Antonio Iranzo

Antonio Iranzo

Born: May 4, 1930
Died: July 7, 2003
in València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Antonio Iranzo (4 May 1930 – 7 July 2003) was a Spanish film actor in 77 feature films. He gained popularity for his acting in Island of the Damned and Cut - Throats Nine.

Iranzo began his artistic career in the theater, while working as a radio announcer. Later he joined the Nuria Espert Company and made his film debut in 1963 with La chica del auto-stop directed by Miguel Lluch.

His physique and hoarse voice helped him get the chance to play the supporting character in various films including Mario Camus's The Legend of Mayor of Zalamea (1973), Gonzalo Suárez's The Regent (1974), Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child? (1975), Hidden Pleasures (1977), The tobacconist of Vallecas (1986) (the latter two by Eloy de la Iglesia), the TV miniseries Riders of the Dawn (1990) and Vicente Aranda's Libertarias (1996).

Iranzo had a well known career on stage, which particularly excelled in his interpretations of classics from the Golden Age. Some of the works featuring him were Adolfo Marsillach and Molière's Tartuffe (1969), Felix Lope de Vega's The Star of Seville (1958), Max Frisch's Andorra (1971), Adolfo Marsillach's Flower of Holiness (1973), Arnold Wesker and Irene Gutiérrez Caba's Chicken Soup with Oats (1978), Martín Recuerda's The Arrecogías the Beguinage of St. Mary of Egypt (1977), José María Rodríguez Méndez's Weddings that were famous in the Rag and Fandanga (1978), Miguel de Cervantes's The Baths of Algiers (1979) and The Roll Lavapies (1979), Woody Allen's Aspirin for Two (1980), Santiago Moncada's Ears of the Wolf (1980), Martin Recuerda's The Deceiting (1981), Miguel Mihura's Peach in Syrup (1982), Ibsen's Mallard (1982), Euripides's Fedra (1984), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1988), Alejandro Casona's The Third Word (1992).

Iranzo also had a prolific career in television; he played several characters in dramas TVE as Study 1 or Novel, Time Eleven or Fictions.

His deep voice helped him in standing out as a voice actor, remembered for being among other characters as BA Baracus in the television series El equipo A.

He was the winner of the 1966's Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin (La piel quemada). The film was directed by Josep Maria Forn and depicted the social problems of Spain during the decade. In the film Iranzo played the character of an Andalusian worker named Jose who works in Costa Brava and falls in love with a Belgian tourist while his family including wife and two children struggle to reach him.

In 2014 the film Who can Kill a Child? was shown at Denver Film Society's Stanley Film Festival.

Source: Article "Antonio Iranzo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Antonio Iranzo...

