Conchita Montes (13 March 1914 – 18 October 1994) was a Spanish
film actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
.
Career
Born in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
, Montes became a popular actress in Spanish films of the
1940s
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and
1950s
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the " '50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.
Throughout the decade, the world continued its re ...
. In 1950 she starred in ''
El último caballo''
an
Edgar Neville
Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero (28 December 1899 – 23 April 1967) was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the "other" Generation of '27.
Biography
Neville was born in Madrid but lived in Hollywood in the 19 ...
film in which she starred alongside
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Fernando Fernández Gómez (28 August 1921 – 21 November 2007) better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director and member of the Royal Spanish Academy for seven years. He was born i ...
.
However, after 1960 she mostly appeared in Spanish television until her eventual retirement in 1992. She died in 1994.
Filmography
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Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
1914 births
1994 deaths
Actresses from Madrid
20th-century Spanish actresses
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