Pablo Calvo Hidalgo (16 March 1948 – 1 February 2000), better known as Pablito Calvo, was a Spanish
child actor
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in film, movies or television. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associ ...
.
Biography
After the international success of ''
Marcelino, pan y vino'', where he won a
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
award (1955), he became Spain's most famous child actor. He did five more films including ''
Mi tío Jacinto'' (1956) and ''
Un ángel pasó por Brooklyn'' (1957), even ''
Toto and Marcellino
''Toto and Marcellino'' ( it, Totò e Marcellino, french: Mon gosse) is a 1958 Italian-French comedy film directed by Antonio Musu.
Plot
A little boy, Marcellino, sees his mother die, and follows her to the funeral. A poor street musician, affe ...
'' (1958) in
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
, with
Totò
Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed ''il Principe della risata ...
.
Retired from acting at the age of 16 to become an
industrial engineer
Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information a ...
later, he worked in tourism and promoting buildings in
Torrevieja
Torrevieja (; ca-valencia, Torrevella ) is a seaside city and municipality located on the Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante, in the southern part of the Valencian Community, on the southeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain.
Torrevieja l ...
. Calvo sang in a few films, but his singing voice was always dubbed on screen, in Spain by a woman,
Matilde F. Vilariño.
He died on 1 February 2000 from a
brain aneurysm
An intracranial aneurysm, also known as a brain aneurysm, is a cerebrovascular disorder in which weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery or vein causes a localized dilation or ballooning of the blood vessel.
Aneurysms in the posterior circul ...
at the age of 51.
Filmography
References
Bibliography
* Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 264-265.
See also
*
Joselito
Joselito is the name for:
;First name / given name
* Joselito (singer), Spanish 1950s child actor and singer
*Joselito Agustin (1976–2010), also known as Aksyon Lito, Filipino journalist
* Joselito Altarejos, Filipino film and television directo ...
*
Marisol
External links
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1948 births
2000 deaths
Male actors from Madrid
Spanish male film actors
Spanish male child actors
20th-century Spanish male actors
Neurological disease deaths in Spain
Deaths from intracranial aneurysm