Ángel de Andrés Miquel was a Spanish theatre

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and director.

Background

In 1938, after the

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broke out, the young Andrés worked as an amateur street actor and then as a "galán cómico" in the

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theatre company. In the following years, 1940 played roles in the Isbert, Infanta Isabel and María Guerrero theatre companies, among others. Andrés began his own theatre company with

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, which became very successful. It was there that Andrés met actress Chity Juárez. Andrés and Juárez married in 1959 and remained together for the rest of Andrés' life. They had two children. From 1939 until the 1990s, Andrés had regular jobs in theatre, cinema and television. He used his full name as his stage name, however, the people who knew him always called him Angelito de Andrés (Angelito is the familiar form for Ángel). During the 1940s, Andrés began acting in movies as an extra, but it was not until 1950 that he was first cast serious roles. Throughout his career, Andrés worked by then in

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. In the 1950s as a presenter and actor in

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and

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. Andrés' best performances came after Francisco Franco's death in 1975. In the 1980s, Andrés starred in numerous comedy films, winning the affection as a humorist and also in the TV series '' Celia'' and ''Lorca la muerte de un poeta'' of Juan Antonio Bardem. In the 1988 he played the character of Zenón de Somodevilla in Josefina Molina film's ''

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'' with

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and

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. After suffering a paralysis due to a thrombus in the 1990s, he retired from the theaters, but not from television screens. In the summer of 2006, Andrés died in his sleep from a heart attack.

Selected filmography

* ''Fin de curso'' (1943) by Ignacio F. Iquino * ''Turbante blanco'' (1943) * '' Thirsty Land '' (1945) *'' The Prodigal Woman'' (1946) by

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* '' Unknown Path'' (1946) by

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* ''Confidencia'' (1947) by Jerónimo Mihura * '' The Faith'' (1947) by Rafael Gil * '' The Sunless Street'' (1948) * ''Jalisco canta en Sevilla'' (1948) by Fernando de Fuentes * ''

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'' (1948) * ''

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'' (1948) by Rafael Gil * ''¡Fuego!'' (1949) by Arthur Duarte * '' Just Any Woman'' (1949) * '' I Want to Marry You'' (1951) * ''Tercio de quites'' (1951) by Emilio Gómez Muriel * '' Fantasía española'' (1953) by Javier Setó * ''Historias de la radio'' (1955) by

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* ''Manolo guardia urbano'' (1956) by Rafael J. Salvia * ''Un Abrigo a cuadros'' (1957) by Alfredo Hurtado * ''El Hincha'' (1958) by

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* ''Pasa la tuna'' (1960) by José María Elorrieta * ''091 Policía al habla'' (1960) by José María Forqué * ''

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'' (1962) by Rafael Gil * ''Las Estrellas'' (1962) by Miguel Lluch * ''

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'' (1963) (1963) by Antonio del Amo * ''La Pandilla de los once'' (1963) by

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* ''Batalla del domingo, La.'' (1963) by Luis Marquina * ''Fin de semana.'' (1964) by

* ''Mi canción es para ti'' (1965) by

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* ''

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'' (1966) by Rafael Gil * ''Padre Manolo, El'' (1966) by Ramón Torrado * ''

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'' (1967) by Rafael Gil * ''Aquí mando yo'' (1967) by

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* ''

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'' (1968) by Rafael Gil * ''De Picos Pardos a la ciudad'' (1969) by Ignacio F. Iquino * ''¡Se armó el belén!'' (1969) by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia * ''Con ella llegó el amor'' (1970) by Ramón Torrado * ''Don Erre que erre'' (1970) by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia * ''Secuestro a la española'' (1972) by Mateo Cano * ''Casa Flora'' (1973) by Ramón Fernández * ''Reprimido, El'' (1974) by

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* ''No quiero perder la honra'' (1975) by Eugenio Martín * '' And in the Third Year, He Rose Again'' (1980) * ''Brujas mágicas'' (1981)

hijo * '' Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor'' (1982) Mariano Ozores hijo * '' The Autonomines'' (1984) by Rafael Gil * '' Juana la loca... de vez en cuando'' (1983) by José Ramón Larraz * ''El Cid cabreador'' (1983) by Angelino Fons * ''Libro Luces de bohemia'' (1985) by Miguel Ángel Díez * ''Esquilache'' (1988) by Josefina Molina * '' La forja de un rebelde'', (1990) by

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* ''Celia'' (1993) by

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Sources

* ''La auténtica vida e historia del teatro''.

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(2005). * ''La revista'' (1997) Ramón Femenía * ''Diccionario de Teatro Akal'' (1997) * Prensa nacional española entre 1940 y 2005: ''ABC, El Alcázar, Pueblo, Digame, Ya, El país, El mundo, La razón''... * ''Teatralerias, tres siglos de la escena'', (2018) Madrid: P & V.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andres, Angel 1918 births 2006 deaths Spanish male film actors Spanish male stage actors Spanish male television actors 20th-century Spanish male actors Spanish theatre directors Male actors from Madrid Burials at Cementerio de la Almudena