
Acting
Ángel Álvarez
Born 1906-09-27 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ángel Álvarez (September 26, 1906 – December 13, 1983) was a prolific Spanish film actor. He made over 205 film appearances between 1945 and 1982. He is probably best known for his western films of the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in Spaghetti western films such as Navajo Joe and Django in 1966 opposite Franco Nero. He often played a plump store keeper or a bank manager. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ángel Álvarez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
7.5A couple try to help the residents of a small Caribbean island overthrow a dictator.
Operation Delilah
1967
7.2A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
Django
1966
6.8Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…
The Wheelchair
1960
5.0A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...
Sabían demasiado
1962
7.4Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Delusions of Grandeur
1971
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Operación: Embajada
1963
6.3José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story.
The Marquis of Salamanca
1948
5.8Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.
Avisa a Curro Jiménez
1978
6.7Two family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the Mounter family fall in love, thus causing further hatred and deaths.
Fury of Johnny Kid
1967
5.9Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
The Adventures of Scaramouche
1963
5.6No synopsis available yet.
El rediezcubrimiento de México
1979
6.9While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
The Mercenary
1968
5.3Abel Garrido, a doctor, returns to his hometown to stay. There he meets Mingo and his girlfriend Rita, and they become good friends. But when war comes in 1936, he must go and fight. The events that happen afterwards will take him to confront with Mingo.
La montaña rebelde
1971
6.6Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.
Mi calle
1960
6.2The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Navajo Joe
1966
6.3Under the brutal rule of local garrison leader Colonel Skimmel and European tyranny, a group of Mexican revolutionaries hires gunslinger Sabata to rob a transport of Austrian gold to buy weapons. But Colonel Skimmel has other plans, taking the gold for himself and blaming the revolutionaries. But no scheming colonel is going to keep Sabata from earning his pay.
Adiós, Sabata
1970
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Préstame quince días
1971
6.0Three men plan a jewelry heist abroad the Andalusia express train.
Andalusia Express
1956
6.3A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
1972
5.1Professor Calculus's friend develops a blue-skinned orange that can grow on any kind of land and survive harsh weather (in the manner of Lue Gim Gong) and therefore solve world hunger. The Professor and his friends, however, run afoul of gangsters who also covet the fruit. The adventure takes them from their home in Marlinspike Hall (Moulinsart), a fictional mansion that is presumably in Belgium, to Spain, where Calculus and another scientist are kidnapped.
Tintin and the Blue Oranges
1964
5.1A 19th-century expedition to the Earth's core reveals primordial wonders, prehistoric monsters and a subterranean civilization that may convey the greatest discovery of all.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
1977
5.3Don Cándido is a modest old office clerk who makes his first pool coming off of a bad streak at work. He has thirteen hits and wins a considerable sum of money. This causes him to be blinded by ambition, changing his character, spreading his newfound hobby to his family, and gambling becoming the center of his life.
La quiniela
1960
3.3Paco, a truck driver who has always been dedicated to smuggling, hires Curro as an assistant, a young man wanting to make money without caring about the way to get it. The two drivers are surprised by an offer that far exceeds what they use to perceive: they have to transport illegal immigrants from Portugal to the French border.
The Stash
1976
10.0No synopsis available yet.
El encuentro
1952