Operación Secretaria poster
6.3

Operacion Secretaria

Operación Secretaria

1966

Historias de la televisión poster
6.7

Film divided into two stories: 1. Cuando los gorilas hablan por teléfono 2. Una chica de fortuna

Historias de la televisión

1965

Operation Mata Hari poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Operation Mata Hari

1968

El cerro de los locos poster
7.0

Some bizarre figures (bullfighters and future fighters, athletes and boxers) get together in a park from Madrid to improve and rehearse their techniques.

El cerro de los locos

1960

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

You and I Are Three poster
9.0

When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband.

You and I Are Three

1962

Amor a la española poster
4.0

The adventures of a group of Spaniards to win the favors of the numerous young foreigners who spend the summer in the city.

Amor a la española

1967

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

The Family and One More poster
6.5

The life of the family inordinate surveyor Carlos Alonso has undergone several changes over the course of the years: the birth of child number 16, little Maria, coincided with the death of the mother, who left behind a hollow refillable. The grandfather also died. The Godfather pastry married, and the boys have been growing rapidly ...

The Family and One More

1965

Las hijas de Helena poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las hijas de Helena

1963

1950s · 5 titles

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