Emma Penella

Emma Penella

Born: March 2, 1930
Died: August 27, 2007
in Madrid, Spain
Manuela Ruiz Penella known as Emma Penella (Madrid, March 2, 1931 - Ibidem, August 27, 2007) was a Spanish film, theater and television actress.

Daughter of the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and Magdalena Penella Silva, granddaughter of the composer Manuel Penella Moreno, great-granddaughter of the also musician Manuel Penella Raga, sister of the also actresses Elisa Montés (1934) and Terele Pávez (1939-2017). She married film producer Emiliano Piedra with whom she had three daughters: Emma, Lola and Emiliana. She was also the aunt of the actress Emma Ozores (daughter of her sister Elisa Montés and the actor Antonio Ozores).

Actress of marked personality and prestige since the 1950s, she triumphed in cinema thanks to films such as Luis García Berlanga's El verdugo (The Executioner) and maintained intense theatrical activity. She renewed her popularity in her later years participating in the television series Aquí no hay quien viva (2003-2006) and La que se avecina (2007).

Movies for Emma Penella...

FFG, el último gran conversador
Title: FFG, el último gran conversador
Character: Self - Actress (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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Title: La que se avecina
Character: Charo de la Vega
Released: April 22, 2007
Type: TV
La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar, a fictional building located on the outskirts of a big city. Both its storylines and cast are heavily based on Aquí no hay quien viva, which ended when Telecinco bought Miramón Mendi, the series production company. The episodes debuted on the Telecinco network, and were later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FactoríaDeFicción and Paramount Comedy. The series debuted in 22 April 2007 and became popular thanks to its funny characters, witty script, use of catchphrases and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society. The name of the show involves wordplay, as "vecina" is the Spanish word for neighbour.
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Title: Aquí no hay quien viva
Character: Concha de la Fuente
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: TV
A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.
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Title: Aquí no hay quien viva
Character: Concha de la Fuente García
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: TV
A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.
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Bulgarian Lovers
Title: Bulgarian Lovers
Character: Remedios
Released: April 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's favorite luxury is playing sponsor to younger men amid the lights and sights of Madrid's gay club scene. After Daniel shares a night with handsome Bulgarian emigre Kyril, he finds himself consumed with an insatiable lust for the charismatic foreigner. But, as their relationship takes shape, Daniel's latest conquest reveals his own manipulative tendencies.
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Pídele cuentas al rey
Title: Pídele cuentas al rey
Character: Carmen
Released: February 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Fidel, an Asturian miner, after the closure of the mine where he works, decides to walk to Madrid with his family, to ask the king why the Constitution is not met, specifically the article that points out that all the Spanish citizens have the right to have a decent work. Will the king receive him?
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Title: Blasco Ibáñez
Character: Emilia Pardo Bazán
Released: November 8, 1997
Type: TV
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El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Title: El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Character: Teresa Panza
Released: January 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.
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El crimen de Don Benito
Title: El crimen de Don Benito
Released: March 6, 1991
Type: Movie
July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.
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Doblones de a ocho
Title: Doblones de a ocho
Character: Palmira
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Juncal
Character: Teresa Campos
Released: February 18, 1989
Type: TV
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The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Title: The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Character: Doña Justa
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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El amor brujo
Title: El amor brujo
Character: Tía Rosario
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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Title: Goya
Released: May 13, 1985
Type: TV
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Our Father
Title: Our Father
Character: María
Released: April 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The story of a Spanish Cardinal who is told he only has one more year to live. He decides to return to his hometown, after an absence of 30 years, to sort out his affairs.
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The Regent's wife
Title: The Regent's wife
Character: Ana Ozores - La Regenta
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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First Surrender
Title: First Surrender
Released: October 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Giallo about a man plotting to kill his wife for her money.
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Fortunata y Jacinta
Title: Fortunata y Jacinta
Character: Fortunata
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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Lola, espejo oscuro
Title: Lola, espejo oscuro
Character: Lola
Released: April 10, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Search
Title: The Search
Character: Rosa
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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Black Humor
Title: Black Humor
Character: Miss Wilma - segment 2 'La Mandrilla - Miss Wilma'
Released: April 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur. A strange widow comes to inquire about the services of a new marriage agency. A peasant woman tormented by a bug in her ear barges into a healer's house.
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La hora incógnita
Title: La hora incógnita
Character: Prostituta
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
In a small Spanish town, is expected to explode a nuclear bomb to ten at night. All neighbors leave, except for thirteen people who are gathered in the church and, with the help of the pastor, will find that there is still a possibility of salvation.
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Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
Title: Golden Goddess of Rio Beni
Character: Dinah
Released: September 3, 1964
Type: Movie
An aviator of a commercial line disappears in the Brazilian jungle. Two friends organize an expedition to find him. As if there were not enough dangers in the Amazon, three members of the expedition have another goal: to steal a golden goddess.
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Badmen of the West
Title: Badmen of the West
Character: Lucy
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of their arrival and start shooting their guns and kill all the villains and the town undertaker. They take over the undertaking duties but bury the bodies in an Indian burial ground upsetting the local Indian tribe.
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The Executioner
Title: The Executioner
Character: Carmen, la hija de Amadeo
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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Carta a una mujer
Title: Carta a una mujer
Character: Flora
Released: June 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined the Blue Division and soon disappeared in Russia. Flora lives with a famous conductor, but they have not married because the death of Carlos has not been formally communicated. But one day, a mysterious character who turns out to be an old enemy of his husband, sends Flora a message telling that her husband will return.
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La cuarta ventana
Title: La cuarta ventana
Character: Dora García
Released: May 27, 1963
Type: Movie
One day, three young seamstresses who love nightlife and fun, upon returning to the house they share, find a seriously injured girl in the bathroom.
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Alegre juventud
Title: Alegre juventud
Character: Violeta
Released: March 18, 1963
Type: Movie
Luis, Julio, Miguel and Carlos are four young men who, moved by a strong religious vocation, have left behind family, friends, work and a love of youth to enter a seminary and start a life consecrated to God.
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El amor de los amores
Title: El amor de los amores
Released: March 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Felipe Crespo, because of their anarchist ideology, Barcelona fleeing persecution for justice. Starving, he reaches the manor house and asks for protection Villares pretending repentance. He soon won the confidence of the wealthy owner of the land, a man of high moral and religious training, blind for years, who lives with his beautiful young wife. This, to know the true story of Philip, treats him with disgust, but over time, created in her a strong passion.
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Scano Boa
Title: Scano Boa
Character: Buba
Released: January 9, 1961
Type: Movie
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Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Title: Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Character: Eulalia
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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Sentencia contra una mujer
Title: Sentencia contra una mujer
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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De espaldas a la puerta
Title: De espaldas a la puerta
Character: Lola
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
Inspector Simón and Inspector Arévalo investigate the stabbing of a nightclub employee.
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Un marido de ida y vuelta
Title: Un marido de ida y vuelta
Character: Leticia Romero
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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The Shadow Battalion
Title: The Shadow Battalion
Character: Lola
Released: April 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...
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Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Title: Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Character: Estrella
Released: November 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
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Red Fish
Title: Red Fish
Character: Ivón
Released: September 12, 1955
Type: Movie
Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night, along with Carlos, Hugo's 19-year-old son. When they decide to lean over the cliffs of the coast to observe the wild dance of the turbulent waves down below, an unexpected event tragically happens.
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El guardián del paraíso
Title: El guardián del paraíso
Character: La monjita
Released: May 23, 1955
Type: Movie
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
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Tres hombres van a morir
Title: Tres hombres van a morir
Character: Héléna
Released: January 17, 1955
Type: Movie
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La patrouille des sables
Title: La patrouille des sables
Released: August 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Three adventurers, Pierre, an engineer, Mailard, an escaped convict and Luis, a guitarist, are in search of gold in the Sahara. They happen to be captured by a group of Tuareg. Helped by Taina, a halfbreed, they manage to escape but their troubles are far from over.
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Comedians
Title: Comedians
Character: Marga
Released: May 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, plays only minor roles, but she hopes to succeed and prefers the success to the love of Michael. When the company decides to release "Heaven is not far," Ana hopes to be the young protagonist, however, the paper turns to fall on the veteran Carmen. The businessman Charles Marquez offers Ana to be the star in the new play if she becomes his lover
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Hanging meat
Title: Hanging meat
Character: Consuelo
Released: October 8, 1953
Type: Movie
On the XIX Century in Sierra Morena in Serranía de Ronda spread bandits thant cause panic in the cities robbing and killing travellers.
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¡Che, qué loco!
Title: ¡Che, qué loco!
Character: Esperancita Couceiro
Released: March 23, 1953
Type: Movie
A bankrupt man tries to marry a millionaire woman, which triggers a whole series of misunderstandings.
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Doña Francisquita
Title: Doña Francisquita
Character: Aurora la Beltrana
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.
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Aimless boat
Title: Aimless boat
Released: October 16, 1952
Type: Movie
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The Eyes Leave a Trace
Title: The Eyes Leave a Trace
Character: Lola
Released: September 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...
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Truhanes de honor
Title: Truhanes de honor
Character: Luisa
Released: April 12, 1952
Type: Movie