
José Luis Manzano
Acting
Biography
No biography available for José Luis Manzano.
Born: November 20, 1962
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Known For

Overdose
Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin.

Navajeros
A chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to his inevitable end.

The Tobacconist of Vallecas
Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.

El Pico 2
Following the events of El pico, the heroin-addicted Paco faces jail time due to his involvement in a double murder.

Pals
José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time with his friend Antonio. However, when Antonio gets his girlfriend, Rosario, pregnant, the two friends try anything to get the money to pay for her to have an abortion.

Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before.

Ochéntame... otra vez
Documentary series that reviews cultural, social and political events that took place during the 80s in Spain.

Policía

The House of Ulloa
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption of an aristocratic family in nineteenth-century Galicia.

Barcelona sur
Obsessed with finding her old boyfriend, Gumer, a 25-year-old girl, is released from jail in Barcelona, one of Europe's most sought-after port cities for drug trafficking and prostitution. Charo, her best friend, tries to help her, although she is not free, since depends on her pimp "Toni". But Gumer will persuade Charo to abandon Toni and form, along with other friends, a band to start businesses on their own.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Tocho
as Chico en comisaría (as Javier Manzano)
as Perucho
as Paco
as Paco
as José
as Chema
as El Jaro