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Elisa Rosario Ruiz Penella (15 December 1934 – 9 October 2024), known as Elisa Montés, was a Spanish actress who took her pseudonym from the celebrated work of her grandfather,
Manuel Penella Manuel Penella Moreno (31 July 1880 in Valencia – 14 January 1939 in Cuernavaca) was a Spanish composer. His father was the composer :es:Manuel Penella Raga, Manuel Penella Raga. His daughter Magdalena Penella Silva married the politicia ...
, '' El gato montés''.


Life and career

Montés was the sister of actresses
Emma Penella Manuela Ruiz Penella (2 March 1931 – 27 August 2007), better known as Emma Penella, was a Spanish film and television actress. Biography Manuela Ruiz Penella was born on 2 March 1931 in Madrid, the child of far-right politician Ramón ...
(1931–2007) and
Terele Pávez Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella (29 July 1939 – 11 August 2017), better known as Terele Pávez, was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than ninety films since 1954. Life and career Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella was born in Bilbao on 29 July 1939 ...
(1939–2017), daughter of Magdalena Penella Silva and the politician
Ramón Ruiz Alonso Ramón Ruiz Alonso (1903–1982) was a Spanish politician who was a right-wing activist during the Second Spanish Republic and typographer by trade. Married to actress Magdalena Penella, they had four daughters: Terele Pávez (1939–2017), Juli ...
, and granddaughter and great-granddaughter to composers and . In May 1960, she married actor
Antonio Ozores Antonio Ozores Puchol (24 August 1928 – 12 May 2010) was a Spanish actor. He was the son of actors Mariano Ozores and Luisa Puchol, brother of director Mariano Ozores (Jr.) and of actor Jose Luis Ozores, father of Emma Ozores, and uncle ...
. The daughter of this marriage, , also pursued an acting career. Montés and Ozores separated in 1968. On 12 October 2017 she received the ASFAAN award by
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and Emma Ozores. Montés died in Madrid on 9 October 2024, at the age of 89.


Selected filmography

* ''
Eleven Pairs of Boots ''Eleven Pairs of Boots'' (Spanish: ''Once pares de botas'') is a 1954 Spanish comedy sports film directed by Francisco Rovira Beleta and starring José Suárez, Mari Carmen Pardo and Elisa Montés.Bentley p.128 Plot Laura, the daughter of ...
'' (1954) * ''
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'' (1955) * ''
Noi siamo le colonne ''Noi siamo le colonne'' (i.e. "We are the columns") is a 1956 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico and starring Vittorio De Sica, Franco Fabrizi and Antonio Cifariello. Plot Cast *Vittorio De Sica as A ...
'' (1956) * '' The Battalion in the Shadows'' (1957) * '' Faustina'' (1957) * ''
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'' (1964) * '' Django the Condemned'' (1965) * ''
Samson and His Mighty Challenge ''Samson and His Mighty Challenge'' is a 1964 Italian sword-and-sandal film, released in 1965 at the very tail end of the peplum craze. Its original title was ''Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili'' (''Hercules, Samson, Maciste, and ...
'' (1965) * '' I due toreri'' (1965) * '' Erik, the Viking'' (1965) *''
Texas, Adios ''Texas, Adios'' (Italian: ''Texas, addio'') is a 1966 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film cowritten and directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Franco Nero. It is often referenced in connection with '' Django'', also starring Nero, and alth ...
'' (1966) * ''
Return of the Seven ''Return of the Seven'', later marketed as ''Return of the Magnificent Seven'', is a 1966 Western film, and the first sequel to '' The Magnificent Seven'' (1960). Yul Brynner, who reprises his role as Chris Adams, is the sole returning cast m ...
'' (1966) * ''
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'' (1966) * '' Mutiny at Fort Sharpe'' (1966) * ''
Maneater of Hydra ''Maneater of Hydra'' (; ) is a West German–Spanish co-production released in 1967 directed by American expatriate Mel Welles. The alternate titles include ''Island of the Doomed'' and ''The Blood Suckers'' (U.K. title). The horror film is set ...
'' (1967) *'' The Cobra'' (1967) *''
99 Women ''99 Women'' () is a 1969 women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge, Maria Rohm, Rosalba Neri, Luciana Paluzzi and Herbert Lom. One of the earliest and most financially successful examples of ...
'' (1969) *'' The Girl from Rio'' (1969) *''
Captain Apache ''Captain Apache'' is a 1971 Spanish-British acid Western film directed by Alexander Singer and starring Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, and Stuart Whitman. It was written and produced by Milton Sperling and Philip Yordan. The film was based on ...
'' (1971) * '' Ambitious'' (1976)


Awards

*Valladolid Festival. Best actress for La vida en un bloc (1956). *Prize of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers (1955). Best supporting actress for Últimas banderas. *Prize of the National Syndicate of the Spectacle for Abiciosa (1975).


References


External links

*
Filmography
at Hoycinema (in Spanish)

(in Spanish)
Entry
in ''Dictionario del teatro'' at Google Books {{DEFAULTSORT:Montes, Elisa 1934 births 2024 deaths Entertainers from Granada 20th-century Spanish actresses Spanish film actresses Spanish television actresses