Juan Echanove
Birthday: Born in 1961-04-01 in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Un paso adelante
Character: Mariano Cuéllar
Un Paso Adelante was a Spanish TV drama similar to the American 1980’s TV series Fame. It was originally broadcast on Spanish channel Antena 3 from 2002 to 2005. It has also been a huge success in Spanish-speaking countries, in Germany, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro and in France. It began airing on Séries+ in Canada in 2011....
Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Miguel Alcántara
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....
Camino de Santiago
Character: Manolo Aranjuez
Lieutenant Pereira is puzzled by the mysterious murder of a prostitute: it's the second time a woman has been found with her nose cut off, and a special plant known as a "goosefoot" placed beneath her corpse. Suspecting that the killer is basing his actions on the medieval board game of the Oca Brothers, Pereira asks Professor Rinaldi for help. His insight comes too late however: Tea, a young girl on a pilgrimage with a group of young offenders and their minder Leyva, is found murdered....
Memento Mori
Character: Armando "Carapocha" Lopategui
A police thriller, exploring the relationship between a murderer and the police officer, who pursues him in a life-or-death duel....
Un País Para Comerselo
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La Zona
Character: Fausto
The disastrous meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Northern Spain created a contaminated no-go zone and left the nearby provincial city and inhabitants in a state of shock and mourning. Three years later, while the city prepares for the commemoration ceremony, a mutilated body is found in a warehouse. Police inspector Hector Uria's search for the murderer takes him deep into the no-go zone and into his own past....
Déjate querer
Character:
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Mi madre cocina mejor que la tuya
Character: Himself - Judge
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Turno de Oficio
Character: Cosme Fernández
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Paquita Salas
Character: Juan Echanove
One of Spain's best talent agents in the '90s, Paquita now finds herself searching desperately for new stars after suddenly losing her biggest client....
El Cid
Character: Bernardo de Sedirac
The story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain....
Ochéntame... otra vez
Character: Self - Interviewee
Documentary series that reviews cultural, social and political events that took place during the 80s in Spain....
Lo + plus
Character: Self - Guest
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Hermanos de leche
Character: Juan
Two friends raised together as brothers, share a flat despite having opposite personalities....
Las Chicas de Hoy en Día
Character: Julián
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Un, dos, tres
Character: Mariano Cuéllar
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Desaparecidos
Character: Santiago Abad
A group of six police officers solve disappearance cases that everyone else has already given up on....
Movie Credits
Don't Tempt Me
Character: Manager Supermercado
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer....
The Flower of My Secret
Character: Ángel
Leo is a middle-aged writer of popular romantic novels who writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor....
Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer
Character: Francisco de Quevedo
In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look after his son and teach him to be a soldier....
A Matador's Mistress
Character: José Flores González Cámara
Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress....
Bienvenido a casa
Character: Félix
Young couple Samuel and Eva move to Madrid and start living together when he finds work as a photographer. Although Samuel doesn't knows, Eva's expecting a baby....
To Die in San Hilario
Character: Cura Antonio
The inhabitants of San Hilario make their living from funerals. They are awaiting their first customer in a long time....
Shooting Elizabeth
Character: Charlie the Dentist
Before a man can kill his nagging wife as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder....
Campofrío: Disfrute en vida
Character:
A hymn to life and a tribute "to those who left" in this difficult year are the messages that the company Campofrío launches in its traditional Christmas advertisement, which stars Quique San Francisco and Silvia Abril, among others, and is directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo and Paco Plaza. D.E.V ("Enjoy life") are the initials of Campofrío's 2020 Christmas campaign, a hymn to life in the form of a tribute to those who left and to "all those who continue trying every day to enjoy the gift of li...
The Replacement
Character: Final Quote Reader (voice) (uncredited)
Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace....
Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
Character: Fray Clemente / Pepe
After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to claim the legacy of his friend the monk who has lived outside the convent for some time plans their voyage to the property of his father picking up on their way his daughter and lover. Once in Extremadura things look a little different to what the plans ...
The Longest Night
Character: Juan
Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists....
Jara
Character: Zacarías
Jara is an enigmatic girl who lives in the forest alone since she was a child. Tato, a lonely young boy, finds her one day and a love and passion story starts....
House out of Town
Character: Daniel
Daniel is a yuppie that hasn't been been able to lead a satisfactory sentimental life. One day he meets Yolanda, a beautiful young woman who has a daughter, Patricia, and who hasn't been very lucky in life either. They decide to get together and they go to live in his house, an old and eerie mansion. Soon enough, their relationship starts to become difficult; the isolation of the house and Daniel's mysterious past transform Yolanda's illusions of happiness into an existence of fear and distrust....
Bilbao Blues
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Beatriz is an attractive young lawyer who enjoys an enviable position thanks to the influence of his father, a prominent businessman. Lucas, a young guy with a rather shady past, struggling to emerge from the unfavorable situation in which life has placed him. When Lucas is arrested with a stash of cocaine adulterated becomes a client of Beatrice. The pure cocaine has hidden with intent to distribute it only with your partner Uriarte, for it has had to deceive another of his buddies into thinkin...
Arcibel's Game
Character: El Rengo
A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack. From there he invents a game of war and strategy and a cellmate who escapes uses it initiating a real revolution....
