José Prada

Acting

José Prada

Born — Died

1891-11-16 — 1983-08-19

Place of birth

Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 5 titles

1950s · 31 titles

The Miracle of Marcelino poster
7.4

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.

The Miracle of Marcelino

1955

Death of a Cyclist poster
7.1

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Death of a Cyclist

1955

Main Street poster
6.3

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

Main Street

1956

La señora de Fátima poster
6.5

The story of the 1917 miracle of Fatima, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children--two girls and one boy..

La señora de Fátima

1951

Malagueña poster
5.3

The film tells of a young woman travels to Malaga to Barcelona to meet and live with his grandfather, a poor blind man selling matches in the Catalan city harbor. The young man with his panache and salt shines in the port environment dominated many young rogue like Martin, who falls in love with her, and love her is closing the doors opened she seeks to earn some money and try be famous in the art of singing.

Malagueña

1956

El pescador de coplas poster
5.5

It 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

Path to the Kingdom poster
10.0

Soledad is a famous singer who, one fine day, decides to turn her life around and enter a convent to help others. The press and her family are baffled: now, the great figure of Spanish singing has become Sister María de la Asunción and works caring for the sick in a hospital that has serious financial problems. At first, everything is difficult, but the intrepid nun manages to get ahead through courage and generosity.

Path to the Kingdom

1952

El alcalde de Zalamea poster
7.8

Film version of the historic piece of Calderon de la Barca. An army officer faces the local authority that intends to judge him for having stained the honor of a young girl

El alcalde de Zalamea

1954

Castles in Spain poster
7.0

When the seductive Frenchwoman Geneviève Dupré, secretary to a Spanish businessman, travels to Madrid to announce the death of her boss to his brother, the famous bullfighter Mario Montes, it's love at first sight. Set in Spain, this melodrama is full of light, betrayal and blood, and takes place in the murky world of bullfighting.

Castles in Spain

1954

De Madrid al cielo poster
9.5

In the Madrid beginning of the 20th century two young people try to make it as artists: Elena intends to succeed in the music world and Pablo wants to become a famous painter.

De Madrid al cielo

1952

El guardián del paraíso poster
9.0

A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.

El guardián del paraíso

1955

Rebeldía poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rebeldía

1954

The Little Nightingale poster
5.6

Joselito 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

Surcos poster
7.2

A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.

Surcos

1951

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul poster
7.3

Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.

The Black Man Who Had a White Soul

1951

La noche del sábado poster
5.6

Rome, Italy, February 1900. While a malaria epidemic sweeps the city, the young and beautiful Donina meets Leonardo, an ambitious sculptor, who makes her his model.

La noche del sábado

1950

Pasión en el mar poster
6.0

A young fisherman wishing for a better life will become a smuggler and even involve his friends if necessary. He will make it even worse with his improper concern for his brother's beautiful wife.

Pasión en el mar

1956

La Cruz de Mayo poster
5.5

Coral 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

Brindis al cielo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brindis al cielo

1953

Revenge poster
6.5

After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.

Revenge

1958

We Are All Necessary poster
6.2

After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child abandoned by his father, a millionaire.

We Are All Necessary

1956

The Devil Plays the Flute poster
6.5

When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.

The Devil Plays the Flute

1954

The Devil's Roundup poster
NR

Divided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme.

The Devil's Roundup

1952

Teatro Apolo poster
6.6

In the late nineteenth century, Miguel Velasco, the son of a wealthy Spanish immigrant established in Mexico, comes to Madrid, where he falls in love with Celia, a chorus girl working at the Apollo theater.

Teatro Apolo

1950

The Seventh Page poster
9.0

Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.

The Seventh Page

1951

Sangre en Castilla poster
10.0

During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain

Sangre en Castilla

1950

Las últimas banderas poster
7.0

Two Spanish soldiers, good friends, have to fight on the battlefield during the Peruvian war of independence.

Las últimas banderas

1954

Héroes del aire poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Héroes del aire

1958

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Letter to heaven

1959

La puerta abierta poster
10.0

Shortly 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

Under the Sky of Spain poster
6.2

Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres.

