Antonio Gades

Antonio Gades

Born: November 14, 1936
Died: July 20, 2004
in Elda, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Spanish-born actor Antonio Gades was born on November 14, 1936. He is best known for his work on Carmen (1983), Blood Wedding (1981) and Los tarantos (1963).

Movies for Antonio Gades...

Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
Title: Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 18, 2007
Type: Movie
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El amor brujo
Title: El amor brujo
Character: Carmelo
Released: March 23, 1986
Type: Movie
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Antonio
Released: May 6, 1983
Type: Movie
While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Blood Wedding
Title: Blood Wedding
Character: Leonardo
Released: October 25, 1981
Type: Movie
A bride elopes with her lover on the very day of her wedding. The groom follows the two lovers, and a knife fight takes place. The rivals stab each other and the only wedding that takes place is that one knotting their destinies together in death. A blood wedding.
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Los días del pasado
Title: Los días del pasado
Character: Antonio
Released: May 12, 1977
Type: Movie
A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship will have an impossible future because of the past.
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Canciones de nuestra vida
Title: Canciones de nuestra vida
Character: Primer Bailarín (archive footage)
Released: November 24, 1975
Type: Movie
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Far from the Trees
Title: Far from the Trees
Character: Self - Dancer
Released: May 19, 1972
Type: Movie
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey to the most sinister and ancestral Spain; the one that lived far from the most visited tourist destinations, from the economic miracle and unstoppable progress, relentlessly promoted by the Franco regime during the sixties.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Fortunata y Jacinta
Title: Fortunata y Jacinta
Character: Bailaor 'Los Caracoles'
Released: March 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices shaky politics and intrigue of the society they live in. Based on the major novel (1877) by Benito Perez Galdos.
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Title: Night-Club
Character: self
Released: September 13, 1968
Type: TV
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With the East Wind
Title: With the East Wind
Character: Sebastián
Released: July 17, 1967
Type: Movie
The life of Sebastián (Antonio Gades), a 28-year-old gypsy, changes drastically after he kills a man. From that moment, he must flee, experiencing the torments of loneliness, guilt, and the rejection of his people.
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Bewitched Love
Title: Bewitched Love
Character: Antonio
Released: June 22, 1967
Type: Movie
This tragic drama is based on the ballet by famed composer Manuel De Falla. A young woman is caught between the violent struggle of two rival suitors who love her passionately. Candelas (La Polaca) is pursued by kind-hearted Antonio (Antonio Gades) and the evil diablo Diego (Rafael Cordova). Lucia (Morucha) is the cryptic gypsy fortune teller, with Fernando Sanchez Polack as Candela's beloved father.
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The Last Meeting
Title: The Last Meeting
Character: Antonio Esteve
Released: June 8, 1967
Type: Movie
A flamenco dancer (Antonio Gades) reflects on his life and career when he is surprised to be honored on a television show telling his life story. The memories stir up controversy, and an old friend seeks retribution as Antonio had once stolen his girl.
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The Pleasure Seekers
Title: The Pleasure Seekers
Character: Flamenco Dancer
Released: December 25, 1964
Type: Movie
A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
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Los Tarantos
Title: Los Tarantos
Character: Mojigondo
Released: November 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Gypsy Romeo and Juliet: A boy and a girl from rival families fall in love.