Mario Martín
Birthday: Born in 1949-07-27 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
El secreto de Puente Viejo
Character: Don Anselmo
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Los misterios de Laura
Character: Sergio Balmoral
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Hasta siempre, Puente Viejo
Character: Don Anselmo
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Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: José Luis Olmedo
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy....
Aquí no hay quien viva
Character: Médico
A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society....
Movie Credits
Solo mía
Character:
A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive....
Only Human
Character: Ernesto Dali
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins. He accidentally drops a block of frozen soup out the flat window, probably killing a passerby. Leni initiates a cover-up and Rafi figures out the body is probably Leni's father. The body disappears and without telling the rest of the family what the...
24 Hours of Lies
Character:
Musical comedy in two acts. A vaudeville theatre where nobody wants to show who they are for fear of exposing what they lack....
Spinnin'
Character: Zamora
Garate and Omar are young, gay and in love, and want to have a child. After failed attempts with their female pals, they befriend Raquel, a pregnant woman whose partner has died of aids. Sound conventional? Spinnin' is anything but....
Ay, Carmela!
Character: Cacique
Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. Will the fiery and pat...
The Goalkeeper
Character: Lisardo
Ramiro Forteza is a Premier League goalkeeper whom the Civil War and the rigors of the war led to make a living visiting villages and challenging locals to mark him penalty goals. One evening he arrives to a town in Asturias and meets Manuela, a young widow with a son, who survives sewing for Ursula, Andrade's wife, the Civil Guard sergeant....
Already Gone
Character: Officer Walsh
This movie tells of a young man named Jude Mulvey who is suffering from cystic fibrosis. As a way of coping with the disease, and not wanting to die in a hospital bed, he has taken up the occupation of being a criminal mastermind, stealing from other lawbreakers. Along with his partner, Scott Lee, they rob hangouts and drug dens. At some point, they cross the wrong bad guy, and the adventure begins....
Black Serenade
Character: Rector
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after the exams to free the campus from lousy students....
Zapico
Character: Azcona / Herrero
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GAL
Character: Emilio Torres
Two journalists investigate the criminal activities of the GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación), a secret terrorist organization founded in the eighties and financed by leading figures in the Spanish government and security forces to hunt down and exterminate both members and collaborators of the terrorist gang ETA....
The Dumbfounded King
Character: Archivero Mayor
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa, the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes....