Lola Gaos

Lola Gaos

Born: December 2, 1921
Died: July 4, 1993
in València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Dolores Gaos González-Pola (2 December 1921, in Valencia – 4 July 1993, in Madrid), better known as Lola Gaos, was a Spanish film, television and theatre actress.

Famous with her works with Luis Buñuel but specially the film Furtivos where she played the dominant mother.

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Gran sol
Title: Gran sol
Released: February 24, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of fishermen embark on a new adventure to capture the best pieces on the high seas. They leave from the port of Ondárroa, Vizcaya, to depart towards the Atlantic bottom where they usually fish. After several days of fishing, problems begin to emerge.
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Blood Hunt
Title: Blood Hunt
Character: Enriqueta
Released: March 3, 1986
Type: Movie
A new doctor arrives in a small Spanish village. As soon as he begins meeting people there, he notices the strange behaviour of the population and is surprised. Young people make fun of him, a man called Gonzalo seems to be some kind of leader, and he is invited to leave the village when he tries to ask about the situation. All his questions get no answer. His neighbour is a lovely and pretty young woman, who works as the local teacher. They develop a sincere friendship from the very first moment, which grows to become love. Unfortunately, Gonzalo feels that the young teacher is "reserved" exclusively for him and he reacts with violence. Meanwhile, the doctor finds out the key of that strange behaviour. Some years ago, during the local feast, some drug-addicts attacked the village in order to get money and goods. There was a fight and some people died, including Gonzalo's son. From then on, Gonzalo and others began their particular "crusade" against drug-addicts.
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Caso cerrado
Title: Caso cerrado
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Cesar and Isabel just got married for the Jewish rite, their religion. He is a director of a banking company. She works in a bookstore owned by her mother-in-law. The couple sees their happiness truncated when César discovers financial anomalies in the entity where he works. What were initially charges against some managers, becomes an accusation of embezzlement against César, who is in France to prevent his entry into military service. Go back and appear before the judge to prove his innocence.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Character: Mabile
Released: May 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Paul Marnac and his infirm wife Geneviève move to his childhood estate in the French countryside. The estate is also the site of the castle inhabited by Paul's ancestor Alaric de Marnac, who was known for brutally slaughtering anyone whom he suspected of infidelity. There is a legend that Alaric rises from the grave to continue his deeds. The estate is currently inhabited by Paul's aunt Maville and cousin Julie. Right after Paul and Geneviève arrive, mysterious things begin to happen. Geneviève begins to wonder if the legend about Alaric is true.
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El lago de las vírgenes
Title: El lago de las vírgenes
Character: The virgins' mother
Released: February 8, 1982
Type: Movie
A man discovers an island covered in treasure. But when he attempts to fully explore island and collect the treasure, he ends up discovering some mysterious nymphs who seduce him.
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Trágala, perro
Title: Trágala, perro
Character: Madre Superiora
Released: November 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Sister Patrocinio is a nun who is stigmatized by Christ in her hands and feet. Although some believe in this mystical fact, others suspect of manipulation and take it to the court of justice.
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Tú estás loco Briones
Title: Tú estás loco Briones
Character: Sor Piedad
Released: March 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Faustino Briones is a hardline Falangist who, unhappy with the changes in Spain and after mounting several scandals in his work, is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Without waiting for him, he begins to interact with the nuns of the place, but especially with one, Sr. Angustias with whom he is beginning to feel things
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La isla de las cabezas
Title: La isla de las cabezas
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Somnambulists
Title: Somnambulists
Released: September 18, 1978
Type: Movie
Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as well
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God Bless Each Corner of This House
Title: God Bless Each Corner of This House
Character: Sagrario
Released: September 19, 1977
Type: Movie
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Caperucita y Roja
Title: Caperucita y Roja
Character: Farmacéutica
Released: March 7, 1977
Type: Movie
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De profesión: polígamo
Title: De profesión: polígamo
Character: Madre de María
Released: November 3, 1975
Type: Movie
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Poachers
Title: Poachers
Character: Martina
Released: September 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
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El poder del deseo
Title: El poder del deseo
Character: Javier's mother
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Javier lives with his mother in a modest apartment. He conducts surveys on the effectiveness of ads. This work provides a humble earning for the two of them. One day he meets Juna at a bus stop. He tries to ask her out, but she refuses. A few days later, they meet again. Slowly a relationship develops, but her plan is to marry someone rich. Javier's wealthy uncle included him in his testament, so Juna talks Javier into killing the uncle.
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Sex o no sex
Title: Sex o no sex
Character: Tía de Angélica
Released: September 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Paco, a frustrated office worker, goes to the office of a psychologist, to whom he tells his most delirious sexual fantasies in the hope that he will apply a curative therapy. Unfortunately, the doctor will end up confessing that he can not help, because he lives with a doll that has become his companion sentimental.
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The Legend of Blood Castle
Title: The Legend of Blood Castle
Character: Carmilla
Released: September 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
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The Guerrilla
Title: The Guerrilla
Character: Aldeana
Released: February 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the text of Azorin theater play. In 1808, Napoleon's troops invaded a village in the Sierra de Madrid. Love triangle between a girl, guerrilla leader and French officer who falls in love with the girl.
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Pancho Villa
Title: Pancho Villa
Character: Old Woman
Released: October 31, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of General Goyo, his greatest enemy, only to face an even greater problem when he meets McDermott, a mysterious adventurer who promises to get him weapons and ammunition for his troops.
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My Dearest Senorita
Title: My Dearest Senorita
Character: Tía Chus
Released: February 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?
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Marianela
Title: Marianela
Character: La Señana
Released: February 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Marianela is a poor girl with a disfigured face who works as Pablo's guide, a blind young man from a wealthy family. Pablo falls in love with Marianela because of her spirit and vitality and imagines her as the most beautiful woman in the world. When Pablo has the chance to recover his sight, Marianela becomes very sad because she is sure that the young man will reject her when he can see her
