Emma Penella

Acting

Emma Penella

Born — Died

1930-03-02 — 2007-08-27

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Manuela Ruiz Penella known as Emma Penella (Madrid, March 2, 1931 - Ibidem, August 27, 2007) was a Spanish film, theater and television actress. Daughter of the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva, granddaughter of the composer Manuel Penella Moreno, great-granddaughter of the also musician Manuel Penella Raga, sister of the also actresses Elisa Montés (1934) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017). She married film producer Emiliano Piedra with whom she had three daughters: Emma, Lola and Emiliana. She was also the aunt of the actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa Montés and the actor Antonio Ozores). Actress of marked personality and prestige since the 1950s, she tr…

Known for

La que se avecina poster
8.1

La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar, a fictional building located on the outskirts of a big city. Both its storylines and cast are heavily based on Aquí no hay quien viva, which ended when Telecinco bought Miramón Mendi, the series production company. The episodes debuted on the Telecinco network, and were later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FactoríaDeFicción and Paramount Comedy. The series debuted in 22 April 2007 and became popular thanks to its funny characters, witty script, use of catchphrases and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society. The name of the show involves wordplay, as "vecina" is the Spanish word for neighbour.

La que se avecina

2007

Aquí no hay quien viva poster
8.4

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Aquí no hay quien viva

2003

The Tobacconist of Vallecas poster
6.3

Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.

The Tobacconist of Vallecas

1987

Goya poster
8.0

The life of the artist, who was born in 1746 and spent his childhood in Fuendetodos, a small village near Zaragoza.

Goya

1985

Blasco Ibáñez poster
6.8

A biography of a visceral republican, from his literary and political beginnings in Valencia until fame led him to travel the world and enjoy life's pleasures.

Blasco Ibáñez

1997

Juncal poster
6.6

The world of bullfighting seen through the unforgettable adventures of a likeable rogue. A serious goring forced José Álvarez "Juncal", a famous bullfighter from the 1950s, to leave the bullfighting world, but it left him with a distinguished limp.

Juncal

1989

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1980s · 4 titles

The Tobacconist of Vallecas poster
6.3

Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.

The Tobacconist of Vallecas

1987

El amor brujo poster
6.9

In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.

El amor brujo

1986

Our Father poster
5.0

The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to sort out his affairs.

Our Father

1985

Viento de cólera poster
4.3

Two soldiers accompanied by two women enter the Baztán valley on horseback. They are deserters from the army of the Indies who are fleeing to Italy. They arrive to claim the inheritance of one of them, León de Balanza, Captain in Peru and soldier without fortune. They are looking for old Balanzategui who works the land of his ancestors. The old man's refusal to distribute the farmland's land causes a serious conflict.

Viento de cólera

1988

1970s · 3 titles

1960s · 14 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

Scano Boa poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scano Boa

1961

The Search poster
6.0

Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the unforgiving city where only the strongest will prosper. Manuel defends himself and kills a murderous thief in a fight then quietly waits for the police to reach the scene of the crime.

The Search

1966

Badmen of the West poster
9.0

I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of their arrival and start shooting their guns and kill all the villains and the town undertaker. They take over the undertaking duties but bury the bodies in an Indian burial ground upsetting the local Indian tribe.

Badmen of the West

1964

Golden Goddess of Rio Beni poster
8.8

An aviator of a commercial line disappears in the Brazilian jungle. Two friends organize an expedition to find him. As if there were not enough dangers in the Amazon, three members of the expedition have another goal: to steal a golden goddess.

Golden Goddess of Rio Beni

1964

Black Humor poster
6.0

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur. A strange widow comes to inquire about the services of a new marriage agency. A peasant woman tormented by a bug in her ear barges into a healer's house.

Black Humor

1965

Un ángel tuvo la culpa poster
6.5

Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas, he decides to go to a friends party. Due to alcohol effects, he share out the money to the people who need it more.

Un ángel tuvo la culpa

1960

La hora incógnita poster
4.9

A devastating atomic device is about to fall on a small town, which is evacuated. Only thirteen inhabitants remain, gathered in a church.

La hora incógnita

1963

Carta a una mujer poster
6.5

Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined the Blue Division and soon disappeared in Russia. Flora lives with a famous conductor, but they have not married because the death of Carlos has not been formally communicated. But one day, a mysterious character who turns out to be an old enemy of his husband, sends Flora a message telling that her husband will return.

Carta a una mujer

1963

Alegre juventud poster
8.0

Luis, Julio, Miguel and Carlos are four young men who, moved by a strong religious vocation, have left behind family, friends, work and a love of youth to enter a seminary and start a life consecrated to God.

Alegre juventud

1963

No artwork available
5.2

Felipe Crespo, because of their anarchist ideology, Barcelona fleeing persecution for justice. Starving, he reaches the manor house and asks for protection Villares pretending repentance. He soon won the confidence of the wealthy owner of the land, a man of high moral and religious training, blind for years, who lives with his beautiful young wife. This, to know the true story of Philip, treats him with disgust, but over time, created in her a strong passion.

El amor de los amores

1962

Lola, espejo oscuro poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lola, espejo oscuro

1966

Sentencia contra una mujer poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sentencia contra una mujer

1960

La cuarta ventana poster
10.0

Three young seamstresses who share a flat and their love for a night out find an injured girl none of them know in their bathroom.

La cuarta ventana

1963

1950s · 17 titles

The Shadow Battalion poster
5.8

Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...

The Shadow Battalion

1957

The Eyes Leave a Trace poster
6.3

Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...

The Eyes Leave a Trace

1952

The Adventurer of Seville poster
6.2

Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then Figaro decides to join the army as a volunteer to fight in Puerto Rico. He returns covered with glory and his faults are condoned. However, the adventures of Figaro continue in Seville in the false scene of the aristocracy

The Adventurer of Seville

1954

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

Fedra, the Devil's Daughter poster
7.0

Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.

Fedra, the Devil's Daughter

1956

Un marido de ida y vuelta poster
4.6

Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.

Un marido de ida y vuelta

1957

Comedians poster
5.9

Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagonist, however, the paper turns to fall on the veteran Carmen. The businessman Charles Marquez offers Ana to be the star in the new play if she becomes his lover

Comedians

1954

De espaldas a la puerta poster
7.0

Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.

De espaldas a la puerta

1959

Condemned to Hang poster
6.1

Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.

Condemned to Hang

1953

Tres hombres van a morir poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tres hombres van a morir

1955

¡Che, qué loco! poster
10.0

A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings.

¡Che, qué loco!

1953

The War Starts in Cuba poster
5.9

Year 1898. When war broke out in Cuba, Juanita, a beautiful variety singer without much luck, decides to return to Spain when she discovers that her twin sister Adelaide has married the governor of Badajoz. Adelaide is capricious, vain and embarrassing, the opposite of Juanita. However, as the girls are physically identical, the singer intends to take full advantage of this situation.

The War Starts in Cuba

1957

La patrouille des sables poster
7.0

Three adventurers, Pierre, an engineer, Mailard, an escaped convict and Luis, a guitarist, are in search of gold in the Sahara. They happen to be captured by a group of Tuareg. Helped by Taina, a halfbreed, they manage to escape but their troubles are far from over.

La patrouille des sables

1954

Red Fish poster
7.1

Ivón, a chorus girl, Hugo, a failed writer, and Carlos, Hugo's young son, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night.

Red Fish

1955

Aimless boat poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aimless boat

1952

Truhanes de honor poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Truhanes de honor

1952

Doña Francisquita poster
7.2

Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.

Doña Francisquita

1952

Series credits

La que se avecina poster
8.1

La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar, a fictional building located on the outskirts of a big city. Both its storylines and cast are heavily based on Aquí no hay quien viva, which ended when Telecinco bought Miramón Mendi, the series production company. The episodes debuted on the Telecinco network, and were later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FactoríaDeFicción and Paramount Comedy. The series debuted in 22 April 2007 and became popular thanks to its funny characters, witty script, use of catchphrases and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society. The name of the show involves wordplay, as "vecina" is the Spanish word for neighbour.

La que se avecina

2007

Aquí no hay quien viva poster
8.4

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Aquí no hay quien viva

2003

Goya poster
8.0

The life of the artist, who was born in 1746 and spent his childhood in Fuendetodos, a small village near Zaragoza.

Goya

1985

Blasco Ibáñez poster
6.8

A biography of a visceral republican, from his literary and political beginnings in Valencia until fame led him to travel the world and enjoy life's pleasures.

Blasco Ibáñez

1997

Juncal poster
6.6

The world of bullfighting seen through the unforgettable adventures of a likeable rogue. A serious goring forced José Álvarez "Juncal", a famous bullfighter from the 1950s, to leave the bullfighting world, but it left him with a distinguished limp.

Juncal

1989