José Sancho
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José Sancho | |
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Born | José Asunción Martínez 11 November 1944 |
Died | 3 March 2013 Valencia, Spain | (aged 68)
Other names | Pepe Sancho |
Occupation | Actor |
Spouse(s) | María Jiménez Reyes Monforte |
José Asunción Martínez (11 November 1944 – 3 March 2013) better known as José Sancho or Pepe Sancho, was a Spanish actor. Over a period of fifty years he appeared extensively in Spanish television and films. He was perhaps best known internationally for his roles in Pedro Almodóvar's films Live Flesh and Talk to Her.
Private life[]
Sancho was born in Manises (Valencia), Spain, in 1944. He married and divorced twice the singer María Jiménez (with whom he had a son named Alejandro) and, after his second divorce with Jiménez, he married journalist Reyes Monforte, from 2006 until the death of the actor in 2013.
He was a cousin of the Spanish Socialist Party politician Antoni Asunción.[1]
Sancho died March 3, 2013 with 68 years old in Valencia after a long illness from a lung cancer.[2]
Career[]
Sancho's first film role was when he was aged just four in Victor Tourjansky. He became popular thanks to his role as The Student, in Televisión Española series Curro Jiménez (1977–1978), directed by Pilar Miró, Mario Camus, , Rafael Romero Marchent, Francisco Rovira Beleta and others.
(1948), directed byAlmost twenty years after that work, he returned to star in another television series, Beatriz Carvajal and his former partner in Curro Jiménez, Álvaro de Luna. One year later, he joined up with Rocío Dúrcal in Los negocios de mamá (1997), also for television.
(1995), together withAmong his many roles in films is his collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar in Talk to Her and in Live Flesh along with Javier Bardem, where he won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997.
In 2000 he guest-starred as Don Rafael Alvarado in the syndicated television series Queen of Swords, who is murdered in the first episode, "Destiny", causing his daughter Tessa to take up arms as the title character.
His involvement in several films and theatrical activity was significant, but his role of Don Pablo, in Televisión Española series Cuéntame cómo pasó, from 2001 to 2008, brought his greatest popularity and recognition.
Filmography[]
- (2012)
- (2011)
- King Conqueror (2009)
- (2008)
- (2008)
- (2006)
- Desde que amanece apetece (2006)
- (2005)
- El desenlace (2005)
- (2005)
- (2005)
- (2004, voice of don Lino)
- Trileros (2003)
- (2003)
- (2003)
- Los Reyes Magos (2003, voice of Alfredo)
- Cosa de brujas (2003)
- Hable con ella (2002)
- (2002)
- La mujer de mi vida (2001)
- Stranded (2001)
- Arachnid (2001)
- (2000)
- Kasbah (2000)
- Sexo por compasión (2000)
- (2000)
- (1999)
- (1999)
- Flores de otro mundo (1999)
- Carne trémula (1997)
- Libertarias (1996)
- (1995)
- (1995)
- Todos a la cárcel (1993)
- La Lola se va a los puertos (1993)
- (1990)
- Montoyas y Tarantos (1989)
- El Dorado (1988)
- (1987)
- Wheels on Meals (1984)
- (1982)
- (1980)
- La boda del señor cura (1979)
- (1979)
- (1979)
- (1978)
- (1973)
- (1970)
- (1969)
- (1966)
- (1966)
- (1966)
- Fuerte perdido (1965)
- (1965)
- Canadian Wilderness (1965)
- (1963)
- (1961)
- (1959)
- El gran Galeoto (1951)
- (1948)
References[]
- ^ Alonso, Mariano (3 March 2014). "Antoni Asunción: "El PSOE me trató como un proscrito tras mi dimisión"". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 March 2016.
- ^ "Fallece a los 68 años el actor Pepe Sancho". Europa Press (in Spanish). Madrid. 3 March 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
External links[]
- 1944 births
- 2013 deaths
- People from Horta Oest
- Spanish male film actors
- Spanish male television actors
- Best Supporting Actor Goya Award winners
- Deaths from cancer in Spain
- Deaths from lung cancer
- 20th-century Spanish male actors
- 21st-century Spanish male actors
- Spanish actor stubs