Luis Escobar

Luis Escobar

Born: December 5, 1908
Died: January 14, 1991

Movies for Luis Escobar...

FFG, el último gran conversador
Title: FFG, el último gran conversador
Character: Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: August 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one of the most important figures in Spanish culture. His close friends and relatives reveal another facet in which he stood out above all: that of being an excellent conversationalist, capable of hypnotizing and seducing those who listened to him.
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Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco
Title: Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco
Character: Himself
Released: September 1, 2015
Type: Movie
American ultra running legend Micah True (Caballo Blanco, or the White Horse) lived and ran with the Tarahumara Indians in Northern Mexico. The Tarahumara (also known as the Rarámuri or the Running People) are some of the best long distance runners in the world. This award-winning feature-length documentary chronicles Micah's quest to promote and preserve Tarahumara running tradition by creating a 50-mile foot race known as the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon, which was portrayed in Christopher McDougall’s best-selling book "Born to Run – A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen".
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Offsides
Title: Offsides
Character: Don Alfonso
Released: September 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Comedy as six pensioners in residence take on the sponsorship of the FOOTBALL team in the neighbouring orphanage with unexpected consequences.
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Neville's Time
Title: Neville's Time
Character: Himself
Released: June 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life of spanish director Edgar Neville.
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Don Juan, My Dear Ghost
Title: Don Juan, My Dear Ghost
Character: Narcotraficante
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a musical version of the play. Since that moment, two worlds come together in a circle of adventures, facing both Don Juans, helped by four beautiful women with decisive influence on their destinies.
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Little Spanish Soldier
Title: Little Spanish Soldier
Character: Víctor Perales
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: Movie
A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family. Finally, social, environmental and family pressures, will force the young to make a decision that will have unforeseeable consequences.
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La gran comedia
Title: La gran comedia
Character: Albert Boronat
Released: April 25, 1988
Type: Movie
Julian Ruiz, a real estate salesman and amateur filmmaker, wrote in the company of Anne, his romantic wife, a script that could mean his professional film debut. Mayte, Secretary of sales of real estate, is in love with Julian and, in turn, Jorge Padilla, the head of both, who is married to Josephine, a consumer who buys everything even without knowing it serves, is attracted by Mayte.
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Moors and Christians
Title: Moors and Christians
Character: Fray Félix
Released: October 28, 1987
Type: Movie
A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the disapproval from the family head and company founder, events are not as expected.
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Suffer, You Prick
Title: Suffer, You Prick
Character: Director
Released: June 15, 1987
Type: Movie
David, Javier, Dani and Pepe are four friends expelled from a religious school who must join the discipline of a mixed center. His passion for music leads them to create the group Los Residuos, facing Rocky Lacoste, the idol of the new school. In addition to singing in the rival group Yellow Fever, Lacoste also conquers Patty, David's girlfriend. At the end of his irregular career, Manuel Summers directed this musical taking advantage of the enormous success among the youthful public of the group of pop Men G, led by his son David.
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Manuel and Clemente
Title: Manuel and Clemente
Character: Cardenal
Released: May 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculous apparitions. Near the Sevillian town of El Palmar de Troya, in 1968, people begin to say that the Virgin appears and the two friends take advantage of the situation. Soon a network of economic interests and credulity is created that makes it easier for Manuel and Clemente to achieve their goal: a monumental basilica, a religious order of nuns, priests and bishops of their own, and even a pope, Gregory XVII. Satire on the curious origin of the Palmarian Catholic Church and its unique founders.
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Title: Pagina de Sucesos
Character: Timador
Released: October 25, 1985
Type: TV
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A la pálida luz de la luna
Title: A la pálida luz de la luna
Character: Don Federico
Released: October 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Carmen leaves her husband Julio to go live with an intellectual who has made a career in the United States. While, Julio goes away to live of rent to house of an aristocrat come to less. After meeting several colorful characters, Julio decides to recover Carmen.
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Title: La Comedia Musical Española
Character: Ordenanza
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: La Comedia Musical Española
Character: Don Trino
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: TV
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El crimen de la calle Fuencarral
Title: El crimen de la calle Fuencarral
Character: Doctor
Released: May 17, 1985
Type: Movie
July 1, 1888. The body of a woman is discovered during a house fire, but the examination reveals that she died victim of a stabbing, not the flames. Her maid and pet dog are found drugged in another room.
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Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més
Title: Un, dos, tres... ensaïmades i res més
Character: D. Toni
Released: February 25, 1985
Type: Movie
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Title: La Huella del Crimen
Character: Doctor
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: TV
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The Angry Cid
Title: The Angry Cid
Character: Fernando de Castilla
Released: December 19, 1983
Type: Movie
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him curses Rodrigo, that if he marries Jimena, he will lose his manly faculties. And, in fact, when he gets married, Rodrigo becomes effeminate.
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Good Night, Mr. Monster
Title: Good Night, Mr. Monster
Character: Drácula
Released: December 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Four kids get lost in the forest in the middle of a storm and go take refuge in an abandoned castle. There they will meet and face Dracula, the Werewolf, Quasimodo and Doctor Frankenstein. Despite the attempts of the monsters to scare them and, in passing, recover their lost prestige, the children, with the help of Count Dracula's son, will face the evil creatures.
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National III
Title: National III
Character: Marqués de Leguineche
Released: December 6, 1982
Type: Movie
In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings.
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The Beehive
Title: The Beehive
Character: Don Ibrahim
Released: October 11, 1982
Type: Movie
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
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¡Que vienen los socialistas!
Title: ¡Que vienen los socialistas!
Character: Don Vitiza
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Spain, 1982. In a small Spanish town produces special shock announcement of the next election. And above all, the political forces in center and right are moved to the claim that the Socialists will win by a landslide. Then begins the hunt for possible partnerships. Each of the delegates of the center parties want to win the favor of the delegate of the PSOE in the area.
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Buscando a Perico
Title: Buscando a Perico
Character: Don Cosme
Released: March 15, 1982
Type: Movie
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Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana
Title: Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana
Character: El abuelo
Released: December 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world.
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National Heritage
Title: National Heritage
Character: Marqués de Leguineche
Released: March 26, 1981
Type: Movie
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.
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El divorcio que viene
Title: El divorcio que viene
Character: Vecino
Released: July 10, 1980
Type: Movie
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La Sabina
Title: La Sabina
Character: Marqués
Released: November 3, 1979
Type: Movie
English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.
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The National Shotgun
Title: The National Shotgun
Character: Marqués de Leguineche
Released: September 14, 1978
Type: Movie
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix with people of high society to improve their business. All seems well until the owner of the farm shows full authority over James, who is the real organizer of the meeting. The celebration is diverse characters who live next to absurd situations.