
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
7.1Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Los ladrones van a la oficina
1993
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Peor es nada
1990
4.9A 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
5.0A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...
Sabían demasiado
1962
5.8In 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
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
6.1For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.
Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
2001
5.5In an odd destiny coincidence and hospital employee reiceives some important and confident information from a dying old man. He shares it with one friend and both start a crazy and extravangant adventure.
Moscow Gold
2003
1990s · 3 titles
NRLuz, the daughter of an ambassador living in Madrid, discovers that she is HIV-positive. At the same time, she meets Luis, an advertising executive leading an AIDS awareness campaign. As their relationship develops, both are forced to confront the realities of living with the disease.
Lazos
1994
6.3A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions. Everything rushes when the dead are resurrected in the autopsy room, these strange events seem to be related to an old book enacting a new religion.
Memorias del ángel caído
1997
6.3A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins.
The Fencing Master
1992
1980s · 12 titles
5.8In 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
5.6In 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
3.5A 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
5.3A 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
3.5No synopsis available yet.
Airlift
1981
7.8Two former students of a strict religious school decide to return there during the summer holidays to make those who were their teachers experience all the suffering they experienced as students, beginning a sinister game in which the buried violence, the dark traumas of the past and the desire to heal old wounds will lead them to an unexpected climax.
F. E. N.
1980
6.1A 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
4.8The 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El gran secreto
1980
7.0After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, become one of the richest men in the world.
The Hidden Truth
1987
5.0No synopsis available yet.
¡Qué verde era mi duque!
1980
4.7A hermit who has had contact with terrorists is planning to kill the Pope by poisoning.
Death in the Vatican
1982
1970s · 18 titles
4.9A 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
5.7Outlaw 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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Las señoritas de mala compañía
1973
4.3Enrique 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
7.3A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
The Telephone Box
1972
4.5No synopsis available yet.
Girls... The Hall
1977
6.0At 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
6.8Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French burglar, Pierre Le Compte.
The Big Deal
1972
6.1The 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
4.48 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
7.2Four 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
6.0A 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
4.0Loris 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
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Préstame quince días
1971
7.0A useless kidnapper tries to kdnap a rich industrialist.
País S. A.
1975
5.4Alejandro Quesada, an eminent doctor successful with women, drives his old friends Federico and Enrique to change their attitude towards life. The death of a common friend, Luis, reaffirmed in the attempt to enjoy their existence and seek the association of younger women than their wives.
¿Por qué pecamos a los 40?
1970
6.5When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.
Cousin Angelica
1974
6.1Martín 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
1960s · 19 titles
5.0A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...
Sabían demasiado
1962
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
7.6An 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
6.3A 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
7.5The 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
7.5A couple try to help the residents of a small Caribbean island overthrow a dictator.
Operation Delilah
1967
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Operación: Embajada
1963
4.3Your 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Algunas lecciones de amor
1966
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Operation Mata Hari
1968
5.2In Cape Kennedy, a con man accidentally swallows a valuable microfilm, believing it a pill for heartburn. Parody of the James Bond films.
Objetivo: BI-KI-NI
1968
6.2A 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
6.3Operacion Secretaria
Operación Secretaria
1966
7.7In 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
4.0The 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
9.0When 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
6.6Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman.
Peppermint Frappé
1967
5.5Three 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
6.6Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages.
The Big Family
1962
1950s · 4 titles
Series credits
7.1Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Los ladrones van a la oficina
1993
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Peor es nada
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sabias a lo que venías
2007
9.0No synopsis available yet.
El botones Sacarino
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Este Señor de Negro
1975
Spanish documentary series.
Imágenes perdidas
1991






