José Asunción Martínez (11 November 1944 – 3 March 2013) better known as José Sancho or Pepe Sancho, was a Spanish actor. Over a period of fifty years he appeared extensively in Spanish television and films. He was perhaps best known internationally for his roles in Pedro Almodóvar's films '' Live Flesh'' and '' Talk to Her''.

Private life

Sancho was born in Manises ( Valencia), Spain, in 1944. He married and divorced twice the singer María Jiménez (with whom he had a son named Alejandro) and, after his second divorce with Jiménez, he married journalist Reyes Monforte, from 2006 until the death of the actor in 2013. He was a cousin of the Spanish Socialist Party politician

Antoni Asunción Antoni Asunción Hernández (12 July 1951 – 5 March 2016) was a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was Minister of Interior between 1993 and 1994. He also served as member of the Congress of Deputies during t ...

. Sancho died March 3, 2013 with 68 years old in Valencia after a long illness from a lung cancer.

Career

Sancho's first film role was when he was aged just four in ' (1948), directed by Victor Tourjansky. He became popular thanks to his role as ''The Student'', in Televisión Española series ''

Curro Jiménez ''Curro Jiménez'' was a successful Spanish television historical drama series that was first broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española from December 22, 1976 to March 25, 1978. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" (bandit ...

'' (1977–1978), directed by

Pilar Miró Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero (20 April 1940 in Madrid – 19 October 1997 in Madrid) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. She was the General Director of RTVE from 1986 to 1989. In the 1990s, she directed the television broadcasts of the ...

, Mario Camus, , Rafael Romero Marchent, Francisco Rovira Beleta and others. Almost twenty years after that work, he returned to star in another television series, ' (1995), together with

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and his former partner in ''Curro Jiménez'', Álvaro de Luna. One year later, he joined up with Rocío Dúrcal in '' Los negocios de mamá'' (1997), also for television. Among his many roles in films is his collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar in ''Talk to Her'' and in ''Live Flesh'' along with Javier Bardem, where he won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997. In 2000 he guest-starred as ''Don Rafael Alvarado'' in the syndicated television series '' Queen of Swords'', who is murdered in the first episode, " Destiny", causing his daughter Tessa to take up arms as the title character. His involvement in several films and theatrical activity was significant, but his role of ''Don Pablo'', in Televisión Española series ''

Cuéntame cómo pasó ' (Spanish, 'Tell me how it happened'), usually shortened to ''Cuéntame'' and also known in English as ''Remember When'', is a Spanish prime-time television drama series which has been broadcast on La 1 of Televisión Española since 2001. It ...

'', from 2001 to 2008, brought his greatest popularity and recognition.

Filmography

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* * 1944 births 2013 deaths People from Horta Oest Spanish male film actors Spanish male television actors Best Supporting Actor Goya Award winners Deaths from lung cancer in Spain 20th-century Spanish male actors 21st-century Spanish male actors Male actors from the Valencian Community {{Spain-actor-stub