Freedomfighters
Title: Freedomfighters
Character: Miliciano
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
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Tocando fondo
Title: Tocando fondo
Character: Remigio
Released: August 26, 1993
Type: Movie
Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of ​​learning the trade.
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Title: Lorca: Death of a Poet
Character: Joaquín Arcollas
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: TV
Lorca, a great Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Nickolas Grace gives a fabulous interpretation in the title role and he even bears a remarkable resemblance to Lorca.
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The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Title: The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Character: Don Julián
Released: April 9, 1987
Type: Movie
Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.
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Réquiem por un campesino español
Title: Réquiem por un campesino español
Character: Padre de Paco
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Hypocrisy and betrayal are the two dramatic pivots in this effective, emotionally gripping tragedy about the life and death of Paco (Antonio Banderas), a Spanish peasant who had been fighting against the feudal landowning system that kept farmers impoverished. Paco's life is told in flashbacks by a priest (Antonio Ferrandis) who is seen officiating at an anniversary mass attended by three wealthy landowners and no one else. The priest recalls Paco's baptism, his communion, his marriage ceremony and then his work for the peasants as he advocated and led them in a land-reform movement. The rest of the story will rest heavy on the priest's conscience, as he looks out at his empty church.
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Memorias del general Escobar
Title: Memorias del general Escobar
Character: Buenaventura Durruti
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: Movie
After the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Antonio Escobar Huerta stoically awaits his execution, accused of military treason and sentenced to death for having sworn allegiance to the Republic. Despite being a man of deep religious convictions, Antonio Escobar decided to make an oath honoring the legally constituted government of the Second Spanish Republic against the military uprising led by Francisco Franco and supported by the Catholic Church. While waiting for his execution in prison, he recalls the beginning of the Civil War, the years of battles during which he ascended to the rank of General, and his own decisions, of which he has no regrets. With a clear conscience, Escobar waits his own execution with the calm of those who know they have done their duty. "If my life and that of all who have fallen serves to avoid this from happening again, our blood will not have been in vain" - Antonio Escobar Huerta.
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The Cantabrians
Title: The Cantabrians
Character: Sonanso
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
In this film Paul Naschy embodies the Roman general Agrippa Vipsanio in a fierce battle against the tribal leaders Cantabrians, Corocota. Fierce battles, gladiators fighting, adventure and intrigue in this film as in the Roman conquest of Hispania.
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El buscón
Title: El buscón
Character: El Padre
Released: November 27, 1979
Type: Movie
XVII century Spain. Don Pablo tries to climb position and falls into the hands of students, rogues, whores, fake skilled, executioners, jailers and comedians. Based on "The Buscón called Pablos" Francisco de Quevedo.
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Stories of Love and Slaughter
Title: Stories of Love and Slaughter
Released: April 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Animation film based in some stories of the better illustrators and humorists of Spain during the democratic transition, on seventies: Chumy Chumez, Perich, Oscar, Ja, Fer, Ivà. They are quotidian stories about love, death, sex and violence.
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Inquisition
Title: Inquisition
Character: Rénover
Released: December 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan's servants.
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El fin de la inocencia
Title: El fin de la inocencia
Character: El capataz / Foreman
Released: June 18, 1977
Type: Movie
A student, expelled from school for her behaviour, moves into the house of her uncle, a man with sadistic tendencies.
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Hidden Pleasures
Title: Hidden Pleasures
Character: Carmen's Father
Released: April 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Eduardo, a wealthy banker who has a pastime for hiring young street hustlers to keep his bed warm, spots Miguel, an extremely handsome teen who has a penchant for women and motorcycles.
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Del amor y de la muerte
Title: Del amor y de la muerte
Character: Alfonso
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Don Diego goes to war and his son Don Gonzalo is, in his absence, the new lord of the region. The milling Elvira, one of the mistresses of Don Diego, has a beautiful daughter, Elena, who has the desire of Don Gonzalo. But Elena is also the daughter of Don Diego and to separate the love of his brother, they marry her to Rodrigo, the pastor. This will be the beginning of the tragedy.
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: Moñudo
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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El hombre que supo amar
Title: El hombre que supo amar
Character: Criado de Antón
Released: September 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.
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Who Can Kill a Child?
Title: Who Can Kill a Child?
Character: Crying Child Father
Released: April 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
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The Dead Man
Title: The Dead Man
Character: Ulpiano
Released: August 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Benjamin Ortalora is a young man who leaves Buenos Aires after murdering a rival. He goes to Montevideo where his cool boldness draws the attention of gang leader Azevedo Bandeira. When the old bandit becomes ill, Ortalora makes a determined play to take his place.
