
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
7.4Left 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
8.0In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
7.1A 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
6.4Madrid, 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
6.3A 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
6.5The 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
Film credits
1960s · 5 titles
8.0In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960
7.3The lives of 3 singers during their last few months working at a venue called "The Moon's Balcony"
El balcón de la Luna
1962
3.1Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis (Carlos Alberto). Favela-girl Belén (also Montiel) is the look-alike who takes her place, unaware she is being used by a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes. Written by fabreu
Samba
1965
5.9Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four westerns, all shot around 1964.
Black Angel of the Mississippi
1964
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Compadece al delincuente
1960
1950s · 31 titles
7.4Left 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
7.1A 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
6.3A 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
6.5The 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
5.3The 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
5.5It 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
10.0Soledad 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
7.8Film 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
7.0When 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
9.5In 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
9.0A 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Rebeldía
1954
5.6Joselito 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
7.2A 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
7.3Peter 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
5.6Rome, 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
6.0A 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
5.5Coral 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Brindis al cielo
1953
6.5After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.
Revenge
1958
6.2After 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
6.5When 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
NRDivided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme.
The Devil's Roundup
1952
6.6In 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
9.0Chronicle 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
10.0During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain
Sangre en Castilla
1950
7.0Two Spanish soldiers, good friends, have to fight on the battlefield during the Peruvian war of independence.
Las últimas banderas
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Héroes del aire
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Letter to heaven
1959
10.0Shortly 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
6.2Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres.
Under the Sky of Spain
1953
1940s · 23 titles
6.4Madrid, 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
6.3A romantic melodrama
La condesa María
1942
6.2Abslan 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
6.0The 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
4.2Fearing 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
7.3An 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
7.2A 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
NRA 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
7.0Rafael 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Path Unknown
1946
7.2No synopsis available yet.
El hombre que se quiso matar
1942
6.2Madrid, 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
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
5.8Fernando, 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Mi adorable secretaria
1943
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Llegada de noche
1949
6.5Following 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
8.0Silvia 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
5.9A 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
10.0Toledo, 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
6.7The 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
10.0In 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
6.0The 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

