Manuel Prieto Comesaña (born 2 August 1953), known artistically as Manuel Manquiña, is a Spanish actor from Galicia.

Biography

Manuel Prieto Comesaña was born on 2 August 1953 in

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. He began his career in 1982 in several television comedy shows by Galician public broadcaster TVG and several movies directed by Galician filmmakers like Antonio Blanco in ''La matanza caníbal de los garrulos lisérgicos'' and Xavier Valverde's ''Tacón'' and ''Continental''. In 1997 received acknowledgment after acting in

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''. Other films and TV series are ''Héroes'' and ''Historias de Bolsillo'' written by himself and ''Moncloa ¿dígame?'', ''Manolito Gafotas'' (based on

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's child books) with others and '' Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas'' as Messenger.

References

External links

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Manuel Manquiña en AVG
Living people 1953 births Actors from Vigo Spanish male television actors Spanish male film actors 20th-century Spanish male actors 21st-century Spanish male actors Male actors from Galicia (Spain) {{Spain-actor-stub