Sancho Gracia facts for kids
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Sancho Gracia
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Gracia at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2005
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Félix Ángel Sancho Gracia
27 September 1936 Madrid, Spain
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| Died | 8 August 2012 (aged 75) Madrid, Spain
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1962–2012 |
| Spouse(s) |
Noelia Aguirre
(m. 1969–2012) |
| Children | 3 (including Rodolfo) |
Félix Ángel Sancho Gracia (born September 27, 1936 – died August 8, 2012) was a famous Spanish actor. He starred in many motion picture films and television shows.
Becoming an Actor
Sancho Gracia was born in Madrid, Spain. When he was 11 years old, in 1947, he moved to Montevideo, Uruguay. He lived there until 1961. In Montevideo, he studied acting with a famous teacher named Margarita Xirgu.
His first movie role was in France in 1963. The film was called L'Autre femme. After that, he acted in over 80 movies. Some of these were big Hollywood films in the 1970s. He also appeared in the 1999 movie Outlaw Justice with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.
Sancho Gracia also worked in Australia. He was a regular actor in the 1982 television series Runaway Island. He also acted in the 1991 TV movie Pirates Island. In 2002, he was in the Mexican film The Crime of Padre Amaro, which was nominated for an Oscar.
Famous Roles and Awards
In 2003, Sancho Gracia was nominated for a Goya Award for Best Actor. This award is one of the most important film awards in Spain. He was nominated for his role in the 2002 movie 800 Bullets.
Besides movies, Sancho Gracia appeared in more than 60 Spanish television shows. He became very famous in Spain for playing the character Curro Jiménez. This was in a Televisión Española drama series that aired from 1976 to 1979. The show was so popular that it has been shown again many times since then.
Family Life
In 1969, Sancho Gracia married Noelia Aguirre Gomensoro. Her father was a politician from Uruguay. Sancho and Noelia had three children together. One of their children, Rodolfo, also became an actor.
Sancho Gracia passed away on August 8, 2012, in Madrid. He was 75 years old.
Selected Movies
- Vampiresas 1930 (1962)
- A Nearly Decent Girl (1963)
- L'autre femme (1964)
- Murieta (1965)
- El Zorro cabalga otra vez (1965)
- Sheriff Won't Shoot (1965)
- In a Colt's Shadow (1965)
- Operation Poker (1965)
- La ciudad no es para mí (1966)
- He's My Man! (1966)
- Los duendes de Andalucía (1966)
- Per il gusto di uccidere (1966)
- Fray Torero (1966)
- Road to Rocío (1966)
- Savage Pampas (1966)
- Espi... ando (1966)
- ¿Qué hacemos con los hijos? (1967)
- Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
- Club de solteros (1967)
- Run Like a Thief (1967)
- The House of 1,000 Dolls (1967)
- La chica de los anuncios (1968)
- 100 Rifles (1969)
- Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
- Simón Bolívar (1969)
- El último día de la guerra (1970)
- Rain for a Dusty Summer (1971)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
- The Call of the Wild (1972)
- El espectro del terror (1973)
- Dick Turpin (1974)
- País S.A. (1975)
- Guerreras verdes (1976)
- Avisa a Curro Jiménez (1978)
- Él y él (1980)
- Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas (1985)
- The Witching Hour (1985)
- De tripas corazón (1985)
- Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987)
- Gallego (1988)
- Love, Hate and Death (1989)
- Tango (1991)
- Huidos (1993)
- Tocando fondo (1993)
- Cachito (1996)
- Martín (hache) (1997)
- The Naked Eye (1998)
- Dying of Laughter (1999)
- Inferno (1999)
- A galope tendido (2000)
- La comunidad (2000)
- No te fallaré (2001)
- ¡Hasta aquí hemos llegado! (2002)
- The Crime of Father Amaro (2002)
- Box 507 (2002)
- El robo más grande jamás contado (2002)
- 800 Bullets (2002)
- El oro de Moscú (2003)
- El furgón (2003)
- El Cid: The Legend (2003) (voice)
- Love by Mistake (2004)
- Mala uva (2004)
- R2 y el caso del cadáver sin cabeza (2005)
- Bailando chachacha (2005)
- La bicicleta (2006)
- Los mánagers (2006)
- Donkey Xote (2007) (voice)
- Barreiros, motor humano (2008) (voice)
- 7 pasos y medio (2009)
- The Last Circus (2010)
- Entrelobos (2010)
See also
In Spanish: Sancho Gracia para niños