My Soul Brother
Character: Sebastián
Meeting of two very different brothers: Carlos is an ambitious young businessman happily married to Julia, Toni is a nerve that life has given him so many sticks as the people who surrounded him....
Tiempo de silencio
Character: Matías
Pedro Martín, a young and ambitious doctor, is studying the effect of cancerous cells on mice, but he has run out of mice in his laboratory, since they do not breed there, and he has no funds to purchase more of these expensive laboratory animals from the United States. Nevertheless, his assistant, Amador, informs him that he gave some of the mice to an old trapper, nicknamed “el Muecas”, who lives in precarious conditions in a shanty town outside Madrid, and that this poor man has successfully ...
Going Down in Morocco
Character: Jaimito
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Morocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open-minded there is no problem they would not try to solve....
Madregilda
Character: Franco / Franco's Double
Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first Friday of the month, Hauma organizes a peculiar card game in an old tavern....
Tales of the Stinking Military Service
Character: Sargento Arensivia
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Alone Together
Character: Álvaro
A blind woman is the witness of a murder....
Miss Caribe
Character: Jesús
A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance of being a restaurant. Alejandra, our heroine, decides to put an end to the ship's dissolute activities and use her inheritance as a school. Customers, cooks, waiters and the girls will meet her idea with considerable resistance....
The Flight of the Dove
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A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction....
Tangos Are for Two
Character: Gustavo
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tou...
Goodbye from the Heart
Character: Pepe
Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive....
El elefante del rey
Character: Pepe / Benito
North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be paramount to understand the Spain of 20th century; an animal from far lands that will become a symbol of the Second Spanish Republic, the communist movement and many other things; a royal hunting that marks the beginning of a bizarre story of jealousy, passion, political intrigues and taxidermy....
Curro Romero, Maestro del Tiempo
Character: Narrator
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The 3 Wise Men
Character: Melchor (voz)
A brilliantly animated adaptation of the classic Christian story, 3 WISE MEN features the voices of Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, and Mexican television star Jaci Velasquez. Created by the same artists who animated FANTASIA 2000, HERCULES, and TARZAN, the family-friendly film artfully brings to life the journey of Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar--the Three Kings who traveled to baby Jesus' birthplace under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem....
Rateta, Rateta
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She wanted to be rich, to have lovers, to go to Barcelona: but Montserrateta had to make do with living in a village in the Pyrenees, with her boyfriend, and milking cows on her parents' farm, until one day, she finds a lottery ticket....
El caso Almería
Character:
When a Spanish judge has the courage to look into a political murder......
The Most Beautiful Night
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Federico, an executive of national television, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an actress who retired prematurely after marriage, is cheating him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks far into heaven and is aware of the exact time a comet passes. In other words, she expects her most beautiful night....
Yo soy ésa
Character: Antonio
Carmen Torres, a famous and renowned singer, lives the fame aware of what it implies, but Jorge Olmedo, her shadow partner, succumbs to a world in which drugs and poker games reign. Husband and wife travel to Seville to see the premiere of "Yo soy ésa", a film in which both see their lives captured long ago, a dose of reality that will help them realize that they no longer love each other the same....
Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
Character: Pepe
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Divine Words
Character: Miguelín
A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law....
The Stolen Years
Character: Víctor Marquina
Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists....
Quiéreme
Character: Jaime
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El caso del cadáver descuartizado
Character: Asensio Obregón
May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before....
Rafael Azcona
Character: Self
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Te esperaré
Character: Juan Benitez
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Amb el 10 a l’esquena
Character: Cabré
A father wants his son to become a basketball star, by all means, in order to alleviate the loss of his eldest son, died ten years earlier....
Trileros
Character:
Two disgraceful fifty year old men accept the job of their lives by carrying drugs to Perpignan in exchange for a million Euros. A whole mess comes about as the journey starts......
Ana Belén y Víctor Manuel: mucho más que dos
Character:
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Memorias del ángel caído
Character: Carlos
A group of parishioners die poisoned upon receiving communion, during the investigation of the event the priests of the parish begin to have visions. Everything rushes when the dead are resurrected in the autopsy room, these strange events seem to be related to an old book enacting a new religion....
El sueño de Tánger
Character: Recepcionista (uncredited)
Three friends get involved with arms traffickers in Tangiers....
Orquesta Club Virginia
Character: El Maño
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Luna grande
Character:
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The Witching Hour
Character: Telmo
César and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic spectacles in small villages. In one of these trips they find Saga, a beautiful young woman who starts to travel with them and changes their lives in unexpected ways....
La mujer cualquiera
Character:
The whatever woman....
La mujer infiel
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A man in love with an unfaithful woman....
This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)
Character: Self
When her father and uncles die, Jone (Josemi's daughter) decides to make a documentary about the Ibarretxe Brothers. Pioneers in the Basque audiovisual sector, creative, cheeky and always up to something, they were devoted to cinema made in Euskadi long before it was a reality. Analysing their films and talking to people who accompanied them (Stephen Fry, Echanove, Ramon Barea, Santiago Segura, José Luis Rebordinos), Jone gradually comes to realise that their cinema is nothing more than a faithf...
La ópera rock Jesucristo Superstar: un hito en la historia del musical español
Character: Self
On November 6, 1975, a few days before the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish version of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, originally written by Tim Rice and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, premiers in Madrid, starring and produced by singer Camilo Sesto, a controversial work that became a mass phenomenon....