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The Birds of Baden-Baden
Title: The Birds of Baden-Baden
Character: Vicente
Released: May 2, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Regent's wife
Title: The Regent's wife
Character: Párroco de Contracalles
Released: December 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Clarín, which narrates the difficulties of Ana Ozores to adapt to the sordidness of life in Vetusta, a provincial city of northern Spain inspired in Oviedo. The young Ana, married to a retired regent, lives oppressed by the provincial hypocrisy and the mystical fears of an absorbing religion. Sexually dissatisfied, beset by constant erotic dreams, she reveals in her confessional her intimate torments, and her confessor begins to feel a morbid passion for her. At the same time, Álvaro Mesía, a Don Juan, intends to seduce Ana.
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Title: Los camioneros
Released: November 12, 1973
Type: TV
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La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
Title: La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
Character: Sargento
Released: April 13, 1973
Type: Movie
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Flower of Holiness
Title: Flower of Holiness
Character: Soldado veterano
Released: March 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A beautiful teenage shepherdess named Adega sleeps one night with a mysterious pilgrim in a barn of impoverished and superstitious Galicia of the nineteenth century. The overwhelming fanaticism of the villagers motivates them to consider the outsider an envoy of Satan, reason why they deny him the lodging. The pilgrim, on the other hand, will react by cursing the people with plague and misery.
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To the Devil, with Love
Title: To the Devil, with Love
Released: September 24, 1972
Type: Movie
On an island buffeted by storms, the seamen are confined with no desire to abandon the life by the sea. They spend days and nights drunk in the tavern. The young woman who serves them has one desire: to go far away. This sets the stage for a musical in the open, and will frame a story of love and adventure, reminiscent of the director's film Aoom.
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Cut-Throats Nine
Title: Cut-Throats Nine
Character: Ray "Torch" Brewster
Released: July 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young daughter and an assortment of seven sadistic, murderous prisoners survive, and they are left without horses or a wagon. The sergeant must find a way to get his prisoners to their destination while protecting his daughter, watching out for the still pursuing bandits and trying to determine which one of the prisoners was the man who raped and murdered his wife.
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Delusions of Grandeur
Title: Delusions of Grandeur
Character: L'aubergiste (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
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Las secretas intenciones
Title: Las secretas intenciones
Character: Camionero
Released: July 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship between them develops through continuous persecutions, first of him to her and then to him. In their meetings, they reflect on their empty lives, loneliness, boredom and obsession with death.
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Hate for Hate
Title: Hate for Hate
Character: Fulton
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track down his partner, who escaped from the bank robbery with all the money.
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Gentleman Killer
Title: Gentleman Killer
Character: Pedro
Released: August 14, 1967
Type: Movie
In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly mysterious stranger Anthony Steffan, who looks like a dandy but has a few deadly tricks up his sleeve.
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Burnt Skin
Title: Burnt Skin
Released: February 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Catalonia, Spain. In a village on the Costa Brava, José, an Andalusian emigrant, works as a bricklayer while waiting for his wife Juana and his two children to join him.
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The Ugly Ones
Title: The Ugly Ones
Character: Antonio
Released: November 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns people protect Gomez, unaware, at first, that he is now a changed and dangerous man.
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Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Title: Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Character: Bandido (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.
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Kingdom of the Silver Lion
Title: Kingdom of the Silver Lion
Character: Durek
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
Kara Ben-Nemsi, friends and rescuers set out to free a young relative of the guardian of the treasure of the Chaldaeans (Christian sect), who is captured for that fabulous ransom.
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The Wild Men of Kurdistan
Title: The Wild Men of Kurdistan
Released: October 6, 1965
Type: Movie
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
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La chica del autostop
Title: La chica del autostop
Character: Manolo
Released: August 22, 1965
Type: Movie
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Totò d'Arabia
Title: Totò d'Arabia
Character: Ivan
Released: February 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent 00Ø8 to convince the ruler of Shamara, Sheikh Ali El Buzur, to yield oil to UK.
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La boda era a las doce
Title: La boda era a las doce
Character: Manolo
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Elisa, a seller of a fashion house, sends a model to the wrong address. For fear of being fired she decides to recover it on her own. She encounters Alberto, a guy whose wedding is at noon, going to the same place it. From the moment they meet, they begin to suffer all kinds of mishaps.
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El mujeriego
Title: El mujeriego
Character: Matías
Released: March 2, 1964
Type: Movie
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Aquí mando yo
Title: Aquí mando yo
Character: Hombre de la escopeta
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie