José Bódalo
Birthday: Born in 1916-03-24 in Córdoba, Argentina
Deathday: 1985-07-24
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia José Bódalo (March 24, 1916 – July 24, 1985) was an Argentine born Spanish film actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article José Bódalo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Cañas y barro
Character: Cañamel
Province of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but is forced to leave her to serve in the war in Cuba....
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....
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Django
Character: Hugo Rodriguez
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries....
El crack dos
Character: El Abuelo
Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced....
Compañeros
Character: General Mongo Alvarez
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas....
El crack
Character: El Abuelo
Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies....
Girlfriends
Character: Luisito
A group of women, who have always been good friends, are going through tough times: not only criticize each other and make life impossible, but also their love relationships are very poor. They will have to put everything in their power to get through this difficult time....
Teresa de Jesús
Character: Padre confesor
The life and tribulations of Carmelist nun Teresa de Jesús, who had transcendental experiences. She would write several works and would reform the Carmelist order....
El pecador y la bruja
Character: Padre Enrique
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Sound of Horror
Character: Mr. Dorman
When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons...
Hoy como ayer
Character: Aniceto
An incredulous journalist witnesses how a gentleman in a portrait of the twenties comes out from the photo and becomes alive to discuss what has not progressed as much as he believed, and to confirme that living was better at his time...
Spies Kill Silently
Character: Inspector Craig
Professor Freeman is an important English scientist that is investigating a method to treat cancer. His daughter is killed in the swimming pool of a hotel in Beirut. The case is confidential so that the mission is entrusted to the Special Agent Mikel Brown....
El mejor regalo
Character: Don Carlos Álvarez
The day of his wedding, Carlos recibes the most unexpected present he coud receive, a son. Carlitos, makes the weadding a complete disaster and fails to place. Carlos to solve the misunderstanding, decides to follow the boy home to meet his mother and to find out what is going on. This will bring him more than one surprise....
Las cicatrices
Character: Miguel Benjumea
The unstoppable ambition of a young lover of the bullrings and the support of her sister and a friend, will enable him to become a great figure of bullfighting, overcoming the various barriers that every torero finds when entering the world of bullfighting .... Pedrin, the son of a newscaster, decides to be a bullfighter and, after the death of a partner, struggles to succeed in the bullrings....
Las chicas del bingo
Character: Vicente
The movie tells the story of four beautifull and young girls: María, Pilar, Patricia and Virginia. They all work at the bingo and while they sell bingo cars they fill the room with smiles, happyness and excitement. But not all in their lifes is a game. They have all type of problems and dificult situations at work: the harassment of men, the quirks of the players ... but by the end love will win, as well as the joy of life and optimism....
Nuevo en esta plaza
Character: Manuel Romero
Film that tells the biography of the great bullfighter Sebastian Palomo Linares Linares, with the very skilled actor who plays the character. Palomo Linares belongs to a poor family but with great human values. He, like many others of his age, has a dream: to be a bullfighter. He works as an apprentice shoemaker fights secretly at night in the meadows. After a career of suffering and obstacles, the boy never lost hope, typical of his strong Christian convictions, and became a teacher, finally ...
El juego de la verdad
Character: Miguel
Lucia is a mature woman who maintains a relationship with the young John. When he is found murdered in a bullring with a nail stuck in his chest, Lucia is the prime suspect, it is believed that the motive for the crime was jealousy because it felt for her daughter Marta, which had also been seduced by John....
Professionals for a Massacre
Character: Pietro Primero
Caught selling stolen guns, three Confederate soldiers get a reprieve from the firing squad, provided they go into Mexico on a mission to recover stolen gold belonging to the Confederacy....
My Friend the Vagabond
Character: Esopo
Nazario is a wanderer who makes his living playing an old guitar in the streets of Madrid. From what he gets, he lives together with Sam, an orphan of eight years, which he hosted for charity and adores. The problem is that a wealthy and childless marriage intends to take the child...
