Emilio Gutiérrez Caba (born 26 September 1942) is a Spanish film and television actor.
Personal
Caba is the son of actors and
Irene Caba Alba
Irene Caba Alba (25 August 1905 – 14 January 1957) was an Argentine-born Spanish stage and film actress. She appeared in forty films during her career including '' The Nail''.Hortelano p.176 She was born into a family of actors, the daughter ...
and brother of and
Julia
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, both dedicated to acting too.
From his mother side, he is the grandson of actress and the great-grandson of actor .
He is the nephew of actress
Julia Caba Alba
Julia Caba Alba (31 July 1902 – 14 November 1988) was a Spanish actress who appeared in more than a hundred films and television series during her career. She was a noted character actress.Mira p.83 Her sister was the actress Irene Caba Alba. ...
and granduncle of actress
Irene Escolar
Irene Escolar Navarro (born 19 October 1988) is a Spanish cinema, theatre, and television actress.
Escolar received a Goya Award for Best New Actress
The Goya Award for Best New Actress ( es, Premio Goya a la mejor actriz revelación, links=no ...
.
He was born on 26 September 1942 at
Valladolid
Valladolid () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province o ...
's Calle Platerías while his parents were on tour, moving to
Madrid
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three days later. He studied philosophy and began acting while at university.
Following a stage debut in 1962, he made his feature film debut in
Jess Franco
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* Jess Atkinson (born 1961), American football player
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's ''El llanero'' (1963).
Awards
He has won two
Goya Awards
The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain.
The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sc ...
as Best Supporting Actor for his roles in ''La comunidad'' and ''El cielo abierto''.
Selected filmography
Film
References
External links
*
1942 births
Living people
People from Valladolid
Spanish male film actors
Spanish male television actors
Best Supporting Actor Goya Award winners
20th-century Spanish male actors
21st-century Spanish male actors
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