Juan Calvo was a Spanish actor. He began his contact with cinema in 1934, with a small part in the sound version of Florián Rey's La hermana San Sulpicio. During part of the war he was representing theatrical plays in the national zone, but at the end of the war he abandoned the stage to devote himself fully to the cinema, whose filmography consists of about eighty titles. In 1938 he shot in the German studios of Ufa, Suspiros de España, by Benito Perojo, and the following year he finished shooting the film by Fernando Delgado, El genio alegre, begun in 1936, which had remained unfinished due to the outbreak of the Civil War. After shooting Florián Rey's La Dolores in 1940, he spent a couple of seasons filming between Spain and Italy, where he stood out in Ladislao Vajda's film Conjura en Venecia. In the first half of this decade he also stood out in two other films by this director, El testamento del Virrey and Cinco lobitos, as well as in Raza and El escándalo, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia; Huella de luz, El clavo, Eloísa está debajo de un almendro and Tierra sedienta, by Rafael Gil; Boda en el infierno and Los últimos de Filipinas, by Antonio Román, or Tuvo la culpa Adán and Ella, él y sus millones, by Juan de Orduña. In 1946 he moved to Mexico, where he filmed until 1953, although he finished filming Don Quixote de la Mancha for Rafael Gil in Madrid in 1947, excelling in his interpretation of Sancho Panza.
Juan Calvo was a Spanish actor. He began his contact with cinema in 1934, with a small part in the sound version of Florián Rey's La hermana San Sulpicio. During part of the war he was representing theatrical plays in the national zone, but at the end of the war he abandoned the stage to devote himself fully to the cinema, whose filmography consists of about eighty titles. In 1938 he shot in the German studios of Ufa, Suspiros de España, by Benito Perojo, and the following year he finished shooting the film by Fernando Delgado, El genio alegre, begun in 1936, which had remained unfinished due to the outbreak of the Civil War. After shooting Florián Rey's La Dolores in 1940, he spent a couple of seasons filming between Spain and Italy, where he stood out in Ladislao Vajda's film Conjura en Venecia. In the first half of this decade he also stood out in two other films by this director, El testamento del Virrey and Cinco lobitos, as well as in Raza and El escándalo, by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia; Huella de luz, El clavo, Eloísa está debajo de un almendro and Tierra sedienta, by Rafael Gil; Boda en el infierno and Los últimos de Filipinas, by Antonio Román, or Tuvo la culpa Adán and Ella, él y sus millones, by Juan de Orduña. In 1946 he moved to Mexico, where he filmed until 1953, although he finished filming Don Quixote de la Mancha for Rafael Gil in Madrid in 1947, excelling in his interpretation of Sancho Panza.
In his Aztec journey he worked under the orders of some Spanish directors who were in exile, standing out in Bel Ami, la historia de un canalla (Bel Ami, the story of a scoundrel), by Antonio Momplet. It is also worth mentioning his performance in Allá en el rancho grande, by Fernando de Fuentes. After filming La venenosa, La virgen desnuda and El mártir del calvario for Miguel Morayta, and, finally, Educando a papá, for Fernando Soler, he returned to film again in Spain, although at this stage he definitively stopped alternating with theater. Of his activity on the screen, in this decade he stands out in the film by Ladislao Vajda, Marcelino, pan y vino, in which he gave a memorable performance in the character of Fray Papilla, for which he received the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos Award in 1955, an entity that also distinguished him the following year for his work in Calabuch, a film by Berlanga, which gave him the same year the award of the Sindicato Nacional del Espectáculo (National Union of the Spectacle). He also shot for Vajda, Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla, Tarde de toros and Mi tío Jacinto, and for Berlanga, Los jueves, milagro, as well as in Historias de la radio and in Diez fusiles esperan, for Sáenz de Heredia. His last screen appearance was in 1961, in Fray Escoba, by Ramón Torrado.
In his long cinematographic history, he was mainly cast in the roles of bullfighting impresario and businessman, often with the repeated image of an angry man, with a Havana cigar between his fingers, although it was also common that behind that interpretative mask he was allowed to show off his bonhomie.
That easy-going spirit was consubstantial in him. He always stood out for his very personal voice, which he had undoubtedly educated in his years of work in the theater.
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Filmography (Movies)
Un americano en Toledo
Character:
Release Date:30/06/1965
Martes y trece
Character:Inspector de policía
Release Date:02/03/1962
Fray Escoba
Character:Fray Barragán
Release Date:14/11/1961
Ella y los veteranos
Character:Faustino
Release Date:01/01/1961
For Men Only
Character:
Release Date:08/09/1960
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Character:Le maire Lucas
Release Date:26/08/1960
La fiel infanteria
Character:Don Blas
Release Date:11/01/1960
Quanto sei bella Roma
Character:Sor Checco
Release Date:17/12/1959
Los tramposos
Character:Belilla
Release Date:02/11/1959
Diez fusiles esperan
Character:Capellán
Release Date:15/06/1959
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Character:Sor Ettore
Release Date:11/03/1959
Las locuras de Bárbara
Character:
Release Date:02/02/1959
… Y después del cuplé
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1959
El puente de la paz
Character:Don Galo
Release Date:07/09/1958
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
Character:
Release Date:23/06/1958
El hombre del paraguas blanco
Character:El alcalde
Release Date:01/05/1958
La donna che venne dal mare
Character:Miguel
Release Date:03/10/1957
Il conte Max
Character:zio Giovanni
Release Date:30/08/1957
Miracles of Thursday
Character:Don Antonio
Release Date:22/08/1957
The Rocket from Calabuch
Character:Matías
Release Date:28/09/1956
El fenómeno
Character:Ramón Fernández
Release Date:09/09/1956
La gran mentira
Character:Paulino Sándalo
Release Date:01/04/1956
Uncle Hyacynth
Character:Used Clothing Salesman
Release Date:31/03/1956
Afternoon at the Bulls
Character:Don César
Release Date:24/02/1956
Suspiros de Triana
Character:Don Atiliano Revuelta
Release Date:16/12/1955
Educando a papá
Character:
Release Date:25/08/1955
Radio Stories
Character:Señor gordo
Release Date:25/07/1955
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
Character:Moñudo
Release Date:05/06/1955
El tren expreso
Character:Maestro D. Miguel
Release Date:23/05/1955
The Miracle of Marcelino
Character:Fray Papilla
Release Date:24/02/1955
Castles in Spain
Character:Don Manuel
Release Date:09/08/1954
The Adventurer of Seville
Character:El Cartujano
Release Date:06/05/1954
Buenas noticias
Character:Alcalde
Release Date:05/04/1954
Condemned to Hang
Character:Lorenzo Ruiz
Release Date:08/10/1953
Monte de piedad
Character:Doctor
Release Date:01/08/1951
Vivillo desde chiquillo
Character:
Release Date:17/05/1951
Entre abogados te veas
Character:El Patrón (Don Carlos)
Release Date:02/03/1951
Mi marido
Character:Juan, esposo de Luisa
Release Date:09/02/1951
Médico de guardia
Character:El Padre sin hijos (Señor Hinojosa)
Release Date:26/07/1950
La venenosa
Character:Mr. Mullich
Release Date:04/10/1949
Nosotros los rateros
Character:Don Raimundo
Release Date:07/09/1949
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Character:Venancio
Release Date:21/01/1949
Don Quixote
Character:Sancho Panza
Release Date:01/03/1947
El Buen Mozo
Character:Coronel Duclos
Release Date:05/04/1946
Everybody's Woman
Character:Conde
Release Date:11/01/1946
El fantasma y doña Juanita
Character:Don Elpidio
Release Date:31/03/1945
Ella, él y sus millones
Character:Lucas, mayordomo de Arturo
Release Date:25/12/1944
El hombre que las enamora
Character:Tío Gundemaro
Release Date:13/12/1944
Tuvo la culpa Adán
Character:Adán Olmedo de Alcaraz
Release Date:09/10/1944
Lecciones de buen amor
Character:
Release Date:05/06/1944
Ana María
Character:
Release Date:11/05/1944
Eloísa está debajo de un almendro
Character:Leoncio
Release Date:21/12/1943
Fiebre
Character:
Release Date:19/05/1943
Huella de luz
Character:Mike
Release Date:05/03/1943
La patria chica
Character:
Release Date:01/02/1943
El escándalo
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1943
Correo de Indias
Character:
Release Date:07/12/1942
Goyescas
Character:Patillas
Release Date:09/10/1942
Raza
Character:El Campesino
Release Date:30/01/1942
Capitan Tempesta
Character:Hussif
Release Date:28/01/1942
Giuliano de' Medici
Character:Giovanbattista da Monteseccio
Release Date:27/02/1941
Tosca
Character:
Release Date:31/01/1941
L'ispettore Vargas
Character:Agent
Release Date:18/10/1940
Suspiros de España
Character:
Release Date:16/10/1939
Sister San Sulpicio
Character:Hombre que pide otra copla (uncredited)
Release Date:18/10/1934
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