A Train for Durango
Character: 'The Chief'
Two buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen....
Thompson 1880
Character: Judge Lennox
Ray, young and destitute, reaches Desert Spring, carrying a case on top of his mule. A gang headed by Brady uses apparently legal means to prevent anyone from trading and exploits all the town's possibilities for itself. The only one who dares to protest is Sheila, the daughter of a tradesman who has been ruined by Brady. She therefore welcomes Ray, hoping to make him an ally. But the young man doesn't even known how to handle a gun. However, when Brady's men beat him up and humiliate him, Ray d...
La barrera
Character: Panadero
In a small town, the administrator, confronted with the baker, forbids his children fto talk with those of the baker, and vice versa. One day, Paco and Pablo, the baker's children, listen to two builders who plan to kidnap Mary, the daughter of the administrator. Children decide to keep the secret and save the girl themselves. Meanwhile, a young teacher arrives to the village with his wife and kids get back to school. But the administrator's wife is furious because it is not her brother the one...
One After Another
Character: Colonel Jefferson
Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank....
The Salary of Crime
Character: Vílchez - Comisario de policía
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....
Dead Are Countless
Character: Sheriff Klaus
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to stop Johnny....
Prohibido suicidarse en primavera
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Doctor Ariel comes from a family that for several generations, once they reach old age, have decided to commit suicide because they lose the will to live. This situation affects the doctor greatly and therefore he decides to study the psychology of the fatalistic subject and invest the monetary fortune he has to create a clinic called "El Hogar del Suicida" with the purpose of providing help and rehabilitation to those who need it and, in case of failure, provide the individual with the necessar...
The Devil's Roundup
Character: Hombre
Divided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme....
Dollars for a Fast Gun
Character: Martin
In a desert region, Martin, bound to a wheelchair, is served by a gang of desperados to collect rents and kill anybody who resists. Then Lassiter arrives, telling Martin that he knows where Frank is, the man who made him a cripple. A reward is promised for his head. Then Frank smells danger... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net...
Cotolay
Character: Master Mateo
A loose retelling of the 13th century Galician legend of the boy Cotolay who helped three pilgrims establish the Convent of San Francisco near Santiago de Compostela....
Los que tocan el piano
Character: Don Ernesto Dávila, inspector de policía
Cayetana, her boyfriend Paco and Venancio, her foster brother, commit small thefts and, from time to time, spend a few days in jail. Until they meet with Federico, a thief who has traveled abroad and convince them that using European methods success is guaranteed. Paco then decides to act scientifically and seizes a hospital surgical equipment. When they want to realize, poor Venancio is forced to give an injection to a dentistry patient and, even worse, Paco has to pull out a tooth. And all th...
Ringo's Big Night
Character: Sheriff Sam
Four masked men rob money from a stagecoach in route to a bank in Tombstone. The federal government vows to catch the culprits and recover the money. Two suspects are imprisoned - the notorious gunman Jack Bowman and a wounded bandit. The two cellmates form a partnership and the wounded man gives Bowman 3 of the 4 names of the other bandits - the outlaw Black Norton, Bailey, and Sam the sheriff. Bowman escapes and starts out after the money....
...And the Third Year, He Resuscitated
Character: Cura de Rebollar de la Mata
On November 20, 1978 a truck driver picks up a man on the road, that tells him to take him to Pardo's Palace. Soon, the truck driver begins to realize who this person is....
Spoiled Children
Character: Don Fabián de Luna
This satirical comedy follows the strict older generation pitting themselves against the pleasure-seeking youths, both in 1947 and in 1978....
The Beehive
Character: Don Roque
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business....
Agustina of Aragon
Character: Capitán francés
1808. During the Spanish Independence war the city of Zaragoza is besieged by French troops. Spanish forces under General Palafox are scarce. Brave Agustina doesn't hesitate to lead the battle and even fire a cannon to stop the invaders when others run away. Based on historical facts....
Double Feature
Character: Dionisio Balboa
Director José Luis Garci has turned his camera inward on filmmakers and screenwriters to portray them as so self-absorbed in the creative process that there is no other world, no other human relationship that can compete. As José (Adolfo Marsillach) and Federico (Jesus Puente) work together on a new screenplay, their interactions with their family (José's teen daughters, Federico's wife) disappear under the all-consuming task of creation. The daughters give up and go off on their own, and the wi...
Amaya
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Doce hombres sin piedad
Character: Juror #3
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father....
El grano de mostaza
Character: Horcajo
Evelino Galindo, the serious owner of a porcelain store, argues with the womanizer jeweler Orcajo for an insignificant game of dominoes. Evelino, enraged, challenges him the next day to a duel in the gym. But after meditating a bit he starts to get scared. That is why, with the help of his friend Leoncio, he sharpens his wit to find a way to escape from combat. However, the situation is becoming more complicated....
Los extremeños se tocan
Character: Marcelino
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Persecución hasta Valencia
Character: Marcos
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Father Cami's Wedding
Character: Padre Antonio Bissus
A Jesuit priest in 1950s Spain becomes disillusioned with his faith, swapping religion for politics and carnal knowledge....
Ambiciosa
Character: D. Matías
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Réquiem por un empleado
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Juan Fonseca works as managerial from a modern factory, where they start using a new machine that revolutionizes all known techniques. After 7 years of courtship he gets married and enter in the consumer society: car, house, TV... His wife is pregnant and the money he earns it is not wnough so he is forcer to have more tha one job. Stress will bring dangerous consecuences to his health...
Madres solteras
Character:
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La espada negra
Character: Archbishop of Toledo
Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him....
Un enemigo del pueblo
Character: Doctor Stockmann
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El canto de la cigarra
Character: Aris
The teenage Bisbi, who plays the role of mother to her younger siblings, is the daughter of the indolent Aris, someone who just observes the passing of the years, hoping that circumstances will provide what his family may need, like the cicada in the fable; even when Bisbi tries to make him understand that their survival depends on their personal effort, which is what the industrious ant did every day…...
El mercader de Venecia
Character: Shylock
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Cabaret
Character: Luis
A news story in the newspapers announces the investigation by the police of a major scam. Precisely, following the steps of the author of that crime, we will know the cabaret where the whole action of this drama will take place. A place where the paths of a multitude of characters cross and where it is possible to find men and women of great humanity....
El mejor del mundo
Character: Padre de José
A professional runner can't run anymore since he has a heart condition....
Aventura en las islas Cíes
Character:
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Educando a una idiota
Character: Eurico Sánchez Fil
Eurico intends to make a film about the life of Queen Elizabeth the Catholic. He wants the beautiful Lola Vargas to star in it. But he does not have a refined enough education. He decides to appoint a teacher to improve her manners....
Vamos a contar mentiras
Character: Juan
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Kill and Be Killed
Character: Doctor Cáceres
A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword....
Manchas de sangre en la luna
Character: Eddie
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Killer 77, Alive or Dead
Character: George King
At the request of the CIA, British secret agent Lester follows the ominous scientist George King, who, after successfully sabotaging an American rocket launch, has announced to the world's powerful that he can disable any nuclear weapon......
Ensayo general para la muerte
Character: Dr. Víctor Lepetre
A playwright boasts he can commit a perfect crime in front of his friends, a police chief, a physician and a theater owner. Later, when the playwright's wife disappears, foul play is suspected. Did he murder her?...
Captain Apache
Character: General
The title character is a US army Captain of Native American descent who is asked to investigate the murder of an Indian agent. His only clue is "April morning", the last words spoken by the victim. Can he unravel the mystery before the clock runs out?...
Las alegres chicas de Colsada
Character:
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The Twins
Character: Raphael Carrasco Ramírez
Twins separated at birth are reunited 12 years later....