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My Dear Killer
Title: My Dear Killer
Character: Adele Rudigiani
Released: February 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Following the mysterious decapitation of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put onto the case, but all the clues lead to an unsolved case of kidnapping and murder.
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Préstame quince días
Title: Préstame quince días
Character: Flora
Released: May 24, 1971
Type: Movie
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Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Title: Pierna creciente, falda menguante
Character: Doña Úrsula
Released: December 25, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso
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Title: Crimen y castigo
Character: Aliona Ivánovna
Released: September 7, 1970
Type: TV
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Tristana
Title: Tristana
Character: Saturna
Released: March 29, 1970
Type: Movie
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.
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Sound of Horror
Title: Sound of Horror
Character: Calliope, the housekeeper
Released: October 8, 1967
Type: Movie
When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons
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Los chicos con las chicas
Title: Los chicos con las chicas
Character: Doña Arsenia
Released: September 25, 1967
Type: Movie
The musical group Los Bravos is enjoying a short holidays. It's in a mountain hut, near a girls' school, eager to see and hear.
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Historia de la frivolidad
Title: Historia de la frivolidad
Character: The Lecturer's Helper #4
Released: February 9, 1967
Type: Movie
The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
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The Ugly Ones
Title: The Ugly Ones
Character: Ruth Harmon
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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El arte de vivir
Title: El arte de vivir
Character: Madre de Luis
Released: July 26, 1966
Type: Movie
After graduating in Economics, Luis is seeking to burst through in life. His partner Ana sees how his way of being is changing by the standards of his company into a different person. Ana tries to draw his attention in a failed suicide attempt.
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The Search
Title: The Search
Released: February 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber melodrama. He struggles to survive in the unforgiving city where only the strongest will prosper. Manuel defends himself and kills a murderous thief in a fight then quietly waits for the police to reach the scene of the crime.
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Title: Tales to Keep You Awake
Character: Emma
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Tales to Keep You Awake
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: TV
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Tres perros locos, locos, locos
Title: Tres perros locos, locos, locos
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Residence for Spies
Title: Residence for Spies
Character: Omar's Wife
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a mission, to discover and destroy an enemy group operating in the vicinities of that residence. He will manage, with the help, and sometimes extra zeal, of a team of young women recruits.
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The Devil Also Cries
Title: The Devil Also Cries
Character: Lucía
Released: March 14, 1965
Type: Movie
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Los dinamiteros
Title: Los dinamiteros
Character: María
Released: November 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
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Tiempo de amor
Title: Tiempo de amor
Character: Gitana
Released: September 13, 1964
Type: Movie
Three stories in which love plays a decisive role intersect. The first of them is led by a couple who decides to break with the chastity they have been keeping until then. In the second Mary discovers that the man with whom he wants to lose his virginity is a ruffian and in the third, and last, a marriage tries to maintain happiness despite the miseries of his daily life. Second film by director and screenwriter Julio Diamante , composed of three autonomous episodes, minimally chained, called " The sunset ", " The night " and " The morning ". The three chapters are very influenced by the social realism that invaded the Spanish literature of the time and by the badly assimilated cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni. This means that, for example.
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Anabel
Title: Anabel
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Young Anabel mistakes a woman for her dead mother.
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The Executioner
Title: The Executioner
Character: Mujer visitante de la obra nº 3
Released: August 31, 1963
Type: Movie
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
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Death and the Lumberjack
Title: Death and the Lumberjack
Character: Monja
Released: May 3, 1963
Type: Movie
An organ grinder called “El Rubio” has the crank of his street organ confiscated because he did not have his identification papers in order. From then on, a journey full of misfortune begins in which he tries hard to find a crank like the impounded one, to allow him to work again.
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El turista
Title: El turista
Character: Carmen
Released: April 4, 1963
Type: Movie
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Benigno, hermano mío
Title: Benigno, hermano mío
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Four Truths
Title: The Four Truths
Character: (segment "La mort et le bûcheron")
Released: December 21, 1962
Type: Movie
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
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Viridiana
Title: Viridiana
Character: Enedina
Released: April 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
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Salto mortal
Title: Salto mortal
Character: Componente del circo
Released: January 15, 1962
Type: Movie
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Rogelia
Title: Rogelia
Character: Mendiga
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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Los pedigüeños
Title: Los pedigüeños
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
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Prohibido enamorarse
Title: Prohibido enamorarse
Character: Justina
Released: October 13, 1961
Type: Movie
An old and seriously ill man, who lives with his son, meets an older woman, who is suffering the same cirumstances like he, and soon starts to fell better and becoming sane.
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Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Title: Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Character: Chantajista
Released: April 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas, he decides to go to a friends party. Due to alcohol effects, he share out the money to the people who need it more.
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Un marido de ida y vuelta
Title: Un marido de ida y vuelta
Character: Lola
Released: August 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.
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Susanna and Me
Title: Susanna and Me
Character: Estudiante #2
Released: March 11, 1957
Type: Movie
An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who turns himself into a cabaret comedian in his sparetime.
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That Happy Couple
Title: That Happy Couple
Character: Actress - Queen
Released: August 31, 1953
Type: Movie
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.