Sancho Gracia

Félix Ángel Sancho Gracia (27 September 1936 – 8 August 2012) was a Spanish motion picture and television actor.

Biography

Gracia was born and died in Madrid. He started his acting career in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he lived from 1947 until 1961. In Montevideo he was a student of Margarita Xirgu. He made his movie acting debut in France in the 1963 film '' L'Autre femme'' opposite Annie Girardot. Since then he has appeared in more than eighty motion pictures including several Hollywood productions during the 1970s and in 1999's ''Outlaw Justice'' with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. As well, Gracia has worked in Australia, performing as a regular cast member in the 1982 television series, '' Runaway Island'' and in the 1991 made-for-TV film, ''Pirates Island''. He also participated in the Oscar-nominated Mexican film ''El Crimen del Padre Amaro'' in 2002.

In 2003, he was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2002 film, '' 800 balas''.

In addition to motion pictures, Sancho Gracia made more than sixty guest appearances on Spanish television shows. He became famous in Spain for the role of Curro Jiménez, in the Televisión Española drama series of the same name, that was broadcast from 1976 to 1979, being rebroadcast several times since then.

He died of lung cancer on 8 August 2012.

Selected Filmography

* ''Vampiresas 1930'' (1962) - Negra de la orquesta
* ''A Nearly Decent Girl'' (1963) - Amigote de Carlos
* ''L'autre femme'' (1964)
* ''Murieta'' (1965) - Bandido de Murrieta (uncredited)
* ''El Zorro cabalga otra vez'' (1965) - Juan
* '' Sheriff Won't Shoot'' (1965) - Sam, Handsome Bandit
* ''In a Colt's Shadow'' (1965) - Saloon Gunslinger (uncredited)
* ''Operation Poker'' (1965) - John Parker
* ''La ciudad no es para mí'' (1966) - Dr. Ricardo Torres
* ''He's My Man!'' (1966) - Jefe banda Sing-Sing
* ''Los duendes de Andalucía'' (1966) - Simon Legrand
* '' Per il gusto di uccidere'' (1966) - Bill Kilpatrick
* ''Las viudas'' (1966) - Joven seductor (segment "El Aniversario")
* ''Fray Torero'' (1966) - Antonio
* ''Road to Rocío'' (1966) - Médico
* '' Savage Pampas'' (1966) - Carlos
* ''Espi... ando'' (1966)
* ''¿Qué hacemos con los hijos?'' (1967) - José
* '' Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!'' (1967) - Willy
* ''Club de solteros'' (1967) - Tomás
* ''Run Like a Thief'' (1967) - Wes
* ''The House of 1,000 Dolls'' (1967) - Fernando
* ''La chica de los anuncios'' (1968) - Teddy
* '' 100 Rifles'' (1969) - Mexican Leader (uncredited)
* ''Guns of the Magnificent Seven'' (1969) - Miguel
* ''Simón Bolívar'' (1969) - Cardona
* ''El último día de la guerra'' (1970) - Pvt. Martínez
* ''Rain for a Dusty Summer'' (1971) - Humberto Pro
* ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1972) - Canidius
* ''The Call of the Wild'' (1972) - Taglish Charlie
* ''El espectro del terror'' (1973) - Doctor
* ''Dick Turpin'' (1974) - Richard
* ''País S.A.'' (1975) - Actores invitados
* ''Guerreras verdes'' (1976) - Sargento Saez
* ''Avisa a Curro Jiménez'' (1978) - Curro Jiménez
* ''Él y él'' (1980) - Alberto
* ''Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas'' (1985) - Police Inspector Vargas
* '' The Witching Hour'' (1985) - Rubén Blázquez y Delgado de Aguilera
* ''De tripas corazón'' (1985) - Arturo
* '' Freckled Max and the Spooks'' (1987) - Prokurator
* ''Gallego'' (1988)
* ''Love, Hate and Death'' (1989) - Antonio Montoya
* ''Tango'' (1991) - Marcos
* ''Huidos'' (1993) - Juan
* ''Tocando fondo'' (1993) - Bartolo
* ''Cachito'' (1996) - Rafael
* ''Martín (hache)'' (1997) - José M.ª Navarro
* '' The Naked Eye'' (1998) - Ignacio
* ''Dying of Laughter'' (1999) - Legionario brutal
* ''Inferno'' (1999) - Muñoz
* ''A galope tendido'' (2000) - Tío Boni
* '' La comunidad'' (2000) - Castro
* ''No te fallaré'' (2001) - Sandro
* ''¡Hasta aquí hemos llegado!'' (2002) - Lago
* '' The Crime of Father Amaro'' (2002) - Padre Benito Díaz
* '' Box 507'' (2002) - Santos Guijuelo
* ''El robo más grande jamás contado'' (2002) - Fernando Baeza "Garganta Profunda"
* ''800 Bullets'' (2002) - Julián
* ''El oro de Moscú'' (2003) - Teniente de la Guardia Civil
* ''El furgón'' (2003) - El Manco
* '' El Cid: The Legend'' (2003) - Gormaz (voice)
* ''Love by Mistake'' (2004) - Manolo
* ''Mala uva'' (2004) - César
* ''R2 y el caso del cadáver sin cabeza'' (2005) - Inspector jefe
* ''Bailando chachacha'' (2005)
* ''La bicicleta'' (2006) - Mario
* ''Los mánagers'' (2006) - Josete
* ''Donkey Xote'' (2007) - Sansón Carrasco / Siniestro (voice)
* ''Barreiros, motor humano'' (2008) - (voice)
* ''7 pasos y medio'' (2009) - Antonio
* ''The Last Circus'' (2010) - Coronel Salcedo
* '' Entrelobos'' (2010) - Atanasio

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1936 births
2012 deaths
Spanish male film actors
Spanish male television actors
Male Spaghetti Western actors
Spanish emigrants to Uruguay
20th-century Spanish male actors
21st-century Spanish male actors