Multi-award winning Spanish actor Juan Diego, who played Pepe Carvalho, has died

Spanish actor Juan Diego, described as “the most committed broken and red voice” of his country’s cinema, died Thursday in Madrid at the age of 79.

In his successful career he won three Goya awards for best actor and the Silver Shell at the 2006 San Sebastian Festival for film. Get away from meby Victor Garcia Leon.

Activist and actor

Juan Diego was born in Bormujos, Seville, on December 14, 1942, he had been suffering from health problems for many years and off screen he was a symbol of opposition to the Franco dictatorship.

A member of the Spanish Communist Party since 1968, he was arrested three times and headed the Art and Culture Commission of that organization.

In that struggle, that boy from a town far away from the intellectual elites led the 1975 theater strike demanding a weekly day off for actors and filling his filmography with a political, intensive and reformist cinema.

filmography

Its extensive list of films – partially known in the Río de la Plata – includes titles such as the holy innocent (1984), by Mario Camus, with Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal; court of Pharaoh (1985), by José Luis García Sánchez, with Ana Belén, Fernando Fernán Gómez and Antonio Banderas; Fast Dragonby Jaime Camino – in which he played dictator Francisco Franco.

Also the journey to the left (1986), by Fernando Fernán Gómez, with Fernán Gómez and José Sacristán; The dark nightby Carlos Saura, with Fernando Guillén, and Two steps (1988), by García Sánchez, with Fernando Rey and Antonio Resines.

In addition, they were spotted If they say I fell (1989), by Vicente Aranda, with Victoria April; The longest night (1991), by García Sánchez, with Juan Echanove; the conquest of paradise (in the United States), by Ridley Scott, with Gérard Depardieu, and Ham Ham (1992), by Bigas Luna, with Stefania Sandrelli and Penélope Cruz; Paris Timbuktuwith Michel Piccoli and Concha Velasco, and Between the legs (1999), by Manuel Gómez Pereira, with Victoria Abril and Javier Bardem.

That’s Pepe Carvalho

On television he starred in Luis Barone’s Argentine series Pepe Carvalho (1993) and the Spanish Stories of whore mili (1994) at Ama Tapang (2002), with the latter he won the Actors Union Award.

In the theater he has participated in twenty such works Waiting for Godot, Cat in the Hot Tin Roof, The pianist either Hippolytus

Compliments from colleagues and the Spanish newspaper

“It is very sad to say goodbye to you, dear Juan Diego. Partner, teacher, companion, friend. Example of humble nobility, cultured man who knows how to do himself when circumstances are not so bad,” Fundación Artistas wrote and Interpreters Sociedad de Gestión (Aisge).

“He’s a teacher he hates calling him a teacher. He’s such a great actor that he cares more about you than him in a scene. He’s so good that he refuses to lose his inner child,” the actor Hugo Silva wrote.

Even Antonio Banderas: “The death of a colleague, the friend is always in pain … but Juan, your curtain falls and we get caught on the wrong foot. You will never really forget”.

The premier, Pedro Sánchez, said goodbye saying “the world of culture has lost a great reference in the field of cinema and theater. A tremendous actor, who has given us brilliant performances in works that are part of our history of cinematographic “.

According to the Spanish newspaper, Juan Diego “was, above all, a voice; a voice with knots, he spoke and by the rattle of the words of this Sevillian actor, who was a native of Bormujos, one could predict the whole geography of what is called cinema, Spanish cinema and, rushing across Spain ”.

The interpreter is housed in the main room of the Spanish Theater, in the heart of Madrid.

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