The Last Kamikaze
Character: Sr. Fulton
A cruel hitman nicknamed "Kamikaze" uses all kinds of methods to carry out his jobs. One day he will have to face an old enemy who has an old account pending with him....
Blood in the Bullring
Character: Rafael
Like every night, Manuel remembers the old days of glory, when after the war he was a famous bullfighter. He and his friend Juan were the fashionable couple. Now Juan is a prominent businessman in bullfighting. But Manuel's feelings toward him have changed radically: an inexplicable hated seizes him when someone mentions his name. It has been more than twenty years since that afternoon, when Manuel was bullfighting and fell to the ground....
Últimas tardes con Teresa
Character: Cardenal
Adapted from the novel by Juan Marse, the film shows two distant worlds in the Spain of the 50's, the suburban and the bourgeois, which are related through two characters, Manolo Reyes, vulgar motorcycle thief who aspires to escape poverty and Teresa Serrat, university student of bourgeois extraction seduced by the revolutionary cause....
Find Me That Girl
Character: Lorenzo
Marisol is a girl of 16 who, accompanied by her father, is singing from place to place, to put food in their mouths. They end up going to a camp site in Mallorca, where the girl meets two students from Madrid, Tony and Mario. Marisol wants to become someone great, and to achieve that, she performs at a bullfighting tournament as a singer, in the hope that someone will see her. Mr. Morrison and Miss Nelly notice her. This man puts his expectations in Marisol, but to do that, he takes her away f...
To Begin Again
Character: Roxiu
A Nobel prize winner returns to his natal city looking for his home....
Las autonosuyas
Character: Don Luciano
The Eternal Spain, birthplace of the Cid, Hammer of Heretics... and other deserved historical appellations, is suddenly transformed, through democratic elections, in a chaotic Tower of Babel where every province, every town, each village wants to have its own opinion. Comedy about the rise of nacionalism in the different Spanish regions with the arrival of democracy....
Reckless
Character: Presidente del club
Javier Mendoza a Catholic missionary established in Alaska, recalls, when about to die, the years of his youth and his relationship with his family and friends....
Vuelo 971
Character: Hugo Carrara
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Prohibido soñar
Character:
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Una mujer prohibida
Character: Comisario
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Cristo Negro
Character: Janson
After witnessing the murder of her father, the little Mikoa flees the plantation where he works as a slave. Janson, master of the plantation, and his daughter Laura, found lost in the jungle and decide to present to the Father Braulio, a missionary who welcomes him like his son. The young native is raised and educated in the mission, becoming a good man in love with his childhood friend, however, still has much hatred for the person who killed his father, Charles, a cruel white overseer who now ...
Black Jack
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Sir Thomas Bedford orchestrates the heist of a Spanish casino, with the aid of a singer performing there. The police are aware of their activities, and a hostage situation arises....
Los derechos de la mujer
Character: El cónyuge
Juan marries prestigious lawyer María José. As she won't give up her career to become a housewife, during their wedding night Juan pretends to leave his job and acts out the role of a traditional housewife himself....
Facultad de Letras
Character:
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Historia en dos aldeas
Character:
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Tres eran tres
Character: (segment "Introducción: Tribunal")
An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa....
Alhucemas
Character: Comandante Almendro
In 1922, Infantry Captain Fernando Salas, arriving from Madrid, joins, without much enthusiasm, a battalion ruled by Commander Almendro, a tough veteran of the African war who soon notices a clear lack of military vocation in the new recruit....
Truhanes de honor
Character: Gomané
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Fray Escoba
Character: (uncredited)
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La laguna negra
Character: Venargas
In a village in the mountains of Urbión, brothers John and Martin, driven by greed and abetted by Candelas, Martin's wife, kill his father and sink the body in the Black Lagoon. His wife and one daughter of the victim does not know anything. In the village would get missing. However, from now weigh a curse on the land for which they have committed the crime, predicting each year misfortunes and bad harvests....