José Franco
Birthday: Born in 1908-04-25 in Madrid, España
Deathday: 1980-01-30
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Historias para no dormir
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Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts....
Historias para no dormir
Character: Nuevo Rico
Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts....
Plinio
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The Cannibal Man
Character: Tendero
A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house....
Los días de Cabirio
Character: Tío
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The Priest
Character: Padre Alfonso
Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?...
Placido
Character: Don Matías Helguera
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish....
El hueso
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A small Spanish town is shocked because they have found the bone of one of its local heroes: Don Nuño Pérez de Gormaz. The bone is a symbol of the history of the place, and therefore also of the history of Spain, so that all residents take to the streets to try to recover it....
El pescador de coplas
Character: Director de escena (as Pepe Franco)
It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed....
You and I Are Three
Character: Tío Raimundo Cisneros
When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband....
Nothing Ever Happens
Character: Don Jerónimo
The star of a magazine company suffers an appendicitis attack during a shift and has to stay in a small Spanish town to be operated. But the doctor who takes care of his speech falls in love for her and tries to prolong their convalescence....
El señor Esteve
Character: Martinete
Barcelona, 1860. Mr. Esteve, owner of a haberdashery and proud of his son, attends the christening of his grandson who, years later, determined to become a renowned artist, seems unwilling to continue the tradition and take over the family business. (Only badly preserved and severely mutilated copies of this film survive, just 69 out of a total of 108 minutes.)...
Queen of the Chantecler
Character: Don Pagaré
A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War....
El destino se disculpa
Character: Notario
Ramiro and Teófilo are great friends and endure their misfortunes together. Their attempts to succeed as artists fail, so they both promise that the first to die will become the guide to the survivor's life....
Esa voz es una mina
Character: Don Próspero
A young miner, married to a lovely woman crippled, lives happily proving to have a wonderful singing voice while hauling trucks in the mine. One day, to hear a clever promoter, gets its hands on an interesting contract to sing in the most cosmopolitan nightclubs, waking him good prospects for a revenue amazement while he meets another woman who might get put endanger their marriage....
La torre de los siete jorobados
Character: Napoleon (uncredited)
In Madrid, Spain, at the end of the 19th century, the young and reckless Basilio seems to be the only person who perceives the spectral presence of Professor Robinsón de Mantua, who begs him to take care of his niece Inés, because she is in grave danger....
Bohemians
Character: Señor Girard
Paris 1900. Sharing a house in the Bohemian District are Roberto, a fledgling Musician, who is composing an Opera with his friend the poet Victor Duval; and the beautiful Cossette, daughter of a retired tenor, who goes up and down the stairs, taking advantage of Roberto's music to train her voice. The young bohemian musician does not know Cosette, but hears her sing daily. Instead, she's in love with Roberto and follows his steps as a composer....
It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone
Character: Dario
Martín is a tormented and solitary man who hides a shameful and unspeakable secret: he lives with a life-size doll which he treats as if it were his wife. This idyliic, loving existence will be gravely threatened when a prostitute, her daughter, and a pimp enter his life....
Climax
Character: Villanueva
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Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Character: Male victim of the ambush
Following his father's steps, Juan Lucas becomes the most famous highwayman in Sierra Morena mountains, also helping local resistance against Napoleonic troops. In love with Ana, a Count's daughter, his hopes seem to have no future....
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Character: Delegado general
A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waitin...
¡Mi adúltero esposo! ('In Situ')
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Señoritas de uniforme
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The Imaginary Invalid
Character: Dr. Purgón
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The Nail
Character: Hotel Manager
Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed. When he investigates the case in depth, his suspicions fall on the woman who was going to marry the deceased....
El cronicón
Character: El gordo Atanasio
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The Little Birds
Character: Hombre importante
An elderly couple in Madrid each buy a pet bird. Weirdness abounds...
Tremolina
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A 1957 Spanish film....
That Happy Couple
Character: Tenor
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand....
Pobre mi madre querida
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Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life....
The Clear Motives of Desire
Character: Examinador
A morbid curiosity leads Andrea and her friends to spy on a couple of young people during their amorous outings. Javi, the boyfriend, feels bothered because that situation, but ignores that Andrea is attracted to him....
María Fernanda la Jerezana
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Madrid, Spain, early 20th century. A woman turns up dead in a modest home. She turns out to be María la Jerezana, a popular singer who was famous years ago until she disappeared. The Police Commissioner in charge, dissatisfied with the official version, which concludes that the crime was the result of a simple robbery, is determined to find out the truth....
