Antonio Iranzo

Antonio Iranzo (4 May 1930 – 7 July 2003) was a Spanish film actor in 77 feature films. He gained popularity for his acting in Island of the Damned and Cut - Throats Nine. Iranzo began his artistic career in the theater, while working as a radio announcer. Later he joined the Nuria Espert Company and made his film debut in 1963 with La chica del auto-stop directed by Miguel Lluch. His physique and hoarse voice helped him get the chance to play the supporting character in various films including Mario Camus's The Legend of Mayor of Zalamea (1973), Gonzalo Suárez's The Regent (1974), Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child? (1975), Hidden Pleasures (1977), The tobacconist of Vallecas (1986) (the latter two by Eloy de la Iglesia), the TV miniseries Riders of the Dawn (1990) and Vicente Aranda's Libertarias (1996). Iranzo had a well known career on stage, which particularly excelled in his interpretations of classics from the Golden Age. Some of the works featuring him were Adolfo Marsillach and Molière's Tartuffe (1969), Felix Lope de Vega's The Star of Seville (1958), Max Frisch's Andorra (1971), Adolfo Marsillach's Flower of Holiness (1973), Arnold Wesker and Irene Gutiérrez Caba's Chicken Soup with Oats (1978), Martín Recuerda's The Arrecogías the Beguinage of St. Mary of Egypt (1977), José María Rodríguez Méndez's Weddings that were famous in the Rag and Fandanga (1978), Miguel de Cervantes's The Baths of Algiers (1979) and The Roll Lavapies (1979), Woody Allen's Aspirin for Two (1980), Santiago Moncada's Ears of the Wolf (1980), Martin Recuerda's The Deceiting (1981), Miguel Mihura's Peach in Syrup (1982), Ibsen's Mallard (1982), Euripides's Fedra (1984), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1988), Alejandro Casona's The Third Word (1992). Iranzo also had a prolific career in television; he played several characters in dramas TVE as Study 1 or Novel, Time Eleven or Fictions. His deep voice helped him in standing out as a voice actor, remembered for being among other characters as BA Baracus in the television series El equipo A. He was the winner of the 1966's Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin (La piel quemada). The film was directed by Josep Maria Forn and depicted the social problems of Spain during the decade. In the film Iranzo played the character of an Andalusian worker named Jose who works in Costa Brava and falls in love with a Belgian tourist while his family including wife and two children struggle to reach him. In 2014 the film Who can Kill a Child? was shown at Denver Film Society's Stanley Film Festival. Source: Article "Antonio Iranzo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain, 1930-05-04

Died: 2003-07-07

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	El mujeriego	Matías	0
2	1964	La boda era a las doce	Manolo	60
3	1965	Totò d'Arabia	Ivan	62
4	1965	La chica del autostop	Manolo	0
5	1965	The Wild Men of Kurdistan		59
6	1965	Kingdom of the Silver Lion	Durek	55
7	1966	Seven Guns for the MacGregors	Bandido (uncredited)	53
8	1966	The Ugly Ones	Antonio	58
9	1967	Gentleman Killer	Pedro	55
10	1967	Hate for Hate	Fulton	50
11	1971	Cut-Throats Nine	Ray Torch Brewster	66
12		Aquí mando yo	Hombre de la escopeta	0
13	1967	Burnt Skin		61
14	1968	Sexperiencias	Amigo (voice)	50
15	1970	Las secretas intenciones	Camionero	52
16	1971	Delusions of Grandeur	Innkeeper (uncredited)	74
17	1972	To the Devil, with Love		40
18	1973	Flower of Holiness	Soldado veterano	0
19	1973	La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea	Sargento	80
20	1974	The Regent's Wife	Párroco de Contracalles	43
21	1975	The Birds of Baden-Baden	Vicente	56
22	1975	The Dead Man	Ulpiano	50
23	1976	Who Can Kill a Child?	Crying Child Father	70
24	1976	El hombre que supo amar	Criado de Antón	20
25	1977	Del amor y de la muerte	Alfonso	32
26	1977	Hidden Pleasures	Carmen's Father	61
27	1977	El fin de la inocencia	El capataz / Foreman	30
28	1977	Inquisition	Rénover	59
29	1979	Stories of Love and Slaughter		45
30	1979	El buscón	El Padre	50
31	1980	The Cantabrians	Sonanso	0
32	1984	Memorias del general Escobar	Buenaventura Durruti	0
33	1985	Réquiem por un campesino español	Padre de Paco	52
34	1987	The Tobacconist of Vallecas	Don Julián	64
35	1993	Tocando fondo	Remigio	50
36	1996	Freedomfighters	Miliciano	64

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1973	Los camioneros		60
2	1976	Curro Jiménez	Moñudo	71
3	1984	Proceso a Mariana Pineda	Matías	50
4	1987	Lorca: Death of a Poet	Joaquín Arcollas	54

Antonio Iranzo

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