Under the Sky of Spain

1953

1940s · 23 titles

The Crime of Bordadores Street poster
6.4

Madrid, late 19th century. A wealthy woman is found murdered in her home and her maid seems to be the main suspect; but her statement further entangles the case.

The Crime of Bordadores Street

1946

La condesa María poster
6.3

A romantic melodrama

La condesa María

1942

Song of Aixa poster
6.2

Abslan and Hamed, two cousins of very different character and lives, whose families have put an end to old quarrels, become rivals for the love of the young and beautiful half-breed Aixa.

Song of Aixa

1940

Don Quixote poster
6.0

The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.

Don Quixote

1947

El fantasma y doña Juanita poster
4.2

Fearing that her niece Rosita will abandon her true love and enter into a marriage of convenience, doña Juanita tells her the story of when, many years ago, she fell in love with an accountant who worked in a circus.

El fantasma y doña Juanita

1945

La luna vale un millón poster
7.3

An unfortunate accident changes forever the fate of two men who look alike: one of them is desperately poor; the other one is extremely wealthy.

La luna vale un millón

1945

Loyola, the Soldier Saint poster
7.2

A historical drama based on St. Ignatius of Loyola as a Warrior, as a Founder of the Jesuit Order and as a Saint .

Loyola, the Soldier Saint

1949

The Bullfighter's Suit poster
NR

A young bullfighter full of illusions triumphs in Mexico and decides to get married there and forget about his old Spanish girlfriend, who by then has just given birth to his son.

The Bullfighter's Suit

1947

La culpa del otro poster
7.0

Rafael works as a valet of the Marquis de la Peña. Accused of having committed a serious offense during his service, it is fired, although all is due to the machinations of the administrator. Shortly after an incident in which the Marquis is impaired occurs. Rafael comes to his defense, but will be charged again and imprisoned his wife Carolina. Their daughter will be given up for adoption.

La culpa del otro

1942

Path Unknown poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Path Unknown

1946

El hombre que se quiso matar poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

El hombre que se quiso matar

1942

María Fernanda la Jerezana poster
6.2

Madrid, Spain, early 20th century. A woman turns up dead in a modest home. She turns out to be María la Jerezana, a popular singer who was famous years ago until she disappeared. The Police Commissioner in charge, dissatisfied with the official version, which concludes that the crime was the result of a simple robbery, is determined to find out the truth.

María Fernanda la Jerezana

1947

No artwork available
NR

Political intrigues in the Spanish Castilian court during the fifteen century. Doña María is shown as a virtuous widow interested only in her son who becomes concerned when a murder takes place.

Doña María la Brava

1948

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro poster
5.8

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro

1943

Mi adorable secretaria poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mi adorable secretaria

1943

Llegada de noche poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Llegada de noche

1949

Aventuras de Juan Lucas poster
6.5

Following his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against Napoleonic troops. In love with Ana, a Count's daughter, his hopes seem to have no future.

Aventuras de Juan Lucas

1949

La vida empieza a medianoche poster
8.0

Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is to work as a secretary of a famous novelist. But at night the house is full of people and they confuse her with the owner of the floor. A series of misunderstandings makes her meet Ricardo Ariaga, the musician whose opera "Life begins at midnight" is about to debut. Ricardo convinces Sylvia to act as his wife. With a "rented" child they try to be the perfect family of a lonely old man.

La vida empieza a medianoche

1944

An Ordinary Woman poster
5.9

A woman who has walked out of an unhappy marriage is unsuccessful trying to earn herself a new living and gets mixed with a man who is a murderer and tries to incriminate her.

An Ordinary Woman

1949

La dama del armiño poster
10.0

Toledo, 1585. Samuel, a young Jewish goldsmith, falls in love with Catalina, daughter of Doménikos Theotokópoulos el Greco, a famous painter.

La dama del armiño

1947

La princesa de los Ursinos poster
6.7

The 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

Alhucemas poster
10.0

In 1922, Infantry Captain Fernando Salas, arriving from Madrid, joins, without much enthusiasm, a battalion ruled by Commander Almendro, a tough veteran of the African war who soon notices a clear lack of military vocation in the new recruit.

Alhucemas

1948

Mare nostrum poster
6.0

The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich.

Mare nostrum

1948