A House Without Boundaries
Character: Marmolista
Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age, a former member. He takes over the boy's room in an odd rooming house. When he is given the photo of the boy's girlfriend, he is so taken with it that he puts off his quest. The Organization requires him to continue, however, so he tracks her down to a remote fishing village....
Mare nostrum
Character: Maitre
The Spanish merchant "Mare Nostrum", captained by Ulises Ferragut, docked in September 1939 at the port of Naples to repair a breakdown. Walking through the ruins of Pompeii, Ferragut meets Freyra, an enigmatic and beautiful woman of whom she instantly falls madly in love, unaware that the girl is in fact a dangerous spy of the Third Reich....
The Crime of Bordadores Street
Character: Don Matías
Madrid, late 19th century. A wealthy woman is found murdered in her home and her maid seems to be the main suspect; but her statement further entangles the case....
Historia de S
Character: Obispo
Sebastian (Alfredo Landa), dressmaker of great prestige, is aware of the boredom that produces sexual routine with his wife. Is then made with a good amount of erotic material, including books and magazines and catching up on what is current in the sexual aspects. His wife, alarmed at the new attitude of Sebastian, there is even the possibility to enter. Sebastian, determined to modernize the extreme, organize a parade with new models essentially erotic....
La Corea
Character: Simón
Toni is a seventeen year old young man who comes to Madrid from a little village in search of work. A friend from the same village of Toni puts him in touch with Charo, "La Corea", a mature woman dedicated to facilitating contacts and boys to American men at the military base of Torrejón....
El arte de no casarse
Character: Sacerdote (1)
Four stories about the arts of not getting married. Alfredo Landa performs the roles of a lawyer who has just finished his military service, a young marquis on his wedding day, a flirt and a soldier who deals with three girls at the same time....
Las viudas
Character: Don Juan (segment "El Aniversario")
Comedy consists of three stories about the sudden death of three husbands: a newly married man dies as a result of the excessive enthusiasm of his wife ("Honeymoon"), another because of a fling with a girl too fiery ("The Anniversary" ), and finally, a husband dies because of his greed and stinginess ("Portrait of Regino")....
El caserío
Character: Don Leoncio
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El padre Manolo
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Padre Manolo, priest, magician and singer, starts a private investigation on what seems to be a murder......
Nada menos que todo un hombre
Character: Sacerdote
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Café de París
Character: Monsieur Dupont
After suffering a family tragedy, Carmen leaves Spain and emigrates to Paris, where she will make new friends among some of the most peculiar characters who inhabit the bohemian neighborhoods of the city. (Partially lost film.)...
Corazón solitario
Character: Practicante
Antoñito is a bachelor who works in a cabaret as a clarinetist. He has put an advertisement in the newspaper, looking for a good and honest girl, and to which responds Rocío, who escapes from her native Córdoba to hide the embarrassment of her pregnancy. The coexistence with the naive clarinetist, who refuses the insinuations of a co-worker dedicated to prostitution, who idolizes his deceased mother and keeps as a relic the orthopedic leg of his late father, is not easy. The other men will tend ...
La viudita naviera
Character: Carmelo Pimentel
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La garbanza negra, que en paz descanse...
Character: Filomeno
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No quiero perder la honra
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In Madrid, during the postwar, Miguel, decide to live supported by women. He has two workers who doesn´t make much headway, for that reason, advised by one of his friends, he decides to go to other town to find a young girl, naive but ambitious in order to take her to the city and make her work....
A Love Story
Character: Editor
An aspiring young writer lives with his pregnant wife and works for a newspaper to provide for his growing family. When his sister-in-law comes to visit, there is a mutual attraction between the guest and the writer....
The Family and One More
Character: Don Ramón
The life of the family inordinate surveyor Carlos Alonso has undergone several changes over the course of the years: the birth of child number 16, little Maria, coincided with the death of the mother, who left behind a hollow refillable. The grandfather also died. The Godfather pastry married, and the boys have been growing rapidly ......
Cuando los niños vienen de Marsella
Character: Sacerdote en boda
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Pierna creciente, falda menguante
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In 1916, while Europe was in the middle of First World War and Spain was enjoying the advantages of being a neutral country, eroticism was called voluptuousness and Senator Duke of Daroca, despite his ancient lineage, fell completely in love with a famous cabaret singer, Rosario "La Criollita", which was a scandal. At that time, it was doubted that decent women had legs - But this mystery was resolved a decade later, when the roaring twenties arrived and, with them, the sensual Lupe Cardoso...
El huesped del sevillano
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The Sevillano's guest is a story full of intrigues. The title alludes to the fact that a character who appears, the guest of the El Sevillano inn in Toledo, is the writer Miguel de Cervantes....
