Eusebio Poncela
Birthday: Born in 1947-09-15 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Deathday: Alive
Eusebio Poncela (Madrid, 15 September 1947) is a Spanish actor. His debut on stage was with"Mariana Pineda". In 1969 appears on screen for first time in "Fuenteovejuna", but his first notable role was the protagonist of the Spanish cult movie Arrebato (1979), directed by Iván Zulueta. Another hit was TVE miniserie Los gozos y las sombras (1985). He was the protagonist of La ley del deseo by Pedro Almodóvar. He came back to cinema with Martín (Hache), by Adolfo Aristarain. Another films: Tuno negro (2001) and Remake (2006); or Intacto, by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, with Max von Sydow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eusebio Poncela, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
TV Credits
Carlos, rey emperador
Character: Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors....
Las aventuras de Pepe Carvalho
Character: Pepe Carvalho
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El Ministerio del Tiempo
Character: Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history....
Curro Jiménez
Character:
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez...
Los gozos y las sombras
Character: Carlos Deza
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El accidente
Character: Joâo Ferreira
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Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
Character: Self - Interviewee
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El pacto
Character: Santiago López Ario
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Isabel
Character: Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Charting the life of Isabella I of Castile, one of the most important women in Spain’s history, Isabel follows her passionate story from childhood to being crowned Queen. From her political struggles within King Henry IV's court to her wedding to Ferdinand of Aragon, the drama encapsulates the passions, emotions and sacrifices of a woman who refused to just be a figurehead and whose outlook was ahead of her time....
Movie Credits
Law of Desire
Character: Pablo Quintero
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire....
Intact
Character: Federico
An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game from which only one of them will emerge intact....
Rapture
Character: José Sirgado
José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema....
The Killer Is One of Thirteen
Character: Francis
A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However, what the guests don't know is that the reason they've been assembled is that their host suspects one of them might be her husband's killer and she's intent on uncovering the identity of his murderer. As the guests begin to suspect each other, revealing long-kept and sinister secrets in the process, an unknown, black-gloved killer begins bumping them off in a variety of nasty ways....
Young Sierra, peso pluma
Character: Pepe Carvalho
Young Serra , after a boxing match dies falling from the roof of his house. The coach of his opponent that night, and old friend of Young, hire the services of Pepe Carvalho to find the mother of the son of Young so it will not be alone ....
La dama inacabada
Character: Pepe Carvalho
An executive asks Carvalho to obtain photographs of his wife with her lover in order to obtain a divorce. To do so, Carvalho travels to Menorca....
Recién casados
Character: Pepe Carvalho
Pepe Carvalho is hired to guard the gifts at at wedding....
Pigmalión
Character: Pepe Carvalho
Pepe Carvalho receives a call from an ex-lover in distress....
Eugenia Grandet
Character: Charles Grandet
Adaptation of the famous Balzac novel...
Matador
Character: Comisario
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other....
The Valdemar Legacy
Character: Maximilian
Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion!...
The Cannibal Man
Character: Néstor
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....
The Greek Labyrinth
Character: Jacques
Two Frenchmen, Bernadette and Lebrum, arrive in Barcelona and hire detective Bardon to find Alekos, the former Greek lover of the woman....
Martin (Hache)
Character: Dante
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín brings the troubled teen to live with him in Spain. But though Martín tries to reach out to his son, he's unable to bond with anyone in his life -- including his much-younger girlfriend...
The Borgia
Character: Cardenal Giuliano della Rovere
A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's “The Prince,” his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia....
800 Bullets
Character: Scott
Almería, Tabernas desert, Spain, 2002. Texas Hollywood is a dilapidated and dusty town where Western movies have not been shot for decades. Julián Torralba and his partners, veteran film stuntmen, survive there, recreating pathetic action scenes for the pleasure of the few foreign tourists who visit the isolated region....
Eyes of Crystal
Character: Dr. Civita
While hunting a cultured, clever and vicious psychopath, detective Amaldi comes face to face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past....
El Dorado
Character: Guzmán
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado....
El juego de los mensajes invisibles
Character: Jaime
Based on the novel "Adopted son" of Álvaro Pombo. Pancho, a seventy years old man lives isolated in a Galician country house, not far from the sea, which is served by an old maid. Suddenly, the past bursts in his life with the unexpected visit of a man who twenty years before had been his secretary. Soon after, a boy, the son of the man, moves to the house. The return of the past will have unforeseeable consequences....
Larga noche de julio
Character: Pedro
Tony wants to carry out a perfect robbery and get a lot of money during the celebration of the 24 Hours of Montjuic, a motorcycle race. To accomplish this, he counts with the complicity of Peter, a runner who wants to switch to professional level. Everything is carefully planned, but at the last moment a crime is committed and Peter is trapped in the house of the victim unable to get out as the gate has been locked. The only way to help Peter is that Tony gets a copy of the key that Carmen has, ...
Hermanas
Character: Luis Morini
Argentinian sisters Elena and Natalia, who were separated, meet again in Texas in 1984....
A Shadow You Soon Will Be
Character:
This film follows the exploits of a middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early '80s following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a s...
Winter Diary
Character: León
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Remake
Character:
Friends get together in a country house and reminisce about the "good old times." Some now have grown-up children who accompany them and life is different... or is it? The story unravels quite well with good dialog and superior acting from the entire cast. The movie is philosophical without being bogged down by the some times heavy content. A very refreshing look at life, getting old, being free and always finding ways to share, appreciate and enjoy....
Tarancón, el quinto mandamiento
Character: Casimiro Morcillo
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In Memoriam
Character:
In an anguished triangle of silences and unspoken words, a man secretly loves a woman who loves another man....
Sagitario
Character: Jaime
A woman finds herself going from having no man in her life to having more suitors than she can handle in this offbeat romantic drama. Rosa is an artist in her early forties who is recently divorced and looking for a new relationship. Unfortunately, few immediate prospects are on the horizon, and Rosa spends much of her free time commiserating with her close friend Jaime, a gay actor her own age. After consulting Andronica, a fortune teller, Rosa is told that relationships with three different me...
Dream Kiss
Character: Fernando Delgado
The gorgeous Margot supports her aged father by seducing men on trains, slipping them a Mickey Finn (a beso de sueño) and robbing them. One night her victim is a currency smuggler taking 100 million pesetas out of Spain. He's being watched by a cop and by a burned-out alcoholic....
The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow
Character: Maximilian
A group of friends discover an ancient book, the Necronomicon, the Book of the Deads. They discover that the book is a link between our world and the world of ancients creatures, older than our civilizations....
Continental
Character: Otálora
At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old friends, fight with their bands for the control of prostitution and contraband. Anabel, Ventura's favorite prostitute and her young lover, will live their passion among the violence that surrounds the port city....
Barbie Can Also Be Sad
Character:
Stop-motion animation featuring Ken and Barbie dolls. Engaging in sexual (and some rather kinky) activities. Also some violence. The plot evolves around troubles in their marriage, due to Ken being a jerk. Will Barbie find happiness?...
The Arrangement
Character: Crisanto
After a period of inactivity, Crisanto, a police inspector, returns to the service. When a friend of his is murdered, he decides to take over the investigation....
Death of the Scorpion
Character: Luis
The film plunges into the intrigue of a love triangle in which is involved a former actress who has a relationship with her husband, a film producer, her lover, the screenwriter of the films he produces and a criminal lawyer....
Bluu, Last Days Of Ibiza
Character:
On a stormy day, Nat a Parisian woman, arrives by boat in Ibiza; invited by her childhood friend Sandra. Very quickly, she'll find herself in the middle of a group of initiated, within which, the suicidal master intends to lead them towards an apocalyptic end. But Nat, Sandra and their friends will take matters into their own hands in order to save Ibiza......
Operation Ogre
Character: Txabi
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing....
The Broken Crown
Character: Cardenal Cisneros
In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends of the mind state of a single woman....
Theresa: The Body of Christ
Character: Fray Gaspar Daza
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader....
Sleepwalker
Character: Ariel Kluge
In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them....
The Dumbfounded King
Character: Conde La Peña Andrade
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....
Werther
Character: Werther
This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface....
La casa de Tourneur
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Cake of Blood
Character: The Monster
Four part anthology horror film, with segments featuring witchcraft, ghosts, Frankenstein and his monster, and ancient Christians battling Celtic vampires....
I Come with the Rain
Character: Vargas
Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only son, Shitao, whom he has not seen in person since the boy was ten. Now in his 30s, Shitao has gone missing in the Philippines where he had been helping in an orphanage....
Entre paréntesis
Character: Santi
Two men have problems committing to relationships with their partners. They live it up, in town to remain independent, but their heartstrings are pulled when their women do exactly the same....
Párpados
Character:
Párpados (the literal translation, “Eyelids”, misses the homophonic “par pa’ dos,” or “a couple for two”) is a 1989 television episode with an intricate script involving a delirious array of doubles, mirrors and word-play revolving around the central theme of amorous obsession....
Sus años dorados
Character: El novio
María, a young and attractive woman, loses her job, meets Luis, a young man with no stable job neither, his wife supports him. Luis wants to start a relationship with María, but she doesn't. She prefers to be with Luis' friends instead....
El invierno en Lisboa
Character: Floro
Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San Sebastián, owned by his friend Floro, every summer....
A House Without Boundaries
Character: Óscar Fuentes
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....
Black Serenade
Character: Don Justo
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....
Viento del pueblo: Miguel Hernández
Character: Luis Almarcha
The life and tragical death of the young Spanish poet Miguel Hernández....
Querido Fotogramas
Character: Self
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine....
Separación matrimonial
Character: Miguel
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Valentina
Character: Narrador
In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp ...
The Painting
Character: The Man
For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the resolution of a perfect crime....
Lost Horizon
Character: El mago Tulan
Grand Magician Tulan walks the arid desert paths, accompanied by his wife, Marta. On this crossing, they join the mysterious Jenifer, who travels to Chile for a sex change operation, the dwarf Tachuelita, the beautiful young Martita and, completing the troupe, two twin nuns, Ana and Maria. Although each of them has personal goals, they manage to join this "Brancaleone Army" at the end of the millennium. In this vast world, where loneliness and helplessness reign, each one looks at a different ho...
Darling, I Am Going Out for Cigarettes and I Will Be Right Back
Character:
Ernesto, an ordinary man who, after making a deal with a strange character, has the chance to return to the past and live his youth again, tries to recover lost opportunities and avoid certain behaviors to change his gray and insipid present....
Fuenteovejuna
Character: Frondoso
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La balada de Donna Helena
Character:
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Private Lives
Character: Hombre Madrid (voice)
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation....