José Luis López Vázquez

About José Luis López Vázquez

Who is it?: Actor, Costume Designer, Assistant Director
Birth Day: March 11, 1922
Birth Place:  Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Spain
Died On: 2 November 2009(2009-11-02) (aged 87)\nMadrid, Spain
Birth Sign: Aries
Occupation: Actor Director Comedian
Years active: 1946–2009
Spouse(s): Ana María Ventura (div.) Flor Aguilar (div.)
Children: José Luis Virginia (†)Cayetana Camino

José Luis López Vázquez Net Worth

José Luis López Vázquez was born on March 11, 1922 in  Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Spain, is Actor, Costume Designer, Assistant Director. Spanish actor. He started his career in theatre in 1939, when he was only 17, with the support of the director Modesto Higueras and the painter José Caballero. His first works were as actor, set decorator and costume designer in non-commercial amateur theatre plays, basically at the 'Teatro de las Organizaciones Juveniles (TOI)' and at the TEU. In cinema, he started as a costume designer in films mostly directed by José López Rubio and Rafael Gil and as an assistant director to Pío Ballesteros and Enrique Herreros.His debut as a professional actor was in 1946 at the 'Teatro María Guerrero' theatre in Madrid, playing roles in plays like 'El Anticuario', 'El vergonzoso en palacio' or 'La dama boba'. Later he formed part of the companies owned by Conchita Montes and Alberto Closas. His debut as a cinema actor was also in 1946 with a little role in _María Fernanda la Jerezana (1946)_. In 1951, in the film _Esa pareja feliz (1951)_, he appeared in the credits together with two debutant key directors in Spanish cinema: Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga.His first roles were comic roles in general, and increasingly important. In 1958 he started to have his first successes ('Una muchachita de Valladolid' in theatre together with 'Elisa Montes' and Alberto Closas, and El pisito (1958) in cinema together with Mary Carrillo and Concha López Silva).Since that moment on, he acted in the best theatre companies and also became an almost indispensable figure in Spanish cinema in the following two decades. Some of his best films from this stage are El cochecito (1960), Plácido (1961), Atraco a las tres (1962) and El verdugo (1963). He met film-makers like Marco Ferreri, Juan Antonio Bardem, José María Forqué and Luis García Berlanga, who were able to extract from his funniness amazing nuances like tenderness, dirtiness, meanness, absurd and even nonsense. His popularity raised dramatically after he worked together with Gracita Morales in several films of less importance under the direction of Mariano Ozores and also performed the main role in the TV series "Tercero izquierda".In the early 70s he surprisingly started to do good dramatic performances in films like _Peppermint frappé (1967)_, El jardín de las delicias (1970), _Bosque del lobo, El (1970)_ (Best Actor Award in the 1971 Chicago Film Festival), _Mi querida señorita (1971)_ (Best Actor Award in the 1972 Chicago Film Festival), _Cabina, La (1970) (TV)_ (winner of an Emmy Award), or Habla, mudita (1973). He made a great success with these films which even got stronger after the international effects caused by his TV film 'La cabina' and his contribution to George Cukor's Travels with My Aunt (1972). And this success set the rest of his career, full of successful films both dramatic and comic (_Escopeta nacional, La (1978)_, _Verdad sobre el caso Savolta, La (1979)_, La colmena (1982), _Corte del faraón, La (1985)_, Mi general (1987), _Largo invierno, El (1991)_...In 1985 he received the 'Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes' (Arts Gold Medal).
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💰 Net worth: Under Review

Awards and nominations:

Gold Medal of Arts

International Emmy Awards

1972 Chicago Film Festival

1971 Chicago Film Festival

Biography/Timeline

1946

José Luis López Vázquez was born in Madrid, Spain. He originally worked in theater as a costume designer, a scenic designer, and as an assistant Director to Pío Ballesteros and Enrique Herreros. In 1946, he switched over to film, with a small role in the movie María Fernanda la Jerezana. Originally starring in comic roles, he made the move to drama films in the 1960s, demonstrating his profund aptitude for acting.

1971

During his life, he starred in more than 200 movies, filming several full-length films in a year. In 1971, he acted in 11 films. Although he usually appeared in Spanish films, he occasionally worked on international projects: in the UK film Travels With My Aunt from 1972, starring opposite Dame Maggie Smith. His best-known role may be in the Emmy-winning film, La Cabina, which was filmed the same year with Director Antonio Mercero. López Vázquez worked with Mercero on numerous other occasions, the last being their collaboration on a movie called ¿Y tú quién eres? (2006).

2009

José Luis López Vázquez died of natural causes in Madrid on 2 November 2009, at the age of 87.