Joaquín Roa
Acting
Biography
Joaquín María Fernández Roa (1890-1981) was a Spanish film actor.
Born: August 15, 1890
Place of Birth: Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Known For
El monumento
Vincent is married to a very sexy woman, who everyone knows as "The Monument", and envy the fate of her husband. However, Vincent is very busy with his work and doesn't pay her enough attention. The situation complicates when the richest man in town gets interested in her.
Love and Desire
A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star.
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.
Viridiana
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.
Strange Voyage
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.
Fantasmas en la casa
A young playwright meets a girl he was once in love with. The young woman lives in terror in a supposedly haunted mansion, so she feels on the verge of madness…
The Miracle of Marcelino
Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.
Vuelo 971
L'Âge d'or
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
Filmography
as Sebastián
as Padre de Pepi
as Don José
as Criado
as Don Carmelo
as Mariano
as Don Dimas
as Casimiro
as Fray Agustín
as Don Félix
as Mirón
as Abuelo de Marta
as Un fraile
as Romagosa - el camarero
as Graciliano
as Don José
as Don Zequiel
as Doctor Baselga
as Don Nuño Manso de Jarama
as Félix
as Profesor de canto / Dimas - el falso mayordomo
as Ismael
as Carlos
as Don Candido
as Falso testigo de la defensa
as Rodríguez
as Cardoso
as José Camino "Cartelito"
as Melquiades - el brigada de la Guardia Civil
as Don Elías
as Fray Talán
as Bandido novato
as Labrador 1º
as Eduardo Valenzuela
as Julían - el pregonero
as Don Félix
as Ardilla, carterista
as Miguel
as Fermín (uncredited)
as Secretario 1º
as Telescope
as Nemesio
as Contacos
as Mayor
as Barón
as Berrugo
as Landusky
as José
as Bandit (uncredited)