Gabino Diego

Acting

Gabino Diego

Born 1966-09-18 · Madrid, Spain

Gabino Diego was born on September 18, 1966 in Madrid. He started in cinema at the age of seventeen by chance, when he auditioned for a role in Las bicicletas son para el verano. Titles such as El viaje a ninguna parte, ¡Ay, Carmela! or El rey pasmado made him a figure of Spanish cinema. He won the Luis Buñuel Award for El viaje a ninguna parte and a Goya Award for ¡Ay, Carmela! He was also nominated for a Goya as best leading actor for El rey pasmado, as supporting actor for Belle Epoque and again as leading actor in Los peores años de nuestra vida. In 1996 he worked in El amor perjudica seriamente la salud, directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira, and in 1998 he starred in Antonio Mercero's La hora de los valientes, obtaining a Goya Award nomination for best leading male performance. Santiago Segura hired him for his film Torrente 2: misión en Marbella (Gabino also made a cameo in the 1st part of the saga Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley). In 2018, he premiered Tiempo Después, directed by José Luis Cuerda. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Acting credits

Torrente for President poster
6.1

Years have passed since his last adventure, but José Luis Torrente, the most politically incorrect former cop in Spain, still sees himself as a national hero.

Torrente for President

2026

Two Much poster
5.5

A struggling Miami art gallerist incurs the wrath of a mobster when he becomes accidentally engaged to his flighty ex-wife, but he falls in love with the woman's sister, so he invents a twin brother and plays both parts to satisfy the women.

Two Much

1995

Belle Époque poster
6.7

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Belle Époque

1992

Some Time Later poster
6.2

Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it.

Some Time Later

2018

Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella poster
6.1

For 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

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law poster
6.5

A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law

1998

Ay, Carmela! poster
6.7

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.

Ay, Carmela!

1990

El crimen de Don Benito poster
4.4

July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.

El crimen de Don Benito

1991

Eliminators poster
4.9

A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.

Eliminators

1986

Our Lovers poster
7.2

Carlos is a professionally frustrated screenwriter, and Irene is not sure what she wants to do with her life. When Irene meets Carlos at a coffee shop, she approaches him and, although she doesn't know him, proposes to play a game.

Our Lovers

2016

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health poster
6.1

Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

1997

Dreaming of Julia poster
6.0

The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.

Dreaming of Julia

2003

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing poster
7.2

Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.

Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

1989

Desde que amanece apetece poster
4.9

Pelayo is leaving to work for his uncle Lorenzo and to find a nice girl to settle down with. Pelayo arrives to find out that Lorenzo's "business" is in fact a male strip show and Lorenzo's dancers are a laughing stock. Lorenzo has all his money tied up in his wedding with ex-prostitute Palmira. With Pelayo arriving life turns upside down. Can Lorenzo keep his infidelities a secret and his crew off the streets? Can Pelayo keep from falling for a prostitute on his way to finding a wife?

Desde que amanece apetece

2006

Midsummer Dream poster
4.9

Legend says that on Saint John's Eve, humans can enter the magical world of elves and fairies. Elena, a smart, dreamy little girl, doesn't believe in legends, but her father, Duke Theseus, is very ill and she would do anything to restore his health, so she begins a search for Titania, Queen of the Fairies, accompanied by Banker Demetrio and Lisandro, who does everything possible to win her affection. Based on William Shakespeare's play.

Midsummer Dream

2005

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas poster
5.0

A youngster recently arrived to Spain from Russia falls in love with his own cousin who is an astonishingly beautiful actress and, besides, much older than him.

Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas

1993

The Sea and the Weather poster
3.9

Jesus returns to Spain after a long exile in Argentina. The family he meets is very different from the one he left: they live under the sadness of being the losers of the war, Marcela, before a beautiful young woman, is now an alcoholic, and the youngest can not even understand them. Jesus wants to start a new life in Spain but he feels out of place; Time has turned him into an inhabitant of the other side of the 'puddle'.

The Sea and the Weather

1989

The Longest Night poster
6.8

Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.

The Longest Night

1991

Bicycles Are for the Summer poster
6.9

In Madrid, the family of Don Luis, his wife Dolores and their children, Manolita and Luisito, share the daily life of the Civil War with their maid and neighbours. Despite having failed his exams, Luisito wants his father to buy him a bicycle. However, the situation forces them to delay the purchase and the delay, like the war itself, is to last much longer than expected.

Bicycles Are for the Summer

1984

El rollo de septiembre poster
4.2

It is the disastrous grades at the end of the school year that make several students from different places gather at the school to spend the whole summer studying, in order to make up for the lost course. Naturally, at this school, the last thing the kids are going to do is study, but the mayor of the town wants to demolish the school to build a housing development...

El rollo de septiembre

1985

Voyage to Nowhere poster
7.5

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván.

Voyage to Nowhere

1986

The Dumbfounded King poster
5.9

Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.

The Dumbfounded King

1991

A Time for Defiance poster
6.5

After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.

A Time for Defiance

1998

No artwork available
NR

Brindis por el cine (1994) is a spanish TV movie that celebrates the local film industry.

Brindis por el cine español

1994