El último tango en Madrid
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La batalla del domingo
Character: Don Paco
Alfredo Di Stéfano plays himself, not as a soccer player but as a man, husband and father. This is a personal portrait of the mythical athlete, in the decline of his career. Film made to the greater glory of the football player Alfredo Di Stefano. In principle it is a portrait of manners of the life of the athlete at the time of professional retirement. Filmed by Luis Marquina, " The Battle of Sunday " mixes the form of a conventional film with the topics of biographical documentaries. However, ...
El segundo poder
Character: Fray Cipriano
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Reina santa
Character: Froilas
A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's....
Siempre vuelven de madrugada
Character: Extorsionista
A good-for-nothing young man and his friend are involved in a woman's death. To escape Police and wanting a change he goes to the small country village he used to visit with his family. Yet his past will find him there....
A Man Called Autumn Flower
Character: Dueño de Bataclán
Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn"....
Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
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Spain, 1940s. While returning to Madrid by train, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to join a prestigious company, meets Luis, a young man of helpless appearance....
Familia provisional
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Un curita cañón
Character: Obispo
Father Saturio is a priest unable to keep his mouth shut if he sees injustices being committed. That is why they have transferred him on various occasions from the parishes where he has been assigned. On this occasion, he will have to face Mrs. Aurora, a rich and powerful woman. The war is served....
Facultad de Letras
Character: Don Rafael
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La vida en un bloc
Character: Germán - padre de Pili
Dr. Nicomedes Gutiérrez carefully points out to the last detail everything that happens in his life. Doctor in a small village, he is in love with the village teacher, but, before getting married, he decides to treat himself to having his last fling....
El pecador y la bruja
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The Salary of Crime
Character: Propietario del Tablao Flamenco
Mario, the son of a police captain killed in the line of duty, is completely surrendered to the police organization. Instructing some errands meet Elsa, original and fascinating beauty, beginning an illicit affair and exciting. This makes his firmest principles are shaken, transformed his life completely absurd entering a maelstrom revolving around the existence of Elsa surface....
Sobresaliente
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¡Olé torero!
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Manuel is a friendly taxi driver in Buenos Aires that helps its beginnings to a famous Spanish bullfighter dubbed "The Carthusian". He travels to Spain to marry a young Sevillian, rich and beautiful, and Manuel accompanies him on the trip, as administrator. During the voyage dies "The Carthusian" afflicted with a terrible disease, and before dying makes him promise to his friend Manuel to comfort Soledad, his fiancee. But to get to Seville is confused with the bullfighter....
Airport
Character: Señor Comas
Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile....
The Rash One
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Paco is the boy buttons a luxury hotel. Usually do small businesses with the resale of tickets to bullfights tourists. By a misunderstanding is fired from his job. There is no use of his taste and wanders the Victoria Street taverns. Finally discovers his only chance in bulls, easy craft that believes and loves. The reality is very different and has to accept the truth which manifests itself in a very dramatic....
Como dos gotas de agua
Character: Pepe el mayordomo
The lawyer Angela Goñi is working in two cases at once: an man that wants to take to Pilo, a young orphan, tp a protection child school. And Mili, another young woman neglected by his father, a businessman, whose aunt Teresa wants to claim through the courts. Taking advantage of the amazing similarity between the girls, the lawyer makes many things to try to resolve the situation as happy as possible....
Con ella llegó el amor
Character: Méndez
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Llegada de noche
Character: Encargado de noche
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Love Charm
Character: Comisario
Berta is a young manicurist whose boyfriend, Jorge, is too shy to ask for a raise, something she always blames him for. On the occasion of a special job that Berta must do in a big house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, the couple fantasizes about what their life would be like in the midst of so many comforts....
The Last Horse
Character: Encargado de garaje
Fernando has just finished the military service. It decides to buy Bucéfalo, the horse that has been his partner for this time and returns to Madrid removing with it to the animal. But everything has changed, the city already neither is the same and even he nor finds stables nor has time to attend to it. This way the things remedy will not have any more that to look for any solution....
Em Nar, la ciudad de fuego
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Brindis al cielo
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El piyayo
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The Piyayo offers a calm and friendly reflection on the Providence by the streets of Malaga. He is a gypsy lover of tradition, rich in grace and with a spirit that exudes honesty. He lives offering company to all who listen to him through the city. And so the character touches for the quality and nobility of his feeling, while his conversations, in every corner of Malaga, remember everyone to have faith in Divine Providence, showing a practical lesson on the subject....