Alfredo Mayo
Acting
Biography
Abandonó los estudios de Medicina para ingresar a los 18 años en la compañía teatral de Ernesto Vilches. Tras finalizar la Guerra Civil Española, donde llegó a ser teniente de Aviación. Inicia su carrera profesional siendo uno de los galanes favoritos de los directores del régimen franquista. Alcanzó una gran fama en la posguerra por encarnar el prototipo de galán militar y heroico y del franquismo. Debutó en 1935, pero su consagración llegó en 1941 con Raza, de José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. Tras ésta llegó A mí la legión (1942), de Juan de Orduña, con el que protagonizó también La leona de Castilla (1951), junto a Amparo Rivelles. Otras de sus películas son la extraordinaria La caza (1965), de Carlos Saura, Peppermint Frappé (1967), también de Saura, o Los desafíos (1969), dirigida por Víctor Erice. Participó en más de 250 películas.
Born: May 17, 1911
Place of Birth: Barcelona - Catalonia - Spain
Known For
Alerta en el cielo
A child suffering from leukemia craves getting on a plane, so at a U.S. base located in Zaragoza will make the kid a favor and grant his wish.
The Seventh Page
Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.
El taxi de los conflictos
Taxi driver Tadeo is about to encounter a busy shift. Throughout the day heterogeneous characters get into his taxi and the most varied situations arise. One of them leaves a baby in the taxi and Tadeo must find out where the little one belongs. He tackles this daunting task while keeping in the back of his mind that at the end of the day he has an appointment with a mysterious woman who apparently needs to tell him something very important.
El secreto de Tomy
The racing stables of Gandia family go to auction. Tomy, son of the owner, manages to save his favorite horse, "Cantador". Now, his only obsession is to resolve the problems of his father, providing him a new wife and riding his horse at the races. After a while, in the Official Prize, "Cantador", ridden by Tomy wins. This fact causes everyone to be interested in the horse and eventually Tomy will be forced to auction it to liquidate their debts. But the new owner is the father of Luchy, Tomy's classmate , and he will do everything possible to recover it.
La Máscara Negra
The Teacher and the Miracle
Don Juan, a widowed teacher, asks to be transferred to the capital to create a painting school and improve his son's future.
El alcalde de Zalamea
Film version of the historic piece of Calderon de la Barca. An army officer faces the local authority that intends to judge him for having stained the honor of a young girl
El tahúr
Three childhood friends; when they grow up, the poor boy is shut out from the possibility of romancing the girl because of class issues. He leaves town, learns to play pro-level poker, wins a fortune, then goes home to ruin his rival's life.
El señor de La Salle
Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated.
Don Lucio and Brother Pío
Brother Pío, intending to collect charity for a group of nuns who run an orphanage, travels to Madrid with a statue of the Baby Jesus. On the train ride there, he meets Lucio, a slick-talking small-time thief, who steals the statue from him in order to collect the donations for himself.
Filmography
as Padre de Carmen
as Pablo Jordan
as Padre de Rodrigo
as Anchoa
as Vicario
as Padre
as Fray Diego de Deza
as Clussá's Grandfather
as Nacho
as Alfredo
as Général de Bourmont
as Lábaro
as Pop
as Don Fulgencio
as Padre de Aurelia
as Don Emilio
as Tío Palomo
as D. Ernesto
as Don Amalio
as Conde
as Sr. Bustos
as Aldo
as Rodolfo Ortiz
as Don Esteban
as Ricardo
as Productor
as Jesús Churruca (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Don Pedro
as Hombre emocionado / Emiliano / Alfredo
as Self
as Doctor Armayor, Director del sanatorio
as Don Carlos
as Dr. Ángel Alcántara
as Don Pedro
as Dr. Kessling
as Héctor Goizueta
as D. Juan Manuel
as Don Alfonso
as Padre de Toni
as Colonel Randolf Quint
as Oscar
as Don Ramón
as Gov. Fuller
as General Muller / Lopez
as Judge Miller
as John Wolley
as André
as Beniamino
as Garfield
as Doctor Márquez
as Police inspector
as Don Nicolás de Valcárcel
as Pedro Astófano
as Germán
as Professor van Kolstrum
as English officer
as Alfredo, el amante
as Don Pedro
as Luis
as Mota
as Pablo
as Paco
as Morrow / Leikman
as Sir Hillary
as Juan de la Cierva
as Baxter
as Losky
as Automobilista Affeminato
as Boss de Mike
as Mortimer Lasky
as Eduardo Montalbán - inspector de policía
as Lanceroy
as Philip
as Don Fernando Mendoza
as Spanish Minister
as Don Luis
as Padre Antonio
as Mayor
as Del Río
as Don Juan de Porres
as Marco
as Coronel Gadea
as Padre Francisco de Borja
as Charles
as Comandante Guzmán
as Casinos
as Sor Giovanni
as Comisario
as Ottaviano
as Major Selim Naruf
as Raimundo Aymat - el Canciller
as Coronel Gonzalo Rivas
as Preside
as Gran Duque Vladimir de Rusia
as Demetrio
as Alberto Campos
as Ramón
as Don Alvaro
as Fussot
as Paco
as Manrique
as Eduardo Miranda
as Federico
as José de Salamanca
as Víctor
as Teniente Padilla
as Raúl Pituá
as César Jiménez
as Ernesto Azavedo
as Leonardo
as El Grajo
as José Churruca
as Pablo Sarasate
as Teniente Miguel
as Capitán Santiago Balcázar
as Marcelo